News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch received a startlingly strong rebuke Tuesday from a committee of British parliamentarians, who bluntly said the media magnate “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” It was the harshest fallout yet for Murdoch over a phone-hacking-and-police-corruption scandal that seems to get more dramatic by the week. But despite his increasingly plaintive displays of contrition, the octogenarian mogul shows no signs of stepping down from the company that he built from a single Australian paper over 50 years ago, which is now one of the most powerful media empires in the world.
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