Les Hinton resigns from News Corp

[TheNewMe]

Les Hinton resigns from News Corp
Hinton, who has worked for Murdoch for over 50 years, told staff at the Wall Street Journal he had no option but to resign
Lisa O'Carroll
guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 July 2011 21.34 BST

Quote:Rupert Murdoch's righthand man Les Hinton has resigned in the latest shock development of a saga still threatening to engulf the newspaper and TV mogul's empire.

Hinton, who has worked for the media baron for more than 50 years, told staff at the Wall Street Journal he had no option but to resign.
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"That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant," he wrote in a letter to staff adding: "I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp."

Hinton headed Murdoch's British newspaper arm, News International, when the phone-hacking allegations first arose.
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This is shocking to me, because more and more this scandal is finding its way to the U.S.

[TheNewMe]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/1...9902.shtml

"Many of you will be aware by now that I resigned today from Dow Jones and News Corp."

[There Is No Spoon]

This is quite fascinating.

[TheNewMe]

(07-15-2011 04:21 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote:  This is quite fascinating.

Yes, fascinating, Mr Sulu

This from the Guardian puts it into context:

Quote:The problem for News Corp now is that, at every stage, its attempts to contain this story have failed. The decision to close the News of the World was motivated in part to save the chief executive of NI, Rebekah Brooks.

That decision failed and Brooks resigned today. The decision to sacrifice Brooks was an attempt to contain the story in the UK.

That failed, too. Now Hinton, who has been more significant to the company's fortunes and to Murdoch personally for far longer than Brooks, has been thrown to the wolves.

Will that be enough? Our experience of this story so far suggests not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/201...e-coverage
Phone Hacking News Blog
Matt Wells
9:43pm

[jaxx]

This could go on and on with the resignations. When will it get to Faux?