Rupert Murdoch has mounted a robust defence of New Corporation's management of the phone-hacking scandal, insisting that the company has handled the crisis "extremely well in every possible way", making only "minor mistakes"…Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal…: "When I hear something going wrong I insist on it being put right." He said that he would use his appearance before the Commons culture, media and sport committee next Tuesday to challenge "some of the things that have been said in parliament, some of which are total lies"…He said the company would establish an independent committee headed by a "distinguished non-employee" to investigate all charges of improper conduct. Murdoch used the interview to take Gordon Brown to task for his claims that News International papers including the Sunday Times had illegally obtained information about him and his family. He said the former prime minister had "got it entirely wrong"...