{"id":17137,"date":"2012-08-07T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17137"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:35:27","slug":"church-of-england-dumps-news-corp-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-dumps-news-corp-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England dumps News Corp shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-08-07\/church-of-england-sells-3m-in-news-corp-dot-shares\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church of England has sold its shares in Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. over its handling of a phone hacking scandal at one of its newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican leaders said in a statement Tuesday that they were not satisfied that News Corp. was likely to show a commitment to reform its business practices following evidence of illegal eavesdropping at the defunct News of the World newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Church official Andrew Brown said the decision to sell the 1.9 million pounds (US$3 million) in News Corp. shares followed a year of inconclusive dialogue between News Corp. executives and members of the church&#8217;s ethical investment committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All done with no Listening Process, no Continuing Indaba and no Generous Pastoral Response.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I forgot: they don\u2019t apply to shady business practices, only shady sexual perversions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Church of England has sold its shares in Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. over its handling of a phone hacking scandal at one of its newspapers. Anglican leaders said in a statement Tuesday that they were not satisfied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-dumps-news-corp-shares\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1144,1378],"class_list":["post-17137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-news-corp","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}