The day James and Rebekah revealed the arrogant Murdoch way of business | Simon Kelner | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The day James and Rebekah revealed the arrogant Murdoch way of business | Simon Kelner | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: In retrospect, that incident in the Independent newsroom was the first sign of a fissure in the edifice of News International. Little more than a footnote in newspaper history it may be, but what it betrayed was a breathtaking lack of judgment and discretion, the head of the country's most powerful media organisation straying on to the sovereign territory of another newspaper to berate the editor over an incontestable truth in an advertising campaign. It's the same lack of judgment, together with a monumental arrogance in the wielding of corporate power, that has led us to where we are today. Which, of course, is the eve of the appearance before Lord Justice Leveson of Rupert Murdoch, the capo di tutti capi.