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During his long career as the pantomime villain of the media world, Rupert Murdoch has seen out many scandals, but nothing like this one. Back in 1983, under attack for his decision to publish a set of diaries from Adolf Hitler that turned out to be forged*, he famously remarked, “After all, we are in the entertainment business.” Today, nobody, least of all Murdoch, is laughing. 在他常年扮演童话里坏人的媒体行业，默多克经历并送走很多流言蜚语和丑闻，但是没有一次像这次这么严重。回顾1983年，当他正在经历由于他杜撰了阿道夫希特勒日记并出版的舆论攻击时，他随口一句：毕竟这是娱乐行业，让他迅速出名。但是今天，没有任何人会被他的言论逗笑。 With the British parliament about to come together in an unprecedented move to thwart him, Murdoch this morning accepted the inevitable and called off News Corporation’s takeover bid for British Sky Broadcasting, which, together with the BBC, dominates British television. Meanwhile, one of his own papers, the Wall Street Journal, confirmed my suspicion that he might even be prepared to sell his three remaining British newspapers—the Times, the Sunday Times, and the Sun—assuming a buyer can be found. 由于英国国会史无前例的反对，今天默多克不得不放弃资讯集团对于大不列颠天空电视台的收购，同时还有英国电视巨头BBC的收购。与此同时，默多克的华尔街日报最近也透露如果有买家的话，默多克还会出售他现在依然拥有的时代周刊，周末时光和太阳报。 | 
