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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. A media empire | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
brought to account. Rupert Murdoch and his son James face tough | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
questions from MPs. There's contrition but no admission of | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
responsibility for the alleged hacking at the News of the World. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
This is the most humble day of my career. In all that has happened, I | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
know we needed to be here today. There is drama in the committee | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
room as a protester tries to attack Rupert Murdoch. His Chinese-born | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
wife retaliate. Proceedings are suspended. Next up, Rebekah Brooks, | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
former chief executive of News International. She tells MPs she | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
was repeatedly told at the News of the World that allegations of phone | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
hacking were untrue. As one of the world's largest media organisations, | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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we ask where now for Rupert Murdoch Hello and welcome to Westminster, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
where it has been a dramatic day. Rupert Murdoch, one of the most | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
important and powerful media moguls in the world, said it was a | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
humbling day for him as he apologised to MPs for the scandal | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
that has engulfed his empire. The proceedings were momentarily | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
suspended almost at the end of the hearings, when a protester with a | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
custard pie of shaving foam tried to attack Mr Murdoch. His Chinese- | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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born wife, Wendi Deng, slapped the protests are down. After that, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, a | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
woman who was arrested by police on Sunday, was taking questions by MPs. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
She denied any personal knowledge of paying police officers and said | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
she had not done so herself. She was also asked about the Milly | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Dowler case, and said that although she was on holiday it was on her | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
watch and she took responsibility. Let's get an update on the | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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proceedings today. Moment when two of the world's most | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
powerful media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch, | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
arrived to be held to account by MPs about the way the News of the | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
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World systematically invaded the privacy of individuals. So, after | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
decades of wielding huge power at the top of the British UN global | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
media industry, how was it for Rupert Murdoch? I would just like | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
to say one sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. This is | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Fleet Street reporting on rottenness at the heart of Fleet | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Street, the media directing a lens at the UK's biggest UK newspaper | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
company. There has never been anything quite like it. So what did | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
the Murdochs know about the alleged abuses at the News of the World? | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
Watched by his wife Wendi Deng in the chair behind, not as much as | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
you might think, said Rupert Murdoch. Can I just say something? | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
This is not as an excuse, maybe explanation, the News of the World | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
did less than 1% of our company, I employee 50,000 people around the | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
world who are great and ethical and distinguished people, professionals, | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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and perhaps I am spread watching and appointing people whom I trust. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
The revelation only 15 days ago of the alleged phone hacking of Milly | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Dowler at the instigation of the News of the World is why the | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
Murdochs have to explain themselves. At what point did you find out | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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criminality was endemic at the News of the World? Endemic is a very | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
wide-ranging word, and I also have to be extremely careful not to | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
prejudice the course of justice which is taking place now. That | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
which has been disclosed, I became aware as apparent. I was absolutely | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
only two weeks ago. But was there a cover-up? Given that most of the | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
alleged phone hacking and illegal bribing a police happened between | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
2002-2006. James Murdoch says he was not made aware of the contents | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
of News of the World females uncovered earlier that year. If I | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
knew then what we know now, with the benefit of hindsight we can | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
look at these things, but if I knew then what I knew now we would have | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
taken more action around that and move faster to get to the bottom of | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
these allegations. He said he replied -- relied on advice by | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
lawyer's Harbottle & Lewis. One of the things I went back and looked | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
at was that file and it was looked at again, opened up, and it was | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
rapidly brought to our attention that this was something week... | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
When did this happen? For again, between April, May, June, that | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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period. Was it given to police on June 20th? yes. Is it not time for | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
your organisation to say do your worst. You behaved disgracefully, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
we are not going to pay any more of your cost? I would like to do that, | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
I don't know the status of what we are doing or indeed what his | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
contract was. What other friends in high places of Mr Murdoch, the long | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
seen breaker and maker of prime ministers? I was invited within | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
days to have a cup of tea in support of David Cameron. No other | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
conversation took place. The from high drama to the circus, a custard | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
pie in the face of the shaken tycoon. Have you considered | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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resigning? Know. Why not? Because I feel that people, I am not saying | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
who, have let me down, behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
and me and it is for them to pay. Frankly, I am the best person to | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
clean this up. Many questions are still unanswered about who | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
committed the appalling that at the News of the World and who knew what | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
when. The Murdochs were probably seen to be bruised but not broken | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
by today's ordeal, now they will have to wait for the results of | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
investigations by the judge and the police. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Let's get the thought of two people intimately involved with the | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
political spinning machine when it comes to dealing with media | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
operations. We will go to them in a moment, but first Rebekah Brooks is | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
still giving evidence to this committee and she has been talking | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
in more detail about Milly Dowler. Let's see what she said. I don't | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
know anyone in their right mind who would authorise, no, sanction, | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
approve of anyone listening to the voice mails of Milly Dowler in | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
those circumstances. I don't know anyone who would think it was a | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
right and proper thing to do at this time or any time. I know we | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
know a lot more now, but that is all I can tell you. Rebekah Brooks | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
is still giving evidence to that committee, we expect that to go on | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
for another 15 minutes. Let's catch up with these two media specialists. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
George Eustice is a Conservative Member of Parliament and former | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
press secretary to David Cameron. And Lance Price is former director | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
of communications for the Labour party. George, if I can start with | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
you. A lot of anticipation about what they would say today, we have | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
seen them in the flesh now, what did you make of their strategy in | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
terms of dealing with these allegations head-on? I don't think | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
their appearance today would have done them any harm at all. News | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
International is in a serious position, and we had protesters | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
outside talking about the evil Murdoch empire, this shadowy | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
organisation, but what most people would have felt is that here we had | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
a rather frail man, like any other eight year-old man you might expect | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
to meet, and his son. I don't think any remarkable came out of their | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
interviews but I think it was right for them to appear. They did not | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
want to appear originally and said the dates were not convenient. But | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
on that human level, there was a frailty, wasn't there? Do you get | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
the impression that father and son were trying to protect each other, | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
and actually Rupert Murdoch's handling of the empire now was very | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
much more hands-off than it would have been 15 years ago? Yes, he has | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
already handed over a lot of the power of European operations to his | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
son, James, and you got a sense from some of the MPs that they were | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
incredulous that the man of the top, Rupert Murdoch, actually didn't | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
know the answer to some of the questions they were asking. It | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
didn't help that he could not always hear the questions, because | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
of that frailty we have been discussing, but it was an | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
interesting dynamic between the two. It almost -- also left unanswered | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
questions about how News Corporation is run. What struck me | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
is that this empire is run in autonomous sections, very much left | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
to the chief executives running them. Is that a good enough excuse | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
for MPs and the wider public about him saying he didn't know what was | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
going on in terms of the alleged phone hacking? It is a huge company, | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
and News of the World accounts for maybe just 1% of their turnover. It | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
is no surprise that any company would have subsidiary companies | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
that are largely autonomous in the way they are on. Today when James | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Murdoch was probed about these confidentiality clauses in some of | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
the payments that were made to Mr Taylor and Max Clifford, and some | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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quite good pro -- probing, that is where they have particular | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
questions to answer. It was very interesting the fact that the legal | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
fees of Clive Goodman, the royal editor, and Glenn Mulcaire the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
private investigator, the two who went to jail a few years ago | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
because of this were being paid for by News International. What is your | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
reaction to that? Everybody suspected that was the case. They | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
were employee in top lawyers, clearly no individual could have | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
afforded to pay that. Some people got over the top when they describe | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
this as Britain's Watergate but it is what people do when they are | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
covering their tracks after the event that catches the mild. Rupert | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Murdoch was talking about why he entered Number 10 by the back door, | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
quite amusing on that, saying the Prime Minister of the day wanted to | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
avoid photographers. Also interesting was the very close | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
friendship he had had with Gordon Brown, a man who attacked him so | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
viciously in the Commons last week, describing his News International | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
business like the rats departing the sewers. I thought Gordon | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Brown's speech was partly aimed because this has uncovered a real | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
problem with our whole media, particularly print press. We need | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
to achieve some proper media standards, some new regulation for | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
the media, because it is not just confined to News International. The | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
information commissioner a few years ago identified problems with | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
other papers including the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. We have | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
to emerge from this with a stronger print press. I agree Gordon Brown's | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
intervention was not well judged but his speech shows how personal | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
it becomes. Prime Ministers take it personally when Rupert Murdoch | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
takes his love away, if you like. Murdoch senior like Gordon Brown, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
he was what a prime minister should be, what a man should be, Goa and | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
serious, and he was not impressed with David Cameron who he thought | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
was flash. But Gordon Brown looked which way the wind was blowing and | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
got behind the winner. Thank you. This was not the only committee | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
hearing at Westminster today. Earlier, two senior former | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
policeman appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee. Sir Paul | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Stevenson and John Yates, Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Police. He was Britain's top serving counter-terrorism officer. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Both men have resigned in the last 48 hours or so because of this | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
phone hacking investigation and also of their role and | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
responsibility in checking the facts that the time. Sir Paul | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Stevenson said he regretted leaving but felt he had to, and John Yates | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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said it would be a distraction if It was a Scotland Yard | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
interrogation but this time it was senior officers required to answer | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
questions. The centrepiece of the cross-examination was the | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
relationship between two institutions, Scotland Yard and | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
News International. It emerged there have been close links with | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
senior officers being wined and dined by Murdoch executives and | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
restaurants like this one. The commission accepted he had had 18 | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
lunches and dinners with News International figures in five years, | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
seven or eight with the news of the World journalist now accused of | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
phone hacking. News International represents 42% of press readership, | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
a fine maintain a relationship with the media it was not my decision to | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
allow News International to be so dominant in the market. Of the 45 | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Media staff at the met 10 are former News International employees. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
It was another Murdoch man given a job at the yard the committee were | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
interested in. Neil Wallace, now arrested for alleged phone hacking, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
the former deputy editor of the News Of The World was hired weeks | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
after detectives decided not to pursue press claims of widespread | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
hacking at the paper. The in the chair, the head of public affairs. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
He insisted he never asked Mr Wallace if he knew about phone | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
hacking because a colleague, John Yates, about 4 in. John Yates | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
conducted due diligence of Mr Wallace and he can explain better | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
than I. Mr Yates, the Assistant Commissioner who resigned yesterday | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
confirmed Neil Wallis was a front for 10 years. He was also the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
officer who decided there was no need to reopen at the phone hacking | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
inquiry following revelations by Guardian journalists. Back in the | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
chair he occupied a wicket, John Yates said he thought his role in | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
it Mr Wallace's appointment was over edge. I sought assurances of | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Mr Wallace before the contract was let to the effects and a have a | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
note, is there anything in the matters he is reporting on that | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
could embarrass you, Mr Wallace, meet or the Commissioner? I | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
received assurances that was not the case. Paul Stephenson hinting | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
today would be his last as commissioner at the Met headed back | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
to the art pursued by media. There was an irony because what today is | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
illustrated his it has been a too cosy relationship between police | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
and press, particularly between the Met and Murdoch. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
The appearance of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks has made | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
headlines across the world. Including in countries where Rupert | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Murdoch's News Corporation plays a significant role. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
In America, where Murdoch has his biggest assets, such as the Fox | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
networks and the Wall Street journal, there are growing | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
questions over his future as chief executive officer. If claims prove | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
true that there was also hacking on US soil, the company could lose its | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
broadcasting licences there. In Australia there's intense | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
interest in the effect the News of the World scandal will have on the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Murdoch empire. This is the country not only of Rupert Murdoch's birth, | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
but of the birth of News Corporation too. | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
And there's very close scrutiny in Asia where News Corp owns nine | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
cable channels under the Star name, and owns or hold significant shares | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
in eight others. In India, which has had a long and close | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
association with News Corp, there's been rolling news coverage of | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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today's hearings. Let's get the thoughts of John Burns and Paul | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
McMullen, a former features editor at the News Of The World. Sean, how | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
closely is is being followed in America and what impact is the | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
hearing having for investors? it is the best running soap opera | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
but has been seen on either side of the ocean in a long time. It is | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
more than that. It affects the world's in America and here, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
doubtless -- regardless of whether there was phone hacking on 9/11, it | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
affects the press, politicians and it affects a Rupert Murdoch and | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Wall Street. Will he investors have been impressed by Rupert Murdoch's | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
performance? Yes, this was the beginning of a fightback. If I was | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
the chief executive, those managing the public relations, I would take | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
a glass of champagne. It was a consummate performance. Not to say | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
it is behind them but they had an extraordinary stroke of good luck. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
The attack on Mr Murdoch, you could not have designed weather for soap | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
opera or a gradual beginning of a process they hope will eventually | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
ring and redemption, and 80-year- old man being hit in the face with | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
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a custard pie. And his young Questions about the breach of | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
security. You are a former features editor at News Of The World and no | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Rebekah Brooks, how convincing was she? It did not convince me at all. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
I had a call from colleagues saying I cannot believe what she is | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
staying. She is still denying it. That she had no knowledge,, the | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
same line she keeps bringing out. It is not fair. Still throwing her | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
reporters to the waltz, nothing to do with me. I never saw what was | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
going on, I never looked a my accounts to see who was paying, the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
facts I was deputy features editor and noticed four grand a week to | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
private eyes, I wanted to know what for and why. My first question at | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
four reporter is where did you get the story from and what is the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
evidence? She is the world's worst editor or has been walking around | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
with her fingers in her ears. MP said he would suspend his | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
incredulity. In terms of any punches that had been landed today, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
what was the most significant thing you felt by these British MPs and | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
the questioning. I was impressed with how astute many of the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
questions were, they had really done their homework. But is not | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
always true with these scrutiny committees. The answer lies in the | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
forensics. There were some tough and and answered questions, it was | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
a concert performance, it was in that they managed what is a very | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
bad case about as well as a kid. They dodged and weaved but they did | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
not always absolutely appeared to be doing so unless you listened | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
carefully. One of my favourite lines from Rupert Murdoch was this | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
country benefits from -- from its press which is inconvenient for | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
some people. I thought we would get a boss who would stand up for the | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
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things we found out about the politicians. Thank you. A day off | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
theatre, James Murdoch looked very shocked and surprised as a man made | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
towards his father, Rupert Murdoch younger Chinese wife stepping in | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
his love. Let's look at the key moments of today. I would like to | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
say when sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. If you are | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
not line then, someone like to you, who? I don't know. That is what the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
police are investigating and we are helping. You acknowledge your | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
misled? Clearly. Do you accept ultimately you are responsible for | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
this whole fiasco? No. Who is? people I trusted to run it and | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
maybe the people they trusted. would like to say how sorry I am, | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
and how sorry we are, particularly to the victims of illegal voice | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
mail interceptions and families. What happened at denise macro was | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
wrong. We and I have apologised profusely and unreservedly for that. | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
My father has as well. At it is your father who was responsible for | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
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corporate governance. What did he Do you have any regrets? Well, of | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
course I have regrets. The idea that Milly Dowler's phone was | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
accessed by someone being paid by the News Of The World or even worse | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
authorised by someone at the News Of The World is as abhorrent to me | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
as everyone in this room. Once you have broken the trust with readers | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
there is not much going back and unfortunately the News Of The World | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
Easter leader headlines for the right reasons, the cricket scandal | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
recently, but unfortunately for the last few months and the last the | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
years, it's been leading the headlines for the wrong reasons. Of | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
course there were mistakes made in the past but I think and hope you | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
agree since who saw the evidence at the end of December we have clear | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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Let's see how well it did in terms of PR. The Danny Rogers, John Burns | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
set if he was a PR adviser who will be raising champagne, would he | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
think? The protest and the custard pie it took the pressure off the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Murdochs because it was a farce, briefly. I would not raise a glass | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
of champagne, they were not apologetic enough, they were not | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
open or contrite enough. This scandal has dragged on and | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
threatens to drag on further. wanted to make an opening statement | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
about contrition which was not allowed, it was put to the back of | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
proceedings. Rupert Murdoch said this was the most humble day of his | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
life. Did you feel that is something you would have told him | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
to say or something he felt? It was something his PR advisers told him | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
to say and he was a wise move. He needed to back it up with openness | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
and transparency and he failed to do that. There was an illegal | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
blocking many anticipated, because there is a criminal investigation | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
undergoing, it was used a couple of times but in terms of the day-to- | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
day handling of this empire, will investors have been reassured by | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
the answers? No, they will not be. I think they did well to engage to | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
that extent but this is a man who has lost its mystique, his | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
reputation, you compare News International a year ago with today, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
shareholders are worried. When it comes to the money paid out, that | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
was illuminating, these parameters as you would expect but up to �1 | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
million, Rupert Murdoch would he nothing about it. Yes, I'm sure he | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
knew about the money. If you are Chief Executive you know when large | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
amounts of money are paid to victims like that. And when it | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
comes to the relationship of senior politicians and prime ministers, he | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
was quite disarming saying that is why they ask me to come in. He may | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
be disingenuous about that, the Murdoch relationship with all sorts | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
of readers for decades has been powerful. Underestimate that actual | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
barrel. Thank you. A dramatic day today, lots of questions put to the | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks are normally clear answers. -- not that | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
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Hello, we have seen some torrential downpours today but also some | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
occasional sunshine. Through tomorrow the unsettled weather | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
continues, cool and cloudy. More showers around and the weather is | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
dominated by low pressure, cloud and rain moving into the south-west | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
tonight and Wednesday and a weather front across southern Scotland and | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
north-east England. Showers from the word go continuing through the | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
afternoon. Some will be heavy and possibly thundery with temperatures | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
around 16. East Anglia and the south-east, although some sunshine | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
in the morning it clouds over come up breaks of rain, top temperature | :29:10. | :29:18. | |
21. A July afternoon in the south- west, light showers but not much | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
brightness. Quite overcast skies. Glimmers of sunshine of fruit | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
Cardigan Bay, temperatures in Holyhead at 16. For Northern | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
Ireland, cool and cloudy conditions continuing, the breeze coming down | :29:33. | :29:39. |