There's an interesting piece about Murdoch in today's Guardian by Sir Harold Evans. Evans is a former Sunday Times editor (and current editor-at-large at Reuters), and Murdoch was quizzed on his former employee at yesterday's hearing.

In the article, Evans says: "The version of history told by Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry bears no relation to what actually happened."

Here's a bit more:

Rupert Murdoch has apparently lost a great deal of his power of memory, but nature has compensated by endowing him with a vivid imagination. He can surely deploy his new gift in the service of Fox movies. There is the great scene he pitched to Lord Justice Leveson on Wednesday morning where the editor of the Times enters left, closes the door behind him and begs: "Look, tell me what you want to say, what do you want me to say, and it need not leave this room and I'll say it." And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."

And thus, children, was how Mr KR Murdoch honoured the promises of editorial independence that enabled him to avoid the Monopolies and Mergers Commission over his bid for Times Newspapers in 1981. As the editor in question, I am not able to compete with Murdoch in fabrication – he has had a lifetime of experience – but I do happen to have retained my memory of the year editing the Times, made notes, kept documents and even had the effrontery to write a whole bestselling book about it in 1983, called Good Times, Bad Times.

It's a fascinating insight by one of Murdoch's most high-profile employees, and you can read the rest of it here

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Editors "know my philosophy" says Murdoch. "I certainly do take part in the policy decisions of the Sun... that is my job," he adds.

On Cable as adjudicator of BSkyB bid, Murdoch says "We couldn't have had anyone worse."

Jay asks Murdoch about his reaction to the news that Vince Cable would no longer be handling the BSkyB bid, and that Jeremy Hunt would be taking over. Murdoch says: "We just thought we'll probably get a fairer go from anyone other than Dr Cable."

Murdoch also says he was not aware of comments praising his role in UK business on Hunt's website.

Murdoch tells #leveson he first heard on hacking arrest in sept 06

Murdoch on the hacking scandal: "The hacking scandal was not a great national thing until the Milly Dowler disclosure … half of which, I'm not making any excuses, has been disowned by the police."

Murdoch says myler would not have been his choice

Told of police evidence that News International obstructed police investigation into hacking scandal, Murdoch says: "That shocks me deeply, and I was unaware of it and I've not heard of it until you said that."

Murdoch says there was a "cover-up" at the News of the World and he was "misinformed and shielded" from what was going on at the paper. "Someone, took charge of a cover-up which we were victim to and I regret," he adds.

Worth noting that Murdoch then apologised for that remark (see tweet below).

Colin Myler was not Murdoch's choice for NotW editor, he says

Murdoch: "All I can do is apologise to a lot of people and a lot of innocent people at the News of the World who have lost their jobs... I'm very sorry for that."

The hearing stops for a short break

Murdoch says he was harassed by journalists last summer and tried to protect brooks.