tabloid press? and for the murdoch company to still trying to pretend that this was a rogue reporter, this punched a significant hole in that wall of lies. rupert murdoch s bid for the uk-based satellite broadcaster bskyb has been given the green light. james is inches away from finally providing his father with the jewel that s been missing from the crown, and in so doing he is going to be a lock for succession. and at that moment, by sheer chance, i got a phone call as i was walking through the middle of london one day, and i was told that the news of the world had hacked the phone of this schoolgirl, milly dowler. milly dowler was a 13-year-old child and she went missing on her way home from school in march 2002. there was an intense police investigation and it took six months to find her remains.
the middle of business and when you uproot a tree you realize it also has this enormous root system, and it exposes all of these connections between politics, the police, the media and at the center of it is one family, literally issuing orders from one person. that can change the whole orientation and politics and trajectory of a country, and we experienced that through phone hacking. but in the end, they make a couple of changes in their corporate structure, they announce they re going to change their ways, and rupert emerges as still the most powerful media mogul in the world. by the end of the hacking scandal, james is a complete pariah. his effort to buy bskyb failed.
we now have allegations that actually this was something that was pervasive at the newspaper. andy coulson has denied those allegations. as more stories come out, more evidence comes out and the lawsuits start piling up, from really big names. sienna miller. i was relentlessly pursued, almost daily. steve coogan. that he had my passwords, my phone account and a number of personal details of mine. hugh grant. why do we have no regulation at all that s effective for tabloid press? and for the murdoch company to still trying to pretend that this was a rogue reporter, this punched a significant hole in that wall of lies. rupert murdoch s bid for the uk-based satellite broadcaster bskyb has been given the green light. james is inches away from finally providing his father with the jewel that s been missing from the crown, and in so doing he is going to be a
transition really into his father s chair. and james, then, is very much acting as if he s going to be the one. word starts circulating that he s even building his own shadow executive team that he can install at the top of the company. why do i believe we need to change direction as a matter of urgency? because we have analog attitudes in a digital age. the result is lost opportunities for enterprise, free choice, and commercial investment. in many ways, james spearheading this effort to buy bskyb, it s a perfect fit because james is not interested in the newspapers. he s interested in digital media. he s interested in broadcast. he did not like journalists. didn t like mixing with them. did not see why he should be accountable for them. and i ve often wondered if james had been a bit more engaged in the culture of journalism, he would have known that there was a much bigger problem on the horizon.
doing their own thing as well. so james is the one working for the family, doing the hard work, flying around the world. he has built the empire overseas. he has now settled in london with his family. and he s in the midst of a big move. newscorp is process of trying to acquire bskyb. that s a paid tv broadcaster serving the uk and ireland. murdoch s prize, getting their hands on all of bskyb and all of its cash. aside from the bbc, bskyb is the biggest broadcaster in the uk. if you want premium tv, that s where you get it from. it controls things like the premier league. it has the deals for all the big hollywood studio movie rights. the murdochs have already