The British Parliament has published its final report on the phone-hacking scandal at News Corp., a blistering critique that calls media mogul Rupert Murdoch “not a fit person” to lead the $33 billion conglomerate.
The report singled out numerous employees of News International, the European newspaper wing of News Corp., and said they lied to a House of Commons committee investigating the hacking scandal as far back as 2009. Neither Murdoch nor his son, James, were among that group, but the report went on to say: “Corporately, News International misled the committee about the true nature and extent of the internal investigations [it] professed to have carried out… Their instinct throughout, until it was too late, was to cover up rather than seek out wrongdoing and discipline the perpetrators.”
