Stringfellows

摘要

Urging jurors to convict Al Capone of tax evasion in 1931, a federal prosecutor portrayed the Chicago mob boss's fate as a turning-point in American history. This verdict would establish whether a man "can so conduct his affairs that he is above the government and above the law." On November 10th 2011, in the blander setting of a British parliamentary committee room, charges of similar rhetorical weight were advanced against News International (ni), the British arm of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's global media business. By then ni, by far the largest media company in Britain, which was once courted by political leaders of left and right, had already endured a grim year.