The Deadline team is covering the News Corp shareholders meeting inside and outside La’s Fox Studios. Nikki Finke is now writing from staff and news reports. 4th Update, Noon Writethru: News Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting today at La’s Fox Studios turned into a pitched battle of words and accusations and insults. Rupert Murdoch’s critics lined up at two microphones and vented their anger at what they consider to be a corporate culture run amok. At the same time the Chairman/CEO’s defenders opposed the shareholder calls for better corporate governance and the separation of the chairman/CEO title in order to have a CEO independent of Murdoch. Rupert, for his part, could barely stay polite when he was challenged again and again. ”I hate to call you a liar, but I don’t believe you,” he cut off shareholder Stephen Mayne, director of the Australian...
- 10/21/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
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