The idea of adding his own title to volumes already devoted to his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, filled him with, if not foreboding exactly, then a certain feeling of futility. Hinton is so scared that he hides behind a sofa until Murdoch leaves. Some days later, in the reporters’ room, there comes another encounter: Murdoch, “plump-cheeked” and smoking a cigarette, asks Hinton to get him a ham sandwich. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hinton, centre, with Prince Charles and Rupert Murdoch in 2002. In 2011, when the new revelations of phone hacking broke, Hinton offered his resignation and it was accepted.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2018 07:30 UTC