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April 26, 2012
News Corp. Exec Considered Enlisting Newspaper Editors in Lobbying Effort
By Amanda Lang
...[E]email messages released Tuesday indicate that News Corp. executives at least considered dispatching top editors of WSJ Europe and The Times of London, both News Corp. holdings, to advocate the BSkyB deal. The newly released emails, totaling 163 pages, were exchanged among News Corp. chief lobbyist Frédéric Michel, company officials and government aides. Several refer to Lord Matthew Oakeshott, a member of Parliament whom News Corp. pe ...
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...[E]email messages released Tuesday indicate that News Corp. executives at least considered dispatching top editors of WSJ Europe and The Times of London, both News Corp. holdings, to advocate the BSkyB deal. The newly released emails, totaling 163 pages, were exchanged among News Corp. chief lobbyist Frédéric Michel, company officials and government aides. Several refer to Lord Matthew Oakeshott, a member of Parliament whom News Corp. perceived as key to influencing Vince Cable, the government minister who had the authority in the fall of 2010 to approve the BSkyB deal. News Corp. execs were worried that Oakeshott wouldn't be receptive to their overtures. In one email to James Murdoch's aide, Matthew Anderson, and Rebekah Brooks, chief exec at News Intl, Michel described Oakeshott as "a difficult character [who] hates lobbying (and doesn't like our empire either")."OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.