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Robert Jay QC, counsel for the inquiry, asks News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to look at specific pages of a document2. Mid shot Murdoch looking through document3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Robert Jay QC, counsel for the inquiry, asks News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to look at specific pages of a document\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot Murdoch looking through document\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Is it your perception or understanding that abuses go further than the issue of phone hacking or are they limited to the issue of phone hacking?\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They go further.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid shot of Jay questioning Murdoch\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e++Soundbite begins over mid shot of Murdoch listening++\u003cbr/\u003e\"Were you seeking to demonstrate to her that you were the right man to acquire these great papers because you had the qualities and charisma to take the papers forward and equally importantly, you had the will to crush the unions?\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I didn''t have the will to crush the unions, I might have had the desire, but that took several years.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry\u003cbr/\u003e\"And of you openly pushing your commercial interests by using your newspaper powers, is that right?\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"No, I take a particularly strong pride in the fact that we have never pushed our commercial interests in our newspapers.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry\u003cbr/\u003e\"And he (referring to memoirs of former Times and Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans) is saying, how much Rupert Murdoch knew and when he knew it may not be pinned down because he exercises what the sociologist Max Weber defined as ''charismatic authority'' where policy derives from how the leader is perceived by others rather than by instructions or traditions. Do you feel he''s got a point there?\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have a very large company and I do run that company with a great deal of decentralisation. I don''t think I have any aura.\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot of Jay  \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry:\u003cbr/\u003e++Soundbite begins over mid shot of Murdoch listening++\u003cbr/\u003e\"Wasn''t it your main objective, Mr Murdoch, to improve the commercial appeal of these papers - the Sun and the News of the World - and you weren''t really concerned with the ethical side of its product. Would that be a fair observation?\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"No, it was always to tell the truth. Certainly to interest the public, to get their attention, but always to tell the truth.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Jay QC, Counsel for the Leveson Inquiry:\u003cbr/\u003e++Soundbite begins over mid shot of Murdoch listening++\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is not inappropriate to use intrusive means to pry into the lives of celebrities. Is that fair?\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I didn''t say that. I think it''s perfectly fair - I don''t believe in using hacking, I don''t believe in using private detectives or whatever, that''s just a lazy way of reporters not doing their job. But I think it is fair when people are held up as, or have themselves held up as iconic figures, or great actors, that they be looked at.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid shot Lord Justice Brian Leveson addressing Inquiry\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A lot of these people are very big in the lives of ordinary people....big television stars, film stars, and of course I must include politicians if we are getting into the issue of privacy. I think people in public positions, with public responsibilities - and I would even include press proprietors in that - I don''t think they are entitled to the same privacy as the ordinary man in the street. If we are going to have a transparent society, a transparent democracy, let''s have everything out in the open.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid shot of Jay  \u003cbr/\u003eNews Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an official inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never gave his editors orders on who to back or used his political sway for financial gain.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking softly, deliberately and with dry humour, Murdoch parried one question after the other about the influence his dominant media operations had in lobbying lawmakers, setting the news agenda, favouring certain politicians and benefiting from allegedly sweetheart business deals.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter being questioned whether he had asked then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to support his bid for the Times newspapers in 1981 because he would \"crush the unions\", Murdoch said, \"I didn''t have the will to crush the unions, I might have had the desire, but that took several years.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMurdoch was being quizzed under oath before an inquiry run by Lord Justice Brian Leveson, who is examining the relationship between British politicians and the press, a key question emerging amid the phone hacking scandal that brought down Murdoch''s News of the World tabloid.\u003cbr/\u003eAsked whether he''d ever used his media influence to boost his business, he denied it.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We''ve never pushed our commercial interests in our newspapers,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eHe rejected suggestions that he used his charisma to exert power over his media empire, but that he runs News Corp \"with a great deal of decentralisation\".\u003cbr/\u003eHe denied that he was unconcerned with the ethical side of his newspapers, and said his main objective \"was to tell the truth\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"Certainly to interest the public, to get their attention but always to tell the truth,\" Murdoch said.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said he did not believe public figures were entitled to the same level of privacy as private individuals, but that he did not believe in the use of intrusive measures to glean information.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think people in public positions, with public responsibilities - and I would even include press proprietors in that - I don''t think they are entitled to the same privacy as the ordinary man in the street. 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