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 a fellow journalist. so you have the hacking scandal bubbling away with the murdochs trying to keep a lid on boiling pot and nick davis raising the heat underneath it and then you have james with this really huge career defining b sky b deal. so it s almost like this absolute sort of powder keg waiting to blow and yet it doesn t blow yet.
world was not described to me and the e-mail was not shown to me either. i don t think there was anybody in the room who believed him. the fact is, what all that showed us was james murdoch settled the gordon taylor case because he was presented with evidence that some of his employees were committing crimes. james murdoch authorized the payment to stop that evidence coming out in court, so he was involved in the cover-up. he may deny it still but any sensible person looking at that evidence would be driven to the same conclusion, james murdoch knew and he kept it quiet. even after james and rupert have testified before parliament, the hacking scandal just continues to unfold for months and really years. there are further inquiries, there are reports, and what followed were more and more arrests of various figures, some known, some unknown. seven former news of the world journalists, including rebekah brooks and andy coulson,
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. and it s decided that he s going to be demoted.
mr. 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 control in high gear, rupert murdoch and his son james in london trying to find a way to put out the fire. it s been a bruising few days for the murdoch empire, but even tougher days lie ahead. are you a fit person to run bskyb? gentlemen, please, p
will, that it was the for neville email that it also was perhaps the beginning of suspicion that other individuals were involved at the news of the world was not described to me and the e-mail was not shown to me either. i don t think there was anybody in the room who believed him. the fact is, what all that showed us was james murdoch settled the gordon taylor case because he was presented with evidence that some of his employees were committing crimes. james murdoch authorized the payment to stop that evidence coming out in court, so he was involved in the cover-up. he may deny it still but any sensible person looking at that evidence would be driven to the same conclusion, james murdoch knew and he kept it quiet. even after james and rupert have testified before parliament, the hacking scandal just continues to unfold for months and really years. there are further inquiries, there are reports, and what followed were more and more arrests of various figures, some known, some un