A damning report was published today by the Culture Media
and Sports Select Committee which accused Rupert Murdoch of not being a fit
person to run a major global company. The report was even harsher on three of
Murdoch’s “underlings”, Colin Myler, Tom Crone and Les Hinton who were accused
of miss-leading MPs and could have to face the House of Commons.
Although the report is extremely damning it did not receive
unanimous support from the committee, the four Conservatives voted against the
report due to harsh attack on Murdoch. The report was able to pass as the five
Labour members and the one Liberal Democrat member voted in favour of it. Louise
Mensch is a Conservative member of the committee, in defending her decision to vote
against the report on Newsnight, she appeared to think that the public would
agree with her. Has she got any idea of public opinion? There is a massive
anti-Murdoch swing in the general public and most people will be delighted with
the report that so vilifies Murdoch. At a time when the fallout from the Jeremy
Hunt scandal is deepening, this will harden the view that the Conservatives have
become the party for Murdoch and could deal another blow to the Conservatives.
Although the Conservative members did vote against the
report, they actually agreed with everything in the report apart from the one
line. The rest of the report deals less with Murdoch and more with the lies
told by Myler, Crone and Hinton to Parliament.
Murdoch must leave the UK once and for all; he still
controls large parts of BSkyB and our press. The hacking scandal has created a
very rare chance, for us to seize our democracy from the hands of Murdoch and return
them to the people. His International Empire was founded in the UK with the Sun
newspaper (which he took over), and we will be the ones to end it. Murdoch has
had his time in power, the time for people power has returned.
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| The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee releasing the report yesterday |
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