Murdoch Favorite Finally Jettisoned
Continuing developments in Britain's phone hacking scandal: "Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive, has resigned after 11 days of mounting political pressure over the phone-hacking scandal. Brooks announced her decision to News International staff in Wapping just before 10am on Friday, saying her resignation had been accepted by Rupert and James Murdoch. She said she no longer wanted to be a 'focal point of the debate' surrounding the company's future and reputation. She stopped short of issuing a personal apology."
In related news: "In response to requests from members of Congress and to at least one news report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York opened a preliminary inquiry on Thursday into allegations that News Corporation journalists sought to gain access to the phone records of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to several people briefed on the matter."
And: "Rupert and James Murdoch are to be sued personally for their handling of the phone-hacking debacle, it emerged on Thursday night as the family’s woes intensified on both sides of the Atlantic."
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This graphic would also explain why the Wall Street Journal recently began a story with "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…"
Serious query: does anybody know what her leaving terms are like? What sort of settlement and pension and whatnot? I bet they're awesome. I bet people would be enraged to find them out. Get on it, Awl or Grauniad!
@My Number Is My Address The Independent reports that Brooks will receive 3.5 million pounds. Myler got 2 million. The NI lawyers, Crone and Chapman, left with 1.5 million each. The money was not, presumably, the most important or trickiest term to work out in their various agreements to walk away.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/wapping-payouts-16385m-for-departing-executives-2314549.html
(That's The Independent, now brought to you by those princes of print, the peace-loving, incorruptible, upright and not-anything-like-that-bad-man-Murdoch Lebedevs!)
@Ganya Thanks!
And the global anti-ginger pogrom continues apace.
I eagerly await the headline "Murdoch finally jettisoned."
This graphic would also explain why the Wall Street Journal recently began a story with "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…"