- By RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press LONDON (AP) - If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdochs News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because youve heard the story before. (msnbc.com)
- Key figures in the U.K.'s conservative coalition are on the defensive about their ties to Rupert's empire. Here's the problem—News Corp.'s monopoly has reached nearly every corner of the nation. (Daily Beast)
- It doesnt stop. Wont stop. Cant stop. Rupert Murdoch is going to be run out of Britain. His is a worst-case scenario: a powerful political opposition moving against him, and a chain of evidence moving toward him. (The Guardian)
- News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch sought to move beyond a damaging report from Parliament accusing him of willful blindness in failing to properly investigate allegations of phone hacking by one one of his companys London-based tabloids. (Los Angeles Times)
- This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. (Los Angeles Times)
- The phone hacking scandal roiling Britain has cast a fresh light on the cozy ties and outsized political clout of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of the sprawling News Corp. (Yahoo Finance)
- May 1 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to lead a major international company, U.K. lawmakers said, after his British unit misled Parliament about the extent of phone hacking at its News of the World tabloid. (San Francisco Gate)
- The report by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee has found that Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person to exercise stewardship of a major international company. (World Socialist Web Site)
- Rupert Murdoch said last week he regretted the 1994 initial public offering of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), which reduced News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA)'s control. Now its remaining 39 percent holding in the U.K. (Businessweek)
- In order to run a television network, a company needs a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), since the airwaves are still considered a part of the public trust. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
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