00:01The last edition of the News of the World was a proud farewell that recalled 168 years of Sunday scoops.
00:09Rupert Murdoch bought the paper in 1969 and used its profits to build his vast media empire
00:16that now includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post.
00:21But this week, this scrappy tabloid was engulfed by scandal.
00:26And though it remained one of the best-selling newspapers in the English-speaking world,
00:31its name is disgraced.
00:33And the fallout has damaged politicians, the police and the formidable Mr. Murdoch.
00:39The scandal exploded with Millie Dowler, a teenager murdered in 2002.
00:45On Monday in London, a private investigator working for the News of the World
00:50was accused of hacking into her cell phone and deleting messages,
00:54giving her family false hope that Millie was alive.
00:59Then Britain learned the News of the World may have preyed on military families too.
01:04And he's holding an Afghan army sniper rifle.
01:06Tony Philipson's son James was killed in action in Afghanistan.
01:10And he now believes James' hotmail was hacked by News of the World.
01:15Yeah, it is. It's upsetting.
01:18Prime Minister David Cameron kicked off the damage control.
01:23Murder victims, terrorist victims, families who've lost loved ones,
01:28sometimes defending our country.
01:30That these people could have had their phones hacked into
01:33in order to generate stories for a newspaper is simply disgusting.
01:38The Prime Minister was feeling vulnerable.
01:40He'd hired a former News of the World editor as his communications advisor.
01:45By the end of the week, Andy Coulson had been arrested, along with two other men.
01:51And the police themselves were facing investigation for taking payoffs.
01:56Two, four, six, eight!
01:58Don't let Murdoch dominate!
01:59But the real fury focused on Rupert Murdoch
02:03and the power he wields through his stable of influential British papers.
02:07Teenager Millie Dowler's family lawyer is Mark Lewis.
02:11In fact, what we had in this country was a form of Murdoch-cracy,
02:15that people were scared of what the newspapers could do to them
02:19and how the newspapers could influence elections.
02:21Ed Miliband!
02:23Suddenly, politicians who had felt bullied by Murdoch smelled blood.
02:28And consider her position.
02:30Simon Hoggart is a political columnist for The Guardian.
02:33You've got him under attack from all sides in Parliament.
02:36I've never heard members of Parliament being as vicious and ferocious,
02:40filled with hatred against one man.
02:43That man, Rupert Murdoch, had planned to expand into UK television
02:48by taking over a multi-billion dollar satellite operation.
02:52But for the deal to go through, regulators will have to judge the new owner,
02:56quote, fit and proper.
02:58And at the moment, there's doubt he'd pass the test.
03:01The News of the World employees put on brave faces
03:04as they left their building for the last time last night.
03:09Their future is uncertain, and so is Rupert Murdoch's.
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