{"id":185382,"date":"2011-07-14T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/14\/not-a-good-day-for-murdoch\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:01:00","slug":"not-a-good-day-for-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/14\/not-a-good-day-for-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Good Day for Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"292\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n1aZcsY-O8Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n1aZcsY-O8Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Bit of Fry and Laurie have Murdoch pegged<\/span><\/div>\n<p>First, he and his son try to blow off a summons to testify before Parliament, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jul\/14\/phone-hacking-murdoch-parliament-summons\">only to back down when threatened with jail time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A threat of imprisonment by parliament forced Rupert Murdoch and his son James to perform a volte face and agree to give evidence next week to a Commons committee investigating why News International executives provided false information to MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the parliamentary authorities delivered a summons by hand to the two Murdochs, News International announced that father and son would accept an invitation to appear before the Commons culture select committee next Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-examining-alleged-news-corp-phone-hacking\/2011\/07\/14\/gIQA807ZEI_story.html\">FBI has initiated an investigation<\/a> of potential violations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act\">Foreign Corrupt Practices Act<\/a> as possibly hacking the phones of 911 victim&#8217;s families.<\/p>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t be happening to a more deserving group of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bit of Fry and Laurie have Murdoch pegged First, he and his son try to blow off a summons to testify before Parliament, only to back down when threatened with jail time: A threat of imprisonment by parliament forced Rupert Murdoch and his son James to perform a volte face and agree to give &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1064,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-media","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}