Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[gavman]

News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB.

fuck...linkee?

 

[belboid]

Statement just released by them. Watching it on the news.

withdrawn its submission to the competition commission, not quite the same thing

 

[butchersapron]

taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, in this case celebs.
pedant

You might as well define it as taking pleasure in the failure of gardeners. It doesn't mean that though gav.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Are news international the Stasi now? We have clearly been living under a surveilance state. Mudoch and co must have detailed files from hacked info on everyone who matters - shared with the cops?
I'm freewheeling here ...

 

[London_Calling]

Used against the cops, to keep them quiet. Note: Hayman and Yates' ex-marital affairs.

 

[butchersapron]

Can still be approved without the CC reccomedation?

 

[agricola]

Was he?

Given the somewhat peculiar language of the denials from Labour, it does suggest that he was. Take, for instance, Miliband's response:

“Michael Ashcroft, the large Conservative party donor, has been putting it around that somehow Tom Baldwin hired a private investigator illegally to look into him,” said Mr Miliband. “Tom Baldwin absolutely denies that.”

Ashcroft actually alleged that the blagger - Gavin Singfield - had been hired specifically to access a Conservative Party bank account, held at Drummonds.

 

[editor]

And the pressure keeps up on all fronts for Murdoch:

US schemes sue News Corp

US/UK - US pension funds and other institutional investors have filed an amended complaint alleging "rampant nepotism" and failed corporate governance" at News Corp. in light of the ongoing British phone hacking scandal.

In addition to pre-existing allegations of abuse by News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, the amended complaint addresses revelations involving News Corp.'s UK tabloid Sunday paper, News of the World, whose editors admitted to hacking the mobile phones of a raft of public officials, celebrities, members of the royal family and 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler.

Shareholders led by Amalgamated Bank, trustee for several LongView investment funds, along with Central Laborers Pension Fund and other public pension funds, allege that because the board did not intervene when it learned of these problems years ago, News Corp. was forced to close the News of the World. The 168-year-old title was the largest-circulation English language newspaper in the world.

http://www.globalpensions.com/global-pensions/news/2092929/schemes-sue-news-corp

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Statement just released by them. Watching it on the news.

BBC saying they are asking for their offer to be referred to competitions thingy not a withdrawal as such?

lol @ Editor.. read the thread

 

[butchersapron]

Given the somewhat peculiar language of the denials from Labour, it does suggest that he was. Take, for instance, Miliband's response:



Ashcroft actually alleged that the blagger - Gavin Singfield - had been hired specifically to access a Conservative Party bank account, held at Drummonds.

Not much meat on that at this point.

 

[past caring]

It's being suggested that it was The Sunday Times that hacked Brown...

*sound of gears being ratcheted up

Guardian reporting that it was the Sun that obtained his son's medical records.

 

[belboid]

Can still be approved without the CC reccomedation?

quite probably, in theory. wont happen tho

 

[editor]

And Rebekah's deep in it:

Confidential health records for Brown's family have reached the media on two different occasions. In October 2006, the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, contacted the Browns to tell them that they had obtained details from the medical file of their four-month-old son, Fraser, which revealed that the boy was suffering from cystic fibrosis. This appears to have been a clear breach of the Data Protection Act, which would allow such a disclosure only if it was in the public interest. Friends of the Browns say the call caused them immense distress, since they were only coming to terms with the diagnosis, which had not been confirmed. The Sun published the story.

Five years earlier, when their first child, Jennifer, was born on 28 December 2001, a small group of specialist doctors and nurses was aware that she had suffered a brain haemorrhage and was dying. By some means which has not been discovered, this highly sensitive information was obtained by news organisations, who published it over the weekend before Jennifer died, on Monday 6 January 2002.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-international-gordon-brown

 

[paolo]

withdrawn its submission to the competition commission, not quite the same thing

Graun...

"News Corporation has just withdrawn its previous offer to spin off Sky News as part of the undertakings made to get the bid cleared by regulators. Our head of media Dan Sabbagh understands this means the bid will now automatically be referred to the Competition Commission, but will be filing a full explanation shortly."

Bizarre - it's like they're torpedoing their own bid.

 

[belboid]

'Withdrawn its offer to spin off Sky News' - thus leading to a reference to the CC being necessary.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Gordon Brown is going to enjoy having a pop at News International considering all the shit they gave him

 

[editor]

Guardian reporting that it was the Sun that obtained his son's medical records.

Yes, but according to that same report, the Sunday Times is deeply involved too.

Abbey National bank found suggestion that a "blagger" acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account;

Brown's London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times;

 

[treelover]

'Are news international the Stasi now? We have clearly been living under a surveilance state. Mudoch and co must have detailed files from hacked info on everyone who matters - shared with the cops?
I'm freewheeling here ... '

Union leaders?

 

[belboid]

Bizarre - it's like they're torpedoing their own bid.

better to do it themselves than let someone else do it to them

 

[rikwakefield]

withdrawn its submission to the competition commission, not quite the same thing

Yes, I was watching Bloomberg. They didn't get it quite right.

 

[London_Calling]

What dirt has Murdoch got on the head of the CC.... JOKE!

 

[editor]

Graun...

"News Corporation has just withdrawn its previous offer to spin off Sky News as part of the undertakings made to get the bid cleared by regulators. Our head of media Dan Sabbagh understands this means the bid will now automatically be referred to the Competition Commission, but will be filing a full explanation shortly."

Bizarre - it's like they're torpedoing their own bid.

I think they're gambling that with the loss of the NOTW, they no longer think that they have to make any 'sacrifices' to get Sky. Or something.

 

[temper_tantrum]

Bizarre - it's like they're torpedoing their own bid.

Delaying tactic. Gives them time to sell off News Int.

 

[ymu]

taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, in this case celebs.
pedant

Still nothing to do with celebs though. It is about the power exerted when every fucker is afraid of you. Murdoch liked the dirt being dug, but he also liked to control if and when it was flung:

One interesting page is the November 1999 issue bearing the headline "Archer quits as News of the World exposes false alibi". It was a truly sensational story, exposing the former Tory MP as a liar and perjurer that was to end with Lord Archer going to jail.

That was an example where I thought the paper was wholly justified in its subterfuge and covert taping.

It was a first-class piece of public interest journalism, and it should have been viewed as a triumph for the editor at the time, Phil Hall. In fact, it led to his dismissal in May 2000 because Rupert Murdoch didn't want that Archer scoop published. Hall defied him.

Of course, it was dressed up as a resignation. But it illustrates how, when it comes to the News of the World, the News Corporation boss liked to have his own way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/10/news-of-the-world-last-edition

 

[London_Calling]

So if they sell NI, and fail to get BSkyB, Murdoch will be down to just 31% of that, and nothing else in the UK?

 

[agricola]

Yes, but according to that same report, the Sunday Times is deeply involved too.

Almost all of Fleet Street is - what is being disclosed about Brown now is what Motorman discovered (against other people) in 2003. It does sort of raise the question why on earth neither he, or their government, did anything about it though - since it is now confirmed that they (or at least he) knew all about it, with the possible exception of the Mulcaire-style phone hacking.

 

[Kippa]

Maybe Murdoch realises the bid is well and truely fucked, so is keeping Sky News.

 

[Belushi]

Wonderful stuff.

Whats that chinese saying about if you wait long enough on the riverbank the bodies of your enemies will float past

 

[editor]

In the light of all these revelations, it's almost easy to lose perspective but what the fuck was the Sun doing illegally accessing the medical records of Brown's disabled child? It's obscene.

 

[temper_tantrum]

So if they sell NI, and fail to get BSkyB, Murdoch will be down to just 31% of that, and nothing else in the UK?

Most of his business is in the US, though. NI is becoming more trouble than it's worth. If he can shed it, and delay the BSkyB bid in the meantime, he can get what he really wants (ie. BSkyB). He's through with UK print journalism. Tactical retreat in full effect.
Edit: I understand that James M is the main fan of UK print media in the Murdoch empire. As I asked a few days ago, has anyone got any thoughts on how this affects Rupe's succession battle?
Wade will go at a tactically-convenient time, of course. Then it leaves James to carry the can internally. He loses most of his own personal fiefdom within NewsCorp ...