select committee hearing on the murdochs essay
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INTRODUCTION
I am going to analyse the House of Commons Culture, Media and
Sport Select Committee hearings into the issue of illegal phone
hacking, dated 19 July and 10 November 2011i. The text consists of
extracts from two uncorrected transcriptsii
(Whittingale, J. 2011b,
Appendix E; 2011c, Appendix F), which are publicly available. The text also includes early
correspondence sent between the two witnesses, James Murdoch, and his father, Rupert Murdoch,iii
and the chairperson, John Whittingale, MP.
I will analyse the texts from the perspective of different kinds of speech acts, specifically using
Gunnarssons (2009) development of Searles (1969) typology. I will go on to look at the potential
Face-Threatening Acts (FTAs) therein, using Brown and Levison (1987). In addition, I will investigate
to what extent politeness is used to mitigate FTAs during the hearings.
ANALYSIS
In looking at a Parliamentary Committee Hearing, I am recognising that there is little research
specifically in this area. There has been research into committee hearings (for example,
Kangasharju, 2002), although there appears to be substantially more research into legal settings,
such as turn-taking in courtrooms (Gnisci and Pontecorvo, 2003), facework and politeness incourtrooms (Penman, 1990) and the limitations of politeness (Tolmach-Lakoff, 1989). Bloor and
Bloor (2007:166-7) highlight examples of whether or not a certain speech act has taken place in a
court of law, while Gunnarsson (2009:99-141) has looked at the comprehension of legislative texts.
A speech act was first proposed (Austin, 1962/1975) as a way to uncover the pragmatic function of
utterances. Searle (1969) developed Austinsidea of illocutionary forceiv
into a typology of speech
acts which attempted to break down utterances at the micro-level. Using the chairs initial written
press statementv
, I will now analyse these using Searles typology:
In light of the extraordinary developments this week around phone hacking, (1) serious questions
have arisen about the evidence given to the Committee by a number of witnesses in its previous
inquiry into press standards, libel and privacy. In particular, (1) James Murdoch, has said that
Parliament was misled. (2) That is a very serious matter that (3) we will not allow to go
unquestioned. (4) We are therefore today calling James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, and Rebekah
Brooks to appear before us next week. (4) The committee expects a response by 14 July 2011.
Whittingale, J, statement of 12 July 2011vi
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Representatives, such as shown in (1), are the most straightforward assertions, which express
simply what a person means. Here, the chair is publicly stating the seriousness of the situation. A
further representative is shown in (2), although this might be an expressive as it indirectly gives a
sense of the psychological state of the speaker. This is followed by a commissive (3) which
commits the committee to a future action. This is followed with a two directives (4), where the
chair calls upon three witnesses to give evidence in front of the committee and to respond by a
certain date.
After initially turning the invitation down (Appendix A), James Murdoch confirms his and his fathers
attendance (Appendix B). This follows a further, stronger directive from the chair, reported as a
summons (Whittingdale, 2011a). Murdoch outlines a specific commissive beyond appearing at the
select committee:
I hope that it is clear that we are committed to ensuring that the issues that have affected
the News of the World are fully investigated and dealt with appropriately and robustly. To that end
we have committed to full cooperation with the police inquiries that are underway and with the
Public Inquiry to be by Led Justice Leveson that will begin its work shortly. (James Murdoch: 14 July,
Appendix B)
Murdochs intention to show cooperation is clearly stated, albeit instigated by the summons. This
strongly prompted involvement is more adequately defined by Gunnarssons (2009) development of
Searles expressive category. Murdoch continues by raising a doubtful, expressive concern about
the committee hearings purpose:
In the course of the investigations and inquiries now envisaged, all the relevant issues will
undoubtedly be fully and effectively reviewed and, no doubt, many questions will be asked. I am,
however, very much concerned that we are now being asked to answer yet further questions in a
different forum. (ibid, 14 July)
Gunnarssons (2009) development allows for more precise definitions than Searles. In addition, it is
more appropriate because of her analysis of acts based upon professional discourse. The closest
area of her data-driven analysis to a parliamentary select committee is that of legislative discourse.
Brown and Levison (1987) themselves note that the courtroom is an interesting context for exploring
the politeness perspective because ofthe formal protocol that regulate*s+ potential conflict
(ibid:51). This select committeevii
is not a court of law, however, and subsequently has to position
itself in such a way as to not unduly jeopardise an ongoing police investigation or a public inquiry
which could lead to criminal prosecutions, as already stated.
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The definition of position mentioned is not the same as that oftaking a position. A speaker may
position their views in the statements they make or the evidence they give. Furthermore, the
speaker may take a stance which could be explicit or hidden (Bloor and Bloor, 2007:33). At all times,
Murdoch wishes to give the impression of being co-operative and overt. However, the hearings
themselves reveal some interesting speech acts. Murdoch, for example, begins with a whole-
hearted expressive:
First, I would like to say as well just how sorry I am, and how sorry we are, to particularly the
victims of illegal voicemail interception and to their families. It is a matter of great regret to me, my
father and everyone at News Corporation. These actions to not live up to the standards that our
company aspires to everywhere around the world, and it is our determination to put things right, to
make sure that these things do not happen again and to be the company that I know we have always
aspired to be. (James Murdoch, 19 July: Appendix E:2)
When this Committee took evidence in 2009, we heard from [various former employees of
the News of the World]. All of them told us that there had been a thorough investigation and no
evidence had ever been found that anybody else [other than one rogue reporter] was involved. That
clearly was not correct. Were any of them lying to this Committee? (Chair, Appendix E:3)
The chair reminds Murdoch, here and elsewhere, of argumentative (Gunnarsson, 2009) claims that
only one rogue reporter had been involving in phone hacking. The committee had concluded this to
be inconceivable (chair, ibid:1). The accusation that one or more of the former senior employees
were lying is phrased as a polite interrogative, which mirrors the earlier argumentative that
Parliament had been misled (chair, ibid:2). The whole hearing can be seen as one of News
International needing to save positive face (Brown and Levison, 1987) in light of damaging external
evidence since the original 2009 inquiry. This question, as well as numerous others, intrinsically
threatens the face of the hearer. News International had already received substantial, highly critical
media coverage in the preceding weeks and, indeed, James Murdoch had taken the significant action
of closing the newspaper concerned, on 7 Julyviii
, admitting wrongdoing. Murdoch replies, indirectly,
with a series of legalistic explicative representations about the company, describing and explaining:
The company relied upon [a number of facts] and for the company in 2008 and 2009, it was
not clear that there was a reason to believe that those matters were anything other than settled
matters, and in the past. (Murdoch, Appendix E:3)
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Furthermore, Murdoch frequently uses the term company to distance himself personally from
blame and his own non-involvement at the time. He frequently asserts to not having knowledge or
evidence earlier and expresses:
real regret that the facts could not emerge and could not be gotten to my understanding
faster (ibid:3).
A substantial portion of questioning revolves around what both James and his father, Rupert, knew.
Despite, or perhaps because of, obvious signs during the hearing that James testimony is
unquestionably more lucid and detailed than his fathers, one Member, Tom Watson, feels it
necessary to threaten the positive face of the CEO of News Corporation, with a series of direct
questions, whilst using respectful address:
Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch, I do accept that you have many distinguished people who work for
your company. You are ultimately responsible for the corporate governance of News Corp, so what I
am trying to establish is who knew about wrongdoing and what was involved at the time. (Tom
Watson, July 2011, Appendix E:5)
Do you agree with Mr Justice Easy, when he said the lack of action discloses a remarkable
state of affairs at News International? a judge found a chief reporter guilty of blackmail. It was
widely reported. (ibid:6)
I will come to you, Mr [James] Murdoch, but it is your father who is responsible for
corporate governance Who was aware of the Harbottle & Lewis findings at News International?
(ibid:7)
A parliamentary inquiry found your senior executives in the UK guilty of collective amnesia
and nobody brought it to your attention. I do not see why you do not think that this is very serious.
(ibid:8)
Mr Watson asks a series of interrogatives, which alternate between premeditated legalistic
questioning and negatively criticizing News Corporation for not being aware of certain facts. He
deliberately uses a directive of prohibitingMurdoch juniors interruptions, which are offers to
clarify, because he believes that Murdoch senior has ultimate responsibility and his limited, sporadic
responses could undermine the companys case. Murdoch senior rebuffs by similarly distancing
himself from the accusations:
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I didnt know of it The News of the World is less than 1% of our company. I employ 53,000
people I am spread watching and appointing people whom I trust (Rupert Murdoch: Appendix
E:5)
We could claim that Watsons accusations significantly threaten the witnesses face wants (Brown
and Levison, 1987:62). Watson knows this and deliberately plays with the self-image that the
witnesses wish to maintain. The witnesses wish to comply with the committees questions, despite
the negative face associated with the imposition of having to answer questions. The consequence
of not doing so would result in loss ofpositive face their self-image. In addition, they want to
escape the questioning personally unharmed.
According to Brown and Levison, certain speech acts intrinsically threaten face:
namely those acts that by their nature run contrary to the face wants of the addressee
and/or the speaker. By act we have in mind what is intended to be done by a verbal or non-verbal
communication, just as one or more speech acts can be assigned to an utterance (Brown and
Levison 1987:65)
I have already touched upon these Face-Threatening Acts and I will shortly explore this further,
focusing on the second hearing. An FTA can be performed on record if it is clear to participants
what communicative intention led the actor to do it. It is, therefore, unambiguous. (Brown andLeivson:68). In contrast, if an FTA is to be performed off record, there is ambiguity about the
intention of the act. This would be performed, for example, with hints, rhetorical questions and
understatement (ibid:69). Select Committee meetings are intrinsically on record, both in the sense
that they are published and that all questions and potential FTAs are unambiguous. That doesnt
mean that all answers are necessarily unambiguous.
The chairs original summons and subsequent re-call of James Murdoch had the potential of
threatening negative face i.e. there was an imposition placed upon him but little is done to
mitigate this. In that sense, a power relationship exists where this committee wields an obligatory
power, indirectly supposing the negative consequence of non-compliance. The sociological variables
of power, distance and ranking of impositioncan all affect the weightiness of an FTA (ibid:74).
Here, two people with enormous media power, are being held to account, by a cross-party
committeeix, who report to the UK Parliament. This committee can create solidarity (Holmes, 1995;
Scollon and Scollon, 2001) with the witnesses by expressing a shared interest, such as finding out the
truth. There is also significant use of the inclusive we, showing the committees collective purpose,
as well as the use ofweby the witnesses to show responsibility for the corporation:
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We hope that all that you would wish to say will come out during the course of questioning
(chair, Appendix E:1)
how sorry I am, and how sorry we are standard that our company aspires to our
determination to put things right be the company I know we have always aspired to. (James
Murdoch, Appendix E:2)
We had broken our trust with our readers, the important point was that we had broken our
trust with our readers. (Rupert Murdoch, Appendix E:10)
The apparent solidarity that the witnesses show towards the committees objective is explored
through a collective criticism of former employees of the company, who also gave evidencex. Hidden
beneath the formal politeness is a need for the speakers to save positive, corporate face, by
distancing themselves from previous senior employees statements to the same committee. This is
later confirmed when two of these employees question the veracity of Murdochs testimony
(Appendix D), and, on 6 September, give evidence to the committee. This leads to James Murdoch
being recalled.
In the second hearing, on 10 November (Appendix F), James Murdoch gives further evidence. I have
mentioned speech acts and how FTAs were used in the first hearing. I will now focus more
specifically on FTAs from this second hearing and principally the exchange with Tom Watson. Weneed to remember that whilst this is not a legal courtroom there is still substantial potential for loss
of corporate face.
At times, the questioning in the second hearing shows a power relationship similar to a teacher-pupil
or parent-child interaction:
Last time I asked you if you were familiar with the phrase, wilful blindness. You stalled for
so long that your father had to interrupt and answer for you. Have you had time to consider the
phrase and tell the Committee what you think it means? (Adrian Sanders, Appendix F, Q1477:5)
This elicits a reflective response, where huge politeness to the questioner is paramount:
I think you described to me at the time, Mr Sanders, what it meant. What I have reflected
on is really . It was the tendency for a period of time to react to criticism or allegations as being
hostile or motivated commercially or politically .. [We did not] reflect as dispassionately as we might
have, among the dim and clamour at no point do I think the company suffered from wilfull
blindness of my part (James Murdoch, Nov 2011, Appendix E:5)
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Soon after, Mr Sanders asks:
which do you think is worse knowing what was going on, but being wilfully blind to it, or
not knowing what was going on, when you should have known what was going on? (Sanders, Q1482,
Appendix E:6)
James Murdoch does not reply to the question directly, instead circumnavigating the essence of his
own, personal defence. By that, I mean that the hearing generally exposes that wrongdoing took
place but that the people at the very top, Mr Murdoch and his father, were apparently unaware of
this. Compare Murdochs legalistic ambiguities compared with his fathers earlier blunt, often
monosyllabic answers and his admission about [the first hearing] being the most humble day of
my life (Rupert Murdoch, July 2011, Appendix E:2).xi
The committees collaborative attempt to embarrass James Murdoch occurs elsewhere in the
transcript, for example:
But you are family. You do speak to your father now and again, I suppose. So you would
not think to say to your father, as any normal son would do (Jim Sheridan, Appendix F: Q1472/3:4)
Your father expressed his view that he was extremely humbled by the whole event. Do you
feel the same way about your position? (ibid, Q1474:4)
Tom Watsons second exchange with James Murdoch, following the first hearing, is bookended with
an expressive from the latter that certain questions are inappropriate, again due to matters of
criminal investigation or individuals who are currently arrested, on bail or under criminal
investigation (Murdoch, Nov 2011, Appendix F:7). Watsons questions all have a positive Face-
Threatening potential, attempting to get Murdoch to apologise, admit guilt or lack of competence
(Brown and Levison, 1987). Both are fully aware of the public nature of the hearing, if not an actual
public inquiryxii
. While there was the very on-record apology given at the beginning of the first
hearing, no further apology is forthcoming in the second. While speakers positive face is directly
damaged by apologies, Mr Murdoch himself never resorts to admitting any guilt or lack of
competence himself, regularly insisting that many actions discussed happened before his time in
charge.
In politeness theory (ibid), there are several strategies that can be employed to mitigate FTAs.
Examples include the following: a person can be indirect, offer choices, be willing to threaten ones
own face rather than the addressees, and to use address terms to show respect. With the
exception of the latter, there is little evidence to show these strategies are employed by the
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committee members. Questions are mono directional; the witnesses only answer questions and
they only ask questions themselves to seek clarification or permission, in order to comply. Indeed,
as Tolmach-Lakoff (1989:1) suggests in an analysis of courtroom discourse, non-polite behaviour
can be systematic and normal.
The tone of Mr Watsons enquiry, in particular, resembles that of a courtroom prosecutor, with a
series of leading questions, requiring simple yes or no answers.
The whole exchange (Appendix F, Q1485Q1547:7-17) resembles that found in a courtroom. Watson
deliberately avoids politeness strategies, using previously undisclosed evidence, of a meeting with a
key figure, Neville Thurlbeck (Appendix F, Q1535-9:15-16). Murdoch meticulously maintains his own
politeness for possible fear of positive face loss, preferring to let Watson appear impolite. The
exchange culminates with a very bold positive FTA, by Watson, deliberately inviting Murdoch to
agree with him on a number of comparisons with Murdoch being a mafia boss. Again, this is done
without redressive action or mitigation and, furthermore, Watson deliberately pursues his quarry
by seemingly ignoring Murdochs responses:
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DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
I have looked at two Parliamentary Select Committee hearing transcripts, focusing on speech acts,
FTAs and the extent to which politeness is shown therein. I have analysed the discourse used and
already begun to discuss some of the issues of this particular setting. As always in determining
whether a particular speech act has occurred, the context has to be taken into account. I would
argue that this particular setting has a high level of formality, which requires a certain level of
necessary politeness. It does, however, resemble a courtroom in the manner of its delivery. The
horseshoe arrangement of the furniture (see below), the lengthy and seriousness of the
interrogation and the deliberate attempts to threaten the witnesses all lead to a courtroom
comparison.
To develop a theory of how Select Committees operate and the discourse used within them, I would
need to look at further examples. I deliberately avoided looking at the macro-level, or possible
genre of the committee as this would require additional analysis. Needless to say, the common
purpose for which the committee is organised and proceeds does not seem, beyond normal terms of
address, to require the level of politeness that might expect in such a setting.
The texts as a whole achieve their communicative function of publicly holding two people in positionof power to account for their corporate governance and management of one of the worlds largest
media conglomerates. In addition, both committee and witnesses show the apparent common goal
of uncovering the truth, which is a positive politeness strategy. The reality, however, is that both
positive and negative politeness is often disregarded by the committee. The questioning is direct, it
consistently expects the witnesses to comply and only minimal mitigation is employed. Individual
speech acts are framed by this wider goal.
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iAs of 26 November 2011, sixty separate pieces of written evidence (correspondence) have been published by the Culture,
Media and Sport Select Committee, alongside six transcripts from the committees hearings in 2011.
iiThe transcripts of the first and second hearings are uncorrected. This means that neither witnesses nor Members have
had the opportunity to correct the record. It is not an approved formal record of these proceedings. For the purposes of
this paper, however, it does provide a reasonably accurate account of what was said and that any minor errors do not
significantly change the meaning of what was said. The original texts are 76 pages and 50 pages respectively.
iiiAlthough a former editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, gave evidence on the same date as the first hearing
(19 July), she gave her evidence after James and Rupert Murdoch. Although her name appears on the extract of the first
transcript, Appendix E, her evidence came later on.
ivA locutionary act, Austin claimed, might have an Illocutionary force associated with it. This Illocutionary force may have
a separate perlocutionary effect. Whether the second and third exist depends very much on the situation. Only a sense
of the situation can make the speech act become clearer. See Austin, 1975:99.
vThis statement is taken from the Parliamentary web page. The actual written correspondence, dated 12 July 2011,requesting the witnesses to appear, has not been published.
viStatement as appears on Commons Select Committee web page. Available at:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-
committee/news/call-for-rupert-murdoch-james-murdoch-and-rebekah-brooks-to-give-evidence/. Accessed 14 November
2011.
viiDepartmental select committees are cross-party groups of MPs (Members of Parliament) responsible for the scrutiny of
governmental departments. Select committees have been used by the House for centuries for many different purposes. A
small group of Members can gather information and produce detailed reports much more easily than the House as a
whole.Committees determine their own subjects for inquiry, gather written and oral evidence (and sometimesinformation from visits in the UK or overseas) and make reports to the House which are printed and placed on the Internet.
The Government must subsequently reply to any recommendations within two months.Source: House of CommonsInformation Office factsheet, 2010.
viiiThe evidence, which came to light, that the murdered schoolgirl, Millie Dowler, had her phone hacked, appeared to be
the final revelation which prompted this action. Seehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733.
ixThe full Culture, Media and Sport Committee, as appointed on 12 July 2010, consisted of the following members of
parliament: Mr John Whittingdale (Conservative Party, chair), Dr Therese Coffey (Con), Mr Damian Collins (Con), Mr Philip
Davies (Con), Mr Paul Farrelly (Labour Party), Mr Alan Keen (Lab, co-operative) who died in November 2011, Mrs Louise
Mensch (Con), Mr Steve Rotheram (Lab), Mr Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat), Mr Jim Sheridan (Lab) and Mr Tom
Watson.
xFor example, Tom Crone, former Legal Manager, News Group Newspapers and Colin Myler, editor of the News of the
World when it closed down, who gave evidence on 6 September 2011.xiRupert Murdoch was physically assaulted towards the end of the first hearing, and as a direct result, was permitted to
read, in full, a lengthy explicative statement (p47-48) which had earlier been first denied by the Chairs directive and then
permitted, but only as a written submission (p1). It is possibly the only example where the committee felt obliged to
apologise wholeheartedly to Mr Murdoch, and therefore mitigate a FTA, for this being allowed to happen.
xiiThe Leveson public inquiry followed the hearing. This was referred to on many occasions in the transcript, as well as
ongoing police investigations, in order to frame the terms of reference for these Select Committee Hearings. This industry-
wide inquiry did not begin until after these hearings had taken place and were still ongoing at the time of writing. Inquiry:
Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Pressavailable at:http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/.
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http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-
and-sport-committee/inquiries/phone-hacking/. Accessed between 13-15 November 2006.
Whittingdale, J. 2011b. Chair of House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
Uncorrected Transcript HC903-ii dated 19 July 2001:http://tiny.cc/ocnrz Accessed 13 November
2006.
Whittingdale, J. 2011c. Chair of House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
Uncorrected Transcript HC903 vi dated 10 November 2001:http://tiny.cc/vthrv.Accessed 13
November 2006.
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