If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished,

[BR_Parkway]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/les-hinton-news-corp

No relationship is safe, no loyal bond strong enough for Rupert Murdoch who – looking more than the sum of his 80 years – is mounting a final battle to save the company he built from nothing.

His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

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The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Can you imagine what sea change we could have in this country if FAUX news went down? People might actually know something about how reality works, who's really on their side when the votes are counted.

[Abq_Sarah]

1. As long as people rely on TV personalities

To tell them what's going on, we'll always have an uneducated electorate.

[Lil Missy]

2. One can only hope The landscape would change for the better without Fox News

[indepat]

3. God, if this nation needs two things, other than political obliteration

of the RW, would be the fall of News Corp. and the Koch brothers empire. :patriot: