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    Hollywood Breakdown

    The State of News Corp and the Murdoch Family

    Tomorrow News Corp. will hold its annual shareholder meeting on the Fox lot in Los Angeles. In the wake of the phone hacking scandal in the UK, the Murdochs are under fire...

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    By Kim Masters • Oct 20, 2011 • 3m Listen

    Tomorrow News Corp. will hold its annual shareholder meeting on the Fox lot in Los Angeles, and in the wake of the phone hacking scandal in the UK, the Murdochs are under fire from other prominent shareholders. There are questions of whether shareholders will vote against a number of directors for the News Corp. board -- including Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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