'Unjustified': Murdoch hits back at MPs who say they are unable to conduct business
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has hit back at a British parliamentary report concluded that the media mogul was not fit to lead a major company, who described the report as “unfair and biased” .
But the company also admitted that the report contains some hard truths “about” hacking phone in his London tabloid, now deceased, the News of the World. Truth were “serious irregularities in the News of the World, that our response to the transgression was too slow and too defensive, and that some of our employees cheated the special committee [on average] in 2009 “News Corporation said in a statement.Advertising: The story continues below
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The committee report, released last night, found that Rupert Murdoch was not fit to lead a large global company, because he had ” turned a blind eye “and was” willingly blind “regarding the antics of its UK company, News International (NI).
The report also found that the then head of NI James Murdoch has demonstrated “deliberate ignorance” of piracy extension phone in 2009 and 2010 and three top executives of the companies had misled the committee. The report accused a former executive Les Hinton, of being “complicit” in covering up the newspaper. He also says the former company’s legal, Tom Crone, and a former director of the News of the World, Colin Myler, hid crucial information and deliberately misled the Committee in its statements. “Female Both Tom and Colin Myler deliberately avoided to disclose crucial information to the committee and, when asked to do so, he answered the questions correctl y,” MPS has ended. While the committee was unanimously declared that the lack of knowledge of both piracy Murdoch was “incredible”, the conclusion that Rupert Murdoch was not right was disputed, with the support of Labour MPs and Liberal Commission (six votes) and the opposition Conservatives of all (five votes). Two Conservatives said later that there is no evidence on this issue was raised before the committee. In a statement, News Corp, said: “News Corporation … regrets that the analysis of records of the Selection Committee was followed by some comments that we have, and indeed several members Commission considers unfair and partisan. These observations divided along the lines of the Party committee. “Messrs. Hinton, Women and Myler have all issued statements denying that he misled Parliament. Hinton said he was “surprised and disappointed” by the allegations and denied that was his own: “I have not participated in a ‘cover’.”
Meanwhile Labour MP Tom Watson said of Murdoch’s newspapers might have violated the voicemail number of children killed by a case came to light, the Dowler 13 years of age , Milly. Murdoch closed the News of the World last July after the horror of the population by the revelations of its journalists had violated phone after Milly disappeared.
Mr. Watson said the Murdoch press “has not said his last apology to the families of dead children.” Mr. Watson has also suggested a new scandal could be the beer of hacking the newspapers: “I’m not sure, but I have reason to believe that against Organised Crime Agency is in possession of hard drives computer that can show the victims of hackers. “The report of the Commission referred to the House of Commons, which will be asked to approve a motion to approve the conclusion that the former executives News International misled the committee.
The three executives could be call the bar of the House of Commons to apologize to Parliament.Committee members also requested a debate on the appropriate penalties for committing the contempt of Parliament by a committee of misleading.
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