Murdoch 'not fit person' to run major company

[canetoad]

British MPs slam Murdoch on phone hacking

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch was not a fit person to run a major international company, a committee of British MPs inquiring into phone hacking has concluded.

The select committee on the media released a report last night that also found:

♦ News International had deliberately tried to cover up hacking
♦ Its executives misled the committee over phone-hacking and some might face contempt-of-parliament charges
♦ It was "astonishing" that James Murdoch had not known of hacking earlier and his alleged ignorance raised questions about his competence.

The committee said of Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, that in not taking steps to become fully informed about phone-hacking at his London newspapers, "he turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness ...
http://www.theage.com.au/world/british-m...1xx93.html

[jaxx]

Would this be called Rupert getting his comeuppance? He deserves all the wrath they can heap on him.

[pappy]

Hey Canetoad, would you Aussies consider taking Rupert back? We are willing to pay you to take him back! Name your price!

[azmouse]

(05-01-2012 05:38 PM)pappy Wrote:  Hey Canetoad, would you Aussies consider taking Rupert back? We are willing to pay you to take him back! Name your price!

And I think we could see fit to send Murdoch on his way in a leaky row boat. No need for him to get there too quickly.

[canetoad]

(05-01-2012 05:38 PM)pappy Wrote:  Hey Canetoad, would you Aussies consider taking Rupert back? We are willing to pay you to take him back! Name your price!

BWAHHHAHAHAHA. He jumped ship and we don't want him back!
He truly has become an international pariah.

[canetoad]

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has hit back at a report by British MPs that concluded the media magnate was unfit to run a major company, describing the report as “unjustified and highly partisan”.

But the company also admitted that the report contained some “hard truths” about phone hacking at its now-defunct London tabloid, the News of the World.

The truths included “serious wrongdoing at the News of the World; that our response to the wrongdoing was too slow and too defensive; and that some of our employees misled the Select Committee [on media] in 2009,” News Corporation said in a statement.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/unjustifi...1xxsu.html
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I guess even international pariahs have right of reply.