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As News Corp. boss, Murdoch is called unfit

Critical report builds pressure on UK leaders

By John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya

 |  New York Times  

  May 02, 2012

A startlingly damning report on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers concluding that Murdoch was “not a fit person’’ to run a huge international company threatens bruising divisions within the political establishment, complicates Prime Minister David Cameron’s challenge in explaining his ties to Murdoch executives, and increases regulators’ scrutiny of Murdoch’s linchpin holdings in the lucrative BSkyB network.

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