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Sky Bigger Picture Review 2011: Elephant-sized cloud in the Sky

Sky reports impressively, if avoiding any mention of its company chairman

You will search in vain for mention of James Murdoch within the 117 pages of UK television company Sky’s latest corporate responsibility report, even though he is chairman of BSkyB (which trades as Sky).

To be fair, the Bigger Picture Review covers the year to June 30 2011, a period that did not fully embrace the unsuccessful investor initiative to oust Murdoch over concerns that his links to the phone-hacking scandal at News Corporation would damage BSkyB’s reputation. But a more ambitious organisation may have bitten the bullet and at least alluded to the affair.

It will be interesting to see how Sky tackles the subject in next year’s report, if at all. Looking at this year’s document, the suspicion is that it will be brushed under the carpet.

Why does this feeling arise? Sky has been producing generally commendable reports since 2002, yet one gets the sense that it would always...

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