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If Murdoch thought the worst was over, he was wrong
The Independent, 2 May 2012
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2 mai 2012
Martin Hickman
If Rupert Murdoch believed his appearance at the Leveson judicial inquiry last week would quell the ever louder outcry over his and his company's conduct, he was wrong. By far the most damning judgement of this report is reserved for the 81-year-old chairman and chief executive of News Corporation.
By concluding that he is unfit to run a major international company (the majority verdict of the five Labour MPs and the Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders, but not – interestingly – of its four voting Conservative members) the Culture Committee has dramatically increased the pressure on the tycoon.
He already faces a shareholder revolt at News Corp's next annual meeting in October, where there is a motion to unseat him.
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