UPDATE: Murdoch Will Close ‘News of the World’


UPDATE: In a surprisingly swift move, News Corporation announced Thursday that it this weekend’s edition of News of the World will be the last. The Guardian is running a live blog with reaction.

The New York Times puts the full weight of its coverage on Rupert Murdoch this morning. At issue is the rival newspaperman’s London tabloid, News of the World. The British parliament is putting pressure on the paper after revelations that it had hired investigators to intercept the voicemail messages of several people—including “messages left on the cellphones of murdered children and terrorism victims”—that it was reporting on. The Times says Prime Minister David Cameron stopped short of ordering a full inquiry into the matter and points out that his Conservative Party “benefits from Mr. Murdoch’s support.”

A second article about Murdoch’s troubles, this one on the Times’ business front page, starts out with this scathing sentence: “Risk-taking and line-skirting have always been just one more cost of doing business for Rupert Murdoch.”

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