get you to sit down with us for a fox business network interview? none at all. not at all. i m sorry. mr. murdoch will this affect the bskyb deal? i m not making any comments. i think somebody said to him, look, you ve got to fly in and take control. mr. murdoch, no comment at all on the hacking scandal? okay, thank you guys. he looks at some of his lieutenants and says, do you think that i should fly commercial so that, you know, i can be seen as sort of a man of the people? and they re like, yeah, no, that s not going to do the trick. so he takes his gulf stream and he lands. here comes the boss. a newscorp jet arrived at luton airport this morning. its principal passenger left in the front seat of a range rover. by the time his car sped into wapping, he d picked up a little light reading, the news of the world, the paper he had just killed off. mr. murdoch. suddenly you saw this old man, really, for the first time in his life being the hunted prey. damage
to make, to close the news of the world. it was the sort of sacrificial lamb to trying to keep the bskyb deal moving forward. clearly practices of certain individuals did not live up to the standards and quality of journalism that we believe in, and that i believe in, and that this company believes in. this was not something his father would have done. for rupert, the news of the world has much more psychic significance, so he felt like it was a kind of break from what he had built and james couldn t have gotten away from the news of the world fast enough. $500 w plus free delivery with purchases over $299. shop all our appliances now. only at lowe s. think about the best night s sleep you ve ever had.
he comes in from australia. he s tanned and rested. and rupert is immediately put at ease. his boy is back. rupert stands down. for the time being, james survives. the murdoch family have closed their flagship sunday newspaper, abandoned their bid for bskyb, yet the political and commercial fallout from this scandal is nowhere near done. and for rupert, if all of this wasn t bad enough, he can t even protect the one person he did seem to try to protect, and that s rebekah brooks. rebekah brooks, chief executive at news international, has resigned from her position. this is really devastating. it s as if his own daughter has been forced to resign. he d been trying all along to protect her, but in the end he can t even do that.
the story that is really buzzing is that the news of the world and new corporation newspaper in britain i m not talking about that issue at all today. sorry. okay. no worries, mr. chairman. we published on a wednesday. by friday night, they tried to turn the guns on the guardian. the murdoch company came out and accused us of deliberately lying to the british people. which is a very serious charge to make against the fellow journalists. so you have the hacking scandal bubbling away with the murdochs trying to keep a lid on the boiling pot, and nick davis raising the heat underneath it. and then you have james with this really huge career-defining bskyb deal. so it s almost like this absolute sort of powder keg waiting to blow. and yet, it doesn t blow. yet.
completely dissolved. what has happened at this company is disgraceful, it s got to be addressed at every level and they should stop thinking about mergers when they ve got to sort out the mess they ve created. hear, hear. for the first time since murdoch first started flexing his muscles in great britain, the entire political world turns against him. this should be murdoch s head. oh yeah. and murdoch really has no choice but to drop the bskyb bid. it s a sight many people thought they would never see, media tycoon rupert murdoch in retreat. to actually drop the bid for bskyb, to see the writing on the wall, was like nothing that had ever happened the murdoch empire in the past. and for james it s an especially brutal blow. this was his moment. bskyb was his chance to really