News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britain's tabloid phone hacking
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scandal, lawmakers said Tuesday in a scathing report. (May 1)
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[SOT/](Tom Watson, Labour Member of Parliament:)("In the view of the majority of committee members Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run an international company like BskyB. And everybody in the world knows who is responsible for wrong doing at News Corp. Rupert Murdoch. More than any individual alive he is to blam.eJohn Whittingdale, Chairman of Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee:Whilst there was no difinitive evidence to prove whether or not James Murdoch was aware of the email or indeed the other evidence which indicated that phone hacking was more than wide spread. The committee was nevertheless astonished that he did not seek to see the evidence on which the decision to pay the Gordon taylor case was based.'Louise Mensch, Conservative Member of Parliament:No member of the committee could fin it in their hearts to say that either James or Rupert Murdoch had misled the committee, nobody. Even in the report which is published, therefor it did appear to us that something negative had to be found to say about Rupert Murdoch since nobody was going to conclude that either he or his son had misled our committee, so therefor this line that Rupert Murdoch not being a fit person which echoes off-com's fit and proper test was stuck in on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and we just could not support it. ")(****END****) VIDEO PRODUCER: Pete---------------------------VIDEO SOURCE: Parliament-----------------------VIDEO APPROVAL: ----------------------------VIDEO RESTRICTIONS: none----------------------------------MARKET EMBARGO (S): none
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