Ruport Biographer Thinks He Won't Do Well In Tomorrow's Hearings

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3.15pm: Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's biographer, has given an interview to ITV saying that he thinks Murdoch will perform very badly when he gives evidence to the Commons culture committee tomorrow.

He will handle it very poorly. This is something that Rupert doesn't know how to do, has never done, has resisted doing and frankly can't do. Rupert is – on top of everything else - an incredibly shy man and he is also a very inarticulate man and he is also a man who, I don't think he is going to know what to do with the fact that he will be confronted here. It is very likely he will get angry. He will say things that people should not say in public. I know they are drilling him and rehearsing him over and over and over and over again and they are saying to him 'do not say anything, just answer the questions in as few words as possible'. Whether he absorbs that lesson or not…actually I can't imagine that he will or that he has.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/18/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage#block-72