Chapter 837: Tapping the Door
Rupert? Murdoch started out in Australia, and News Corp. has its base in the United Kingdom and the United States, and if he wants to shake their roots, Britain is one side and North America is more important.
On the afternoon of the same day, the Los Angeles branch of the FBI and the Los Angeles County Police Department conducted a joint operation to arrest the famous 'Hollywood Eye' Anthony? Armed with search warrants, Pelicano searched his homes in Burbank, West Hollywood, and Orange County, and found more than $2 million in cash, as well as some weapons and thousands of hours of wiretapping.
In particular, while investigating Pelicano's e-mails, the police uncovered a large number of correspondence with the New York Post, which involved numerous wiretaps and scandals.
Subsequently, the police held a press conference and presented some evidence of Pelicano's wiretapping, although the specific Hollywood stars who had been wiretapped were not announced, but everyone in Hollywood was suddenly in danger.
Among the released part of the evidence, the spearhead is directly pointed at the New York Post, a subsidiary of News Corporation, and the wiretapping scandal, which was hyped up by Disney and other media, quickly spread to the world.
Lenovo's tapping in the UK today is not difficult for the public to imagine, and wiretapping is almost a common phenomenon for News Corp.
Just one day later, the FBI announced that it had taken over the Pelicano case, because his emails with the New York Post involved not only Hollywood public figures, but also some members of Congress and the families of 911 victims!
911 is an eternal scar in the hearts of the North American public, and now that News Corp is involved with solid evidence, the public outrage can be imagined, and a large number of families of 911 victims have called on Disney media to investigate the incident thoroughly, and Congress has held a special session for this purpose!
If it was said that in the past, Disney used 50 percent of its ability to guide public opinion, and now it has 120 percent of its ability.
For the past two months. Disney is really fed up with News Corp's wretchedness, and the management will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity to fight back.
In this incident, Disney's powerful online media played an extremely important role.
YOUTUBE, TWITTER, FACEBOOK, DISNEY-RYAN FAMILY ONLINE, AND PARTNERS YAHOO AND GOOGLE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETELY STEERED THE DIRECTION OF PUBLIC OPINION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
In March, not much attention has been paid to the upcoming Oscars, and the public's biggest concern is the progress of News Corp's 'buggate'.
In the UK, Scotland Yard has shown unprecedented efficiency in the face of pressure from 10 Downing Street and the royal family's stealth.
The series of wiretaps they announced provoked the outrage of the British public.
In 2003. The News of the World was reported for eavesdropping, Rebecca? Brooks bribed the police with £700,000 to settle it secretly.
In 2005, the royal family's phone to discuss Prince William's knee injury was tapped by the News of the World.
In 2008, James? Murdoch spent £1.2 million to once again suppress the wiretapping case.
On March 4, British media revealed the 2002 scandal of the News of the World bugging on the voicemail of the missing girl, Millie.
One day in March 2002, Millie, 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, and the police eventually confirmed that Millie had been kidnapped and killed by a nightclub doorman. But it's unclear how long Millie lived after her kidnapping.
During Millie's disappearance, the News of the World hired a private investigator to tap her phone's voicemail, and the detective deleted some of the messages in her voicemail. to free up storage space on your phone to receive new information, which is conducive to "more news stories".
This made Millie's parents mistakenly believe that their daughter was still alive, and in a certain way, it also interfered with the police's investigation of the case.
This move aroused public indignation from all walks of life in Britain. It became the "last straw" that overwhelmed the News of the World.
In an effort to quell popular anger, Murdoch had to announce the closure of the News of the World, a tabloid newspaper that had been in place for 168 years. At the end of the week.
As a result, News Corp.'s stock price plummeted, and it was obvious that someone was shorting News Corp.'s shares, and in just over a week, News Corp. evaporated nearly 10 percent of its market value, and most of the more than $5 billion fell into the pockets of more than a dozen foundations.
Another obvious thing is that someone has joined forces with the vampires of Wall Street to quickly suppress News Corp's stock.
News Corp., once a glorious company, has completely fallen into the storm.
As the investigation deepened, more and more British and American celebrities appeared on News Corp's eavesdropping list.
Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom and the FBI in the United States have published a list of 6,000 people who have been wiretapped.
Among them are members of the British royal family, Eugenie and Yorkby? Princess Beatrice, Prince William and Harry, actress Sienna? Miller, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa? Mr. and Mrs. Jowells, soccer star Ryan? Giggs and Paul? Scholes and so on.
On the U.S. side, the victims included the well-known actor Brad? Pete and Angelina? Julie, the famous band Lincoln Park, the families of the fallen U.S. soldiers, and several unnamed members of Congress and state senators, among others.
On March 6, the FBI subpoenaed News Corp. executives and arrested the editor-in-chief of The New York Post and several executives.
This is a land of extreme freedom, and News Corp's actions have violated the bottom line of the British and American public, and since the day the incident broke out, more and more people have gathered in front of News Corp.'s headquarters in New York to protest, and many News Corp. executives have been treated as rotten eggs.
Those who are close to News Corp. are also following the bad luck, Tony? Thony Blair was inevitably implicated, having repeatedly suppressed News Corp scandals, and there is even evidence that he had quite a few ulterior secrets with News Corp.
Cameron also fell victim to this incident, and a large number of secret dealings between him and News Corp. were thrown into the media by his campaign opponents, and now that News Corp. has become stinky, those who are involved in it will definitely get into countless troubles, and Cameron, who has always had an advantage in the early stage of the election, has seen his approval rating drop sharply, and it is inevitable that he will lose the election in May.
However, for more than a week, the negative news surrounding Disney and Ryan disappeared without a trace, and the public's attention was all attracted by 'Buggate', and they were ignored.
And after paying a negligible $5 million fine, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Bureau ended their antitrust investigation into Walt Disney.
In contrast, the FBI's investigation into News Corp.'s executives, including Rice, Murdoch's most important aide for 52 years, was the case. Hinton!
In fact, Ryan knows very well that no matter what the final outcome of this matter is, he will not be able to cause substantial harm to Murdoch himself. Gibson was completely different, and he didn't expect to send the other party to prison through this incident.
Then, pulling out the tiger's teeth and claws one by one is the best option.
Moreover, this can also provoke the internal strife of the News Corporation, and the News Corporation, which is suffering from external and internal troubles, will no longer be comparable to Walt Disney.
By March 7, the day of the 82nd Academy Awards, the main media coverage was still on 'Eavesdropping', rather than Hollywood's biggest event of the year.
The reason is simple, on the morning of local time in the UK, a special committee of the British Parliament released a preliminary investigation report into the series of scandals involving news corp telephone tapping. Murdoch turned a blind eye to wiretapping within the group and said he was unfit to lead an international media conglomerate.
In the 85-page report, there are three conclusions that have raised eyebrows.
For one, the report said that Murdoch was "pretending to be ignorant" about a series of phone taps by News of the World reporters and that he was not fit to lead News Corp.
Second, the report slammed more than a dozen News Corp. executives, pointing out that they have been covering up scandals and misleading investigations, and seriously interfering with judicial fairness.
Third, the UK government and parliament are considering forcing the Murdoch family to sell a range of media outlets, including Sky and The Times, if News Corp continues to insist that this is a 'small mistake'.
At the same time, the Royal Law Firm, which represents the royal family, and other legal firms have also announced that they will file a lawsuit against News Corp.
Subsequently, Murdoch reversed his previous denial and published a full-page apology on News Corp.'s official website – we apologize for a series of egregious wrongdoings, we apologize for the suffering suffered by the victims, and we regret that we failed to take action to resolve the issue sooner.
In order to further show his 'remorse', Murdoch also personally gave the eavesdropped girl Millie? Dowler's home called to apologize.
Now, the media mogul understands that the incident is completely out of his control.
And by five p.m. local time in Los Angeles, Rupert ? Murdoch and Wendi Deng appeared in front of the Kodak Theater again, just in time for the Oscars red carpet.
The couple was greeted by public anger on both sides of the red carpet, and from the moment they walked on the red carpet, shouts such as "shameful", "despicable", "disgusting" and "criminal" never stopped.
Not to mention anything else, the vast majority of Hollywood celebrities look at them very abnormally, perhaps these people dare not offend Murdoch, but they definitely no longer have a good impression of News Corp, which may steal their privacy.
Rupert? Murdoch didn't care about anything else now, and the reason why he hurried to the Kodak Theater was to see Ryan. (To be continued......)