On Tuesday, Parliament published a heap of correspondence related to the News of the World phone-hacking investigation. Included in the document haul was News Corp.'s "Standards of Business Conduct" manual, which the Murdoch camp had dutifully forwarded to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee upon request.

When James Murdoch testified before Parliament back in July, he mentioned the "Standards" manual several times, saying that it explained the company’s ethics guidelines in a fairly detailed way, but "not too much, so that people read it." The manual (which, it turns out, was available online the whole time) was last updated in May 2011, right when [...]