[During evidence to a UK Parliamentary committee] Rupert Murdoch...[and James Murdoch] apologized profusely…for the phone hacking scandal…even as they insisted they had not ordered or tried to cover up unethical newsgathering at their newspapers and were not directly to blame...[The scandal] exploded two weeks ago with the news that people working for The News of the World, a tabloid run by...News International [part of News Corp], had broken into the voice mail of a 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, who had been abducted in 2002 and was later found murdered…Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as head of News International last Friday…insisted that the...company acted “quickly and decisively” against phone hacking...