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

[killer b]

there's a German word for it I believe

hosenscheisse?

 

[Kaka Tim]

The 'I was on holiday' excuse from Wades/Brooks is despreately lame - laughable in fact.

How long before Murdoch presses the button, the trapdoor opens under her chair and shes lands in a pool of piranahs?

And the tactic of NI releasing more shit about coulson is pretty stupid - its not distracting from anything, its just adding to the growing stench of corruption, cess pit morality and criminality engulfing news international.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

hosenscheisse?

Bullenscheisse oder Pferdescheisse

 

[killer b]

it's maginificent just how ineptly they're dealing with it, tbh.

 

[Zabo]

Could'nt happen to a nicer shower of cunts ,there's a German word for it I believe

Schadenfreude

 

[dylans]

practically no-one will cancel their sky sub, and tbh no-one should, unless you're happy to organise a boycott of every single NI company going (including watching no 20th C Fox films, not buying any Harper Collins Books, never looking at Myspace and lots more). that whole line of reasoning is just a shit one that i suspect is as much to do with people's perceptions of the kind of people who watch sky/read NotW as opposed to any principled opposition to NI products.

All true but tbh I don't really care. I am just enjoying seeing them suffer. Right now they are reviled and detested by everyone which is richly deserved. They are wounded and they are hurting and, no matter how long it runs and no matter what the final outcome, it's great to see so I will do my best to add the their pain in my little way and just enjoy watching the show in the hope that the scandal causes as much damage to them and those associated with them as possible before they recover.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I must say I am fucking loving watching the NOTW getting hammered. I honestly can't think of a more deserving target. This is revenge for all the decades of poisonous hate and self righteous hypocrisy, for every semi pornographic "expose" dressed up as moral crusading. This is revenge for all the vile and just plain nasty attacks on the unemployed and single parents, for all the cheap xenophic bile and fake moral outrage. Revenge is sweet and I hope this runs and runs and drowns the whole stinking lot in their own shit

Whilst I agree with you, I do find it a bit bittersweet knowing that the NOTW is not getting mauled because people are sick of their hatemongering, their loathsome politics or their atrocious journalistic standards but rather because one incident has kicked of the big moral-outrage-o-matic that is the british public when they're told to be outraged. The knee-jerk reaction that is biting them in the arse now is the same one they've expolited themselves for decades to manipulate the public mood and distort public perception. And I don't think anything good can come of it to be honest.

Lets not forget that the Daily Mail will escape unscathed and quite possibly stronger than ever despite not being a rizla's breadth away from Murdoch and pals in terms of content and (lack of) integrity. Let's not forget either that the lies the NOTW has sold to the public will not disappear from the public consciousness. The poor will still be scroungers; every public park will still have its squadron of resident nonces; asylum seekers will still drive BMWs and smoke monte cristos at your expense.

But that's not to say I'm not enjoying watching all this unfold. In fact I'm seriously worried I might die laughing if Brooks ends up in prison.

 

[Zabo]

SpookyFrank. Best post on the thread.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Whilst I agree with you, I do find it a bit bittersweet knowing that the NOTW is not getting mauled because people are sick of their hatemongering, their loathsome politics or their atrocious journalistic standards but rather because one incident has kicked of the big moral-outrage-o-matic that is the british public when they're told to be outraged. The knee-jerk reaction that is biting them in the arse now is the same one they've expolited themselves for decades to manipulate the public mood and distort public perception. And I don't think anything good can come of it to be honest.

Lets not forget that the Daily Mail will escape unscathed and quite possibly stronger than ever despite not being a rizla's breadth away from Murdoch and pals in terms of content and (lack of) integrity. Let's not forget either that the lies the NOTW has sold to the public will not disappear from the public consciousness. The poor will still be scroungers; every public park will still have its squadron of resident nonces; asylum seekers will still drive BMWs and smoke monte cristos at your expense.

But that's not to say I'm not enjoying watching all this unfold. In fact I'm seriously worried I might die laughing if Brooks ends up in prison.

True to an extent, but also there many people in quite influential postions who resent murdoch and the power of News Interantional, some of this is for personal reasons, some are media rivals and some are people who are genuninely morally and ideological opposed to the cancer on democracy that is Murdoch. The multiple scandals now engulfing NI and the public outrage have given these people a perfect opportunity to get their teeth into the dirty digger - and at the same time expsoing the culpable spinlessness of the much of the rest of the media and all the main political parties.

 

[weltweit]

True to an extent, but also there many people in quite influential postions who resent murdoch and the power of News Interantional, some of this is for personal reasons, some are media rivals and some are people who are genuninely morally and ideological opposed to the cancer on democracy that is Murdoch. The multiple scandals now engulfing NI and the public outrage have given these people a perfect opportunity to get their teeth into the dirty digger - and at the same time expsoing the culpable spinlessness of the much of the rest of the media and all the main political parties.

Personally I am just a bit bemused by all the excitement about it.

I don't use any News International products, as far as I can tell, I am completely ambivalent about Murdock himself.

Yes, hacking murder victims phones is not on, the police should take action, but it somehow does not surprise me.

And, this all took place under new Labour. Why did they do nothing?

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Just listening to BBC News now - Murdoch's still backing Brooks to stay on as Chief Exec at N.I., though he's muttered something about being "concerned".

 

[magneze]

Ok, so advertisers targetted. Who distributes NOTW? That could be an additional pressure point..

 

[killer b]

Personally I am just a bit bemused by all the excitement about it.

I don't use any News International products, as far as I can tell, I am completely ambivalent about Murdock himself.

Yes, hacking murder victims phones is not on, the police should take action, but it somehow does not surprise me.

And, this all took place under new Labour. Why did they do nothing?

Read the thread you bellend.

 

[butchersapron]

Whilst I agree with you, I do find it a bit bittersweet knowing that the NOTW is not getting mauled because people are sick of their hatemongering, their loathsome politics or their atrocious journalistic standards but rather because one incident has kicked of the big moral-outrage-o-matic that is the british public when they're told to be outraged. The knee-jerk reaction that is biting them in the arse now is the same one they've expolited themselves for decades to manipulate the public mood and distort public perception. And I don't think anything good can come of it to be honest.

Lets not forget that the Daily Mail will escape unscathed and quite possibly stronger than ever despite not being a rizla's breadth away from Murdoch and pals in terms of content and (lack of) integrity. Let's not forget either that the lies the NOTW has sold to the public will not disappear from the public consciousness. The poor will still be scroungers; every public park will still have its squadron of resident nonces; asylum seekers will still drive BMWs and smoke monte cristos at your expense.

But that's not to say I'm not enjoying watching all this unfold. In fact I'm seriously worried I might die laughing if Brooks ends up in prison.

Disgusting hate filled snobbish filth. As per normal. Others peoples anger isn't as good as mine.

 

[SpookyFrank]

True to an extent, but also there many people in quite influential postions who resent murdoch and the power of News Interantional, some of this is for personal reasons, some are media rivals and some are people who are genuninely morally and ideological opposed to the cancer on democracy that is Murdoch. The multiple scandals now engulfing NI and the public outrage have given these people a perfect opportunity to get their teeth into the dirty digger - and at the same time expsoing the culpable spinlessness of the much of the rest of the media and all the main political parties.

Perhaps I am being a bit too cynical. Perhaps we actually are witnessing the beginning of the end for the idea of the media empire. But it can't just be left to outrage to sort it all out. The advertisers abandoning the NOTW are not doing so for moral reasons, they're just arse-covering like corporations always do. If the polictical establishment were any further up Murdoch's arse you'd see the top of David Cameron's head whenever he yawned.

Soon there will be another story for everyone to get mad about and just like with MPs expenses a few sacrificial lambs will be cast aside and life will continue more or less as normal. Let's not forget we are relying on other media outlets to lead the witch hunt. You're not going to see the Guardian or the Torygraph printing editorials about how the whole of British journalism is an excercise in putting carts before horses, about how its true purpose is not to inform the public but to dictate to them, to narrow the political and cultural spectrum and generally make everyone easier to manipulate, coerce and control. If Murdoch falls, he will be replaced. And he won't be replaced by someone nice.

e2a: I notice that while I'm sat here doommongering, other people are out doing their darndest to help cripple the NOTW and NI in general. Perhaps I should be doing that instead...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Ok, so advertisers targetted. Who distributes NOTW? That could be an additional pressure point..

iirc News International Distribution Limited, so not really worth putting pressure on.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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[DrRingDing]

Disgusting hate filled snobbish filth. As per normal. Others peoples anger isn't as good as mine.

 

[weltweit]

...
If Murdoch falls, he will be replaced. And he won't be replaced by someone nice.
...

That is also my feeling.

His organisation is the one in the media storm, because his was the one caught out, I seriously doubt his is the only media organisation that did these sorts of things.

 

[butchersapron]

Yes but you say that about everything I post. And with as little explanation as to the reasons for your ire. So you'll forgive me if I ignore you.

Not sure why such transparent snobbish simpleton stuff needs much of an explanation. Over to you though. You always bottle out and pretend you were joking anyway.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

To all our customers we would like to clarify the situation. This morning, Specsavers pulled its advertising from the News of the World following the allegation that the paper hacked in to the mobile phones of terrorist and murder victims.

 

[SpookyFrank]

e2a: No, I can't be bothered.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Can this thread not get filled with posters taking potshots at each other?

 

[TruXta]

Can this thread not get filled with posters taking potshots at each other?

This is P&P, what do you expect?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can this thread not get filled with posters taking potshots at each other?

I've removed my last two posts as they looked a bit too much like troll food.

 

[Badgers]

Have Cash 4 Gold pulled their advertising yet?

 

[butchersapron]

So I'm too stupid to understand why you're upset? Now who's being snobbish eh? Go on, try me. Make an actual point.

Your post was that of a moral simpleton. Your anger is pure, that of others is ' force fed' - the bovine fakers. The anguished howl of the teenage band name on the pencil case.

 

[Voley]

It's a really good thread for keeping up with a story that's developing rapidly. The usual P&P spats won't help that much. Typing this I am suddenly gripped by an immense feeling of futility but I think I'll hit 'post reply' anyhow.

 

[agricola]

Have Cash 4 Gold pulled their advertising yet?

I doubt it, after all if they had any kind of morality they wouldnt be in business in the first place.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's a really good thread for keeping up with a story that's developing rapidly. The usual P&P spats won't help that much.

This.