Two months ago, it was revealed that the NY State Department of Education had awarded a $27 million, no-bid contract to a company owned by News Corp., which seemed especially convenient because former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein had joined News Corp. to head its growing student technology division. Alas, the lurid phone hacking scandal at a News Corp. tabloid has made the Empire State powers that be rethink things, as State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced last week the state was dropping the deal.
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State Kills $27 Million Schools Deal With News Corp
Ex-NYC Top Cop Bill Bratton Is Probably Too American To Fix Scotland Yard
As Britain continues to deal with fallout from the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, which includes illegally accessing celebrities, murder victims' and others' voicemails as well as bribing police officers, Prime Minister David Cameron apparently wants a famous New York City law-and-order type to clean house... but former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's American citizenship is standing in the way!
Justice Dept. Could Issue Subpoenas In News Corp. Probe
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice said it would look into allegations about News Corp.'s business practices, in light of the disgusting phone-hacking scandal that a News Corp. tabloid was involved in (complete with payoffs to Scotland Yard). Now the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal says the Justice Department is preparing subpoenas!
The Day In News Corp: Lawyering Up, Cartoonish Ploy For Sympathy
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch may be two days removed from his testimony (and the pie throwing incident) in front of a Parliamentary hearing about the phone-hacking scandal at his now-closed British tabloid, The News of the World, and, sure, maybe people just think he's really clueless and old and sounds like Crocodile Dundee... but that hasn't stopped News Corp. from hiring criminal lawyers here in the U.S.!
Who Remembers Murdoch's Mr. Magoo Performance After Seeing Wendi's Smackdown?
Sure, Rupert Murdoch may have seemed out of it and doddering during his testimony about the phone-hacking scandal that threatens his British (and possibly American) media empire, but maybe that's the point. His biographer Michael Wolff made the point last night on Countdown With Keith Olbermann that Murdoch looked frail and one couldn't help but feel some sympathy for this 80-year-old billionaire media mogul whose, as one critic complained, "Bill O’Reilly-ed, Glenn Beck-ed Fox News has done a great deal to coarsen the political discourse."
Rupert Murdoch's Wife Also Shoved Shaving Cream Pie In Attacker's Face
If there's one person to somehow look good from the disgusting News Corp. phone hacking scandal, it's Rupert Murdoch's third wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. She jumped to defend her 80-year-old husband who was the target of a shaving cream pie-holding prankster Jonathan May-Bowles (aka Jonnie Marbles), apparently slapping the man and even turning the tables on him. The Guardian reports, "Deng lunged while startled police officers were barely off the back foot. While a roomful of male advisers also appeared stunned, she scooped up the paper plate fired at her husband and launched it like a grenade back at May-Bowles, a comedian, with an amazing right hook. Such was the force of her shot that the foam directed at her husband's face landed on a police officer and on her own blue-painted toes."
Photos, Video: Someone Hit Rupert Murdoch With Shaving Cream Pie During Hearing
Just now, while James Murdoch was testifying, a man walked up to Rupert Murdoch and attempted to hit the 80-year-old media mogul in the face with what a CNN producer believes is a "shaving foam pie." Murdoch's 42-year-old wife Wendi jumped up and smacked the attacker on the head while son James stood up. While Rupert Murdoch's face was not facing the camera, the CNN producer says the pie did in fact hit Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch: "This Is The Most Humble Day Of My Life"
News Corp. CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch are testifying in front of a British Parliamentary committee about the phone-hacking scandal his now-closed tabloid, The News of the World, is embroiled in. While James Murdoch, who is the deputy COO of News Corp. and chairman of the company's British newspaper division, News International, was testifying, his 80-year-old father interrupted him, "I wanted to say one sentence: This is the most humble day of my life."
Rumors Fly About News Corp Replacing Rupert Murdoch With Mustachioed Exec
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is set to discuss the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked British media, government, and law enforcement in front of Parliament tomorrow (Tuesday, June 19), and the hearing, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. EST, will be streamed on BBC.com (which will also air pre-hearing analysis), and CNN, Fox and MSNBC will also air the hearing. Others who will be testifying: Murdoch's son James, who heads News International, News Corp.'s British newspaper business; former News International CEO and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, who was arrested yesterday; and just-resigned Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson. And all this comes as Bloomberg News reports, "News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said."
News Corp Phone Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead In Apartment
Former News of the World reporter and News Corp whistleblower Sean Hoare was found dead at his home earlier today. In an investigation last year of the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed News Corp, Hoare told the New York Times that Prime Minister David Cameron's aide and former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, "was fully aware of the hacking" that was going on at the tabloid. The Guardian reports that the police are stating that Hoare's death is "being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious."
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