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UK deputy leader calls on Rupert Murdoch to face parliamentary committee

LONDON, England – Britain’s deputy prime minister says Rupert Murdoch should appear before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal at one of his newspapers.

Nick Clegg said Thursday that Murdoch had “big questions” to answer after the scandal forced Murdoch’s News Corp. to abandon a bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting.
 
The House of Commons committee which deals with media issues has asked Murdoch to appear next week with his son James and Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary which controls the British newspapers.
 
Speaking to BBC radio, Clegg said the three should appear “if they have any shred of sense of responsibility or accountability for their position of power.”

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