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UK report says Murdoch's News Corp showed willful blindness on hacking

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp showed "willful blindness" about the scale of phone-hacking at its News of the World tabloid, for which Murdoch and his son James should take responsibility, according to a much anticipated British par

(Reuters) LONDON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp showed "willful blindness' about the scale of phone-hacking at its News of the World tabloid, for which Murdoch and his son James should take responsibility, a British parliamentary report said on Tuesday.

The long-awaited report by a committee of lawmakers said Rupert Murdoch was not fit to run a major international company, which had shown "huge failings' of corporate governance, and it raised questions about James Murdoch's competence.

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This Happened—November 30: WTO Seattle Give Birth To "No Global"

Updated Nov. 30, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.

The sometimes violent protests against the 1999 World Trade Organization summit in Seattle is considered the birth of the No Global movement, which sought to bring attention to the harmful effects of globalization, especially on the most vulnerable.

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