Murdoch may shut tabloid Sun over phone-hacking row

November 11, 2011 15:59

James Murdoch has refused to rule out the possibility of closing down Britain's best selling tabloid, The Sun, if the phone hacking scandal spreads to it.

The News International chairman made the comment as he faced a day of questioning from British MPs over previous evidence that he gave to Parliament about the hacking scandal. At one point he was compared to a mafia boss by an MP, The Telegraph reports.

Murdoch denied misleading the committee when he told them in July this year that he was unaware of the now infamous 'for Neville' email, which implicated other reporters at the News of the World in hacking.

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