Australia too launches media probe

Australia yesterday said it would hold a media inquiry following the British hacking scandal which sank Rupert Murdoch's best-selling tabloid News of the World.
A spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the scope of the inquiry was yet to finalised but the ruling Labour party had decided that a probe was required.
"What's been agreed is that we're going to have an inquiry into media and media ownership," the spokesman told AFP.
Labor faced intense calls for an official review of Australia's media after the phone hacking scandal, which saw News Corp chairman Murdoch drop his bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB and front a grilling by British MPs.