More Pressure on News Corp.’s BSkyB Deal

More evidence that Rupert Murdoch’s $12 billion BSkyB deal has been roughed up by the phonegate/hackergate scandal: A British government office says approval for the transaction will now take “some time,” a sentiment echoed by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron also told reporters that News Corp. executive Rebekah Brooks should have stepped down. A response from News Corp., which also owns this Web site, “notes today’s comments by the Prime Minister,” and says the company wants to work with “the existing regulatory process.”