Murdoch Drops TV Takeover - Abandoned BSkyB Bid Is Latest Fallout of Hacking Scandal

That was after the British parliament united in its call for him to drop the takeover bid.

News Corp’s got to fight a rearguard action to keep the mess from spreading, but because so many within the organization have switched jobs within the company - going from one of the British papers to a US outlet, or vice versa (including those at the heart of the scandal in the UK), trying to contain this is like a wildfire that is splitting out in hundreds of different directions at once and can’t be controlled.