Imelt Murdoch Deal Leaks

I told Zucker that we would be spending all our time either defending ourselves from Fox charges of violating the deal or absorbing hits from O'Reilly in his belief that he had won in this deal. I pointed out to Zucker that not only did we have a frozen tsunami in front of us, but we had an exact timeline of when the wave would break or the bomb would explode. A leak and we now knew the mechanism by which a leak might come or it might be ascertained by somebody analyzing my scripts suddenly devoid of all references to Fox and its personalities. NBC's plan was simple. We would say that for weeks things had been escalating beyond all reason and now with death threats involved, things

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