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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Rupert Murdoch not fit to run business". I just love that headline!!
London (CNN) -- Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to run a major international company, British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at his tabloid News of the World reported Tuesday.
The ruling could prompt British regulators to force him to sell his controlling stake in British Sky Broadcasting, a significant part of his media empire.
The damning report accused Murdoch and his son James of showing "willful blindness" to phone hacking at News of the World, and said the newspaper "deliberately tried to thwart the police investigation" into the illegal activity.
The paper's publisher, News Corp. subsidiary News International, "wished to buy silence in this affair and pay to make the problem go away," the Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee found.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/01/world/europe/uk-phone-hacking/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I personally don't think he or anyone in his companies is fit to run a business!!
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"Rupert Murdoch not fit to run business". I just love that headline!! (Original Post)
madinmaryland
May 2012
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Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)1. He may be fit to run a dictatorship, but not a business.
K & R.
calimary
(81,555 posts)2. He's good at running roughshod over people.
Sal Minella
(5,530 posts)3. And between The Wall Street Journal and Faux, he gets to
manipulate both the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor.
No wonder he can sit in front of cameras and lie his ass off.
He feels invincible.