Email shows Hunt was 'meddling on the side of Murdochs'

Source: The Press-Gazette

Labour has renewed calls for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to quit over a potentially damning memo sent to Prime Minister David Cameron weeks before he was given quasi-judicial oversight of News Corp's BSkyB bid. In i ...
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Hunt lobbied Cameron on News Corp's behalf

Source: Brand Republic

Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport The memo was sent on 19 November 2010 and on 21 December Cable was stripped of his responsibility for the bid after telling undercover T ...
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E-Mail Shows Murdoch Bid Maneuvering

Source: The New York Times

LONDON — The long-running judicial inquiry into the cloistered world of Britain’s media barons and powerful politicians on Thursday produced a new and potentially damaging insight into the internal maneuvering within Prime Minister David Cameron’s ...
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Hunt lobbied Cameron on News Corp's behalf

Source: Mediaweek.co.uk

James Murdoch is pretty furious at Vince's referral to Ofcom ... He doesn't think he will get a fair hearing from Ofcom. I'm privately concerned about this because News Corp are very litigious and we could end up in the wron ...
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Merci - et au revoir?

Source: Sky News Blogs

Posted by - Glen Oglaza .Oh dear, it's really not looking terribly good for Jeremy Hunt is it?All those emails (more than 200 of them) between his Special Adviser and News Coprs lobbyist Frederic Michel, and those buddy buddy te ...
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BSkyB links put U.K. minister at risk

Source: Variety

LONDON -- There is renewed pressure on the U.K. media minister, Jeremy Hunt, to ankle following fresh revelations about his support for News Corp.'s bid to own BSkyB outright. It emerged Thursday at the Leveson inquiry into press ethics that Hu ...
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How the 'Minister for Murdoch' made case for BSkyB deal

Source: The Independent

In November 2010, the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a memo to David Cameron expressing support for the BSkyB bid. At the time, Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, had just announced his intention to refer the ...
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What 1,000 text messages tell us about a special relationship

Source: The Independent

We learn today the rather sordid reality concealed behind Jeremy Hunt's solemn statement to Parliament last month that "I have strictly followed due process". More than 1,000 text messages were exchanged between hi ...
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Memo on BSkyB Presented at Inquiry

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Jeanne Whalen LONDON—A month before Prime Minister David Cameron appointed government minister Jeremy Hunt to oversee a regulatory review of News Corp.'s bid to gain full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Mr. ...
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