Rupert Murdoch started in Australia, with News Corp.'s base spanning both Britain and the United States. If they want to shake their roots, Britain is on one hand, and North America is on the other hand.

On the same afternoon, the FBI's Los Angeles Branch and the Los Angeles County Police Department jointly arrested the famous "Eye of Hollywood" Anthony Pelicano. They held a search warrant and searched Pelicano's houses in Burbank, West Hollywood and Orange County respectively, and found more than two million dollars in cash, as well as some weapons and thousands of hours of eavesdropping records.

In particular, when investigating Pelicano's emails, the police found a large number of letters dealing with the New York Post, involving a large number of eavesdropping and scandals.

Subsequently, the police held a press conference to present some evidence of Pelicano's eavesdropping. Although they did not disclose which Hollywood stars had been eavesdropped on, Hollywood was immediately in danger.

Among the released evidence, the New York Post, a subsidiary of News Corp., was directly targeted by News Corp. The eavesdropping scandal, which was hyped by Disney and other media, quickly spread all over the world.

Lenovo's eavesdropping gates that are happening in the UK are not difficult for the public to imagine that eavesdropping is almost a common phenomenon for News Corp.

Just one day later, the FBI announced that he would take over the Pelicano case because the emails he had with the New York Post involved not only the Hollywood public... literary figures, but also some members of Congress and the families of the victims of the 9/11 incident!

911 is an eternal scar in the hearts of the North American public. In this case, News Corp is involved with definite evidence. The public anger can be imagined. A large number of families of 911 victims have called on the federal government to thoroughly investigate the incident in Disney media, and Congress also held a special meeting for this!

If you talk about smearing Iran in the past, Disney has shown 50% of its ability to guide public opinion, but now it has shown 120% of its ability to do so.

In the past two months, Disney has been fed up with News Corporation's cowardice, and the management will definitely not miss such a good opportunity to fight back.

In this incident, Disney's powerful online media played an extremely important role.

Tube, Twitter, Facebook, Disney Ryan Family Online, as well as partners Yahoo and Google, have almost completely guided the direction of public opinion across the United States.

After March, few people are paying attention to the Oscars that will be held soon. What the public is most concerned about is the progress of News Corporation's "eavesdropping gate".

In the UK, Scotland Yard faced the pressure of No. 10 Downing Street and the invisible royal family, showing unprecedented efficiency.

The series of wiretaps they announced aroused anger from the British public.

In 2003, the news of World News was reported to have a possibility of eavesdropping, and Rebecca Brooks used 700,000 pounds to bribe the police to solve the problem secretly.

In 2005, the royal family's phone call to discuss Prince William's knee injury was eavesdropped on the News of the World.

In 2008, James Murdoch once again suppressed the eavesdropping case for £1.2 million.

On March 4, British media disclosed the scandal of the World News eavesdropping on the phone voicemail of the missing girl Millie in 2002.

One day in March 2002, a 13-year-old girl from London, England, disappeared on her way home from school. Six months later, mushroom pickers found Millie's body in the forest. The police finally confirmed that Millie was kidnapped and killed by a nightclub guard. But it is still unclear how long Millie lived after being kidnapped.

During Millie's disappearance, News of the World hired a private detective to eavesdrop on her mobile phone's voicemail. The detective also deleted some of the information in the voicemail to leave space for the mobile phone to receive new information, which is conducive to "more news reports."

This made Millie's parents mistakenly think that their daughter is still alive, and to some extent, it also interfered with the police's investigation of the case.

This move aroused public outrage from all walks of life in the UK and became the "last straw" that overwhelmed the World News.

In order to calm the anger of the people, Murdoch had to announce the closure of the News of the World, a tabloid that had lasted for 168 years. He died this week.

Affected by this, News Corp's stock price plummeted, and there were obviously people in the market who were shorting News Corp's stock. In just over a week, News Corp's market value evaporated by nearly 10% and most of the more than 5 billion US dollars fell into the pockets of more than a dozen foundations.

Another obvious thing is that someone united the vampires on Wall Street who changed their minds and quickly suppressed News Corp's stock.

The once glorious News Corporation has completely fallen into storms.

As the investigation deepens, more and more British and American celebrities appear on News Corp's eavesdropping list.

The British Scotland Yard and the US FBI have successively released a list of eavesdropped persons with a total of up to 6,000 people.

These include British royals, Eugenie and Princess Yorkbee Atrice, William and Prince Harry, actress Sienna Miller, British Culture, Media and Sports Ministers, Mr. and Mrs. Tessa Jowell, football stars Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, and so on.

In the United States, the victims include well-known actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the famous band Lincoln Park, the families of the fallen US soldiers, as well as several members of Congress and state senators who did not indicate their names, etc.

On March 6, the FBI summoned several News Corp executives and arrested the editor-in-chief of the New York Post and several administrators.

This is a land that pursues freedom in extreme pursuing freedom. News Corp's behavior has seriously violated the bottom line of the British and American public. Since the day the incident broke out, more and more people have gathered in front of the News Corp's headquarters in New York to protest, and many News Corp's executives have enjoyed rotten egg treatment.

Those who have close ties to News Corp are also in trouble. Tony Blair is inevitably involved. He has suppressed the News Corp scandal many times, and there is even evidence that there are quite a lot of ulterior motives between him and News Corp.

Cameron has also become a victim of this incident. A large number of secret exchanges between him and News Corp were thrown into the media by his opponents. News Corp is now terrible, and those involved will definitely cause countless troubles. Cameron, who had always had an advantage in the early stages of the election, dropped sharply, and it is inevitable that he would lose the May election.

However, for more than a week, the negative news surrounding Disney and Ryan disappeared without a trace, and the public's attention was attracted by the "eavesdropping gate", and no one cared about them.

And after paying an almost negligible $5 million fine, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Bureau ended an antitrust investigation into Walt Disney.

Correspondingly, the FBI's investigation into News Corp executives, including Les Hinton, the most important assistant who has served Murdoch for 52 years!

In fact, Ryan knew very well that no matter what the final result of this incident, he could not cause substantial harm to Murdoch himself. Murdoch and Mel Gibson were completely different, and he did not expect to send the other party to prison through this incident.

Then, pulling out tiger teeth and claws one by one is the best choice.

Moreover, this can provoke internal strife among News Corporation, and News Corporation, which is under external and internal troubles, will no longer be comparable to Walt Disney.

On March 7, the 82nd Academy Awards Ceremony was held, and the main media coverage was still on the 'eavesdropping gate', rather than Hollywood's largest annual event.

The reason is simple. On the morning of the UK local time, the Special Committee of the British Parliament released a preliminary investigation report on the series of scandals in the News Corp. This report severely accused Rupert Murdoch of turning a blind eye to the group's internal eavesdropping behavior and saying it was not suitable to lead the international media group.

In this 85-page report, three conclusions have attracted widespread attention.

First, the report said that Murdoch was "pretitiously ignorant" about the series of telephone eavesdropping incidents of "News World" reporters, and was not suitable for leading News Corp. The entire incident showed that News Corp had a huge failure in the company's corporate governance.

Second, the report criticized more than a dozen News Corp executives and pointed out that they have been covering up scandals and misleading investigations, and seriously interfering in judicial justice!

Third, the British government and parliament are considering that if News Corp still insists that this is a "small mistake", it will force the Murdoch family to sell a series of media rights such as Sky TV and The Times.

At the same time, royal law firms, including royal family representing the royal family, and other lawyers have also announced that they will file lawsuits against News Corporation.

Then, Murdoch changed his previous denial and posted a full-page apology letter on the official website of News Corporation. We apologize for a series of serious wrongdoings, we deeply apologize for the pain suffered by the victims, and we regret not being able to take action early to resolve the problem.

To further express his "repentance", Murdoch also personally called the home of the murdered girl Millie Doller who was eavesdropped to apologize.

At this point, the media tycoon completely understood that the incident was completely beyond his control.

At 5 p.m. local time in Los Angeles, Rupert Murdoch and Wendy Deng appeared in front of the Kodak Theater, just in time to catch the end of the Oscar red carpet.

What greeted the couple was the anger of the public on both sides of the red carpet. From the moment they walked on the red carpet, shouts such as "shameful", "despicable", "disgusting" and "criminals" never stopped.

Not to mention other things, most Hollywood celebrities look at them with unusual eyes. Perhaps these people dare not offend Murdoch, but they will never have a good impression of News Corp, which may steal their own secretly.

Rupert Murdoch no longer cared about anything else. The reason why he rushed to the Kodak Theater was to meet Ryan. (To be continued...)

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