London: Rupert Murdoch said Britain's Prince Harry should be given a break, days after his Sun tabloid added to the 27-year-old's embarrassment by printing pictures of him cavorting naked in Las Vegas, in defiance of appeals from Royal lawyers.
"Prince Harry. Give him a break. He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him, even to enjoy Las Vegas," the media mogul said on Twitter.
The Sun, which is part of Murdoch's News Corp empire, broke ranks with the rest of Britain's press by publishing the grainy pictures on Friday.
It justified its move by saying that, with the pictures freely available on the Internet, the issue had become one of "the freedom of the press"....
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07:31 AM, Aug 27, 2012
London: An influential group of British lawmakers say Rupert Murdoch is unfit to lead his global media empire, in a scathing report that says his company misled Parliament about the scale of phone hacking at one of its tabloids. Parliament's cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee said on Tuesday that News International, the British newspaper division of Murdoch's News Corp., had deliberately ignored evidence of malpractice, covered up evidence and...
04:42 PM, May 01, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch called his News of the World tabloid an "aberration" on Thursday, accusing journalists of hiding phone-hacking from himself, his son James and his protegee Rebekah Brooks, and said he wished he had shut it down sooner. "The News of the World, to be quite honest, was an aberration, and it's my fault," the media mogul said in a second day of testimony in Britain's High Court on...
04:28 AM, Apr 27, 2012
London: At least 13 inquiries and legal cases are being conducted into questions raised by the unethical practice of phone-hacking at the now defunct News of the World, with media baron Rupert Murdoch's empire in the UK coming under unprecedented scrutiny. The inquiries are being conducted at various levels, with some going into issues wider than phone-hacking and other unethical news gathering practices in British journalism. The issue, which blew...
05:47 PM, Jan 20, 2012
London: Media baron Rupert Murdoch's group on Thursday agreed to a multi-million pounds out-of-court-settlement with 19 high-profile victims who had filed cases when they realised their phones had been hacked by the now defunct News of the World. Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott and actor Jude Law are among those who have agreed to the settlement. Footballer Ashley Cole and Labour MP Chris Bryant have also reached settlements. Most people...
06:04 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Media baron Rupert Murdoch is weaving together a dream team in an attempt contain the hacking scandal ...
11:53 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Media baron Rupert Murdoch was confronted by an angry mob shouting slogans in London on Friday after he had gone to apologise to the family of a 13 yr old murder victim whose voicemails were hacked into by his tabloid. ...
09:19 AM, Jul 16, 2011
London: Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday. The Guardian and Independent newspapers reported on their websites earlier on Monday that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's newspapers repeatedly tried to hack into Brown's voicemails when he was finance minister and prime minister. The Guardian said News International reporters...
02:35 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the 'News of the World' signed off with a simple front page message - "Thank You & Goodbye" - leaving the media establishment here reeling from the expanding phone-hacking scandal that brought down the muckraking newspaper after 168 years. Journalists crafted the newspaper's own obituary before sending the tabloid's final edition to the printing presses on Saturday night, apologising for letting its readers down but...
08:13 AM, Jul 10, 2011
Sun Valley: Rupert Murdoch said on Saturday the decision to close the embattled "News of the World" tabloid was "a collective decision." Murdoch spoke briefly as he entered the last day of the annual Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, even as a deepening phone hacking scandal threatens the British operations of his media company, News Corp. Walking with his wife, Wendi, and his son, Lachlan, Murdoch...
10:17 PM, Jul 09, 2011
London: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday the government had to follow proper legal procedures when deciding on the takeover of BSkyB and the decision would take 'some time'. "Governments must follow the proper legal processes and procedures. That is exactly what (culture secretary) Jeremy Hunt is doing. His role is to take the advice of independent regulators. And, as his department made clear, given the events of...
03:13 PM, Jul 08, 2011
'News of the World' which sells more than 2.5 million copies every Sunday, is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch. His son James said proceeds from the last edition would go to charity. ...
08:42 AM, Jul 08, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch will shut down Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the 'News of the World', in a startling response to a scandal engulfing his media empire. As allegations multiplied that its journalists hacked the voicemails of thousands of people, from child murder victims to the families of Britain's war dead, the tabloid hemorrhaged advertising, alienated millions of readers and posed a growing threat to Murdoch's hopes of buying broadcaster...
07:16 AM, Jul 08, 2011
She achieved more column inches than any other star over the last decade. ...
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