Stephen Mayne, writing on Crikey, an online publication [well worth subscribing to] quite correctly writes:
"Media outlets around the world are declaring that Rupert Murdoch has apologised for outrageous phone hacking at his British tabloids.
But Rupert Murdoch himself hasn’t said anything.
Here [above] is the sum total of the seven paragraphs printed on page two of yesterday’s News of the World, plus the five-paragraph corporate statement from News International emailed to journalists on Friday