mr. andrew niels said in an interview he gave to cnn and just your reaction, please, mr. murdoch, said this, of course rupert murdoch can't be held responsible for every individual act just as when i was editor of the sunday times i couldn't be held responsible for every individual act that my tens of scores of journalists would take. you create a climate in which people think it is all right to do certain things and i would argue that rupert murdoch with his take no prisoners attitude to tabloid journalism, the end will justify the means, do whatever it takes, that created the kind of newsroom climate in which hacking and other things were done with imp u.n. ity on an industrial scale. >> i don't think he knows the first thing he was talking about. i would say at the beginning of that quote that i may not be able to know what every journalist is writing, but it is certainly the duty of the editor to take responsibility for every word in his newspaper. it is harder for someone the chairman of the company of a lot of newspapers. that's by the way explanation, not excuse. >