News Corp Shares Plunge -7.1% & BSkyB -7.5% Over UK Scandal Fears

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• The sharks smell blook in the water! Epic Greek tragedy will begin to unfold w/ Ruperrtr’s fall fom grace. Just watch.

  Comment by danielroth — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 1:27pm EDT  Reply to this post

• The UK socialist government wants Rupert to have BSkyB, but because of this scandal ( tabloid news ) they want to save face with their citizens, so as much as they know Rupert Murdoch is the most qualified, and best company to handle ” Britain’s biggest news “, they’re acting ” self righteous ” right now…..let’s talk about ” who really killed princess Diana ?”……Rupert owns so many news outlets and NONE of the other is tainted, but one stupid tabloid news, and was done by only a few employees, every company has low life employees working for them, but it doesn’t mean the top bosses were working in collusion with them! This story is all being fabricated, and exaggerated by the venomous people for probably political gains….look at all of the other news outlets that Rupert own that are ” upstanding, honorable “…..Rupert is the best candidate for BSkyB! UK let’s not twist the truth and make a small story into sensational news and all convoluted ! Let’s keep things all in clear perspective here and clarity!

  Comment by 777 — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 4:11pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Oh do be quiet, you pro-Murdoch hack.

    Comment by blistering — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 8:41pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Is that you, Rebekah? The scandal has now moved across to The Sun, where the British Prime Minister’s personal files, including medical records relating to his disabled son, were accessed and used against him. You were editing that paper at this time, as well, but, of course you know nothing about it. What a wonderful job: all the power and none of the responsibility.

  Comment by Jace — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 7:20pm EDT  Reply to this post

• This was not just a few bad apples. There are over 50,000 people who were hacked including deceased soldiers, people killed by the 7/7 bombing, and a young girl killed by a serial killer. The NotW scumbag deleted some of that young girls phone messages because her phone mailbox was full, which made family and friends think the Milly was alive. It takes more than a few bad apples to hack the phones of over 50,000 people. On top of that the people who were in charge didn’t lose their jobs but the people who did the day to day work did when James Murdoch shut down NotW to make it look like he was cleaning house when all we was doing is covering things up. Then there is also over $200,000 in bribes NotW employees paid out to Metropolitan police officers to illegally obtain information about people. That money did not come out of the pockets of the reporters, it was reimbursed to them by their company, which means lawyers and accountants also knew about it. To top it all off, James Murdoch has explicitly stated that News International misled Parliament, as in lied to it. I’m fairly certain if NPR, under oath, lied to Congress people would be calling for their heads and in this case lying to Parliament is only a small sliver of this huge scandal, which has more and more facts coming out everyday so to declare Murdoch the best person to run BSkyB before all the facts are out in the open means you are nothing but a ditto head shill who thinks the mighty Murdoch and his empire can do no wrong. Guess what? They did lots and lots of wrong and there’s a pretty good chance that they hacked the phones of 9/11 survivors and the phones of friends and families of 9/11 victims. Of course, I’m sure that was the result of just a few bad apples again. And finally, British laws don’t care if the top executives were directly working in collusion with the hackers; all they have to prove is that they didn’t take efforts to insure that such behavior didn’t happen, which is going to be impossible to prove because James Murdoch has already publicly declared that they did not do enough and that they screwed up.

  Comment by brentbent — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 8:02pm EDT  Reply to this post