News Corp. traders oppose Murdoch sons

Protesters shown in the News Corp. meeting around the Fox lot.British Mega pixel Tom Watson was among individuals in a demonstration held outdoors News Corp.s annual investor meeting on Friday. MurdochIt's a poor time to become a Murdoch on News Corp.'s board, based on election tallies launched by the organization Monday mid-day.Investors re-chosen all 15 from the company's company directors at Friday's annual stockholders meeting, but Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch gained 224,151,616 nays from 665,058,572 total votes and 232,013,203 nays from 665,041,713 total votes, correspondingly - the greatest quantity of negative votes received by anybody around the board. Both of them are the sons of chairman-Boss Rupert Murdoch, who received 91,798,107 nays from an overall total of 653,483,832 votes - one of the low-finish of negative tallies.Investors also extremely declined a proposal to elect a completely independent chairman, a move which may have ultimately relieved the oldest Murdoch of this role. The proposal gained just 1,517,604 for, 680,583,000 against.With charge of 40% of voting shares, the Murdoch family is at little danger of having ousted in the board. A telephone hacking scandal wracked the organization in This summer, forcing it to shutter lucrative newspaper "News around the globeInch and starting research into parent company News Worldwide. Traders who attended last week's meeting also voiced concerns within the board's oversight, which many saw as adding towards the scandal. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com