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

[Brixton Hatter]

Rupert Murdoch resigns from News International

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...Rupert-Murdoch-steps-down-from-NI-boards.html

Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a string of companies behind The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, fuelling expectations that he is preparing to sell the newspaper group.
Companies House filings show that Mr Murdoch stepped down from the boards of the NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp Investments in the UK last week. He also quit a number of News Corp’s US boards, the details of which have yet to be disclosed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

[newbie]

don't take that as too positive

News Corp plans to split into two firms, separating its newspaper and book publishing interests from its now dominant TV and film enterprises.
Mr Murdoch is expected to chair both businesses but to be chief executive only of the TV and film side.

Beeb

 

[weltweit]

I feel a bit sorry for the old git re Sky, after all he created it from scratch and beat rival BSB completely to market, now he can't own his baby.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fuck off!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I feel a bit sorry for the old git re Sky, after all he created it from scratch and beat rival BSB completely to market, now he can't own his baby.

He "built Sky from scratch" by using illegal tactics to deprive competitors of income, misrepresenting coverage and programming, and a load of other underhand tactics. Hard to feel sorry for him.

 

[claphamboy]

I feel a bit sorry for the old git re Sky, after all he created it from scratch and beat rival BSB completely to market, now he can't own his baby.

Fuck off, he built that business via very 'underhand methods', and I use that term to avoid legal action against urban and/or me that the term I would like to use could bring.

And, lets not forget his 'alleged' illegal involvement in taking down OnDigital/ITV Digital.

He's a cunt, that got away with it for far too long, fuck him.

* and nothing in this post has any bearing on what the cunt did to Chris Cary, a man I had only met a couple of times, but had one hell of a lot of respect for in some respects, for all Chris's faults, he didn't deserve what Murdoch did. Two pirates in a plod, IMO, but one had more money and better connections in the establishment, that left the other totally fucked.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.

The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring.

A four-year investigation by The Australian Financial Review has revealed a global trail of corporate dirty tricks directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp known as Operational Security.

Their actions devastated News’s competitors, and the resulting waves of high-tech piracy assisted News to bid for pay TV businesses at reduced prices – including DirecTV in the US, Telepiu in Italy and Austar. These targets each had other commercial weaknesses quite apart from piracy.

http://afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/pay_tv_piracy_hits_news_OV8K5fhBeGawgosSzi52MM

That article is about his nefarious activities in Oz, but there's compelling evidence that he pulled the same shit in the US, UK and Italy too.

Using a mix of hackers and ex-Israeli intelligence spooks to make sure that so many people were easily able to pirate his rivals that they couldn't make money.

 

[belboid]

"The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Glenn Mulcaire and Neville Thurlbeck will face charges relating to phone hacking."

excellent

 

[killer b]

cps announcement: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Glenn Mulcaire and Neville Thurlbeck will face charges relating to phone hacking.

too slow!

 

[butchersapron]

CPS had to jump that way after all this i think.

 

[butchersapron]

Coulsen in the mix. Great.

 

[belboid]

Coulsen Brooks & Thurlbeck all being done specifically for hacking Milly Dowlers phone

 

[butchersapron]

Coulsen Brooks & Thurlbeck all being done specifically for hacking Milly Dowlers phone

Big big move.

 

[killer b]

the guardian's dan sabbagh has some specifics on twitter:

Brooks charges relating to Dowler and Andrew Gilchrist. Coulson relating to Dowler, Blunkett, Charles Clarke, Calum Best.

Kuttner, Dowler and Blunkett. Miskiw 9 charges incl Dowler, Sven, Gilchrist, Blunkett, Delia Smith, Charles Clarke, Law, Miller, Rooney

Thurlbeck, seven charges. Dowler, Sven, Blunkett, C Clarke, Jolie, Brad Pitt, Oaten, Tessa Jowell. (US names there)

Mulcaire faces charges incl relating to Dowler, Delia Smith, Charles Clarke.

Two suspects - charging decision deferred. Not named. Insufficient evidence against three others. Not named.

 

[killer b]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2012/jul/24/phone-hacking-cps-charges-live#block-18

 

[butchersapron]

The return of Miskiw. Interesting.

 

[Wilf]

Her (Brooks) husband seems to be one of the missing names - the laptop incident. Presumably means he's got off or yet to be decided?

 

[Wilf]

Return of the Misk


Edit:

 

[butchersapron]

Return of the Misk


Edit:

Get out.

Oaten?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Nev's not blogged since 9 July... Come on, Conan, pull your finger out of your arse!

http://www.nevillethurlbeck.com/

 

[Wilf]

Get out.

Oaten?

He'll never sue, they filled his mouth with gold.

 

[Wilf]

Nev's not blogged since 9 July... Come on, Conan, pull your finger out of your arse!

http://www.nevillethurlbeck.com/

The 'for Neville' prison cell.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The return of Miskiw. Interesting.

Alastair Morgan certainly seems not unhappy about who's been charged.

 

[butchersapron]

He'll never sue, they filled his mouth with gold.

Resists, resists...

 

[Wilf]

Resists, resists...

Dammit, poised perfectly over the net. You're off my beach volleyball team for good.

 

[yardbird]

Her (Brooks) husband seems to be one of the missing names - the laptop incident. Presumably means he's got off or yet to be decided?

He has been charged along with Brooks for other offences.

 

[Teaboy]

Interesting to see Blunkett's name appearing all over that charge sheet. Given his position of a former home secretary who was forced to resign after details of an affair came public through the Murdoch press, who then went on to do a highly paid column in either the sun or n.o.w (can't remember which). Did Blunckett know his phone had been hacked way back then? If so why didnt he say anything at the time? Also why has he not said anything since? Did he even cooperate with the Police investigation?

 

[Wilf]

On the face of it this looks astonishingly bad for Cameron. His good friend and dinner partyist + number 10 inner circle member in a criminal court. How much traction it will still have by the time it gets to court is another matter.

 

[Teaboy]

On the face of it this looks astonishingly bad for Cameron. His good friend and dinner partyist + number 10 inner circle member in a criminal court. How much traction it will still have by the time it gets to court is another matter.

Its not a killer blow by any means, but its just another incidence which highlights his very poor judgment and supports the ever growing belief that he is a dim lightweight chancer.

 

[butchersapron]

Its not a killer blow by any means, but its just another incidence which highlights his very poor judgment and supports the ever growing belief that he is a dim lightweight chancer.

Well, if Coulson stands up in court and says that Cameron has told the world a pack of lies about him and his relations/work practices etc then he is in serious trouble - potentially killer trouble.