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Murdoch set for UK over phone hacking

RUPERT Murdoch said yesterday the decision to close the embattled News of the World tabloid was "a collective decision."

Murdoch spoke briefly as he entered the last day of the annual Allen & Co media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, even as a deepening phone-hacking scandal threatens the British operations of his media company, News Corp.

Walking with his wife, Wendi, and his son, Lachlan, Murdoch said he had no further comment on the situation.

Murdoch was expected to fly into London this weekend to deal with an escalating phone-hacking crisis engulfing his British newspapers business. The expected arrival of the News Corp chief executive coincided with calls on Prime Minister David Cameron to speed up an inquiry into the scandal.

News Corp declined to comment on 80-year-old Murdoch's agenda three days after he closed the News of the World, the 168-year-old best-selling tabloid newspaper at the heart of the allegations, in what has been widely interpreted as a damage-limitation exercise.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm indicated more revelations may emerge, a recording showed.

"Eventually it will come out why things went wrong and who is responsible. That will be another very difficult moment in this company's history," she told the newspaper's staff on Friday, according to a recording carried by Sky News.

Murdoch has brushed off calls for Brooks to resign due to her editorship of News of the World during some of the alleged hacking incidents. Brooks denies knowledge of the practice.



 

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