{"id":30757,"date":"2013-03-22T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/22\/294759\/murdoch-attacks-uk-pm-over-press-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:53:25","slug":"murdoch-attacks-uk-pm-over-press-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/murdoch-attacks-uk-pm-over-press-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch attacks UK PM over press deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has attacked British Prime Minister David Cameron for agreeing tougher press regulation, saying that the deal puts media under influence of politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, British politicians from three main political parties in the country finally clinched a deal on press regulation which aimed at curbing the abuses of the past, including the phone-hacking scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch, whose 168-year-old newspaper The News of the World has been closed over the same scandal, criticized the decision by the politicians, describing the new regulator as a \u201cholly mess\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUK holy mess with internet unworkably included. Cameron showing true colors shocking many supporters,&#8221; Murdoch tweeted on Thursday, March 21.<\/p>\n<p>The deal on Britain\u2019s press regulation is running into difficulty as some key newspaper groups, including News International, the Telegraph Media group, and the Express publishers, refused to endorse it.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was introduced after it emerged that journalists had hacked thousands of phones in their attempts to get first time news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the long-running phone hacking scandal in the country has led to dozens of arrests and the resignation of several senior police officers so far.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has attacked British Prime Minister David Cameron for agreeing tougher press regulation, saying that the deal puts media under influence of politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, British politicians from three main political parties in the country finally clinched a deal on press regulation which aimed at curbing the abuses of the past, including the phone-hacking scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch, whose 168-year-old newspaper The News of the World has been closed over the same scandal, criticized the decision by the politicians, describing the new regulator as a &ldquo;holly mess&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;UK holy mess with internet unworkably included. Cameron showing true colors shocking many supporters,&#8221; Murdoch tweeted on Thursday, March 21.<\/p>\n<p>The deal on Britain&rsquo;s press regulation is running into difficulty as some key newspaper groups, including News International, the Telegraph Media group, and the Express publishers, refused to endorse it.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was introduced after it emerged that journalists had hacked thousands of phones in their attempts to get first time news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the long-running phone hacking scandal in the country has led to dozens of arrests and the resignation of several senior police officers so far.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}