London Evening Standard
Asked how she would prevent something like the News of the World phone-hacking scandal at The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington responds, “There is no way something like that would happen without everybody being fired – everybody involved. For something like that to happen … It would never happen. Because you create a certain culture. It’s a very different culture, journalistically, where you basically hire an investigator to tap into phones and where you pay for sources.” The scandal, she says, is “about media accountability and ground rules. It’s about not allowing an ‘anything goes’ mentality.” Noting the pressure at the tabloid to perform, CJR’s Ryan Chittum writes, “This was a corporate culture gone mad. When these things happen it’s not because a couple of folks at the bottom happen to go off the rails together. It almost always comes from the top.”
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