Chapter 840： Derailed

The annual Oscar awards ceremony came to an end again. This past night of awards belonged to Natalie and her filming team. They swept through the Oscars awards like a storm, the best director and the best actress. The addition of the Little Golden Man also created a new Oscar legend.

However, even such a hot Oscar news cannot completely occupy the front page of the media. The constantly fermenting News Corp's "Eavesdropping Gate" has successively refreshed the public's perception of this media company.

When the new one came on Monday, the FBI released a latest investigation report on News Corp. It directly pointed out that News Corp was not only eavesdropping on the telephones of the families of the victims of 9/11, the families of American soldiers who died in action, and many members of Congress. It is also suspected of wiretapping the phone of the Olympic election team during the presidential election...

The incident gradually involved many high-ranking government officials, and the White House spokesperson even urged the FBI to conduct a more in-depth investigation as soon as possible during a regular press conference.

In this case, Ryan left Los Angeles.

He first went to Washington and visited Ohetan and several members of Congress in private.

Then flew to London, attended a reception banquet of the British royal family, and met Gordon Brown, the owner of No.10 Downing Street at the banquet.

Ryan is in action, and Murdoch is no exception. News Corp. has increased its crisis public relations efforts to save itself.

But what happened next made News Corp’s situation more difficult.

A week later, the main whistleblower of the "Eavesdropping Gate" incident, former “News of the World” executive Sean Hall, died at home. Scotland Yard again arrested James Murdoch and Rebecca Brooks, despite the police. This proved to be an accident, but under the inducement of many media, the public naturally linked the death to the killing.

At the same time, the FBI's investigation into Murdoch's right-hand man Les Hinton has never stopped, facing various pressures. Les Hinton was forced to announce his resignation and completely withdraw from News Corporation.

Murdoch lost the most important piece in the control of News Corp.

At this moment, it seems that, except for News Corp’s own media, everyone in the world is standing on the opposite side of Rupert Murdoch.

Walt Disney is definitely the leader of this public opinion movement, and Universal, Viacom, Time Warner, Hearst Group, etc. have also followed suit.

When the time entered the second half of March, News Corp. had already been precarious, and its stock had fallen 28% compared to February.

The British Parliament also held the first hearing on the ‘Wiretapping Door’ incident. Murdoch and Wendi Deng were present in person to receive questions. At the end of the questioning, an accident happened.

During the live broadcast, a man wearing a checked shirt and sitting in the back row of the auditorium suddenly stood up, walked quickly to the witness stand, and smashed Murdoch with a paper plate full of shaving foam in his hand. go with.

The others were stunned. No one realized that the attacker should be stopped, and perhaps no one really wanted to stop. Murdoch seemed to froze in his seat, and the police did not respond immediately.

Wendi Deng jumped up from the chair like lightning. Flying forward, his right arm drew an arc in the air, and his right palm slapped the attacker's face severely...

The old couple and young wife are on live TV in front of the audience in the entire Western world. There was a ‘Love Show’.

After the hearing accident happened, a large number of reports about Wendi Deng flying as a guardian soon appeared in some media. Some people said that Wendi Deng showed extraordinary courage and should be awarded the title of "Wife of the Year"; The slow response of the police in the court pales in comparison"; there is also the "Guardian" under News Corporation. Said that she demonstrated the meaning of a model couple at the hearing.

Through television, the Murdoch watch attacked scenes were presented to the public, which effectively alleviated the anger of the government and the public over the eavesdropping incident. The situation faced by Murdoch and News Corporation has been improved to a certain extent. Some well-known public relations people even believe that News Corporation’s recent hiring of a well-known American public relations firm to improve its corporate image is not as effective as Deng Wendi’s slap.

"A very beautiful crisis PR!"

This is Ryan’s first reaction after seeing the live broadcast. This kind of scene is okay to deceive the public. In the eyes of the industry, it is just a public relations show. Murdoch easily won a lot of sympathy points with this behavior. News Corp. also praised him and Wendi Deng as model couples.

"Model couple? Show affection?"

After reading the latest report, Ryan called George and asked him to send someone to inform Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, that it was ready to start.

He never finishes playing cards at once. Rodriguez has collected a lot of interesting things. Isn't it very interesting to release them after the Murdoch couple show their affection?

Two days later, the latest issue of Vanity Fair published the ‘collected’ diary of Wendi Deng, unreservedly revealing Wendi’s admiration for Blair.

Wendi Deng wrote several'fluffy love letters' in his diary in poor English, "Oh, damn, oh, damn... Why do I miss Tony so much, he is so charming and well-dressed. He has great He has very long legs and great buttocks. Not only that, but he is thin and tall and has good skin. I love his blue eyes and his style on stage..."

In addition, "Vanity Fair" also published several photos.

In the photo, Blair and Wendi Deng fed each other for dinner at Murdoch’s California farm. The servants of the farm revealed that they saw Blair enter Wendi Deng’s room with their own eyes and closed the door. He was in her at least three times. Overnight in the bedroom.

This news was quickly reposted by major websites, newspapers, and radio and television stations. In less than half a day, it spread all over the world, and the whole world was in an uproar...

The incident of Ryan's illegitimate daughter some time ago was simply not enough to look at in the face of the triangle relationship between Blair, Wendi Deng and Murdoch.

Then a newspaper pointed out that Wendi Deng and Murdoch's love is nothing more than a show, and that the attack was nothing more than a PR behavior by News Corp. The whole world was deceived by them.

If there were people who doubted whether this was slander before, but after News Corporation’s various lies-filled behaviors were exposed, the public no longer believed in News Corporation’s media at all.

Although all three of the parties strongly denied it, a few days after the derailment was fermented, Tony Blair was forced to resign from all positions in the Labor Party, and the New York newspapers also broke the latest news. Murdoch was so angry that Notify the lawyer to handle the divorce with Wendi Deng as soon as possible.

After confirming the fact that Murdoch was about to divorce Deng Wendi, George personally flew to New York and met with Deng Wendi secretly.

The enemy's enemy is his friend, and Ryan believes that this sentence still makes sense.

According to the prenuptial agreement, Wendi Deng and Murdoch divorced normally, and he received a maximum of about 30 million US dollars in property. For the previous Wendi Deng, this is already an astronomical figure, but Wendi Deng went from studying abroad to climbing Murdoch. Mrs. K's position, how much thought has been spent, this property is far from satisfying her.

Under normal circumstances, even if she has an idea, it is difficult to realize it.

But now it's different. Murdoch is facing a dilemma. News Corp. is almost forced to collapse by opponents. If she doesn't even know how to use this, then she is not Wendi Deng.

Sure enough, shortly after the meeting with George, Wendi Deng’s lawyer held a press conference to confirm the fact that she and Murdoch were about to divorce, and at the same time made many requests for the division of property, and will be sued by law.

Even if Murdoch holds a prenuptial agreement, this kind of divorce involving property and other relationships is bound to become a protracted divorce battle, and the intensity will not be less than that of Murdoch and the same prenuptial agreement. The divorce battle of the ex-wife.

More serious than the divorce is that as a pillow, Wendi Deng has mastered many of News Corporation's secrets. Compared with the division of property, this is the real killer.

Surrounded by powerful external enemies, the backyard has caught fire. This is the situation of Rupert Murdoch.

The attack is not over. The British side refused to release James Murdoch and Rebecca Brooks on bail on the premise that they have a lot of evidence, and officially announced that they have entered the prosecution process...

At this moment, Murdoch can only adopt tail docking tactics, his son James Murdoch and goddaughter Rebecca Brooks have resigned from all positions in News Corporation.

At this point, Murdoch used to control the three important chess pieces of News Corporation, all of which were knocked out.

In New York, sitting in a new 10,000-square-foot Manhattan apartment that was purchased at a high price of US$57.25 million at the beginning of this year, Murdoch has long lost his former look. His face is decadent, his bags under his eyes are drooping, and his eyes are gray like a Ordinary old people who are about to die.

His eyes slowly swept across the luxurious hall, which was specially purchased at the beginning of the year to celebrate the upcoming victory of Lucasfilm, but now it has become a joke.

The famous paintings hanging in the hall, the carpets on the floor, the Italian lighting hanging from the ceiling, and the silver coffee pot in front of...

In short All of this, in Murdoch's eyes, suddenly has a big mouth, and they are laughing at him mercilessly!

Laughing at his irresponsibility! Laugh at his ecstasy! Laugh at his failure! Laughing at him for becoming a sad derailed person!

Murdoch was as cold as falling into an ice cave. The empire he built in 50 years was forced to the brink of collapse by a young man who was just 30 years old.

Yes, News Corporation still has power, News Corporation can survive, and even bite Disney before it collapses...

The question is, is it worth it?

Even if News Corp can bite Disney fiercely, Disney will be able to return to normal within a few years, but News Corp will fall into hell.

He can't watch his empire collapse! Murdoch finally made up his final determination. (To be continued...)

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