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By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
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By Stephen Foster on November 10, 2011
News Corporation deputy COO James Murdoch did pretty well before his UK Parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport inquisitors today – rebuffing the testimony of former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former legal manager Tom Krone that he has been lying about his knowledge of widespread wrongdoing at the now-defunct newspaper. In this [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Colin Myler, James Murdoch, new of the world, news corporation, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, sky news, Sun, Tom Krone
By Stephen Foster on November 10, 2011
News Corporation deputy COO James Murdoch faces a British Parliamentary Committee this afternoon who will quiz him on his knowledge of phone hacking and various other forms of surveillance carried on routinely at the now-defunct News of the World, of which he was the ultimate boss as executive chairman of News international. The story has [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Derek Webb, James Murdoch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, phone hacking scandal lawyers, undercover surveillance
By Stephen Foster on July 30, 2011
Yes he did, really. Well the new editor of Adweek and authorised Rupert Murdoch biographer (‘The man who bought the news’ published in 2008) has never been a man to mince his words and, as you can see from the above, he doesn’t. Wolff’s forebodings (if such they are) are clearly nor shared by the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged adweek, botany bay, Colin Myler, evidence, jail, James Murdoch, Michael Wolff, news of the world, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Krone
By Stephen Foster on July 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb, daily mail, fox, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, mail on sunday, News International, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, political influence, royal family, Rupert Murdoch, sky, the guardian, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on July 21, 2011
James Murdoch did pretty well in his appearance before the Parliamentary culture, media and sport committee this week – but only if he was telling the truth. Former employees Colin Myler, editor of the now defunct News of the World and NoW legal manager Tom Crone are challenging his version of events. Here’s what the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, Colin Myler, James Murdoch, Matt Nixson, news corporation, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Tom Krone
By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2011
It was girls on top (yet again) at the Parliamentary quizzing of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks today over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. James did OK under some tough questioning from Labour MP Tom Watson, but did demonstrate the inexperienced executive’s characteristic fault of filling a gap in the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged daily mail, David Cameron, James Murdoch, Louise Mensch, mail on sunday, news corporation, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Watson
By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2011
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson into early retirement as the fallout from the scandal continues to spread. Stephenson’s decision to [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Boris Johnson, Cameron crisis, David Cameron, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, John Yates, london mayor, Matthew Freud, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Wade, resignations, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson
By Stephen Foster on July 17, 2011
Well it seems an extraordinary idea doesn’t it? UK PM David Cameron being forced to resign over the Murdoch newspapers phone hacking scandal. But don’t rule it out. Tonight Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson (pictured) stunned just about everybody by resigning over a cocktail of issues including his investigation of the phone hacking scandal, [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Chase Carey, David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, Jeremy Clarkson, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson, us shareholders
By Stephen Foster on July 15, 2011
News International CEO Rebekah Brooks resigned today, as we forecast she would have to do weeks ago. The unfortunate Mrs Brooks, one of PM David Cameron’s closest chums, now faces a formidable monstering by serried politicians (next Tuesday, for starters), rival journalists and people who just don’t like her or her ultimate boss News Corporation’s [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged coalition pm, David Cameron, news of the world phone hacking scandal, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Brooks, resignation, Rupert Murdoch, titanic
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