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19th July 2011, 09:45
Worked for tycoon since starting on the Adelaide News in 1960
Murdoch could lose control over Fox if found guilty of breaching anti-bribery laws
Attorney General considers formal probe into hacking of voicemails of 9/11 victims
Obama ally says 'empire beginning to explode'
Senior Democrats round on News Corp chief with petition to 'demand the truth'
FYI:
Rupert Murdoch's most long-serving and trusted servant has followed in the footsteps of Rebekah Brooks and fallen on his sword.
Les Hinton, 67, who has worked for the tycoon for 52 years, has resigned from his post as chief executive of Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal.
His loss will hit Murdoch hard and adds weight to claims from one of President Obama's closest allies last night that his U.S. empire is beginning to 'explode and unravel' in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
The claim came as Murdoch's control over Fox and other cable channels appeared under increasing threat, with reports he could lose his television licences if found guilty of breaching anti-bribery laws
And Attorney General Eric Holder piled more pressure on the News Corporation chief, as he confirmed the Justice Department is considering opening a formal investigation into whether the company tried to hack into the voicemails of 9/11 victims.
Hinton was executive chairman of News International in London from 1995 to 2007, periods when the News of the World was hacking phones.
He said he knew nothing about the scandalous behaviour by journalists which also cost News Corp chief executive Brooks her job but added that ‘the pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable’ and it was ‘proper’ for him to resign from News Corp.
'That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign.'
He continued: 'When I left News International in December 2007, I believed that the rotten element at the News of the World had been eliminated, that important lessons had been learned and that journalistic integrity was restored.
'There had never been any evidence delivered to me that suggested the conduct had spread beyond one journalist. If others had evidence that wrongdoing went further, I was not told about it.'
Murdoch said in a statement that he had accepted Mr Hinton's resignation with much sadness at losing his right-hand man after a remarkable journey.
'That this passage has come to an unexpected end, professionally, not personally, is a matter of much sadness to me,' he said.
'I vividly recall an enthusiastic young man in the offices of my first newspaper in Adelaide, where Les joined the company as a 15-year-old and had the rather unenviable task of buying me sandwiches for lunch.'
Mr Murdoch added that 'News Corporation is not Rupert Murdoch. It is the collective creativity and effort of many thousands of people around the world, and few individuals have given more to this company than Les Hinton.'
source to read more
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015205/Rupert-Murdochs-US-empire-begins-unravel-Dow-Jones-chief-Les-Hinton-resigns.html
Murdoch could lose control over Fox if found guilty of breaching anti-bribery laws
Attorney General considers formal probe into hacking of voicemails of 9/11 victims
Obama ally says 'empire beginning to explode'
Senior Democrats round on News Corp chief with petition to 'demand the truth'
FYI:
Rupert Murdoch's most long-serving and trusted servant has followed in the footsteps of Rebekah Brooks and fallen on his sword.
Les Hinton, 67, who has worked for the tycoon for 52 years, has resigned from his post as chief executive of Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal.
His loss will hit Murdoch hard and adds weight to claims from one of President Obama's closest allies last night that his U.S. empire is beginning to 'explode and unravel' in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
The claim came as Murdoch's control over Fox and other cable channels appeared under increasing threat, with reports he could lose his television licences if found guilty of breaching anti-bribery laws
And Attorney General Eric Holder piled more pressure on the News Corporation chief, as he confirmed the Justice Department is considering opening a formal investigation into whether the company tried to hack into the voicemails of 9/11 victims.
Hinton was executive chairman of News International in London from 1995 to 2007, periods when the News of the World was hacking phones.
He said he knew nothing about the scandalous behaviour by journalists which also cost News Corp chief executive Brooks her job but added that ‘the pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable’ and it was ‘proper’ for him to resign from News Corp.
'That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign.'
He continued: 'When I left News International in December 2007, I believed that the rotten element at the News of the World had been eliminated, that important lessons had been learned and that journalistic integrity was restored.
'There had never been any evidence delivered to me that suggested the conduct had spread beyond one journalist. If others had evidence that wrongdoing went further, I was not told about it.'
Murdoch said in a statement that he had accepted Mr Hinton's resignation with much sadness at losing his right-hand man after a remarkable journey.
'That this passage has come to an unexpected end, professionally, not personally, is a matter of much sadness to me,' he said.
'I vividly recall an enthusiastic young man in the offices of my first newspaper in Adelaide, where Les joined the company as a 15-year-old and had the rather unenviable task of buying me sandwiches for lunch.'
Mr Murdoch added that 'News Corporation is not Rupert Murdoch. It is the collective creativity and effort of many thousands of people around the world, and few individuals have given more to this company than Les Hinton.'
source to read more
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015205/Rupert-Murdochs-US-empire-begins-unravel-Dow-Jones-chief-Les-Hinton-resigns.html