Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"
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equationgirl
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LondonCalling - I was responding to weltweit's post which asked 'if you were keith vaz, which questions would you ask?'
Thank you for the clarification though.
Thank you for the clarification though.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Listen to me and you won't go far wrong....
Either your comprehension skills are poor, or you're stupid. Publishing licenses are required in pretty much all countries. They are granted by the individual countries regulators. If someone/the board of a company is deemed as 'not fit & proper' by one regulator, then it's pretty likely that will ripple to all other regulators. So if OFCOM decide that the NI board is 'not fit & proper', then the US regulator will likely follow suit. Of course in this situation (where Murdochs' businesses are huge US taxpayers, and they pay fuck all in the UK) it may not necessarily follow, but in theory the whole empire could tumble.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One word too many.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
The issue for OFCOM is whether he is a fit and proper person to take ownership - not be an (existing) owner.
Well, it always was, the goalposts may be in the process of moving all over the show.
ah you're right. 'unnofficial industry estimates'. it's all a bit wooly.
Only if the story is big enough.
Oh cobblers. They're renewed every year. No different in essence to a pub license.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Sort of like a TV license as well. I think we best leave it there.... how is Italy? 
equationgirl
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I wasn't condoning having the 11 dinners by any means, just trying to point out that 11 dinners is hardly a friendship spanning a long period of time.
Having worked in companies where registers of interests are common, and being used to declaring any kind of gift (yes, even the box of chocolates I got from a supplier one christmas) I agree that taking 'free' hospitality in this manner compromises impartiality.
I was the one refusing the request of a senior member of staff when they 'suggested' that I should phone competitors and pretend to be a student to obtain confidential information about their products and business plans. I have integrity.
im not arguing about the figures, but that's less than 10%, on a saturday when the sun wasnt carrying the biggest story in town - mirror and mail seemed to pick up the readers
and that was nearly a week ago
It always is. The Sun can lose hundreds of thousands of readers as the resorts in malaga and magaluf fill up.
Circulation figures aren't worth the paper they're no longer printed on.
equationgirl
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Which shows what though? I'm not being obtuse or argumentative but i find the claim that 'real people' aren't interested in this absolutley amazing as it's simply not not my experience.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Bing-fucking -go.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
No, They have an ongoing duty to monitor all owners of broadcast media. Not fit and proper applies to all their holdings in the UK. They would have to sell their existing stake in BSkyB if they were found not fit and proper.
If you spent more time stocking your brain, you wouldn't have to resort to pulling shit straight out of your arse.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
The first sentence: Ofcom may not grant a licence to anyone unless they are satisfied that they are "fit and proper".
My arse thinks 'grant' would suggest a prospective buyer.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Have you been following this story at all? Do you know how and why this is happening? Do you have any basis in what is actually happening for what you are saying, or is it just a generalised pearl of wisdom you are dropping whilst remaining clueless about the actual situation you are applying it to?
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Can you read more than one sentence in a row? Cos the regulations are a fair bit more than one sentence and you will struggle if you can only hold one thought in your head at a time.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Does being granted a license mean that it's yours in perpetuity? You simply cannot help yourself can you? It's genius in a mad way.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Before taking ownership, is the relevant issue here.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
well your arse is as thick as your head then. By your logic, no one who committed a foul and heinous crime after they'd passed the test once could be debarred from holding a lcence. That is obviously nonsense.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Ofcom,a body set up to monitor stuff who don't monitor stuff. They only judge who they can monitor. As i said, it's very funny this. More please london_calliing.
Has anybody got any info on how a black mark against NewsCorp by Ofcom would play out in China,someone mentioned it would keep them out of the Chinese market for ten years but I can't find any info with google.Murdoch has already dropped the BBC news channel from Star TV to appease the Chinese government and I suspect the real damage to them would be done by the Chinese authorities if they become upset by their behaviour in Western countries.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Not if you're denying that it affects the rest of their stake in BSkyB it isn't.
You really don't know how stupid you are, do you? Willful ignorance has that effect.
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