News Corp will have to answer questions in Australia -PM

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Source: Reuters

The Australian arm of News Corp will have to answer "hard questions" in Australia following the growing phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

Gillard said Australians had been "disturbed" by events in Britain, where Australian-born Rupert Murdoch and his son James defended at a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday their handing of events that have shaken the family's grip on their media empire.

"When there has been a major discussion overseas, when people have seen telephones hacked into, when people have seen individuals grieving have to deal with all of this, then I do think that causes them to ask some questions here in our country, some questions about News Ltd here," Gillard told reporters in New South Wales.

"Obviously News Ltd has got a responsibility to answer those questions when they're asked," she said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/newscorp-australia-idUSL3E7IK0FF20110720

[msongs]

1. oooh Murdoch is gonna have some fierce jet lag nt

[TxVietVet]

2. Oh, please, stop, your breaking my heart.

:rofl:

Poor old Rupert catching the 3rd degree. F*cking shame, ain't it? Too f*ckin' bad.
Eat sh!t, old man.

See you in Hell. :evilgrin:

[Scurrilous]

3. Good news.

:thumbsup:

[ejbr]

4. I can hear him now

"I don't recall being an Australian."

[marasinghe]

6. nice! the old senility defense that got raygun canonized as a saint. n/t

[marasinghe]

5. good. when the big predator is down, the scavengers come in to feed.

strip the beast clean, bury the bones & be done with it. plenty more where it came from, needing attention.

hopefully this is a sign of one of those cleansing waves, that sweep the planet from time to time - like in the 60's - when the smell of corrupt flesh gets so rank, that Nature itself can't stand it.

[ejbr]

11. +1 n/t

[Firebrand Gary]

7. I'd like to hear someone from the U.S. make the exact same statement.

[PatrynXX]

8. had the irony of telling my brother something fun.

Says he really hates people with dual citizenship. should belong to the USA and allegiance only to the USA. um. he's a big Fox News nut. Um yo. Rupert is dual citizenship o-O whoops..

[Rex]

9. The BEST, BEST part of this eva!?

The Rupert has to be DYING on the inside watching something he killed, lied about and shed the blood of innocents for to make the billions he now has. His empire is going to fall apart fast and hard as it comes crashing down around the main players. All that work and decades put into it and now Murdoch is going to lose IT ALL!!! That has to kill someone like him on the inside, not being able to do anything about it...while others make all the grownup decisions.

HA HA FUCKING HA! Eat slime in the gutter you old rat bastard and say goodbye to something you worked your entire like to achieve!

LOSER!

[deacon]

10. Asking "hard questions" would be a novel idea. The MP's surely didn't. n/t