Murdoch ‘Not Fit’ to Head Media Company
时间：2012-05-02 05:26:07
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A British parliament committee said Tuesday newspaper and television magnate Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to head a media company, part of an unexpectedly strong rebuke1 to one of the world's most powerful media moguls.
The multy-party committee said Murdoch “turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness” while members of his staff electronically broke into telephone voice-mail systems and allegedly
bribed2 policemen to gather information for their stories.
The report says there were “huge failings of
corporate3 governance” that allowed
tolerance4 for law-breaking to
permeate5 his organization. It also says Murdoch’s company misled parliament and tried to cover up the wrongdoing.
The head of the
journalism6 department at City University London, Professor George Brock, said the strong words in the report were not expected.
“I think the report has taken one or two people, including me, a bit by surprise because you can be declared unfit to hold a broadcasting
license7 if you are, in the phrase in the law, ‘a not fit and proper person,’” he said.
The parliamentary committee does not have the power to make that decision, but its report likely will be taken into consideration by Britain’s broadcasting authority. The authority said Tuesday it is “continuing to assess the evidence.”
Murdoch’s News Corporation owns 40 percent of British Sky Broadcasting, the country’s largest cable-TV channel, and it owns the U.S.-based, politically conservative Fox News network. It also owns several British newspapers, including the Times and the Sunday Times, and the most popular daily paper, The Sun.
The phone-hacking allegations forced the closure of Britain’s largest Sunday newspaper, The News of the World, and the resignation of several top Murdoch executives.
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