Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs

Murdoch is playing up his "doddering elderly man" routine whenever you see him, trying to look as pathetic as possible. The man is a sleazy, evil perversion of everything to do with journalism and business.

This man has caused damage to this and other nations for generations.

Let's apply the same standard more widely

ISTM the accusation of "wilful blindness" is fitting to almost any situation where a person in power should reasonably have known what was going on. Whether that person is running a company or a government - maybe the time has come to start investigating more people, including our (ex) leaders and holding them to the same standard.

Though really this is just the start. The big question is: what happens now? Presumably all the NI/NoTW underlings who are still the subject of police charges will be duly processed, but the guy at the top will just walk away?

Quote: "The report also concluded that Les Hinton - who had been Murdoch's right-hand man for 52 years until he quit at the height of the phone hacking scandal in July 2011 - as well as NI legal boss Tom Crone and the News of the World's final editor Colin Myler had all "misled" the committee when submitting evidence to the MPs."

This paragraph says all there is to be said about the committee having any relevance and power whatsoever.

As they say in the Middle East: "The dogs can keep barking, the caravan will walk on regardless".

"split on party lines"

Tories are denouncing the report as partisan - Labour and Lib Dems support it, the Tories don't. In other words, Murdoch can *still* rely on the Tories to protect him. What has he got on them?

"Is"?

The Dirty Digger never was fit to run an international corporation - not when Mrs. T. was in power and never since.

As for potential charges of contempt of parliament, no wonder MPs are angry. A foreigner comes in and takes their job of lying to parliament? Of course they're angry!

Standard management technique

Management 101 - be unaware of things which are inconvenient. If the lynch mob got everyone fired who did this, then every company would be devoid of middle and senior managers. For grunt levels the equivalent is 'I didn't get training'.

Demote him to....

...paper boy!

(Keep an eye on the takings though)

that said it takes guts

for politicians to call somebody, publicly, a liar (well, not that this word was used, but words to that effect)

Guts, I say. For he might still bite back, you know... leak the details about, say, for example and purely hypothetically, how some politicians bent backwards to be his pals when he was "the man".

Now it's time for manure-throwing competition, to get brownie points before the story gets buried and the great British public turn their attention to other matters ;)

funny how things never change, never.

Excellent

One newspaper down, now lets give the rest the same treatment to the rest of the media organisations to clear out the rot.

As long as Piers Morgan continues to smirk on TV rather than from within a jail cell, then the job remains unfinished....

Reporting to?

I just think it's amusing that this committee and the Leveson Inquiry both report to .... Jeremy Hunt ! In fact, if you read the appointment letters for the Assessors to the Inquiry (on the Inquiry website) you'll see that he signed them too.

It's almost like that Blackadder episode where the Lord High Executioner accidentally signs his own death warrant ...

Be careful for what you wish for

for who will fill the vacuum on his departure? Anyone one with any integrity in the organisation was sidelined or strangled by their own intestines long ago.

That doesn't make sense

Starting this comment by making my view on Rupert Murdoch clear so there's no chance it will be misread as some sort of defence for him - I think the man is scum and has contributed to the general f*cking up of society in this country more than almost anyone else over the last few decades. If prison sentences were dished out according to the amount of damage done rather than whether someone broke the law he would be rotting in a dark hole for the rest of his days. Now that's out of the way....

"Rupert Murdoch is "not fit" to run a multinational corporation ... MPs concluded today." That statement is just utterly f*cking stupid. Is that supposed to be a half-hearted effort to rally the News Corp shareholders into giving him the boot or just a shallow attempt to jump on the popularity of hating News International to help us forget that they've been selling out to RM and his empire for years.

He isn't a publicly elected official so the fact that he is currently doing it means that, by definition, he is fit to do it. This is a free-market economy. Capitalism. Deal with the consequences or change the rules. Don't just bitch about the fact that someone played your game better than you did. As our elected representatives, you are supposed to be making sure that the ecosystem of the UK doesn't become the sort of place where predatory corporations can run riot and you appear to be failing, probably because you're spending too much time looking after your own and removing our rights as individuals in the name of trying to protect us from ourselves.

"tories still support him"....

indeed... what does he have on them ?

as for not fit to run a company: who are they to decide ? did the committee ever got even to his knees in terms of creating/running a company ?

Stop buying his products

I haven't since he cheated the Fleet St printers out of the redundancy money which was their right. I I avoid eating and drinking in pubs which show his TV channels as much as possible. Vince Cable got it right: he is the enemy.

Meh.

Unlike Tom Watson, Rupert Murdoch never helped himself to more free food than was good for him at my expense. I didn't buy his papers, and I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care.

Misled

That certain people from News International "misled" the committee is quite interesting.

Contempt of parliament can lead to appearing in public before the nations representatives and getting some sort of bollocking for it.

Unfortunately Parliament is not likely to go as far as when they handed out the ultimate sanction to Charles I.