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Former News International Executive Chairman Les Hinton.

For more than fifty years Les Hinton was Rupert Murdoch's right hand man. How much personal responsibility does he bear for some of the excesses at News International?

For more than fifty years Les Hinton was the right hand man of one of the most powerful press barons of modern times - Rupert Murdoch. Hinton was a top executive at News Corp during some of its most tumultuous times. He has just lifted the lid on his time at the corporation in a new memoir. How much personal responsibility does he bear for some of the excesses at News International like the phone hacking scandal in the UK and did he have a career he can be proud of?

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