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

[pk]

The audaciousness of The Sun printing a front page apology today - not from itself to the people of the UK and beyond, no, the fact that the Guardian was slipped dodgy info, they took the bait, and were then forced to refute dodgy info by Murdochs legal attack dogs. Classic ambush, but for the Scum to champion an apology now, not theirs, that as some sort of desperate righteous claw reaching from the cesspool of evil they might attain victim status???

Fuck that. Stomp those bony claws back into the mire.

 

[pk]

haterz gonna hate innit, playaz gonna play

What about those who swing both ways? AC-DC's?

 

[Santino]

Les Hinton belongs in Coronation Street, surely.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

What about those who swing both ways? AC-DC's?

Well I suppose they could go offski peeps or onski who knows?

Maybe they'll settle for firebombing random pubs...

 

[pk]

I doubt there's much love between Berlusconi and Murdoch.

Sky Italia is the underdog challenger to Berlusconi's stranglehold on Italian TV.

Which certainly provides for some very interesting meetings. Follow the money!

Murdoch vs The Real Italian Mafia, there's a scrap that could get very ugly in a few months.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Have you been made up for entertainment purposes?

Being entertaining will only ever be a dream for you.

 

[pk]

Well I suppose they could go offski peeps or onski who knows?

Maybe they'll settle for firebombing random pubs...

Whatever gets you through the night, I guess.

 

[pk]

Being entertaining will only ever be a dream for you.

Awww, don't be so nasty, she can't help it.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Awww, don't be so nasty, she can't help it.

It's a he.

 

[pk]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/15/us-newscorp-mockridge-idUSTRE76E3U720110715

This Mockridge guy is here to set up The Scum On Sunday.

That's his probable mission brief. Murdoch is pro-active, hence the ridiculous front page of the Scum today.

Who knows what they'll print tomorrow. It's almost poetic, the level of fail.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It's a he.

Really?!?

Evidence?

 

[pk]

It's a he.

The login is hers. If it's the Prozac addled boyfriend you're on yer own there pal...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Whatever gets you through the night, I guess.

You love it more than you'll ever know

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Really?!?

Evidence?

On occasion her dim witted other half logs in under her name. You can tell from the stupidity and lack of content of the posts.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The login is hers. If it's the Prozac addled boyfriend you're on yer own there pal...

That's sad if he's on prozac, I suppose I should just leave him to it in the future...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

On occasion her dim witted other half logs in under her name. You can tell from the stupidity and lack of content of the posts.

paranoid schizophrenic

 

[butchersapron]

Only one left now.

 

[ferrelhadley]

James must be clinging on by his fingernails as well.

 

[frogwoman]

Only one left now.

patience ...

 

[little_legs]

I have a question about the clearance the Prime Minister's personnel must have to work at Downing Street.

I am asking because I still can't get my head around the fact that Cameron employed someone whose background check should have produced funnies, and we are talking about the Communications Director who, during his employment, must have had access to sensitive and/or classified information/documents whilst his background was questionable at best criminal at worst implicating the PM himself given that he had authorised the employment.

Don't they have something like a Yankee White clearance the purpose of which is to, in the long run, proctect the President's office from potentially toxic people?

This scandal just keeps giving and giving...

Anyone familiar with the Downing Street clearance requirements?

 

[frogwoman]

James must be clinging on by his fingernails as well.

His dad won't be happy with him thats for sure ...

 

[Kaka Tim]

So why has hinton resigned?

He's not been in the story much up till now.

Does he know there's more shit coming?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

He was in charge of News International when all the phone hacking and more was going on

 

[ferrelhadley]

So why has hinton resigned?

He's not been in the story much up till now.

Does he know there's more shit coming?

Claimed he had no evidence it went beyond one reporter to a select comittee but he headed up the internal investigation by news international that turned up the evidence handed over to police, its rather implausable that he headed an investigation that found evidnence that it stretched beyond one reporter but did know about the evidence.

 

[sheothebudworths]

The audaciousness of The Sun printing a front page apology today - not from itself to the people of the UK and beyond, no, the fact that the Guardian was slipped dodgy info, they took the bait, and were then forced to refute dodgy info by Murdochs legal attack dogs. Classic ambush, but for the Scum to champion an apology now, not theirs, that as some sort of desperate righteous claw reaching from the cesspool of evil they might attain victim status???

Similarly, I was well fucking irritated listening to Harriet Harman castigating the tories for getting right in there with Murdoch for their own ends....and then suggesting that NL just did much the same because they were scared...AWWWWWWWWWW!


Anyway....I keep meaning to ask about Newscorp's hold in the US but I'm not sure it's appropriate on this thread

I know ymu mentioned that US journailsts are expressly forbidden from accepting hospitality - and also that the press is generally just much better regulated over there.
Well I didn't know that until just recently and I only know (from this thread) that Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal (I think?) but presume he owns others too (and I know there's Fox, obv, and that this news has now started trickling through even there).

I'm not sure what I'm asking really simple stuff, tbf - is their press effectively regulated already, so just not open to this shite?

So there most likely just wouldn't be anything similar coming from US based Newscorp operations?
So any bother there would almost certainly come from the UK press hacking (for eg) 9/11 victims/families - and the other stuff about journalists not being allowed to bribe international officials (which is big enough on it's own, I know!)......but also how much *influence* Murdoch would be likely to have had, politically, by way of his grip on the media there (which is rather more minimal - again because of set legal limitations)?

Soz for the waffle (am shit at formulating questions) but *out of interest* sort of thing...

 

[Kaka Tim]

But the investors are calling for mini rupe's head - not his.

 

[Gingerman]

Murdoch did'nt exactly play a blinder this week did he? one would expect decisive action and a crisp soundbite from an allegedly smart and ruthless businessman,instead our image of him is of a frail,wizened,bewildered looking old man in a trackie and baseball cap with his personal trainer,looking more like a gaga patient with his nurse.

 

[laptop]

Murdoch did'nt exactly play a blinder this week did he? one would expect decisive action and a crisp soundbite from an allegedly smart and ruthless businessman,instead our image of him is of a frail,wizened,bewildered looking old man in a trackie and baseball cap with his personal trainer,looking more like a gaga patient with his nurse.

Guardian diary yesterday was asking whether News Corp might be providing photo opportunities of frail old man while discouraging pictures of thrusting young [criminal] son...

 

[Kaka Tim]

Murdoch did'nt exactly play a blinder this week did he? one would expect decisive action and a crisp soundbite,instead our image of him is of a frail,old man in a trackie and baseball cap with his personal trainer,looking more like a gaga patient with his nurse.

Yep - this is all alien to him. He is compltely unused to having to explain or defend himself - let alone apologise. Its usually its him on the attack. But he's being systematically and publiclly humiliated - forced to close his most proftiable paper, forced into sacking his mates, forced to explain himself to MPs (oh that must smart), forced to print public apologies - and going to be seriously out of pocket by the time this is all over.

 

[Gingerman]

Yep - this is all alien to him. He is compltely unused to having to explain or defend himself - let alone apologise. Its usually its him on the attack. But he's being systematically and publiclly humiliated - forced to close his most proftiable paper, forced into sacking his mates, forced to explain himself to MPs (oh that must smart), forced to print public apologies - and going to be seriously out of pocket by the time this is all over.

Whats that german word?? begins with s