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

[Bakunin]

Amazing how time and time again those who have spent years challanging the exisistence of human rights laws suddenly find them useful when they are in the shit.

The other irony being that, if it were a couple of dozen people from some other profession being rousted out in dawn raids and having their professional and private lives put through the wringer, the same hacks who are currently whimpering about it would be doorstepping the detainees neighbours, friends and family, harassing them with intrusive and unsolicited phone calls, letters and emails, photographing them without their consent (or even their knowledge, more than likely) and possibly offering their friends and family large amounts of cash to dig up anything dirty on them, be it past or present, while presenting the detainees as the scum of the earth and themselves as the moral guardians of the nation.

 

[Gingerman]

Amazing how time and time again those who have spent years challanging the exisistence of human rights laws suddenly find them useful when they are in the shit.

As a certain right-wing DM columnist with a small dick would say " You could'nt make it up"

 

[Bakunin]

As a certain right-wing DM columnist with a small dick would say " You could'nt make it up"

Would that be the same under-endowed right-wing DM columnist who rants endlessly vile and increasingly incoherently frothing rants about how the country he loves so much is going to hell in a handcart and how devastated he is, while living the majority of his life in Florida, perchance?

 

[Gingerman]

Would that be the same under-endowed right-wing DM columnist who rants endlessly vile and increasingly incoherently frothing rants about how the country he loves so much is going to hell in a handcart and how devastated he is, while living the majority of his life in Florida, perchance?

Aye,the one and only Richard Littledick

 

[Bakunin]

Aye,the one and only Richard Littledick

No, no, no.

You mean 'The one and only Richard 'I'm definitely, absolutely, positively NOT GAY, but I'm definitely suspiciously curious' Littledick.'

Allegedly.

 

[DexterTCN]

Ah but it's interesting. If they can show that newscorp covered up inf to protect higher-ups and then divulged inf to fuck these journos over then they have some kind of case, surely. This is all about america now, anyway. Is it the FCA act or something about paying off people in other countries? Newscorp will throw everything overboard to keep the US and TV market, both of which require high moral standards. #Which means it doesn't even survive as itself, hopefully.

 

[teqniq]

@ dexter contender for the longest hashtag ever? #Whichmeansitdoesntevensurviveasitselfhopefully.

 

[DexterTCN]

I was eating a dary-lea dunkable

 

[shagnasty]

Is the sun still Britain's favorite newspaper, meaning the biggest seller?

Yes it is but has lost a lot of readers but so have all the others check the ABC's on media guardian.i wonder how low readership can drop before some title's have to shut

 

[teqniq]

apols

 

[DexterTCN]

Had 5 packets now...can't be good. nom

shag I think the change in media/technology only the most upright and recognisably honest have any chance of some form of survival. It's good that tis lot go first though...it's appropriate.

So many ripples.

 

[shagnasty]

The ABC's for january
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2012/feb/10/abcs-national-newspapers

 

[ymu]

Amazing how time and time again those who have spent years challanging the exisistence of human rights laws suddenly find them useful when they are in the shit.

Like when the NotW journalists were complaining about losing their jobs just as they had been handed the golden opportunity to live it up on benefits.

 

[articul8]

NUJ now launching campaign to get News International Staff Association (NISA - Murdoch puppet body) derecognised, and NUJ chapel officially recognised. Needs 10% of journo's at NI to call for recognition. Thurlbeck saying it could open the way to biggest print union disputes since Wapping.

 

[DexterTCN]

Since Wapping!

 

[1%er]

NUJ now launching campaign to get News International Staff Association (NISA - Murdoch puppet body) derecognised, and NUJ chapel officially recognised. Needs 10% of journo's at NI to call for recognition. Thurlbeck saying it could open the way to biggest print union disputes since Wapping.

Fuck the journalists from the NotW and the Sun they are the cunts who wrote the shit in the first place, only following orders will not cut it.

No one I know who was involved in Wapping would piss on them if they were on fire

 

[sleaterkinney]

More stuff here, there have long been rumours about NDS

http://afr.com/p/world/murdoch_man_in_new_hacking_row_dPQccMmpprjwaqwreDQV6N

 

[Orang Utan]

the good old sun:

 

[articul8]

Blame the owners/management/editorial bosses

 

[eoin_k]

There is an exhibit commemorating the 25th anniversary of Wapping at the Bishopsgate Institute at the moment.

 

[barney_pig]

Those poor journos at the Sun.... Those poor footballers at Rangers....
The tears are rolling down my face.

 

[gosub]

Murdoch just announced the Sun on Sunday

 

[Lord Camomile]

Was that less than a year?

Will it play, or will people see through it?

 

[gosub]

said it again in email where he unsuspended all the people he grassed up to the dibble

 

[eoin_k]

Is anyone organising a serious Boycott campaign at the moment? It seems like a golden opportunity. This issue has stirred up such widespread distaste that a boycott campaign could be knocking at an open door if it was properly organised.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is anyone organising a serious Boycott campaign at the moment? It seems like a golden opportunity. This issue has stirred up such widespread distaste that a boycott campaign could be knocking at an open door if it was properly organised.

hard to boycott something you don't buy already

 

[eoin_k]

On the contrary, that is very easy. The next step is a campaign to stop others from buying.

 

[newbie]

did droves of people stop buying the NOTW? I thought it was advertisers not wanting to be tarnished by association that sank it, not the readers deserting.

 

[butchersapron]

It was both - and it doesn't take much imagination to realise that they were related responses. All the Murdoch titles lost loads of readers at the height of this

 

[articul8]

Is anyone organising a serious Boycott campaign at the moment? It seems like a golden opportunity. This issue has stirred up such widespread distaste that a boycott campaign could be knocking at an open door if it was properly organised.

Whilst I'd fully support one, I'm not sure how well it would work - people that still regularly by The Sun have proved pretty hard to shift if they're still getting it. I'm guessing price is still a key factor. Targetting the advertisers is another approach but it's a bit chicken-and-egg since they'll only budge with swelling tide of consumer opinion [was the Milly Dowler thing that really tipped the balance last year].