{"id":29006,"date":"2011-10-28T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_church_of_england_confronts_news_corp\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:18:03","slug":"church_times_church_of_england_confronts_news_corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29006","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Church of England confronts News Corp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has made a series of demands of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation, after a face-to-face meeting with directors in which it raised \u201cserious ethical concerns\u201d\u009d about the company, after the phone-hacking scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary to the Church\u2019s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG), Edward Mason, flew to the United States to attend the News Corp shareholders\u2019 meeting and vote against the re-election of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s sons, James and Lachlan, to the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The Church holds $6 million in shares in News Corp, and wants to use its influence to try to change the company\u2019s corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=119732\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has made a series of demands of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation, after a face-to-face meeting with directors in which it raised \u201cserious ethical concerns\u201d\u009d about the company, after the phone-hacking scandal. The secretary to the Church\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29006\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,74,389,589,149,168,89,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}