James Murdoch's Defense Crumbles

Hugh Pickens writes "Brian Cathcart writes that whatever happens to News Corp., it will surely happen without James Murdoch, the clever, dashing heir apparent to his buccaneer father, Rupert, who has become a liability with little hope of survival. James Rupert told members of Parliament that when he approved a payment of about $1.1 million in 2008 to settle the first lawsuit brought by a phone-hacking victim, he was not shown an email that suggested phone hacking was more widespread at the News of the World, and not limited to one 'rogue' reporter. 'He is saying one thing—that in briefing him they gave an "incomplete picture" — and, remarkably, in a statement Thursday, they publicly denied that,' writes Cathcart. All the News Corp. executives used to tell the same story but one by one as the pressure has grown these people have been cast off or have drifted away and now as the little group has splintered and scattered, and they all need to save their own skins. 'It's not just James who is done,' writes David Carr in the NY Times. 'Rupert Murdoch, as we have long known him, is done as well.'"

Re:Scum or average businessman?

[polle404]

for the average geek out there, he's the J Jonah Jameson to our collective Spiderman selves...

Re:Unlikely

[Relyx]

The timing of recent events was in my view largely down to News Intl's BSkyB takeover bid. It was due to be greenlit the very week the Milly Dowler phone hacking revelation broke. Coincidence? I think not.

Re:Unlikely

[Missing.Matter]

crack in the dam
cover all bases
sharks would have chewed him up and spat him out
ripped to shreds
chinks in his armour
skewer he was wielding
meanest, biggest predator is wounded
tearing him down

I'm all for literary devices, but my god man, every sentence you wrote has as a completely different metaphor. Sometimes two!

Superbowel?

[phorm]

The reason the superbowel winning football team

Sounds like a shi**y team. I've heard that their players are real crap...

Re:Unlikely

[Ryanrule]

If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.