
Rupert Murdoch Is Still a Billionaire. He Won.
The Daily Beast Podcast
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The Murdochs' Accountability
The Murdochs were personally implicated in this Rupert Locklin Murdoch are on email chains with the chief executive of Fox News, giving her advice. James Murdoch was implicated because he said yes to a request to pay a guy whose cell phone messages had been hacked into by investigators working for the news of the world. The figure is so large, and because the figure was instantly disclosed as opposed to buried in a footnote and some financial filing that we find out about later, that acknowledgement of a huge public payment is the accountability. It's saying, look, the Murdochs don't give away money easily.
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