it may come down to where else james murdoch's prints can be found. >> james murdoch has made it clear he paid off a huge amount of money to gordon taylor who was a trade unionist who had his phone hacked. james has made it clear that he regards that as an error on his part and he much regrets it. >> reporter: if it's found that james murdoch knew more, smith says shareholders, board members may force his father's hand. >> if they were to really demand that james no longer be the heir, that he change the way the company is structured. he would have to listen to them. >> reporter: there are other reports that independent board membersover newspaper corporation are going even further questioning whether a change of leadership is needed. in other words, replacing james murdoch all together. contacted by cnn, a member of that board called those reports total crap. >>> some of the key players testified on tuesday before what is the british equivalent of a congressional hearing. among them rupert murdoch, his son james and rebecca brooks who resigned as head of the british paper this month.

murdoch over the years. i also think there have been liberal politicians, democrats, who have been more loath to criticize mr. murdoch in the past, or fox, for fear of having some of the kind of repercussions that british politicians were also afraid of. they do not become targets of fox news. >> in congress, concerns are growing, especially after the suggestion, still unsubstantiated, that news of the world journalists may have been hacking the phones of 9/11 victims. calls have been made to the department of justice and the securities and exchange commission to investigate the allegations. u.s. companies are banned from paying bribes to foreign officials. >> last week when the story broke, this became an interesting story to americans. we found it titillating, fascinating, but it was not necessarily penetrating the consciousness of the greater american public. this week, on the other hand, we are starting to see greater american interest in the story because it could affect americans, not just people in br

murdoch. i asked you whether this letter stimuliing on the record as evidence given to this committee, for whatever reason of a criminal investigation being withdrawn, would you like to withdraw it? >> respectfully, i'm not aware of the legal technicalities of withdrawing that or submitting it on the record. i think it is a relevant document in trying to understand how news international was thinking at the time. >> we'll ask you the question when we -- >> i would say no, but i can come back after taking counsel and seeing if it's a better idea to do it . >> i'll also wind up given the time, but i have a few more questions. as you've described it and as colin described it, the e-mail investigation was carried out by the i.t. democratic apartment an by john chapman and the human resources director daniel cloak. is that your understanding? >> pardon me? what was the question? i don't understand. is it my understanding that -- >> the investigation itself. you described it and colin described it t

well murdoch has always been hyper aggressive he distinguished himself that way in australia than in britain and here in the united states so you know i see no end to it but i would like to say i think this is very much politically motivated the attacks on murdoch and i would like to talk about that during the show i think there's a there's a problem with many of the left wing critics attacking him for politics and i think that's a business we don't want to be and that's very interesting john if i can go to you in oxford does any of these allegations and they're very very serious surrounding murdoch and his media assets do any of these things surprise you and are you bothered by the fact that this investigation started two years ago and it's only now that it's getting the light of day that people actually seriously talking about it because these allegations have been out there and the police have known about it . they have and they conducted their own investigation several years ago and they found no evidence of wrongdoing obviously there's plenty of wrongdoing i have to say that i'm

a low in welcome across talk on people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. the. case . stands. to cross-talk media today i'm joined by twenty percent and dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles across the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you family is here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly has any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip o

but i'm saying at the brish politicians felt they needed murdoch and his support and reciproally murdoch needed things from them. that never needed to be stated but everyone understood that that was hanging in the air and that's what this judicial inquiry has to get to the bottom of. >> i think murdoch's control of 37% of the britishress plus b sky b led to this conviction from tony blair to cameron that you had to have murdoch on your side. and, you know, when you're in britain you don't feel murdoch's running the show. i mean, you can read "the guardian," you can read t telegraph, you can read t daily expres you can read the f.t. but i just wonder but blair, i'm sure, would have won the election in 1997 without murdoch. it was the end of the toris just as it was the end of new labor in 2010. murdoch had his finger in the wind and he went with these guys but i don't myself bieve e elections uld have come out any differently withou so i think there was a kind of mythology that hadbuilt up. we have to have murdoch with us. and now it's the oosite. we have torash him. >> rose: john burns,

if flagship murdoch newspaper here. the headline is "this is the most humble day of my life," and there's a big photograph of the hearing ipts. there's murdoch touching his son on the arm and wendy in the background looking contrite. the c.i.d.ny any morning her -- sydney morning's headline is "they were shocked, appalled and shamed that murdoch is denying blame." you have a photo of murdoch and his son looking grim and wendy sitting behind looking none to -- too happy. when you get into the coverage, the lead is the following sentence "rupert murdoch aaccused his commercial rivals in britain of whipping up a stir of the wrongdoing for their own commercial reasons. ." >> we're going to have to leave it there but thank you very much. it's very interesting to see how it's been -- being reported there. professor knight. we just want to show you some of the headlines that are coming up for us here. "murdoch's humble pie." that seems to be be -- the predominant headline on most of the u.k.'s papers. reference to him stating

if murdoch needs kerik to stay quiet, then he needs to find a way to get the word to bernie that murdoch can do more for him in whatever is left of his future than the fbi can. murdoch and his new york team know how weak bernie kerik is. if they have to count on him to keep their secrets, they must be very, very worried tonight. >> my choice ultimately was and is bernie kerik. bernie is a -- has been an exceptional commissioner of the department of corrections. he understands the job of being a police officer. most importantly, he understands the job of being a leader, and he brings a quality of leadership that i believe can give us the opportunity to build on a record that is a very, very difficult one to match. >>> it is tuesday in london, and rupert murdoch is now just hours away from testifying to the british parliament, and bloomberg news is now reporting that the news corp. board is considering elevating coo, chase carrie to ceo to succeed rupert murdoch if necessary. the outline of the murdoch media empire's pattern of criminal conduct expands as the phone hacking scandal just kee

the influence that the murdoches have had. the way he managed to advance his business empire by heavying up on politics. these are newspapers which use personal stories of the most i'll have kind very often in order to humiliate people in power. in a way, of course, he's right. all journalists should give people in power hell. but the motivation in this case turns out to be slightly different. what he doesn't get, actually people in britain are just sick of it, and that pie in the face, you know, i think in america, why is a poor old man getting a pie in the face? a lot of people in america will feel sorry for him. not in britain. >> i kept watching it today, thinking citizen cane. thank you very much. a pleasure. >>> still ahead tonight, tony blair's press secretary with a behind-the-scenes look at how the murdoch media empire had britain's most prominent politicians battling for its blessings. n e highw. how does it do that? well, to get there, a lot of complicated engineering goes into every one. like variable valve timing

murdoch and asked him about this? >> no, i haven't. >> are you confident knowing him -- >> i'll probably see him in the next couple of days or week. i see him all the time at various functions. >> are you confident enough in him? >> he's a competent, honorable man. this can't be something he'd have anything to do with. >> here's why giuliani is not muir dorsch's greatest character witness. number one, giuliani has been in murdoch's pocket for years. i've seen this up close working in new york politics, and i can tell you the new york republican relationship to murdoch is as ugly as you'd imagine it to be. you might expect giuliani to be a little more, i don't know, animated about the criminal exploitation of 9/11 victims. he is the biggest political exploiter of 9/11 we've ever seen. trying to base a hopeless and ridiculous presidential campaign on the simple fact that he was mayor of new york city during 9/11. the accusations that the fbi is now investigating involve hacking into phones of the families of 9/11 victim

or news international need the murdochs? >> the institutional shareholders are the people who will count on that, and we all know what the fault line is in the states. my impression is that james, grasping for the shakespearean analogies, has nothing, nothing? my impression it is that rupert murdoch is not happy with the idea of james' succession. that is what rebecca was about. >> i think you will see a strong arm of corporate governance finally imposed on news corp. and news international companies. the board structures are not compliant with best practice of corporate governance. >> and that is all for this week. for all of us, good night. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc newsnight" was

and beyond as the murdoch family finally outfoxed itself. can. get across not the implications of the phone hacking scandal i'm joined by kevin zeese in baltimore he's a spokesperson and lawyer for the government accountability group protect our elections and author of an open letter to the f.b.i. and s.c.c. urging them to investigate murdoch's news corporation in the us in washington we have dave south than i he is communications director for free press and in london with ross and toby young he's a journalist and author of how to lose friends and alienate people all right gentlemen cross talk rules and in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want kevin if i can go to you first because of your open letter here i took a look at some of the what the laws and bylaws of the f.c.c. and they basically their job is to make sure how the airwaves are used and they have to ensure that they're used by people of quote good character who serve the public interest and speak with candor so as murdoch's television empire at least have any place in the united

murdoch sr. had been hit. you can then -- in later pictures if you look close, you can see the foam. more than one person suggested that, you know, this could have been a brick, it could have been, you know, nails, it could have been much more serious. you have to bear in mind if it had been anything like that, it wouldn't have got into the room. we don't know how he got in with some shaving foam. he could have said he was just been home doing the weekly shopping. who knows? it was serious, but not because it could have been a much more vicious attack. it was serious because it was a disgrace. because anybody coming to give evidence in the mother of parliaments has a right to do so with dignity and in courtesy. >> amen to that. and that is -- those disruptions something we see many times in the u.s. congress as well. richard quest thanks for your remarkable reporting today on this remarkable story. thank you. >>> let's dig deeper and continue, joanne litman is a columnist for the daily beast. and i want you to

>> because rupert murdoch is a newspaperman. he loves the news. he loves dialling into his editors and giving them tips and hearing the gossip and finding out what's happening and trying to drive the news and drive the conversation. so when he says he's uninvolved with the newspapers there's some people in the business that say that doesn't ring true. >> spoken like a newspaperman. andrew ross sorkin. thank you. >>> and there was that startling moment during the hearing today when a guy attacked rupert murdoch with a cream pie and then murdoch's wife got up and took a roundhouse swing at the attacker. that kind of fierce devotion and protection seemed familiar to those familiar with wendi murdoch. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on the wife of rupert murdoch. >> reporter: she responded in a flash, leaping forward to protect her husband from an attacker. instinctive, fierce, athletic. a former volleyball player in school. all that, plus a lot more. the young, glamorous, chinese-born third wife of rupert murdoch. >> i think all the people are movers

they curry favor with murdoch and he's very powerful specially in the u.k. you can call an election one way or another newspapers and television they've got stories they life because well even though these three legal means to be entertained their audience is the audience is like that to the police might have been involved in bribery but then again they might have gotten tips of information that might have led to a person prosecution so it's a very kind of odd arrangement everybody seemed to have gotten something out of it but nonetheless it was quite you legal i mean how do you look at that i mean is that why it went on for so long if the allegations are true well you just have to well you just have to look at the relationship involving the media and government and law enforcement in london it is a very unusual relationship and the environment in london for the tabloids especially is very aggressive viciously competitive and unfortunately in this case it crossed over into line of illegality so none of this is a real surprise and it's been a long time coming

phone hacking scandal rocked rupert murdoch's already shaken. public fury of the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats of the country's credit rating might be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling that says more e.u. states plunged deeper into economic crisis plus. initial investigations into the sinking of the belgariad point to negligence that the tragedy could have been avoided. and made an investigation into sunday's pleasure cruiser disaster as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the would be death toll now standing at one hundred thirteen. with news and comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow twenty four hours a day with a rapid change of heart rupert murdoch and his son james have now confirmed they will give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating the u.k. phone hacking scandal this comes hot on the heels of earlier reports that they declined the summons it's alleged that several of murdoch's newspapers were engag

dr you serve the public interest and speak with candor so does murdoch's television empire at least have any place in the united states today in light of what we've heard coming out of the u.k. . well we're here you know the u.k. and also we're hearing some tidbits united states of phone hacking but where you are the u.k. would make murdoch and his news corp violator of the foreign corrupt practices act which has criminal and civil penalties. basically doesn't allow u.s. corporations to bribe foreign officials if murdoch is bribing foreign officials as seems to be the case they're talking about one hundred hundred thousand pounds or one hundred thousand dollars worth of bribes to the london police if that happened evolve the law and the f.c.c. should look at that and say that the twenty four stations he own that cover forty percent of united states he should not be allowed a license of a news corp's license that should be revoked and a new new new station are sure to come into play so i don't think he has any place the united states and it's very important for. ok tobi i'd like to go to

welcome back across the bell to remind you we're talking about murdoch under siege . and you can see the so. ok kevin i'd like to go back to you and maybe start with the question a question and we look at how competitive corporate media is today in this scandalous demonstrating it is corruption a necessary ingredient to be competitive. well it will become even a more necessary ingredient if the department of justice does not work aggressively to enforce the laws against murder and investigate and i'm a big fan of the freedom of press and don't want to see the government you know investigating mealtime with a frame of press does not give a license to break the law to tap phones to bribe officials those are illegal and they should be investigated as crimes and not be blocked by through the press and my saying earlier i see a great democratization in the media occurring not just because a murdoch but the lack of credibility of the media murdoch giving a million dollars plus to the republican party and s. n.b.c. and fox news to going to parties and news outlets people jus

would make murdoch and his news corp violator of the foreign corrupt practices act which has criminal and civil penalties. basically doesn't allow u.s. corporations to bribe foreign officials if murdoch is bribing foreign officials seems to be the case they're talking about one hundred hundred thousand pounds or one hundred thousand dollars worth of bribes to the london police if that happened evolve the law and the f.c.c. should look at that and say that the twenty four stations the own that cover forty percent of united states he should not be allowed a license of a news corp's license it should be revoked and a new news station or a ship to come into play so i don't think he has any place the united states and the it's very important for. ok tobi i'd like to go to you in london what do you think about what kevin had to say because we all know on this panel that these kind of practice is have been going on for a long time ok why the moral play now. well i think i'd. ask kevin to define what he means by bribe a little more carefully because that sounds slightly as though he's oversta

is for this program so i'm going to go to youth audience here and looking at what's happening to the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because murdoch and his people have a really sleazy reputation now we're getting evidence of it. well murdoch has always been hyper aggressive he distinguished himself that way in australia than in britain and here in the united states you know i see no end to it but i would like to say i think this is very much politically motivated the attacks on murdoch and i would like to talk about that during the show i think there's a problem with many of the left wing critics attacking him for politics and i think that's a business we don't want to be and that's very interesting sean if i can go to you in oxford this any of these allegations and they're very very serious surrounding murdoch and his media assets do any of these things surprise you and are you bothered by the fact that this investig

murdoch's conglomerate may now face more scrutiny. virginia senator jay rockefeller wants a government investigation of newscorp's operations in the u.s. murdoch presides over a $32 billion media and entertainment empire. it owns prestigious names like hollywood film studio 20th century fox, fox news channel, the "wall street journal," the "new york post" and many british newspapers, including the "sunday times." joining us now, porter bibb, managing partner of media tech capital, a media investment firm in new york. >> susie: hi, porter, nice to have you with us. >> great to be here, susie. >> porter, it cements like every other day there's an announcement of a business or merger or take over that the news corp is abandoning. how is this saga going to play out in just a matter of time before news corp breaks >> well i don't think news corp itself is going to be broken up or even slowed down very much by the tsunami of social public outcry, political outcry and probably legal outcry that is being launched against some of the managers

murdoch. it halted the entire hearing. we are still waiting to hear from rebekah brooks. if you see it he was trying to get a pie in the face of rupert murdoch. if we can get that shot back up again, you can see in niz left hand a tin -- and see if we can get that shot back up. it looks like he had a tin in his left hand a cream pie that he was going to smash in the face of rupert murdoch during these hearings. the man was quickly taken away in handcuffs. you saw the images of him outside he had something all over his face. wendy dang in the pink jumping up. she is a volleyball player. that looks like a spike. she's known to be a fan of volleyball. anyway, you can see the pie right there trying to get in the face of rupert murdoch. the woman in the gray i'm not sure who she is. she was sitting to the left op of wendy dang. michelle is with us now. is this ovenly some type of protesters coming in to disrupt this and create a true embarrassment to rupert murdoch by delivering a pie in the face?

murdoch. tonight there's another new development in this. we want to begin our reporting with nbc's stephanie gosk in london. stephanie, good evening. >> good evening, brian. every day since this scandal broke, there seems it be a new bombshell. revelations, resignations, arrests. the last 24 hours are no exception. it's left people in this country wondering and worried what will happen next. the fabled scotland yard is reeling after two sudden resignations of its most senior leadership. sir paul stephenson, the police chief, and his deputy, john yates, career policemen who are the latest casualties in the phone hacking scandal. scotland yard is being accused of mishandling the investigation into "news of the world qug, maintaining at times close relationships with the very people they were supposed to be investigating. police officers accepting bribes from reporters has allegedly been commonplace. stephenson and yates deny any wrong doing on their part. >> i have acted with complete integrity

if murdoch needs kerik to stay quiet, then he needs to find a way to get the word to bernie that murdoch can do more for him in whatever is left of his future than the fbi can. murdoch and his new york team know how weak bernie kerik is. if they have to count on him to keep their secrets, they must be very, very worried tonight. >> my choice ultimately was and is bernie kerik. bernie is a -- has been an exceptional commissioner of the department of corrections. he understands the job of being a police officer. most importantly, he understands the job of being a leader, and he brings a quality of leadership that i believe can give us the opportunity to build on a record that is a very, very difficult one to match. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready

is this a scandal that could take murdoch under? joining me now is the senior adviser to media matters for america. great to have you on. >> great to be here, chris. thanks. >> elyse, you wrote a piece today about why americans should care about the scandal, and it's a good question. batting this around today, there is a question of does this affect us here, or is it fun to gawk at? why should we care? >> we should care because murdoch enjoys undue influence over u.s. media. and one of the things i think we need to learn is not to wait until the entire public is shocked by hacking allegations into a dead child's voicemail, before we actually start asking the questions about where the lies, the decent, and the covering up ends. the people most responsible for this tend to get promoted. you've got les hinton, who was actually rebecca brooks' boss at "news of the world," who led the first investigation into the misdoings there, found, surprisingly, that he thought nothing wrong was going on, and then was elevated to be ceo of dow jones

. >> do you think that james murdoch is going to run the empire? >> i think that was a virtual certainty little more than a week ago. it has been highly doubtful now. i do not actually see how james goes on to run the british side of this business, no less the entire business. >> you suggested that rupert murdoch would sell his british newspapers to contain this crisis. has it come to that, do you think? >> that is what i have heard discussion of pirie whether that is an actual scenario or more likely the panic conversation of executives who really do not know what to do or what is going to happen. i think they are looking at this situation, and it is entirely out of their experience. there is no model year. news corp. has based a lot of crises in its time, but i have never known it to face a crisis like this. >> just give us an insight, as his biographer, as to what you think is going on inside rupert murdoch's head right now. >> i think he is afraid. you know, he is -- he has dealt with many difficult situations in his career, and he has dealt wi

so so the big i'm loath to go after murdoch because then they would be you know tarred as. idealogical well the one organization that has been aggressively going after murdoch and for some time as media matters maybe rise to work and if and fox news i haven't i haven't looked at the stats over the last four or five days but as of last friday in a ten day period they've had thirty specific attacks on fox news as there are media matters asking their viewers to sign some kind of a petition to pull the nonprofits down right they want they paid a fine after media matters for the petition on their website trying to get the nonprofit status of the organization by the i.r.s. now that's a not going to happen to be there's been no violation that anybody can see of that nonprofit status but it's a way to gin up you know it's the excuse around which they can just spin the story or i. want to be there or is this yes there are always the victims adele thanks so much always don thank you for having on ensuring it was the media blogosphere were a buzz today was speculation that a push come

well you know right now there is no evidence that it's gone beyond the murdoch empire but then again for a long time even the murdoch empire insisted it had gone beyond the news of the world and for some time they insisted that there wasn't even there and so at every turn we find out that there's a little bit more a little bit more but it all has been contained so far to the murdoch empire now he's in competition in competition with people who i'm sure would like to have the same access to the scoops that he's got but so far it just hasn't turned up and so for thankfully has not been the culture even of the tabloid press in the united states seems to be kind of a british thing seems to be something that rupert murdoch has cheerfully exploited and in a number of his properties i hope that it's limited to his properties for a number of reasons not least of which is i really don't think that americans are going to stand for the pain of having the nine eleven bodies zoomed for scoop in the tabloid press that's really a tremendously upsetting prospect i mean the other hand i will say that

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rupert murdoch agrees to face a grilling by the u.k. parliament over phone hacking allegations while in the u.s. the f.b.i. begins its investigation into claims that news corp journalists tried. voice mail of the nine eleven families. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body credit downgrade hangs over the u.s. says a moody's a ratings agency threatens to knock the glitter off the country's aaa position as the eurozone. slide introducing tough spending cuts. initial investigations into the sinking of the belgariad point to negligence the tragedy could have been avoided heavy lifting equipment arrived at the scene of the pleasure ship sinking on the river volga as prosecutors make the first arrests over the tragedy that claimed more than one hundred lives. bringing you the top news headlines and commentary from around the world this is our team had with us the sick look at your top stories rupert and james murdoch can . given in to press

what i found fascinating is rupert murdoch spent a lot of his first testimony not being rupert murdoch and being contrite and as the afternoon wore on what you saw was the emergence of very much the 20th century media mogul got more gruff but maybe felt more honest. at one pointthe questioner said rupert murdoch i'm going turn to you since i don't seem to get far with james murdoch and he got more gruff. he steamed to respond in a differt way. james was every bit the picture of a 20th centu corporate polished ceo saying no matter the merit of the question that's a tremendous and terrific question and i appreciate the manner in which it's been asked and his preambles were enormous and the content of the answers were minimal and existing always flattering the questioner. what i liked was the contrast. murdoch was as he said, humbled and i think he was contrite. the measure of the contrition seed to go down toughout the day until we got the pie as some over the internet said that saved news corp. not sure that's right but it was astonishing. >> charlie: and james murdoch to be protective

the murdochs seemed to be walking a line. they're saying they're hands-on executives who run a huge business but they don't know everything that is going on. they didn't know a lot of particulars here. how does that jibe with what's known about the way they formed and run their business? >> well, i think what they were doing was portraying themselves as capable executives and capable managers who nonetheless didn't know some of the operational details that... it doesn't quite jibe with what we know about particularly rupert murdoch, his love of newspapers although the company's future is really in media and entertainment and television. you know, he came up through newspapers that ink runs in his veins. he's known for calling up editors and suggesting new tips or even change in the headlines. when he first acquired the wall street journal he's said to enjoy prowling the news room and being invigorated by it. the idea he had no idea, its is possible. it is as he said, you know, that the news of the world less than 1% of his me

rupert murdoch's murdoch's bid for the u.k.'s biggest selling broadcaster b. sky b. crumbles under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain senators in the us now calling for an inquiry following reports that journalists from murdoch papers tried to bribe police for information after nine eleven britain's best selling tabloid news of the world was shut down after allegations the mobile phones of murder victims politicians and celebrities were hacked with the knowledge of the paper's editors. more trouble for the eurozone as the irish economy slides further e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned it wouldn't have enough cash bail out the. analysts say europe's fourth largest economy is too big to fail and that it has a problem. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodlands to mighty mountains. is a sight to behold discovering russia coming your way next. the region deep in the. east is one of russia's newest territories. two thous

yesterday media mogul rupert murdoch and son james murdoch appeared before the u.k. parliament to answer questions about what they knew about the phone hacking scandal in sweden britain and the elder murdoch wasn't interested in taking any responsibility for the fiasco. this time of the open with. this whole fiasco. you have no doubt then who is shortly after that answer is shaving cream pie was thrown at murdoch proving that no matter what murdoch is involved in a matter how big the story is it always devolves into infotainment and spectacle then today more allegations were leveled at news corp from the u.k. parliament house of commons report alleges that news international blocked the first investigation into the phone hacking scandal report reads we deplore the response of news international to the original investigation of the happening is almost impossible to escape the conclusion that they were deliberately trying to thwart a criminal investigation and prime minister david cameron squared off against attractors in parliament as we desperately tries to save face

stations i would say that depends on how murdoch emerges from this scandal if murdoch and news corp are seriously weakened by this dandle then that would be a good thing or quality journalism in the us if murdoch is able to get through this in a few months then that's not good for quality journalism remember we have something that doesn't which is a code of ethics that the society of professional journalists have put forward their. honor tabloid culture tends to be not news. in england has urged the two and that's the big difference that article or news media have a little bit more have shown so much more ethics then has shown certainly in england ok let me ask you this because i have to ask this if news corps is one of the most powerful companies murdoch one of the most powerful men and fox news is there for a very powerful news network in the united states and it is right leaning and it is critical of the obama administration in many cases when there be a vested interest by the current administration to take off new down if the administration. had its head screwed on it would have dea