Chapter 837： Eavesdropping door

Rupert Murdoch started in Australia, and News Corporation’s base camp spans the United Kingdom and the United States. If you want to shake their foundation, the United Kingdom is one side, and North America is the other more important.

On the afternoon of the same day, the FBI’s Los Angeles Branch Office and the Los Angeles County Police Department conducted a joint operation and arrested the famous “Hollywood Eye” Anthony Pelicano. Holding a search warrant, they searched Pelicano. In houses in Burbank, West Hollywood, and Orange County, more than two million US dollars in cash were found, as well as some weapons and thousands of hours of wiretapping records.

In particular, when investigating Pellicano’s e-mails, the police found a large number of correspondence with the New York Post, which involved numerous eavesdropping and scandals.

Subsequently, the police held a press conference and showed some evidence of Pellicano's wiretapping. Although they did not announce which Hollywood stars have been wiretapped, everyone in Hollywood was in danger.

In this part of the published evidence, the spearhead was directed at the New York Post under News Corp. The wiretapping scandal, which was hyped by Disney and other media, quickly spread to the world.

It is not difficult for the public to imagine Lenovo’s eavesdropping in the UK today, and eavesdropping is almost a common phenomenon for News Corporation.

Only a day later, the FBI announced that it would take over the case of Pellicano, because he and the "New York Post" in the mail, not only involved the Hollywood company. Long. Wind. Literary figures, as well as some members of Congress and the families of the victims of 9/11!

9/11 is a permanent scar in the hearts of the North American public. In this case, News Corp. has been involved with definite evidence. The public's anger can be imagined. A large number of families of 9/11 victims have appealed to the federal government in the Disney media. The government thoroughly investigated this incident, and the Congress also held a special meeting for this!

If it is said that in the past to discredit Iran, Disney used 50% of its ability to guide public opinion, but now it has used 120% of its ability.

Over the past two months. Disney is really fed up with News Corp's wimps, and management will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity to counterattack.

In this incident, Disney's powerful online media played an extremely important role.

, Twitter, Facebook, Disney Ryan Home Online, and partners Yahoo and Google have almost completely guided the direction of public opinion in the United States.

After entering March, the Oscars ceremony to be held soon has not attracted much attention. What the public is most concerned about is the progress of News Corp’s "Eavesdropping Gate".

In the United Kingdom, the Scottish scenes put pressure on No. 10 Downing Street and the royal family's invisibility, showing an unprecedented level of efficiency.

The series of eavesdropping they announced aroused the anger of the British public.

Year 2003. "News of the World" was reported to have the possibility of wiretapping. Rebecca Brooks used 700,000 pounds to bribe the police to solve it secretly.

In 2005, the royal family’s phone call discussing Prince William’s knee injury was tapped by 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" in 2002 of eavesdropping on the voice mail of the missing girl Millie.

One day in March 2002, a 13-year-old girl from London, England, Millie disappeared on her way home from school. Six months later, a mushroom picker found Millie's body in the forest. The police finally confirmed that Millie was kidnapped and killed by a nightclub guard. But how long Millie lived after being kidnapped is still unclear.

During Millie's disappearance, "News of the World" hired a private investigator to eavesdrop on her mobile phone's voice mailbox. The detective also deleted some of the information in the voice mailbox. In order to set aside storage space for the mobile phone to receive new information, it is conducive to "more news reports."

This made Millie's parents mistakenly believed that their daughter was still alive, and to some extent, it also interfered with the police's investigation of the case.

This action aroused public outrage from all walks of life in Britain. Become 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 newspaper that has gone through 168 years. At the end of this week.

Affected by this, News Corporation’s stock price plummeted, and there was obviously someone short-selling News Corporation’s stock in the market. In just over a week, News Corporation lost nearly 10% of its market value, more than 5 billion U.S. dollars. Most of them fell into the pockets of more than a dozen foundations.

Another obvious thing is that someone united with the vampires on Wall Street and swiftly suppressed the stock of News Corp.

News Corporation, which was once infinitely beautiful, was completely plunged into wind and rain.

With the deepening of the investigation, more and more British and American celebrities have appeared on News Corp's eavesdropping list.

Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom and the FBI in the United States have successively released a list of 6,000 people who have been tapped.

Among them are British royal family members Eugenie and Princess Yorkby Atris, William and Prince Harry, actress Sienna Miller, British Minister of Culture, Media and Sports Tessa Jowell and his wife, and football star 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 Lincoln Park, the family members of the fallen American soldiers, and several unnamed congressmen and state senators.

On March 6, the FBI summoned a number of News Corp executives and arrested the editor-in-chief of the "New York Post" and several managers.

This is a land of extreme pursuit of freedom. News Corporation’s actions have 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 rotten egg treatment.

Those who are closely related to News Corporation are also following bad luck. Tony Blair is inevitably implicated in it. He has repeatedly suppressed News Corporation’s scandals, and there is even evidence that he has quite a lot of relations with News Corporation. Unspeakable secret.

Cameron has also become a victim of this incident. A large number of secret exchanges between him and News Corporation have been thrown into the media by his opponents. Now News Corporation is stinking, and those close to him will definitely get into countless troubles. Cameron, who had always had an advantage in the early part of the election, dropped sharply, and it is inevitable to lose the May election.

However, within a week or so, the negative news surrounding Disney and Ryan disappeared without a trace, and the public's attention was all attracted by the ‘eavesdropping door’, but they were ignored.

After paying an almost negligible fine of 5 million U.S. dollars, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Bureau concluded their antitrust investigation against Walt Disney.

Correspondingly, it is the FBI's investigation of News Corp executives, including Les Hinton, the most important assistant who has served Murdoch for 52 years!

In fact, Ryan knew very well that no matter what the final outcome of this incident was, he would not be able to cause substantial harm to Murdoch himself. Murdoch was completely different from Mel Gibson, and he did not expect to pass this incident. Able to send the other party to prison.

So, pulling out the tiger’s teeth and claws one by one is the best choice.

Moreover, this can also provoke News Corp.'s internal fighting, and News Corp. will no longer be comparable to Walt Disney's existence under external worries and internal troubles.

On March 7, the eighty-second Oscars ceremony was held, the main media reports were still on the "eavesdropping door," rather than the biggest annual event in Hollywood.

The reason is simple. In the morning local time in the UK, the Special Committee of the British Parliament released a preliminary investigation report on the News Corp telephone wiretapping series of scandals. This report severely accused Rupert Murdoch of turning a blind eye to the wiretapping within the group, and said it Not suitable for leading international media groups.

In this 85-page report, three conclusions aroused widespread concern.

First, the report stated that Murdoch was "pretending to be ignorant" about the "News of the World" reporter's telephone wiretapping incident and was not suitable for leading News Corporation. The entire incident showed that News Corporation had a huge failure in the company's corporate governance.

Second, the report criticized more than a dozen news corporation executives and pointed out that they have been covering up scandals and misleading investigations, seriously interfering in judicial justice!

Third, the British government and parliament are considering that if News Corporation still insists that this is a ‘small mistake’, it will force the Murdoch family to sell a series of media management rights such as Sky TV and The Times.

At the same time, including the Royal Law Firm and other law firms representing the royal family, it has also announced that it will file a lawsuit against News Corporation.

Subsequently, Murdoch changed his previous denial and published a full-page apology letter on the official website of News Corporation. We apologize for a series of serious wrongdoings. We apologize for the suffering suffered by the victim, and we regret it very much. Be able to take action early to solve the problem.

To further express his ‘regrets Murdoch personally called the home of the murdered girl Millie Doler to apologize.

By now, the media tycoon fully understood that the incident was completely beyond his control.

At 5 pm local time in Los Angeles, Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng appeared in front of the Kodak Theater, just in time for the end of the Oscar red carpet.

The couple was greeted by the anger of the public on both sides of the red carpet. From the moment they stepped onto the red carpet, the shouts of "shameful", "sordid", "disgusting" and "criminal" have not stopped.

Apart from other things, most Hollywood celebrities look at them with very unusual eyes. Perhaps these people dare not offend Murdoch, but they absolutely no longer have a good impression of News Corporation that may steal themselves in secret.

Rupert Murdoch can no longer take care of the others. The reason why he hurried to the Kodak Theater was to meet Ryan. (To be continued...)

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