Murdoch & Co. set for public grilling on scandal

A combination of pictures shows on July 18, 2011, News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch, (L) his son James, (C) who is the current Chairman of News International, (C) and former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks (R).

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The U.K. phone hacking scandal is set for its biggest public spectacle yet on Tuesday, as News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, his son James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks will testify before a British parliament committee to defend their actions in the case.

The elder Murdoch has rarely been so publicly grilled, and the British media is rife with questions of its own and speculation about how the media mogul will handle the testimony.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper he owns, Murdoch may have laid the groundwork for how he will handle the grilling, when he said News Corp. has handled the crisis "extremely well in every way possible," making just "minor mistakes."

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However, it is his son, James, a News Corp. chief executive, who will likely be the Murdoch taking the most heat at the hearing, having admitted previously that he authorized payments to cover up illegal phone hacking by the News of the World, The Guardian reports.

James also will probably have to answer charges, laid by then-Scotland Yard top cop John Yates, that the company refused to co-operate properly with the police between 2006 and 2010, The Guardian reports.

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World, where the worst of the hacking allegedly took place, was arrested Sunday on hacking charges and bailed out some 12 hours later. She has vehemently denied any knowledge of the wrongdoing on her watch.

Murdoch's media empire became embroiled in a scandal when it was revealed that journalists and others working for the now-defunct News of the World allegedly hacked into mobile phone systems to listen to voice mails of news subjects, including celebrities, members of the royal family, murder victims, soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and people who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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