{"id":25024,"date":"2011-11-08T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=25024"},"modified":"2011-11-08T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T23:04:44","slug":"news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-could-include-james-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/11\/08\/news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-could-include-james-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal Could Include James Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?va_id=3003054&#038;windows=1&#038;show_title=0&#038;pf_id=\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>British Parliament is now investigating whether News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) executives, and perhaps James Murdoch himself, used unscrupulous tactics in pursuit of news scoops at the company\u2019s now-defunct London tabloid &#8220;News of the World&#8221;. The phone hacking scandal may derail CEO Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s wish to have James succeed him. The Guardian is also reporting this morning that News of the World hired a private investigator to gather information on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims in a bid to pressure the litigators to stop their work. News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) has potential upside of 23.3% based on a current price of $16.95 and an average consensus analyst price target of $20.89. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Parliament is now investigating whether News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) executives, and perhaps James Murdoch himself, used unscrupulous tactics in pursuit of news scoops at the company\u2019s now-defunct London tabloid &#8220;News of the World&#8221;. The phone hacking scandal may derail CEO Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s wish to have James succeed him. The Guardian is also reporting this morning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/11\/08\/news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-could-include-james-murdoch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal Could Include James Murdoch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}