Ted Turner: Rupert Murdoch "should step down"
American media mogul Ted Turner has said that rival Rupert Murdoch should "step down" from his News Corporation empire in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Ted Turner
In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Turner insisted that Murdoch "should have known" about the goings on at the News of the World and that he should now call it a day.
Turner said: "I'm past retirement age now. So, I'm 72. That's a little late to be running a corporation. Murdoch's still doing it at 80, but for not for much longer, I'm afraid. I think he's going to have to step down.
"You know, not even Rupert Murdoch should be allowed to break the law. Nobody should….He should have known. I mean, he was chairman of the board. He's responsible. I took responsibility when I ran my company. You never heard me say, 'Well, I didn't know.' You never saw me get in that kind of trouble, did you?"