that paper may not be on your news stand, but it is a best seller in the u. k. with almost 3 million subscribesers. the decision to close it comes after revelations the paper hacked into cell phone voice mails celebrities, royalty, and a teen-age murder victim. pressure has been building with big advertisers like ford and virgin pulling their business. and even the british prime minister calling for an

that paper may not be on your news stand, but it is a best seller in the u. k. with almost 3 million subscribesers. the decision to close it comes after revelations the paper hacked into cell phone voice mails celebrities, royalty, and a teen-age murder victim. pressure has been building with big advertisers like ford and virgin pulling their business. and even the british prime minister calling for an investigation. paul la monica is author of inside rupert's brain, he joins us from new york. so, paul, murdock has never been known to back down from controversy. why do you think he did it this time? >> i think it's a calculated gamble that he needs to take, because news corp. is also at the same time trying to convince the british government that it should be allowed to buy the rest of the cable distributor there. it's something that he's been craving for a while. they own a minority stake in it right now, and i think he probably realizes that the last thing that his company needs is a scandal of this magnitude when you're trying to get favor with the government

as the latest from the u k. there's been a huge amount of media hype here in the u.k. if you can imagine a nation sitting around glued to its t.v. screens into its radio. as the top executives from from news corp and prime minister david cameron have all been paraded before m.p.'s and had to answer some very tough questions a lot of media surrounding that but now and i should abs that this is just reports coming from the media that alexander lebedev hasn't confirmed this himself but it looks like he may be interested in becoming the hero of the piece essentially picking up the news of the world and releasing it under a new name which media reports are saying that he might call it world's news instead of news of the world he would just tell you a little bit about leverage if he is estimated by forbes magazine to have a fortune of two point one billion dollars and of course he shares in aeroflot he also owns a newspaper in russian over. king and construction media. all that kind of thing but he has been a controversial figure in the u.k. as you mentioned he's a former k.

talk peter lavelle and gas discuss the repercussions of the phone hacking scandal that's gripping the u k . and you can. see. a low in welcome to cross talk on people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. can . the cross-talk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out a

for him but could this be the story that finally really does bring his empire down at least in the u k. well in the u.k. it's possible yes i mean things people react things differently there we've just seen a number of you know uprisings across the middle east and in through europe things are just different elsewhere whether or not that spreads to the united states and the united states empire that's a long shot and if there's one thing that you feel like rupert murdoch special who specializes in it's surviving in a person he you know money shelters you it builds a terrific wall between you and accountability murdoch has built his life on magnify expect that he'll be trying to rely on that. but what about i mean there are reports from the daily mirror today which so far nobody has confirmed they're from an anonymous source that. the reporters who work for rupert murdoch in fact actually tried to pay off police to hack into the phones in the contract and big i'm not an eleven that's something that you would think would really talk on the heartstrings of americans yeah that's going to be

humble public servant know how you feel feel free to send him an email or give him a ring crawl koski k r u l k o w s k i see i've got oak park that m.r.i.'s are going to get on the screen or you can call him at two four eight six nine one seven four five zero and i suppose with unemployment as high as it is today there are lots of americans that have time to engage in such accountability for government we can only hope at least some of our audience wants to get involved in this and joining me now to talk about obama's speech today the jobs joblessness unemployment what they're calling it a job market now but if only they really meant that situation here in the united states is none other than don herold investment adviser and host of the day trade show me a trade show dot com i want to get that you are all right for you there don don thank you so much for being with us tonight and it's a beer and i'm all right so they condiments expected ninety thousand we're going to have we're going to have payrolls go up by ninety thousand jobs over this last reporting period instead we saw them rise no

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. >> plus, several u-haul trucks torched in mountain view. arson detection ke scene right now. >> good morning, it's wednesday, july 20. we'll get to those stories in just a minute. i'm grace lee. frank has the morning off. >> i'm elizabeth wenger. time now is almost 5:00. let's start with a quick look at traffic and weather. >>> going to be another gorgeous day even hotter today than yesterday. sunshine across the board. temperatures breaking into the mid-90s inland. we'll tell you how long that will last in a bit but over to gianna now with a look at traffic. >> roadwork causing some delays along 101 in marin county. i'll tell you what that means for your morning commute coming up in just a few minutes. right now back to the news desk. >>> we have a developing story. overnight fire that stored eight u-hauls has happened in mountain view around 9 a.m. we don't have any reports of

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