Korporate Kulture

News America, profiled today in the NY Times, was a NewsCorp. subdivision that true to all NewsCorp properties played hardball way over the line and has the many millions settlements to prove it...sound familiar?

Here's the kind of person Murdoch placed in charge:

News America was led by Paul V. Carlucci, who, according to Forbes, used to show the sales staff the scene in “The Untouchables” in which Al Capone beats a man to death with a baseball bat. Mr. Emmel testified that Mr. Carlucci was clear about the guiding corporate philosophy.

According to Mr. Emmel’s testimony, Mr. Carlucci said that if there were employees uncomfortable with the company’s philosophy — “bed-wetting liberals in particular was the description he used” Mr. Emmel testified — then he could arrange to have those employees “outplaced from the company.”

Liberal = 'Soft on Murder, big on ethics'.