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I don\u2019t know the first thing about News Corp executive Rebekah Brooks, but, after watching her palling around with Rupert Murdoch over the last week or so, she was really starting to creep me out (along with much of the Western world, I would guess). It\u2019s probably a good thing she resigned today, according to this\u00a0report\u00a0at Reuters.<\/p>\n

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\nRebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International on Friday, yielding to political and investor pressure over a phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch\u2019s media empire on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old Brooks,\u00a0a former editor of the scandal-hit News of the World and of flagship daily tabloid The Sun, was a close confidante of Murdoch,\u00a0<\/strong>who described her as his first priority when he flew in to London this week to manage the crisis at News Corp\u2019s British newspaper unit.<\/p>\n

In her place, he named a trusted News Corp veteran, New Zealander Tom Mockridge, who has spent the past eight years running the group\u2019s Sky Italia television interests in Italy.<\/p>\n

The public disgust that erupted over reports that the News of the World\u00a0may have hacked into the voicemails of murder victims and other vulnerable people<\/strong>\u00a0prompted Murdoch to shut down the paper and pull a $12-billion bid to buy the 61 percent of British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB he does not own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that photo doesn\u2019t send a chill down your spine when contemplating what the media has become, it should\u2026 She would probably bite my head off for writing this if she could\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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