News Corporation has criticised a key conclusion of a parliamentary committee's report into phone-hacking as "unjustified and highly partisan". Six members of the Commons media committee said that Rupert Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run a major international business but four others disagreed as it split on party lines.
In response, News Corp admitted it was "too slow" to respond to the crisis.
But it insisted it had "acted on" the failings identified in the MPs report.
The report concluded that Mr Murdoch exhibited "wilful blindness" to what was going on at News Corporation, whose UK newspaper arm has admitted widespread malpractice... read more