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The best way for Rupert Murdoch to leave

There is no doubt which Murdoch family member emerged best from the phone-hacking hearing before a UK House of Commons select committee this week. Leaping across the room to land a loud slap on the idiotic foam-pie protester who had assailed her 80-year-old husband, Wendi Murdoch was fearsome.

Both Wendi and James Murdoch spent most of the hearing looking worried about Rupert Murdoch, as if they had to protect the chairman and chief executive of News Corp from saying the wrong thing. James kept trying to deflect the questions from his father and, when the need came to defend him physically, the mogul’s wife was poised for action.

It was painfully clear that Mr Murdoch, despite his achievements and the fear he used to strike into politicians and business competitors, is a diminished force. As Thomas Perkins, a 79-year-old director of News Corp, admitted frankly this week: “I know he’s devastated by this. Just devastated. And I worry about him, you know, physically, being about the same age.”

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約翰•加普

約翰·加普(John Gapper)是英國《金融時報》副主編、首席產業評論員。他的專欄每週四會出現在英國《金融時報》的評論版。加普從1987年開始就在英國《金融時報》工作,報導勞資關係、銀行和媒體。他曾經寫過一本書,叫做《閃閃發亮的騙局》(All That Glitters),講的是霸菱銀行1995年倒閉的內幕。

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