Reuters (UK) reports that Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run a
major international company, MPs said on Tuesday, finding him responsible for a
culture of illegal phone hacking that has convulsed his News Corporation media
empire. Pulling few punches, the MPs
listed failings of the 81-year-old News Corp chief, his son James and a company
they said had showed "wilful blindness" about the scale of hacking
that existed at the News of the World tabloid.
The cross-party parliamentary committee, which approved the
report by a majority of six to four, also scolded News Corp's British newspaper
arm for misleading the parliament during its five year investigation into the
hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers.
But it split along party lines, with members from Prime
Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party voting against the report, saying
they did not agree with its view that the Australian-born Murdoch was not fit
to run a major company….
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