There may therefore be an expectation that Mr Murdoch's son, James Murdoch, will be more inthefiringline when it comes to the forensic questioning of the committee's members - though at the relevant times, his responsibilities went wider than News International's British newspapers, so he too may not be able to provide answers to everything the committee wishes to know.
Even on paper, the funding now available would not be enough to cover the financing needs of all of the countries inthefiringline for any length of time.