London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Just story leads.
Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"
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and again the sun ignores the obvious... http://twitpic.com/5lrb39
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Can we not just get to the point where we accept everyone - literally everyone - who has been newsworthy since at least 2002 was, of course, targeted....
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
And their relatives, friends, people who went to the same cricket match as them, etc etc.
sunny jim
A pikey fluffy type
Sorry if this has already been posted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/phone-hacking-police-review-child-murders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/phone-hacking-police-review-child-murders
So they might just hack into anyone's phone any time just cos they might hear something juicy I get .. but what would they expect to hear on Milly's messages ? Or they just did it routinely anyway ? Or the coppers wanted them to ?
Sorry I won't ask again I'm sure it's obvious but it's so mind bogglingly shocking I can't see the wood for the trees.
Damned if they didn't know sounds dodgy !
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
....and if a two bit hack can get into so many peoples phone records this easily just imagine what the filth get up to.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Gossip to sell papers.
Their ex-hack on Newsnight said that they counted the by-lines each year, and if you didn't have enough by-lines, you were out. Those that stooped lowest succeeded, with the full approval and sign-off of management to hand over what must have been millions to dodgy investigators and backhanders to sources.
This shit started soon after Murdoch took over, and Daniel Morgan takes us right back to then. He was murdered for investigating this shit, and his partner just got off because the trial collapsed due to police corruption.
Money, money, money.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I would imagine it was to get the recordings from friends and family, also to see whether anything juicy was there, but probably mainly because they did such things out of habit.
gavman
pj slumpy
yes but that's ok. it will doubtless come out in the investigation that news international have launched. its being run by their ceo, rebekah brooks. i hear she's very thorough
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
if she was that thorough she could spell rebecca correctly.
That's almost certainly true.
But until NI fess up to it, each case will come out one by one, pummelling away at their wall of denial. And so they should.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Obv. very few stories are as straight as they seem. Besides the hacker isn't looking to solve the case, he just wants a slight angle for a headline, which in turn keeps the front page narrative going - and the public love an on going narrative with even a slight twist.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and there may even be a suicide in the story with the amount of pressure some of the principals in the tale are under
Sure, but the targetting of that detective was a bit more sinister - outwardly at least. Witness protection instigated to cover tittle tattle? Maybe. I don't know the workings of these things, but it doesn't sound as trivial as that.
gavman
pj slumpy
Newsnight team must be writing and re-writing tonight... would love to be a fly on the wall in their office as they busily try to keep up in time for tonight's programme. One hour to go folks. Reckon NI will field a representative? Probably one who'll just go "we can neither confirm or deny"... Then Paxman gets a gun out... (sorry, carried away there)
simon greenberg. his interview with jon snow on c4 news was a car crash of epic proportions. they wouldn't let paxo near him after that.
he seems deeply unsuited to pr, coming across as smug, odious and deluded
London_Calling
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Totally sinister. Outrageous.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
isnt most of the information coming from mulcaire's many thousands of pages of meticulous notes? i would have thought any other tabloids / private investigators doing the same would have made sure they have destroyed all incriminating evidence by now
Yep. Very much how NI are coming across full stop. Maybe now they've seen an embodiment of that, they don't like the look.
weltweit
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Yes, I suppose that is a good point.
But, also, did Mulcaire only work for News International?
gavman
pj slumpy
they failed a bit. c4 news was epic, however. i can't link to it...maybe it's been hacked
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
can't have had time to work for anyone else
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
The News of the World were following Daniel Morgan whilst the police had him under surveillance. The police put him in witness protection because of it. His partner, John Rees, was selling information from police contacts to the tabloids. He ended up with an axe in his head, and John Rees got off because the police deliberately fucked up the investigation.
Of course it started back then. Shortly after Murdoch got into the tabloid business here.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
not really
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I think so, but there are others who do much the same thing / worse than the things he did.
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