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

[gabi]

Hugh Grant is playing himself to a T..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167512.stm

Bumbling 'loveable' fool

 

[London_Calling]

not.

 

[yardbird]

He makes many valid points.

 

[editor]

He makes many valid points.

Indeed. You can dislike Hugh Grant for a number of reasons. But not this.

 

[TheDave]

Literally tits and filth are the articles topping the Mail website at the moment. No mention of the Leveson Inquiry. Hmm? Quelle surprise!

 

[Fedayn]

Indeed. You can dislike Hugh Grant for a number of reasons. But not this.

Whilst I agree his privacy has been grossly invaded and he has every right to be pissed off it's remarkably difficult to give a flying fuck about him to be honest.

 

[marty21]

watching Milly Dowler's family on BBC news - still shocking that someone deleted calls on her phone leading them to think she was still alive - Mulcaire denying it was him though.

 

[claphamboy]

Whilst I agree his privacy has been grossly invaded and he has every right to be pissed off it's remarkably difficult to give a flying fuck about him to be honest.

I don't give a flying fuck about him, but if can help to fuck over News Int' & the Daily Mail & General Trust I am interested & more than happy to support him in doing that.

 

[claphamboy]

watching Milly Dowler's family on BBC news - still shocking that someone deleted calls on her phone leading them to think she was still alive - Mulcaire denying it was him though.

Yeah, the suggestion is that Mulcaire was some sort of 'gatekeeper' of pin numbers, that he handed over to members of the press that then went on to use them, sort of shits on News Int' even more, doesn't it?

 

[stavros]

I wanted to hear Dacre's unedited response to Grant's accusations. I suspect it would've made the opening of Four Weddings... seem like soft family entertainment.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

watching Milly Dowler's family on BBC news - still shocking that someone deleted calls on her phone leading them to think she was still alive - Mulcaire denying it was him though.

Fucking unthinkable the anguish this caused to Milly's family

Newsthump had it spot on, "Al Qaeda condems News of the World"

 

[Fedayn]

I don't give a flying fuck about him, but if can help to fuck over News Int' & the Daily Mail & General Trust I am interested & more than happy to support him in doing that.

More a means to an end, fair enough, every bit helps I suppose. That said I hope he disappears forever after this.

 

[gabi]

Hugh Grant's agony is currently the lead news story on BBC News 24.

While Egypt Revolution 2.0 is kicking off.

I'm glad I don't pay a license fee.

 

[Dan U]

More stirrings in Oz over Murdochs substantial Australian empire.

Australian police are investigating a former senator's allegations that an executive from Rupert Murdoch's News Limited offered him favourable newspaper coverage and "a special relationship" in return for voting against government legislation.
Bill O'Chee made the allegations in a nine-page statement to police and they were published on Wednesday by Fairfax Media newspapers, rivals of News Corp's Australian subsidiary.
The newspapers reported that an unnamed executive of News Ltd asked O'Chee during a lunch on 13 June 1998 to vote against his conservative government's legislation on the creation of digital TV in Australia. The news group stood to profit from the legislation failing

more - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/23/murdoch-news-corp-senator-bribe

 

[Dan U]

bingo!

James Murdoch resigns from board of directors for the sun and times

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...-murdoch-quits-the-boards-of-sun-and-times.do

Edited for accuracy

 

[butchersapron]

Just for papers mind.

 

[London_Calling]

This made me smile yesterday. Talking about Milly Dowler's phone:

The private detective's solicitor, Sarah Webb, said "... [Mulcaire] confirms that he did not delete messages and had no reason to do so," she added in a statement.

It's nice to have that "confirmed" by the honest broker himself.

And making space for new messages by deleting old messages - in the hope of getting a headline from what the newer messages say - would obv. not be any kind of reason.

 

[Dan U]

Just for papers mind.

BskyB meeting is next week i think. The cash cow

 

[Asriel]

Apparently James Murdoch had stepped down as director of News International subsidiaries.

 

[Badgers]

Apparently James Murdoch had stepped down as director of News International subsidiaries.

Resigned as director of the companies that publish The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Sun. This happened in September though and I think he is still chairman. Might be wrong?

 

[DexterTCN]

This is brilliant, again. The loss of face finishes James I think and hopefully there can be charges too.

If Mulcaire didn't delete the messages, and I say this with no disrespect to the Dowler family at all, it's delicious...someone has to carry the can for that one, better someone much higher up than Mulcaire.

 

[Dan U]

another arrest. from a grun live blog...

This morning, Thursday, 24 November officers from Operation Tuleta arrested a 52-year-old man [1] on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
The man is currently in custody at a Thames Valley Police station.
Operation Tuleta is investigating a number of allegations regarding breach of privacy, received by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) since January 2011, which fell outside the remit of Operation Weeting, including computer hacking.​

 

[Mr Moose]

As much as I appalled by what this enquiry is revealing I'm also appalled by the millions of people who bought this shit. Deep, down everyone knew it was wrong. If you are still reading a paper that vilified the landlord of Jo Yeates, or the McCanns, or regularly serves you lies about asylum seekers you are part of the problem.

 

[gabi]

It's also worth pointing out that the NoTW did produce some very useful investigative journalism (cricket fixing, fergie selling access to andrew etc).

This is a dangerous time for press freedom.

 

[claphamboy]

It's also worth pointing out that the NoTW did produce some very useful investigative journalism (cricket fixing, fergie selling access to andrew etc).

This is a dangerous time for press freedom.

I don't often find myself in agreement with your posts, but you are bang on the spot with this one.

 

[London_Calling]

It's also worth pointing out that the NoTW did produce some very useful investigative journalism (cricket fixing, fergie selling access to andrew etc).

This is a dangerous time for press freedom.

Both the examples you cite have clear public interest dimensions, and would therfore be excluded from any right-to-privacy legislation.

 

[Mr Moose]

It's also worth pointing out that the NoTW did produce some very useful investigative journalism (cricket fixing, fergie selling access to andrew etc).

This is a dangerous time for press freedom.

Underwhelming. Cricket a bit whiffy? The Royal Family self serving privilege? It's hardly 'All the President's Men'.

What next, Bear shits in Wood?

The balance is hopelessly out of kilter. It must be possible to construct laws which allow the powerful to be brought to account without allowing the demolition of private individuals for little more than sport.

 

[Mr Moose]

It's also worth pointing out that the NoTW did produce some very useful investigative journalism (cricket fixing, fergie selling access to andrew etc).

This is a dangerous time for press freedom.

Underwhelming. Cricket a bit whiffy? The Royal Family self serving privilege? It's hardly 'All the President's Men'.

What next, Bear shits in Wood?

The balance is hopelessly out of kilter. It must be possible to construct laws which allow the powerful to be brought to account without allowing the demolition of private individuals for little more than sport.

 

[chazegee]

The guardians coming out of this looking like a saint.

 

[London_Calling]

It appears to have respected reasonable boundaries is all.