Well this is getting interesting.
The phone hacking scandal in the UK may be on the brink of causing Rupert Murdoch some real problems, especially pertaining to his attempts to acquire the BSkyB business.
It seems that the businessman, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, may be distinctly unchuffed about the growing phone hacking scandal, Glenn Beck's scaremongering and the full page advertisement that 400 leading Rabbis took out in the Wall Street Journal decrying the way that Fox News talking heads use Nazi slurs against people.
Link to a very good overview of what is going on to date with this story.....
Phone-hacking scandal hits Murdoch business as investors grow restless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
The prince cannot have liked what he saw. What had started out as a very British row over phone hacking by reporters working on Murdoch's News of the World had become infectious and was in danger of going global.
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Meanwhile, back across the Atlantic, it emerged that News Corp was facing another problem. Last week 400 rabbis from all the main branches of Judaism in the US bought a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, calling on Murdoch to take sanctions against News Corp's Fox News subsidiary. The rabbis were incensed at the way that Fox commentators regularly referred to those with whom they disagreed as "Nazis".
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Coming at a time when News Corp wants regulatory approval to take over British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, both the phone-hacking scandal and the row with the rabbis are damaging not only to the company's reputation but its bottom line.
Gosh, there are so many fascinating paragraphs that I urge you to read the full article. I doubt I've even picked the most interesting ones, not being a proper writer.
Just as a little taster of English humour, here is a link to this weeks satirical programme, The News Quiz, on BBC Radio 4. Listen from 1 minute to 5 minutes for the relevant item.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...