The latest in the Rupert Murdoch/News of The World/News Corp/News International Phone hacking scandal finds the much-awaited release of the findings of the Leveson Inquiry damning of Rupert Murdoch and the Editors in charge at News Of The World.

In short, the Members Of Parliament found Rupert Murdoch had a curious habit of "looking the other way" with regards to the Phone Hacking Scandal. And as a result, was deemed by the panel to be "unfit to run an International Business".

Although the panel was split along Partisan lines - with four of the Conservative Members of Parliament voting not to include the "unfit to run a company" disclosure, they were unanimous in their agreement that Murdoch had mislead and deceived the Leveson Inquiry as to the true nature of the scandal.

In the report findings, aired over BBC Radio 4 's program PM, it was considered by some to be not all that earth shattering and that the scandal as a whole had more interest in Westminster than it did on the street.

Whether or not that's true remains to be seen. It's interesting to note that calls on this side of the Atlantic for an FCC inquiry into the operations of Murdoch's Fox News seem to have made more newsworthy headlines in the UK than over here. The move may be regarded as more symbolic than anything else, judging by the somewhat punchless and ineffectual state the FCC is in. However, there is still the ongoing DOJ Investigation of Phone Hacking and Bribery charges involving News Of The World related cases over here.

And all that lurks somewhere in the future.

But for now, Westminster has spoken and Rupert Murdoch's school of Tabloid Journalism received a slap on its faux-incompetent wrist.

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Amid speculations "the fuse is getting shorter", fresh allegations emerged today that uncovered documents prove the procedure of phone-hacking was widespread throughout News Of The World and knowledge of it was a routine topic of conversation among editorial staff and Newscorp/News International.

Centered around the controversy surrounding Clive Goodman, former Royals Reporter for News Of The World and his firing over phone-hacking, come new documents revealing there were two sets of the same e-mail from 2007 - the "official one" and the "real one", which included redacted portions carefully omitting reference to the subject of phone hacking routinely discussed at Editorial meetings and that Clive Goodman was not the isolated case and the "rogue reporter" as typified in testimony given by the Murdochs.

Although this comes as no surprise to anyone, the elements of proof coming out are offering substantiated horror rather than imagined speculation and that this scandal has legs and roots going very far back and not going away.

Curiously, there isn't much news to be had over here regarding our own set of investigations into the goings on at Newscorp/Fox. This could either mean a very large bomb is in the process of being constructed or the obstruction and cover-up are very much intertwined. Time will tell.

Here is the report today via BBC Radio 4's PM Program with Eddie Mair and an update via BBC Radio 4's Six O'clock News. Doubtless, more will be revealed in the coming hours/days.