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

[Divisive Cotton]

the wicked witch has gone!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Eagerly awaiting tears-in-back-of-car shot.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Brooks' resignation:

As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place.

I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate.

This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past.

Therefore I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation. While it has been a subject of discussion, this time my resignation has been accepted.

Rupert's wisdom, kindness and incisive advice has guided me throughout my career and James is an inspirational leader who has shown me great loyalty and friendship.
I would like to thank them both for their support.

 

[butchersapron]

Her statement is here

I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Divisive Cotton]

i hope the paparazzi keep hounding her 24 hours a day

 

[Badgers]

She had gone

 

[butchersapron]

Right, what do we know about Tom Mockridge her replacement? Seems to have been in some battles with Berlusconi in Italy.

 

[dylans]

 

[marty21]

seems there's a MAJOR BREAKING NEWS in this story everyday - you'd think someone was managing it

 

[Badgers]

No comment from Ross Kemp?

 

[peterkro]

Brooks' resignation:

Translation,they've got clear evidence I knew the law was being broken on a daily basis,I'm off.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

No comment from Ross Kemp?

Is that the sound of champagne corks being popped in Kemp Towers I hear?

(And is the brand of champers Chardonnay-Freude?)

 

[revlon]

No comment from Ross Kemp?

he made his excuses and left

 

[Badgers]

Ross Kemp doing the Ewok dance

 

[Flavour]

what a cynical move! just so she won't be a standing exec when she answers the Qs on tuesday. no doubt her golden parachute is in the seven figure territory

 

[ViolentPanda]

they were the days. back to my earlier point (that most people are getting bored) is this the crux of it, phone hacking just isnt that bad - sure most people draw the line at hacking dead teenagers phones, but as corporate scandals go, this is hardly bhopal or enron or even the gulf spill, it was a bit naughty and a bit out of order, but no-one died

I think that what's probably behind a lot of the shock/anger is that finding out that the media have done this to (insert number here) people pushes you into a situation where it seems logical to conclude "if they can do that, where do they actually stop?".

and where did this whole right to privacy bullshit come from anyway

I think it's just developed. As we (as a society) become more an more saturated with technologies that have a potential for intrusiveness, people have come to assume (because that's all it really is) that they have a right to privacy.
Now, it's not a foolish assumption by any means, because we exist in a culture that's very focused on "rights", but legally and technically, we have very little real protection against determined snoops.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Isn't the Sergeant at Arms still the woman on the right:

Or was Jill Pay fired over letting the cops in to raid Damian Green MP?

E2A: she's still in post.

Interestingly, an image search for "sergeant at arms" site:.uk parliament comes up with pictures of James and Rupert Murdoch

It's "serjeant", by the way.

 

[ericjarvis]

Was I surprised or unsurprised ? Well I wonder exactly how much one man needs to eat in one year ? Does a politician really need three full meals + snacks and that per day ?
Maybe folks would like to think about that ?

MP's expenses for food can include feeding their office staff when working odd hours, and also providing food for meetings. That's primarily what it's intended for and only covers what the MP actually eats whilst they are on parliamentary business. I would hope most MPs in poorer constituencies claim their full allowance for food and manage to come up with ways to spend it on feeding groups of their constituents whenever they can come up with an excuse.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Ross Kemp doing the Ewok dance

Always had him down more as a Chewbacca figure ....do Wookies bust out the moves on Kayyshak?

(And if Kemp is Chewbacca, what would Brooks be? I'm thinking currently of that main assistant to Jabba The Hutt in "Return of the Jedi"....or would she be the initial dancer lady for Murdoch The Hutt, who then gets gobbled up by the Rancor of truth, justice, public opinion etc?)

 

[smokedout]

I think that what's probably behind a lot of the shock/anger is that finding out that the media have done this to (insert number here) people pushes you into a situation where it seems logical to conclude "if they can do that, where do they actually stop?".

yeah i suppose so

I think it's just developed. As we (as a society) become more an more saturated with technologies that have a potential for intrusiveness, people have come to assume (because that's all it really is) that they have a right to privacy.
Now, it's not a foolish assumption by any means, because we exist in a culture that's very focused on "rights", but legally and technically, we have very little real protection against determined snoops.

agree again. i'm not saying im in favour or against it really, i'm not sure. just that this is something thats developed without any real discussion on what it means, and by and large it exists to serve the agenda of the rich and powerful. squidgygate proves this kind of thing was routine only 20 years ago, pretty hard to avoid when conversations were flying through the air unprotected - as i recall the only real note of dissent was the fact it happened to charlie and di, not that it was going on

now weve got to the point where a public figure like mosley can keep what was arguably criminal activity out of the press just so his missus doesnt find out what he's really up to - what we're basically talking about it the right to keep secrets, keeping secrets is fine, but you have to be careful and if you really dont want to be found out then you dont do it - id say it was the individuals responsibility to keep their own secrets, not the responsibility of anyone who might have found out

(obv phone hacking is a bit of a greyish area)

 

[ericjarvis]

they were the days. back to my earlier point (that most people are getting bored) is this the crux of it, phone hacking just isnt that bad - sure most people draw the line at hacking dead teenagers phones, but as corporate scandals go, this is hardly bhopal or enron or even the gulf spill, it was a bit naughty and a bit out of order, but no-one died

and where did this whole right to privacy bullshit come from anyway

They didn't just hack Millie Dowler's voicemail. They deleted messages on it in the early days of the police investigation of her disappearance. It's far more than privacy. It's about the NotW assuming the right to interfere with a police investigation and to mislead the parents of a missing teenager in the hope that they might find a story... and then bribing and blackmailing people to cover it up afterwards.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Always had him down more as a Chewbacca figure ....do Wookies bust out the moves on Kayyshak?

Kashyyyk.

(Sorry. Geek.)

 

[ViolentPanda]

what a cynical move! just so she won't be a standing exec when she answers the Qs on tuesday. no doubt her golden parachute is in the seven figure territory

She and the Murdochs are very likely hoping her resignation will draw some of the heat from any parliamentary or public enquiry.

I hope the exact opposite.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Always had him down more as a Chewbacca figure ....do Wookies bust out the moves on Kayyshak?

(And if Kemp is Chewbacca, what would Brooks be? I'm thinking currently of that main assistant to Jabba The Hutt in "Return of the Jedi"....or would she be the initial dancer lady for Murdoch The Hutt, who then gets gobbled up by the Rancor of truth, justice, public opinion etc?)

You know what worries me? How pleased Chewbacca looks when he's among the Ewoks. He has an expression akin to paedos walking past school gates.

 

[smokedout]

You know what worries me? How pleased Chewbacca looks when he's among the Ewoks. He has an expression akin to paedos walking past school gates.

chewbacca was a nonce, now thats a scoop

 

[ericjarvis]

Just ring up the Met and ask if X is on the list. They'd probably tell you.

Can't afford to bribe police officers, apparently it's not something taken into consideration when they decide on how much income support I get.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Kashyyyk.

(Sorry. Geek.)

Yer right (I did once sit through "Star Wars Holiday Special" which was set on said planet, and whose name was mentioned (or grunted, in the case of the Wookies) muchly).

 

[pk]

Holloway Prison has a cell ready for Rebekah Brooks.

Let's hope she is able to spend time there soon.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

chewbacca was a nonce, now thats a scoop

Did someone hack the comms system of the Millenium Falcon?

"Many people died to bring you this information".