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.
in the middle of media, right in 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.
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.
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 a fellow journalist. 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.
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 news corp 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, please. everyone is clamoring for