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Murdoch's apology which will appear in the papers

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/07/15.jpg

I wonder what his next move will be

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ly-Dowler.html

Re: [Update] NotW closed after phone hacking allegations / NewsCorp's BSkyB bid withd

..amends for the damage they have caused..

Guess it was too much to hope, that he'd take some of the responsibility himself :(

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The Murdochs? back to Austrialia (Deportation)

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Originally Posted by yesman (Post 35273859)

I wonder what his next move will be

Leave this country and never show his face here again would be a start

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35273884)

Leave this country and never show his face here again would be a start

And send the people who were corrupted by his empire with him as well.

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35273870)

The Murdochs? back to Austrialia (Deportation)

They are American citizens. ;)

This is a good thing, because the USA has a neat little law that means an American citizen can be prosecuted for crimes of bribery and corruption that they have carried out anywhere else in the world. If the allegations about bungs for British coppers turn out to have any substance, Messrs. Murdoch might just find that their corporate responsibility for the shambles that is News Corp lands them in some very deep dooh-dooh indeed with an American judge.

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Originally Posted by Flyboy (Post 35273825)

I was thinking more along the lines that some former editors have been employed by the Met.

Did you not get the joke;)

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35273894)

..... or Rupert could accidentally fake his death by falling off his yacht whilst sailing near the Canaries.... or is that getting too far fetched? Who'd believe a press baron in deep doo doo would fabricate his own death ;)

What a lovely play that would make, Robert and Rupert seeing out their twilight year on a secluded island with fake identities. :D

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35273894)

But they where Aussies, and I believe the USA can revoke their US citizenship
. Then deport them.

Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog...-live-coverage

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9.13pm: News is breaking that Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones, is resigning. We are expecting a statement from Dow Jones.

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35273910)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog...-live-coverage

It's being reported on the beeb too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14170879

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/wo...acking.html?hp

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Mr. Hinton, a long-time confidant of Mr. Murdoch, ran News International, the British publishing subsidiary of Mr. Murdochâ€™s News Corporation, from 1997 to 2005, during the time when the phone hacking that touched off the scandal took place.
Mr. Hinton has said repeatedly he was unaware that people working for The News of the World, a Sunday tabloid that Mr. Murdoch recently shut down to help contain the growing crisis, were illegally accessing private voice mail messages. In his resignation letter to Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Hinton acknowledged that he ultimately bore responsibility for the company.
â€œThat I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp, and apologize to those hurt by the actions of the News of the World,â€ he wrote in his resignation letter to Mr. Murdoch.

Hmmm!

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Originally Posted by yesman (Post 35273859)

Murdoch's apology which will appear in the papers

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/07/15.jpg

I wonder what his next move will be

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ly-Dowler.html

Too little, too late.

This should have appeared on the last issue of that rag.

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35273870)

The Murdochs? back to Austrialia (Deportation)

They are US citizens. ;)

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35273884)

Leave this country and never show his face here again would be a start

Or put him up in one of HM's best hotels.

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35273894)

They are American citizens. ;)

This is a good thing, because the USA has a neat little law that means an American citizen can be prosecuted for crimes of bribery and corruption that they have carried out anywhere else in the world. If the allegations about bungs for British coppers turn out to have any substance, Messrs. Murdoch might just find that their corporate responsibility for the shambles that is News Corp lands them in some very deep dooh-dooh indeed with an American judge.

This is not necessarily limited to US citizens. I believe (but I stand to be corrected) that it goes for any employee of a company incorporated in the US.

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Originally Posted by LondonRoad (Post 35273902)

Or claim to have Alzheimer's and then be suddenly cured. ;)

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35274012)

l thought these were very interesting pieces to peruse this morning.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...e-2314592.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...need-them.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...nton-news-corp

I frankly am not impressed by the Daily Mail's Max Hastings rant.He blamed everyone including the poor old Prince of Wales without ever mentioning the poison that his paper has been dripping into our society all this time as well.:mad: