London: A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group says the company could face 500 lawsuits from victims of tabloid phone hacking -- far more than have so far been filed. Michael Silverleaf told a court hearing on Friday that "we are dealing with 500 claims, potentially" from people who say their voicemail messages were intercepted by the now-defunct News of the World. Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid millions...
12:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his ties with media baron Rupert Murdoch at the phone-hacking inquiry. ...
07:11 PM, May 29, 2012
London: British leaders are forced to court powerful press barons such as Rupert Murdoch or risk savage media attacks which render them unable to govern effectively, former Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry on Monday. Interrupted by a heckler who accused him of being a war criminal for supporting the US invasion of Iraq, Blair paused briefly before continuing to justify his ties to Murdoch with whom he said...
06:50 PM, May 29, 2012
London: Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and...
11:00 AM, May 28, 2012
Brooks has in the past few days been questioned by the Leveson inquiry into media standards and ethics. ...
03:19 PM, May 15, 2012
London: Known for using the internet and new media, British Prime Minister David Cameron somehow believed that 'LOL' meant 'Lots of Love' when sending texts to ex-editor of the News of the World Rebekah Brooks, until she enlightened him that it actually meant 'Laugh Out Loud'. Brooks, 43, who was arrested for allegations of perjury and in relation to phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid of Media mogul Rupert Murdoch,...
10:43 AM, May 12, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch has reportedly told staffers at his UK newspapers that his business can emerge "better and stronger" following the phone-hacking scandal, even as a panel of British MPs on Monday branded the news baron "unfit" to run his global media empire. In his email shot to his employees in the UK, the 81-year-old Australian-American Chairman of News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, has also said that some...
11:46 AM, May 02, 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: British Prime Minister David Cameron has denied allegations of striking a deal with media baron Rupert Murdoch or his son in return for favourable coverage before his government came to power in 2010. The ties between Cameron's government and Murdoch's News Corp are under scrutiny after an inquiry into media ethics raised questions. The inquiry had raised questions about a minister's decision on whether the company should be authorised...
09:09 AM, Apr 30, 2012
London: A defensive David Cameron on Sunday insisted that he had struck "no grand deal" with media baron Rupert Murdoch over the BSkyB takeover bid following last week's revelation of a string of emails exchanged between the office of Culture secretary and News International. Speaking on the widely watched Andrew Marr Show on BBC, the Prime Minister admitted he had sought the support of Murdoch's news organisations, along with other...
05:40 PM, Apr 29, 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: Rupert Murdoch batted away accusations on Wednesday that he used his vast media empire to play puppet master to a succession of British leaders, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken faith in Prime Minister David Cameron's government. The 81-year-old media mogul's appearance is the high point in an inquiry which has laid bare collusion between ministers and News Corp, reawakening decades of concern over the cozy ties between...
05:03 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Beijing: The 3D version of the famed romance 'Titanic' is expected to set a new first-week box office record on the Chinese mainland, as it already fetched USD 67 million in the first six days after its release. Ticket sales accounted for USD 11.3 million on the first day, while another USD 28.5 million was earned in the following three days. The film's 10-day box office in North America, in...
01:06 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Star Group, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O), has ended its brand association with its Indian television news channel joint venture partner, the company said, blaming the split on regulatory headaches. "Given the current regulatory environment and structural issues ailing the Indian cable and satellite television market and the news genre in particular, Star took this extremely difficult decision to withdraw its brand from the genre," Star India...
10:51 AM, Apr 17, 2012
London: Sky News, a part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain, on Thursday admitted that it illegally hacked e-mails twice for information, further tarnishing the image of the press baron. The admission is an indication that unethical news gathering practices were not confined to the now closed News of the World, but were more widespread in Murdoch's media holdings in Britain. News of the World has since been closed...
08:19 PM, Apr 05, 2012
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