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Of center tabloid and it's fallen on hard times. >> the news of the world is an it's as british as roast beef and yorkshire pudding. >> there's effectively a kind of public auction for it. rupert helpfully clears his throat and points at himself. but the guy across the table from him, the other bidder, is robert maxwell. >> mr. robert maxwell, a millionaire politician, philanthropist and businessman in britain. he built up the scientific publishing company pergamon press and grew rich running it. >> the natural person to purchase it is robert maxwell. >> many news of the world shareholders exp...

Came in as an outsider, a breath of fresh air into this very stuffy establishment, where politics and media were really dominated by the class system and a pretty rigid hierarchy. >> news of the world is a left of center tabloid and it's fallen on hard times. >> "the news of the world" is an institution. it says british as roast beef and yorkshire pudding. >> there's effectively a kind of public auction for it. rupert helpfully clears his throat and points at himself. but the guy across the table from him, the other bidder, is robert maxwell. >> mr. robert maxwell, a millionaire politician, ph...

>> when murdoch arrived in britain in the late '60s, he came in as an outsider, a breath of fresh air into this very stuffy establishment, where politics and media were really dominated by the class system and a pretty rigid hierarchy. >> news of the world is a left of center tabloid and it's fallen on hard times. >> "the news of the world" is an institution. it says british as roast beef and yorkshire pudding. >> there's effectively a kind of public auction for it. rupert helpfully clears his throat and points at himself. but the guy across the table from him, the other bidder, is robert maxw...

So as you alluded to a short while ago we had been at the centre of this to some degree. certainly we were at the very beginning of it. the case between the two of them relates directly to stories we carried. that is definitely true. stories that turned out not to be true. stories that certainly were presented as fact online, as you say, they were presented as fact directly from coleen rooney, online and then in each case and they play out in court to this effect as well, each case we contacted the rooney's representatives who said, "we will not comment on that. no problem with us if you want ...

Question will be who gave you that story? the only answer i can give and ever would give is the same one that we gave in the high court a week or so ago. so as you alluded to a short while ago we had been at the centre of this to some degree. certainly we were at the very beginning of it. the case between the two of them relates directly to stories we carried. that is definitely true. stories that turned out not to be true. stories that certainly were presented as fact online, as you say, they were presented as fact directly from coleen rooney, online and then in each case and they play out in...