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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-11 10:17 PM
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Major News Corp. investor (Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal) calls for Brooks to quit
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Edited on Thu Jul-14-11 10:18 PM by kpete
Source: Raw Story/AFP

Major News Corp. investor calls for Brooks to quit

By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 -- 8:12 pm


LONDON — Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a major shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp. organisation, on Thursday said under-fire executive Rebekah Brooks "had to go".

"For sure she has to go, you bet she has to go," News Corp.'s second largest shareholder said of Brooks on BBC's Newsnight programme.

Brooks, who is due to face MPs next week over claims that the now defunct News of the World newspaper hacked phones while she was editor, is the chief executive of News International, the British newspaper arm of News Corp.

The phone-hacking scandal escalated on Thursday after the FBI announced it was to launch an investigation to find out if News Corp. titles hacked into the phones of US citizens.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/14/major-news-corp-investor-calls-for-brooks-to-quit/
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