Another One Bites The Dust
Rupert-gate now has a version of a ‘Friday Night massacre’: News Corp’s Les Hinton resigns amid phone-hacking scandal
One of the most senior executives of Rupert Murdoch’s embattled News Corporation has quit.
Les Hinton, chief executive of the media group’s Dow Jones, is standing down, announced the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
Mr Hinton is the most senior executive to leave the conglomerate, which has been engulfed by a phone-hacking scandal.
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, also resigned on Friday.
Yet another News Corp executive who “knows nah-theenk” about what happened when in charge of News of the World.
Mr. Hinton and Ms Brooks both spent their entire professional lives working for News Corp, so there was no opportunity for either to have acquired ‘bad habits’ at another employer.
Update: On the lighter side from Australia we have an ABC News video of News Limited chairman and CEO John Hartigan says there is no need for a parliamentary investigation into Australian media. See it’s the Brits that did this, not Australians … well, except for the Murdochs and Les Hinton … umm, they were corrupted by the Brits … that’s the ticket … the British ‘cowboys’ caused the whole mess. Nothing to see here … move along.
