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Title: Murdochs 'In Family Fallout' Over Crisis
Source: GUARDIAN UK
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/201 ... th-james-murdoch-family-crisis
Published: Jul 17, 2011
Author: Jamie Doward and Lisa O'Carroll
Post Date: 2011-07-17 01:45:33 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 3079
Comments: 4

Tensions at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire were threatening to explode into the open amid claims that the media mogul's children were turning on each other.

A biographer of Murdoch, Michael Wolff, claimed that the tycoon's daughter, Elisabeth, had said her brother James had "fucked the company".

Last week Murdoch denied she had said something similar about the ousted News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. But Wolff wrote on Twitter that those reports were "incomplete": "She said: 'James and Rebekah fucked the company.'41;" Wolff said Elisabeth made the remark on Sunday at a book launch for the political analyst Philip Gould, hosted by her husband, Matthew Freud, and the editor of the Times, James Harding.

News Corp insiders questioned the truth of the claims, pointing out that Wolff has long been a critic of James Murdoch and has written about him disparagingly many times. But Elisabeth is known to have been dismayed by what is happening to her father's empire and it is understood there are tensions within the family.

Wolff, who stood by his claims, said: "What we are seeing is an enormous amount of frustration. James absolutely cannot survive. Whether or not he is legally culpable, he certainly mishandled this entire situation and has done for a long period of time."

Wolff suggested the world was witnessing the end of the Murdochs' dynastic ambitions. "The Murdochs will be moved out of this company. James will go into some form of exile and Rupert will be put out to pasture and an outsider not named Murdoch will be put in charge."

Reliable sources have told the Observer the family have been having quarterly "summits" to discuss News Corp's long-term future. "The family have been getting together every quarter to discuss News Corp's legacy and what it stands for; the last meeting they had was held in Australia," said the source. "The fascinating thing now is that whatever the brand stood for earlier this year has been shot to pieces. News Corp is a world-class company in terms of how it is run and who it employs – it employs the brightest and the best throughout. Now it could be all over, if they find any evidence of hacking of 9/11 victims."

The concerns will add to the sense of crisis enveloping James Murdoch, who this week will be placed under further pressure when a parliamentary committee asks him to name those within News International whom he has publicly referred to as "wrongdoers".

In a highly unusual twist, the culture, media and sport select committee is contemplating placing Brooks and James and Rupert Murdoch under oath when they appear before it this Tuesday.

The committee is keen to probe James Murdoch on his statement to News International staff shortly before the News of the World was closed down. He said at the time: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued. As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter."

A series of News International figures had previously appeared before the committee to insist there was no evidence of widespread phone hacking at the paper, including Les Hinton, former chief executive; Stuart Kuttner, then managing editor; former editor Andy Coulson and then editor Colin Myler; and Tom Crone, then its senior lawyer.

"Our inquiry is not going to end on Tuesday," said Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP on the committee. "We are going to ask James Murdoch which of the people who have come in front of us, as far as he knows, told us the truth or not."

Farrelly said the committee would recall witnesses in the light of Murdoch's statement. "We couldn't believe what he said when he closed the News of the World," Farrelly said. "He must have realised he would be summoned."

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#1. To: Brian S, All (#0)

A biographer of Murdoch, Michael Wolff, claimed that the tycoon's daughter, Elisabeth, had said her brother James had "fucked the company".

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAA 8D

Murdoch goin' DOWN.

How many Pols go with him, the ONLY question.

And FOX NEWS USA just can't seem to find ANY time to put this out.

LMFAO shills running around like their Master just got whacked...;}

Flashback:

"Fox's omission closely follows the Bush administration's reported strategy of shifting blame to Louisiana state officials.

The "Fox Facts" timeline also deceptively stated that on August 30, "3 NEW ORLEANS LEVEES BROKE & WATER POUR POURED INTO CITY" without noting that two levees -- including the critical 17th Street Canal levee -- actually broke on the morning of August 29, resulting in massive flooding. As The Wall Street Journal reported (subscription required) on September 12, "The 17th Street Canal levee ... was breached early Monday [August 29], the U.S. Army Corps of ..."

8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-07-17   9:14:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#1)

DAMN! It's quiet in here.

Like some kind of Fundy Pentecostal Church during a NASCAR race....8D

"Enabling false claims to be disseminated to the public on a vital news story -- by withholding plainly relevant information that proves those claims false -- is the opposite of the purpose of journalism, as is needlessly withholding key context to the events one is purporting to describe; yet that's exactly what Wired did here, and continued to do despite growing calls for the release of this information."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-07-17   11:13:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#0)

"There is always a point, in any great hunting party, when you begin to feel a bit soppy about the fox. That point is probably upon us now. Rebekah Brooks's resistance crumbles. James Murdoch papers Fleet Street with full-page ads saying "Sorry". Les Hinton, old mate and old right-hand man, quits. MPs on the media select committee ring Tuesday in their diaries and lick their lips. High noon for Rupert, too? Two weeks ago he was the biggest media power on the planet. Now he's just a poor old guy. Hubris: this is, in a classical sense, tragic. From Tamburlaine to King Lear in a fortnight."

The Death Star explodes....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-07-17   11:17:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

Looking forward to this one Breaking NEws from FOX:

"And the next head of News Corp will not be called Murdoch."

8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-07-17   11:24:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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