According to a report in The Guardian, Rupert Murdoch – chairman of News Corp, the parent company of Fox News – has “paid out more than £1m (about $1.6 million) to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.”

Fair and balanced (and illegally obtained?)

Romenesko summarized the sordid story:

...Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary paid about $1.6 million to settle court cases involving allegations that its reporters worked with private investigators to hack into numerous public figures' cellphones. Murdoch tells Bloomberg News that's news to him. “If that had happened, I would know about it.”