21 July, 2011

News Corp. destroy their own news

During the day, News Corp. Rupert Murdoch fell another $ 1 billion since the beginning of July the corporation's capitalization declined by $ 8.3 billion, which is a consequence of the ongoing scandal surrounding the British division of the corporation.

Even a short list of new issues News Corp., Occurred just last night, looks like an endless and depressing. The unexpected death of one of the most important witnesses, the resignation of the deputy head of the Metropolitan Police because of his contacts with journalists, News of the World, the decision of Prime Minister David Cameron to reduce its African tour on Wednesday and hold an emergency meeting of the House of Commons in connection with the scandal. Finally, today in the parliamentary committee on the media to testify by Rupert Murdoch, his son James and ex-CEO of News of the World Rebecca Brooks. In addition to all law enforcement agencies interested in the corporation of Great Britain and the United States. Against this background, the most innocent look on hacking websites News Corp.

On Monday at his home in a suburb of London, Hertfordshire, was found dead a former journalist for the newspaper News of the World Sean Choir. It was he one of the first openly declared that the wiretapping in the News of the World is a common practice. He also claimed that Andy Coulson, editor of the publication being actively encouraged this method of data collection. In 2010 Coulson was the press secretary of Prime Minister David Cameron and worked them until January of this year. Police say they still do not know the circumstances of the death of Sean Hoare, but nevertheless they do not consider the death of Horus as "suspicious."


Submitting his resignation on Monday, the deputy head of the Metropolitan Police John Yates, experts say, eventually could become the head of Scotland Yard, but this, as it turned out, prevented the two circumstances. Two years ago, it was he who decided to close the police investigation into the tapping of News of the World. In addition, it became known that he once had lunch with representatives of the newspaper, and in a time when the case against News of the World has not yet been closed. Deputy Prime Minister Nicholas Clegg literally demanded the resignation of Yeats: "A senior officer thought it appropriate to accept an invitation to dinner from the leadership of the newspaper, which was under investigation. Now, before the London police is no easy task - restore lost public confidence. " Yeats had no choice but to obey.

Meanwhile, the British Department for investigation of major fraud (SFO) reported that its staff have begun a preliminary investigation against the News of the World in connection with the wiretapping and suspicion of receiving bribes from employees of the Metropolitan Police of the publication in exchange for information. The investigation could take up to 18 months and spread to the other side of the Atlantic, since the Justice Department has already made a request to the SFO in connection with the investigation. In the U.S. Congress have been calls to their investigation, and the FBI considers the fact that in 2001 journalists News of the World could buy the New York police officers to gain access to telephone messages to relatives of people killed in terrorist attacks on September 11.

Do not stay aside from the scandal number 1 and the ubiquitous lately hackers, making a massive attack on the sites of News Corp. The hacker group broke LulzSec site of the newspaper The Sun. Visitors to the site redirected to a link to a fake page of the newspaper where the obituary appeared their eyes Rupert Murdoch reportedly found dead in his garden. The article said that Mr. Murdoch had died "of oral high dose of palladium." On Monday night, problems arose on the site The Times. This attack is suspected hacker group Anonymous.

Meanwhile, the chief, as the name, source of income for News Corp .- news - has now become the main cause of expenses of the corporation. Shares of News Corp. at auction in New York on Monday fell just 4.3%, and the company fell by $ 1 billion, and with the scandal broke - July 4 - at $ 8.3 billion addition to this agency Standard & Poor `s has announced that may reduce the credit rating of the corporation, as recent events have dramatically increased the risks associated with it.

Bloomberg referring to its sources reported that News Corp. considering the appointment to the post of CEO Chase Carey, the current chief operating officer of the corporation. Rupert Murdoch and it should retain the post of chairman of the board of directors of the corporation. Sources of the agency stressed that the final decision will be made today on the results of the hearings in the British Parliament on the committee for the media.

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