James Murdoch's BSkyB exit puts Rupert in firing line

[dipsydoodle]

(Reuters) - James Murdoch's exit from the chairmanship of BSkyB moves his father Rupert into the firing line in Britain, just as an inquiry into a phone-hacking scandal turns its focus on his peculiar influence in the country.

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chief executive, is due to appear this month before a judge-led inquiry into ethics and standards in the press, which will be turning its attention to newspaper proprietors and politicians.

So far, James has taken most of the heat for a scandal over phone hacking at the Murdochs' best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World. Rupert's youngest son ran the family's newspaper publisher News International when the scandal erupted last year, and has faced hard questions about how much he knew about illegal activity.

But media experts say the inquiry, which has a broad brief to examine the press, is now turning to the fundamental problem of the sway media barons hold over politicians.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/05/uk-newscorp-murdoch-rupert-idUKBRE83311D20120405

[Gibby]

1. Murdoch also poured gallons of Fox piss into the US political and social debates

...souring the whole stinking mess into the realm of massive reeking disinformation (R).

[madokie]

2. Well said Gibby

Well said indeed.

[FarPoint]

3. That's putting it mildly.

Foxx is the eternal fuel of hate in American .

[Citizen Worker]

4. I think the Murdoch hacking and eavesdropping reachs deep into the US. If we ever get to the bottom

of this cess pool I think we'll find Murdoch's fingerprints all over the Elliot Spitzer spying.

[dipsydoodle]

5. So far the FBI have found nothing on either subject in the USA.

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