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Ted Turner: Rupert Murdoch "should step down"

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 20, 2011 | 2 min read

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.

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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?"

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