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

[craigxcraig]

Just listening to this now on R5 - unbelievable, what a worm.

 

[Dan U]

Squirmy

What a cunt

 

[dirty dingus]

Hope this prick gets his just deserts, he's now saying he saved auld lizzie by sticking an undercover reporter in buck palace. I just hope later witnesses stick him right in and his smugness comes crashing down, a wee spell in the clink would be most pleasing.

 

[Ted Striker]

When I see others work themselves up and shower such bile and abuse at some random famous sleb, I look at their posts with a sense of inability to understand that they can't look past the fact that they don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, and merely affect actions or words written about a world far away from any sphere that actually matters to theirs or mine.

And then I remember, like today, how much I really would punch the air if/when Moron gets it.

What a truly odious cunt. I can't say I use the word sparingly because I don't, but I mean it more when I talk about guys like him

 

[danny la rouge]

Piers Morgan ffs
"I don't recall"
"I didn't know"

Bollocks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16259941

Morgan says it wasn't necessarily unethical for him to listen to the McCartnry message, and that he won't reveal his source. He's basically saying Heather played it to him. Which is probably true.

 

[Ted Striker]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16259941

Morgan says it wasn't necessarily unethical for him to listen to the McCartnry message, and that he won't reveal his source. He's basically saying Heather played it to him. Which is probably true.

Yup, might be 'interesting'*

*Sadly predictable that it could well have been Heather, and another open goal for Piers

 

[danny la rouge]

Indeed. It'd be nice for someone to bring him down. But what with Mensch and Mills, it looks like the attacks are coming from lower in the gutter than even he is.

 

[London_Calling]

He certainly lived down to expectations.

You don't have to be an expert in body language to know what this means:

You sack of shit.

Also interesting to see the contrast between this kind of seemingly gentle grilling and filleting, and what the hopeless grandstanding circus of the HoC Committee managed.

 

[butchersapron]

Related:

First police officer arrested over alleged payments from journalists

The Metropolitan police have arrested a 52-year-old female serving police officer over payments from journalists, Scotland Yard has said.

 

[butchersapron]

...and not good for those wanted a Mulcaire turns on the NOTW outcome:

Glenn Mulcaire wins legal fees battle with News of the World publisher

News Group Newspapers had no right to cancel private eye's legal fees over alleged phone hacking, high court rules

 

[laptop]

Meanwhile, "Piers talking bollocks" shock:

Phone hacking appeared to be a "bog-standard journalistic tool" for gathering information, a former Daily Mirror financial reporter has said.

James Hipwell, who was jailed in 2006 for writing about firms whose shares he owned, said he witnessed repeated privacy infringements at the paper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16283935

Not your ideal witness, but boy, does this story keep giving...

 

[Limejuice]

Is it me, or are some of the lawyers attending the inquiry, especially the bouffant-haired chap representing the celebrities, insufferable pricks?

 

[Ted Striker]

Is it me, or are some of the lawyers attending the inquiry, especially the bouffant-haired chap representing the celebrities, insufferable pricks?

He let Piers basically call him a cunt yesterday. Oddly enough I was just looking him up to confirm he wasn't working on behalf of the newspapers.

The main guy (Jay) isn't so bad (he is the spit of a very good friend of mine, so maybe that's it!), though you'd wish they'd all have a bit more fire.

Leveson has an IMO charming way of pausing like an old Granparent nodding off in front of the fireplace mid speech.

 

[Limejuice]

I quite like Leveson, generally. He can sometimes be a bit self-important, but I suppose the inquiry has his name above the door.

Yes, Jay is quite agreeable, but he does get snappy when witnesses don't answer the question. He gives me the impression of being a bit distant, forgetting perhaps that in the real world, many businesses are fluid and organic and not susceptible to cut and dried facts and yes or no answers. He seems frustrated when witnesses sort of shrug and say it was kind of like that.

The bouffant one come over as an argumentative so-and-so, who hasn't quite got it that it's an inquiry not a prosecution. I get the impression that he is grandstanding, aware maybe that his performance is being streamed live. So he's pushing up the "I'm dead clever" switch to a solid 10 and the "Adore me, I'm a dashing advocate chosen by the slebs" to 11.

Cracking entertainment at times, though.

 

[butchersapron]

Coulsen loses same claim as Mulcaire

 

[laptop]

Coulsen loses same claim as Mulcaire

His duties comprised only of lawful activities.

Judicial humour at its best?

 

[Streathamite]

Not your ideal witness, but boy, does this story keep giving...

I know James; there's worse than him.
e2a; edited for prudence

 

[butchersapron]

Don't say it on here then eh?

 

[Ted Striker]

I think other people might be able to come to the same conclusion quite easily, in fairness (Assuming you're replying to Streathamite).

Also in the News, Mills fires back http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cel...played-voicemail-message-to-Piers-Morgan.html

(Though her choice of words is interesting - "never played Morgan tapes" <> "Never authorised Morgan to hear the tapes")

 

[Streathamite]

Don't say it on here then eh?

My bad
tbf, he was an entirely respectable journo on Business Age and other B2b mags

 

[Streathamite]

Coulsen loses same claim as Mulcaire

interesting how Coulson's and Mulcaire's contractual rights have been interpreted quite differently

 

[London_Calling]

An editor and a hack have different contracts.

 

[Streathamite]

Mulcaire was an 'independent' PI

 

[DaveCinzano]

So are you going to edit, or did you originally write something even more imprudent?

 

[London_Calling]

Sorry, I was thinking of the esteemed journalist McMullen. Same point though.

 

[Streathamite]

So are you going to edit, or did you originally write something even more imprudent?

sorry?

 

[ymu]

sorry?

Are you going to edit out the post that has been pointed out could be prejudicial to the proceedings? There's a reason no one's quoted it ...

 

[Ted Striker]

Are you going to edit out the post that has been pointed out could be prejudicial to the proceedings? There's a reason no one's quoted it ...

But it's (pretty much) common knowledge? He's been played as a disgruntled ex-employee all through.

 

[two sheds]

Gordon Brown's Downing Street emails 'hacked'...Computer crime by press may be as widespread as phone scandal

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gordon-browns-downing-street-emails-hacked-6283985.html

Surely this sort of thing is a crime against the democratic process. Not that anything will happen but you'd think illegally accessing the Chancellor's communications would be covered by something like treason? Perhaps all this could end in some good beheadings after all.

 

[London_Calling]

Computer hacking is the dark horse in all of this; not as media-friendly but far more significant.

Can you imagine the market sensitive information on the Chancellor's computers - unbelievable.