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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/wo...nt&tntemail1=y
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In his 60 years in the newspaper business, few moments can have been as charged for Rupert Murdoch as the one he seems likely to confront on Friday when he is scheduled to visit the London headquarters of his British newspaper arm, News International, where reporters and editors are said to be in a state of civil war against Mr. Murdoch and his executives.
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But the Murdoch trip seems likely to be far from routine, going to the heart of what many media pundits, lawyers and politicians in Britain have come to see as a battle for the survival of his embattled newspaper operations in Britain — and perhaps, ultimately, a fight to shore up Mr. Murdoch’s control of the News Corporation, the American-based media conglomerate that owns the British papers and tens of billions of dollars of other assets, including Fox News and the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox.
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this article is quite a nice summary of the situation thus far..
BTW 21 journalists from the Sun and NOTW have now been arrested..How many will it take before it is apparent that those at the top knew what was going on?
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