Guardian UK: Will the last person to leave News Corporation turn off the lights?

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp
Every time Murdoch ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him, writes Matt Wells

Matt Wells
guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 July 2011


No relationship is safe, no loyal bond strong enough for Rupert Murdoch who – looking more than the sum of his 80 years – is mounting a final battle to save the company he built from nothing.

His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

The problem for Murdoch is that every time he ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/les-hinton-news-corp

I'd place good odds on that he is never touched. The powerful and wealthy always get away with shit that would damn the rest of humanity to a couple of lifetimes in the slammer.

That would make it all worthwhile.