Lesson 1: When in trouble you can always do better than the "who has time to read emails?" defence! :)
Murdoch said: "I am confident that I did not review the full email chain at the time or afterwards," in part because Myler's note had been sent to him at the weekend.
Lesson 2: don't read mails over the weekend :)
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