Henry_Kissinger Henry Kissinger
I've never known a more honest & decent man than Rupert Murdoch, including even President Nixon. It's time to stop this liberal witch hunt.
Tweet from Henry Kissinger:
news corp stock now -7.46
tom_watson tom_watson
Robert @peston is being spoon fed the internal NI document handed over to the Met in chunks.They're spinning their bad news. It's not right.
a tweet from tom watson:
he does seem to be well briefed
Bishie: Rupert's thrown cameron a bone by essentially volunteering to be refered to the competition commission (so one presumes there will be no vote for cameron to lose on wednesday)
Gordon brown has revealed his and his dead kid's records were hacked
George michael is kicking some arse.
how much has the price dropped since the scandal broke?
How does that help NI?
News Corp on New York down 7%:View attachment 16278
Newscorp stock price is currently -6.69% wiping out 934.26 MILLION off its stock price
with all the people who've been hacked, including the queen, they must have done thatcher too.
The point's been made already here - the Met is drip-feeding disclosure in order to focus the attention on Murdoch and to maintain the pressure.a tweet from tom watson:
he does seem to be well briefedtom_watson tom_watson
Robert @peston is being spoon fed the internal NI document handed over to the Met in chunks.They're spinning their bad news. It's not right.
Tweet from Henry Kissinger:
Henry_Kissinger Henry Kissinger
I've never known a more honest & decent man than Rupert Murdoch, including even President Nixon. It's time to stop this liberal witch hunt.
The point's been made already here - the Met is drip-feeding disclosure in order to focus the attention on Murdoch and to maintain the pressure.
It's wrong, but at least now the 'good' cops are leaking to the 'good' journalists.... ish.
The way the Met are doing it is to 'notify' people they were on Mulcaire's list slowly over time. Then, like Gordon Brown, some/many those people choose to go public.
i'm not sure if it really is kissenger tbh.
Well another interesting day on this story, with many more to come I am sure.
Murdoch's move to get the Sky takeover kicked into the long grass whilst he attempts to sort out the shit at the newspapers is a clever move, and in no way does a referral to the CC change anything regarding what OFCOM may or may not do, despite what some have posted, competition issues are totally different to 'fit & proper' issues concerning broadcast licences.
The EU has already ruled there's no competition issues, so he knows that the CC can only rule the same esp now he's closed the NOTW, reducing competition issues anyway.
Now he has lost the power of his press, it wouldn't surprise me if he attempts to off-load the newspapers, and even agree stronger safeguards concerning the independence of Sky News, just to secure the Sky deal in a year or so.
Gordon Brown crawling out of the stone he should have remained under is also an interesting turn - basically admitting he was a weak PM and shitting himself over the power of Murdoch at the time, so did fuck all about it when he should have done.
Most of this crap happened under Blair & Brown, and now we have Brown admitting he not only knew what was going on, but knew he was a victim - somewhat fucks Ed's attempts to pile most of the blame on the current government.