Huge Shareholder Protest Vote Against Murdochs

35 percent of votes go against James Murdoch

After a brief delay, we've got the final tally of shareholder votes from the News Corp. annual meeting last week, and it may be even more embarrassing for the Murdoch family than initially anticipated

Fourteen percent of the votes cast opposed re-electing Rupert Murdoch to the board of his own company. Thirty-five percent of the votes went against his son James Murdoch, who's been a big public face for the company during the phone hacking scandal.

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