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
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.
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
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, face phone hacking charges along with the private investigator, glenn mulcaire. all are accused of trying to conceal material from scotland yard detectives involved in the phone hacking inquiry. i was arrested and there was no way that i could in any way defend myself, and so i pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months imprisonment. i m obviously extremely disappointed by the cps decision today. i will fight these allegations. i think the biggest loser was andy coulson. andy coulson who today was found guilty of hacking phones. the man who rose to the t
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. he s gonna be sent back to new york as a co-chief operating officer. but, in classic rupert murdoch fashion he will not be the one to break the news to his son himself. he asks elizabeth to do it. it did not go well and she and james didn t speak for at least a year afterward. you would imagine, in a situation like this, a father s instinct might be to protect his son, but james is really thrown under the bus by his father, betrayed by his father. it s a humiliating and devastating period for him. james will carry this with him going forward, this hurt, this feeling that he was left out on his own to take all these slings and arrows and that resentment, as we understand it,