Chapter 837: Tapping the Door
Rupert Murdoch started in Australia, and News Corporation's base camp spans both Britain and the United States. It wants to shake their roots. The United Kingdom is on the one hand, and North America is the more important other.
On the afternoon of the same day, the Los Angeles branch of the FBI and the Los Angeles County Police Department jointly arrested the famous Hollywood Eye Anthony Pellicano. Holding a search warrant, they searched Pellicano At houses in Burbank, West Hollywood and Orange County, more than $2 million in cash were found, as well as some weapons and thousands of hours of wiretapping records.
In particular, police investigations of Pellicano's emails uncovered a large number of correspondence with the New York Post that involved numerous wiretappings and scandals.
Subsequently, the police held a press conference and presented some of Pellicano's wiretapping evidence. Although they did not announce which Hollywood stars had been wiretapped, everyone in Hollywood was in danger.
The part of the evidence released pointed directly at the New York Post owned by News Corporation. The wiretapping scandal, which was hyped up by Disney and other media, quickly spread to the whole world.
It is not difficult for the public to imagine Lenovo's wiretapping in the UK today, and wiretapping is almost a common phenomenon for News Corporation.
Only a day later, the FBI announced that it had taken over the Pellicano case because the emails between him and the New York Post did not only involve Hollywood companies. long wind. Literary figures, as well as some members of Congress and the families of the victims of the 9/11 incident!
911 is an eternal scar in the hearts of the North American public. Now that News Corp. has been involved with definite evidence, the public’s anger can be imagined. A large number of families of 911 victims appealed to the federal government on Disney’s media. The government thoroughly investigated the incident, and Congress held a special session for this!
If we talk about discrediting Iran in the past, Disney used 50% of its ability to guide public opinion, and now it has 120% of its ability.
Over the past two months. Disney is really fed up with News Corporation's uselessness, and the management will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity to fight back.
In this incident, Disney's powerful online media played an extremely important role.
, Twitter, Facebook, Disney Ryan Family Online, and partners Yahoo and Google have almost completely guided the direction of public opinion across the United States.
After entering March, not many people paid attention to the upcoming Oscars ceremony. What the public is most concerned about is the progress of News Corporation's Bugging Gate.
On the British side, the Scottish scene is under pressure from No 10 Downing Street and the royal family's invisibility,
Showed unprecedented high efficiency.
A series of wiretapping incidents they announced aroused the anger of the British public.
Year 2003. News of the World was reported that there may be wiretapping, and Rebecca Brooks used 700,000 pounds to bribe the police to solve it secretly.
In 2005, a royal phone call discussing Prince William's knee injury was tapped by the News of the World.
In 2008, James Murdoch used 1.2 million pounds to suppress the wiretapping case again.
On March 4, the British media disclosed the scandal of News of the World hacking the voice mail of the missing girl Millie's mobile phone in 2002.
One day in March 2002, Millie, a 13-year-old girl from London, England, disappeared on her way home from school. Six months later, mushroom pickers found Millie's body in the forest, and police finally confirmed that Millie had been abducted and killed by a nightclub doorman. But how long Millie lived after being kidnapped is still unclear.
During Millie's disappearance, the News of the World hired a private detective to tap her cell phone voicemail, and the detective also deleted some of the messages in her voicemail. To reserve storage space for mobile phones to receive new information, which is conducive to more news reports.
This made Millie's parents mistakenly believe that their daughter was still alive, and to some extent, it also interfered with the police's investigation of the case.
This move aroused public outrage from all walks of life in the UK. It became the last straw that overwhelmed the News of the World.
In order to calm the anger of the people, Murdoch had to announce the closure of the News of the World, a tabloid that has gone through 168 years. Ended up dying this week.
Affected by this, the stock price of News Corporation plummeted, and it was obvious that some people were short-selling News Corporation's stock in the market. In just over a week, News Corporation evaporated nearly 10% of its market value, more than 5 billion U.S. dollars. Most of it ended up in the pockets of a dozen or so foundations.
Another obvious thing is that someone united with the gang of vampires on Wall Street to quickly suppress News Corporation's stock.
News Corp., which was once glorious, has been completely caught in the storm.
As the investigation deepened, more and more British and American celebrities appeared on News Corporation's wiretapping list.
Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom and the FBI in the United States successively announced a list of 6,000 wiretapped people.
These include members of the British royal family Eugenie and Princesses Yorkby Beatrice, Princes William and Harry, actress Sienna Miller, British Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Tessa Jowell and his wife, football star Ryan Ryan Giggs and Paul? Scholes and so on.
In the United States, the victims include well-known actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the famous band Linkin Park, families of US soldiers killed in action, and several unnamed congressmen and state senators.
On March 6, the FBI subpoenaed several News Corp. executives and arrested the editor-in-chief of the New York Post and several executives.
This is a land of extreme pursuit of freedom. News Corporation’s behavior has seriously violated the bottom line of the British and American public. Since the day the incident broke out, more and more people have gathered in front of News Corporation’s headquarters in New York to protest. The executives of the group have all enjoyed the rotten egg treatment.
Those who are closely related to News Corporation are also in bad luck. Tony Blair is inevitably implicated in it. He has suppressed the scandal of News Corporation many times. A dark secret.
Cameron also became a victim of this incident. A large number of secret dealings between him and News Corp. were thrown into the media by his opponents. Now that News Corp. has become so stinking, people who get involved will definitely get into countless troubles. Cameron, who had always had an advantage in the early stages of the general election, has seen a sharp decline in his approval rating, and it is inevitable that he will lose the general election in May.
However, in more than a week, the negative news surrounding Disney and Ryan disappeared without a trace, and the public's attention was all attracted by the tapping door, but they were ignored.
After paying a negligible $5 million fine, the FTC and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division closed their antitrust investigation of Walt Disney.
Correspondingly, it is the FBI's investigation of the executives of News Corporation, including Les Hinton, the most important assistant who has served Murdoch for 52 years!
In fact, Ryan is very clear that no matter what the final outcome of this incident is, he will not be able to cause substantial harm to Murdoch himself. Murdoch is completely different from Mel Gibson, and he has no extravagant hope of passing this incident. Can send the other party to prison.
Then, pulling out the tiger's teeth and claws one by one is the best choice.
Moreover, this can also provoke News Corporation's internal strife. Under the external and internal troubles, News Corporation will no longer be comparable to Walt Disney.
On March 7th, the day when the 82nd Academy Awards Ceremony will be held, the main media reports are still on the 'tapping gate', rather than Hollywood's biggest annual event.
The reason is very simple. On the morning of local time in the UK, the British Parliamentary Special Committee announced the preliminary investigation report on News Corporation's telephone hacking scandal. Not fit to lead an international media group.
In this 85-page report, there are three conclusions that have aroused widespread concern.
First, the report stated that Murdoch was pretending to be ignorant of the News of the World reporter's series of phone hacking incidents and was not suitable to lead News Corporation. The whole incident showed that News Corporation had a huge failure in the company's corporate governance.
Second, the report criticized more than a dozen executives of News Corporation, and pointed out that they have been covering up the scandal and misleading the investigation, seriously interfering with judicial justice!
Third, the British government and parliament are considering that if News Corporation still insists that this is a small mistake, they will force the Murdoch family to sell a series of media management rights such as Sky TV and The Times.
At the same time, the Royal Law Firm, which represents the royal family, and other legal institutions have also announced that they will file a lawsuit against News Corporation.
Subsequently, Murdoch changed his previous denial stance and published a full-page apology letter on the official website of News Corporation. We apologize for a series of serious wrongdoings. Ability to take early action to resolve issues.
In order to further express his remorse, Murdoch also personally called the home of the murdered girl Millie Dowler who was wiretapped to apologize.
By now, the media tycoon fully understood that the incident was completely out of his control.
And at 5 pm local time in Los Angeles, Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng appeared in front of the Kodak Theater again, just in time for the end of the Oscars red carpet.
What greeted the couple was the anger of the public on both sides of the red carpet. From the moment they walked on the red carpet, the shouts of shameful, despicable, disgusting and criminal have not stopped.
Not to mention anything else, most of the Hollywood celebrities look at them very strangely. Perhaps these people dare not offend Murdoch, but they definitely no longer have a good impression of News Corporation, which may secretly steal themselves.
Rupert Murdoch couldn't care about anything else now, the reason why he rushed to the Kodak Theater was to see Ryan. (to be continued...)
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