Ed Pilkington on the latest twist in Murdoch-gate: James Murdoch steps down as chairman of BSkyB

“Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer and Ed Pilkington, New York correspondent for The Guardian, discuss reports that James Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, the latest repercussion of the phone hacking scandal that originated with Murdoch’s British tabloids. “The Murdochs think only of television,” Pilkington says. “So when James Murdoch is forced to stand down from BSkyB, the biggest TV company in Europe, for the company this is really serious.”