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Is Rupert Murdoch’s take-over bid for BSkyB going to be resolved in the end by the judges? 2011 promises to be a prosperous one for at least one branch of the Bar, blogs Jon Snow.
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So here’s the dilemma for David Cameron : do you let it through, strengthen the Murdoch empire and take a political battering for being their poodle or do you block it, alienate the Sun and Times newspapers and make a mockery of your own words to date on media plurality tests in the hope that the electorate (vast numbers of which still buy Murdoch newspapers and watch Sky TV) will thank you for it?
David Cameron addresses a press conference in the wake of the decision to close the News of the World, telling journalists he would have accepted Rebekah Brooks’s resignation.
David Cameron says he would have accepted the resignation of News International’s Rebekah Brooks, and takes “full responsibility” for hiring Andy Coulson who has been arrested.
Officers investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal have searched the offices of another tabloid.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and his former royal editor Clive Goodman have been arrested on suspicion of corruption.
As it emerges that relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked, the Royal British Legion drops the the News of the World as its campaigning partner.
The News of the World is to close because of the phone hacking scandal as the private investigator at the heart of the crisis tells Channel 4 News hack victims were chosen “by committee”.
David Cameron calls for a public and independent inquiry into “disgusting” phone-hacking allegations as Rupert Murdoch backs former NOTW editor Rebekah Brooks.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gives News Corp more time to meet concerns over its bid to take over BSkyB, as MPs and the deal’s opponents tell Channel 4 News there are still questions to be answered.
The Prime Minister’s private dinner with News Corporation executives raises questions over his impartiality in the light of News Corp’s attempt to take over BSkyB, one MP tells Channel 4 News.
Is Rupert Murdoch’s take-over bid for BSkyB going to be resolved in the end by the judges? 2011 promises to be a prosperous one for at least one branch of the Bar, blogs Jon Snow.
Secret recordings by undercover newspaper reporters reveal a Liberal Democrat minister saying the Chancellor “get’s up one’s nose” – Channel 4 News looks at the cracks in the Coalition.
The business secretary Vince Cable has referred a proposed buyout of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to the media regulator Ofcom.
The Sun is insisting they are not running Jacqui Janes as part of a campaign and that the recording made of Gordon Brown’s phone call to the bereaved mother was done spontaneously by a friend – though No 10 will need some convincing.
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.