The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

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groan

tpp, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

lool

so brycey (history mayne), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

'i'm not afraid of heights, snakes, or red-headed women'

so brycey (history mayne), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is it just me or does KRM look like the unseen hand is doing a five-finger Umbro shuffle?

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

TRIBAL BRAH

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Uh? Via the Telegraph:

14.49 Barack Obama is expected to break his silence on the phone scandal this afternoon. Stay tuned for more.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

TRIBAL BRAH

When James Murdoch was a hip-hop mogul

James Mitchell, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's lachlan tho, guessing his boutique psytrance label didn't get bought by pops

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's hard to tell these wealthy white boys apart, with all their tattoos and suits and board positions.

James Mitchell, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

I wouldn't want someone jailed if they lobbed a bin at my car whilst I was driving it, but I'd definitely want some sort of punishment that would be more than a mild inconvenience to them

if someone threw a bin at a human being in a car i think it wd be naughty but in this case

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rupert Murdoch is very sad:

We are sorry.

The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself.

We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred.

We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected.

We regret not acting faster to sort things out.

I realise that simply apologising is not enough.

Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society. We need to live up to this.

In the coming days, as we take further concrete steps to resolve these issues and make amends for the damage they have caused, you will hear more from us.

Sincerely,

Rupert Murdoch

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Grovelling little bastard

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh and apparently Cameron had Coulson over for tea or something two months after the latter resigned. Bros, kicking back.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Everyone deserves a third chance

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

hope he's got the same idea of "taking concrete steps" as me

this planit is socked up and dave is a cul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

16.14 Rupert Murdoch is meeting the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail was hacked into by the News of the World, BBC News reports.

"No, really, I insist, please take all this money."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah they seem quite happy to support the super soaraway lying cunt

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

16.20 More on that meeting between Rupert Murdoch and the Dowlers. BBC News reporting that the meeting at a central London hotel was arranged hastily this morning, with the Dowlers told: "Rupert wants to meet you".
They were said to be desperate not to be used as an instrument of spin but still agreed to the meeting. Murdoch was wearing a full suit this afternoon as he went into the hotel, a change from the tracksuits and casual wear we've seen him in this week.

Really, really wish he had gone in in the tracksuit.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

And that ad as it will run:

WE ARE SORRY plzleaveusalone

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

they should get Morrissey to release "Suedehead '11" for this

she choots, she pah! (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

OK, soz, thxbye.

Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost -- that would make the final lines a little...weird.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

16.29 A little more detail is coming from Downing St about Andy Coulson's stay at Chequers in March. He was invited to dinner and to stay overnight as a "thank you for his work" before his resignation in January.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

i smell a slash fiction genre

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

the most terrifying of smells

Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Slash *is* the genre. The term you are looking for is "pairing".

Karen D. Tregaskin, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorry K i knew it was badly worded

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

the most terrifying of smells

At the least, rather moist.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

At Dave’s house Andy listened to the message with a smile on his face. Soon enough Dave would know all about the Game. Andy felt himself harden at the thought of what lay ahead for them both, not just tonight but over the weekend to come.

Andy’s hand slipped down inside his pants, grabbing his cock and gently pulling his hand along its engorged length. He moaned at the sensations flooding his body. Preparing for what was to come had made him so sexually charged he could have climaxed right there and then.

Stop that, he told himself, there is still so much to do before Dave gets back, everything must be perfect. Reluctantly Andy released his hand from his cock and went back to work.

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Stop that

otm

Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost -- Yeah yeah, docudrama and all, but where's your slash entry?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Chancellor of the SexChequers

Neil S, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

sb'd everyone itt, risk of contagion too great

who shivs a git (darraghmac), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Slowly Darragh inched his hand towards the throbbing SB button.

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

jesus CHRIST

who shivs a git (darraghmac), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

He gasped...

that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

lolling like a mf here

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

.. he shouted(xpost), but it was OK, now was not the time..

Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

amazing

Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

was anyone else old/lame enough to be reminded of this

this planit is socked up and dave is a cul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

The perfect thing is that Murdoch's referenced two-thirds through!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

17.24 Mark Lewis, Dowler family solicitor:

"It was a private meeting that had been called for by Rupert Murdoch and he was humbled to give a full and sincere apology to the Dowler family.

"We told him, the Dowler family told him, that his papers should lead the way to set the standard of honesty and decency in the field and not what had gone on before.

"At the end of the day actions are going to speak louder than words. Thank you."

He went on to say, when questioned over Rupert Murdoch: "I think he was very humbled, I think he was very shaken and sincere. I think it was something that has hit him on a very personal level that it shouldn't have happened.

"Yes, he did apologise, he apologised many times. I don't think somebody could have held their head in their hands so many times to say they were sorry.

"It was a heartfelt and what seemed to be a very sincere apology."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Share values keep dropping, you have no idea how sorry I am!"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

sepukku or he don't mean it imo

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Probably saving that for Tuesday.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Would be interested to know the size and nature of Brooks' golden parachute.

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

i have just reached a point where i'm sick of hearing about this. yes please punish everyone who broke the law but i'm just never going to care about it as much as the ppl writing the newspapers obviously (and understandably) do

tpp, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Actually thinking about Murdoch being all apologetic to the Dowlers makes me think about the opening of Snow Crash where it's clear the pizza mogul does not like having to go out and apologize for late delivery.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

We've been caught.

The News of the World was in the business of catching other people. It failed when it came to not getting caught itself.

We are sorry we've been caught.

We are deeply sorry for the hurt we as individuals have suffered by getting caught.

We regret not acting faster to prevent ourselves being caught.

We realise that simply apologising won't change the fact we've been caught. But it might start to give the corrupt politicians and policemen we rely upon to look after us an excuse to start looking after us again.

Our business was founded on the idea that if we owned the press we would be immune from being caught. Your vindictive little country didn't live up to this.

In the coming days as we take further concrete steps to try to obscure the issues and limit the damage caused you will hear more bullshit from us.

Sincerely,

Rupert

frankiemachine, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

I blame the Anti-Sky Bid Alliance

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol this thread started 5 days after she allegedly did 9/11/the offence

caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

wait no, there are ~3 charges, she was allegedly conspiring all through july afaict

caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

is this about when her husband dumped a laptop in a dustbin that time?

It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Perverting the course of justice is a serious crime. It has to be tried in the Crown Court before a jury and can, in theory, lead to a life sentence.

If can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

... LOL, DC

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

I know Cory Doctorow can be irritating, but this is a good review of Dial M for Murdoch:
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/dial-m-for-murdoch-e.html

good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Holy shit. Yeah wondering if some of the charges are linked to this mysterious laptops-in-bins thing, which was never really followed up.

sean gramophone, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

lots of love

caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Shocking apologism from ITN at the moment - "it's not murder, it's not rape -it's sometimes difficult to believe that all this is about accessing voice messages", "if they're cleared, there will be a reckoning"....

Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

sounds like brooks was perfectly happy to participate as long as everything went her way

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

hardcore fucking sook

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

she's so got a dossier .. that statement = "dont fuck with me, or your wife will find out"

mark e, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Brian Limond ‏ @DaftLimmy

Imagine finding Rebekah Brooks dead in her cell. The trauma! Why, I would wish to compensate the officer £10,000. I repeat, £10,000.

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

nagl

raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

nagl pt 2: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/05/jeremy-hunt-fred-michel-texts/

stet, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:32 (11 months ago) Permalink

!

Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

protester but no pie

blair's a poised, smarmy bastard isn't he

all his vocal tics drive me mad

kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 28 May 2012 11:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

Bar-L beckons

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

andy cLOLson

Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 31 May 2012 05:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

david cameROFLon morelike

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Jeremy Hunt says he thought about his own position but 'had conducted the bid scrupulously fairly through every stage'"

DG, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:28 (11 months ago) Permalink

Seem to have gone from having a Prime Minister who would spend days and sleepless nights agonising over whether he prefers Bourbons to Jammy Dodgers to one who doesn't seem to have a thought in his head and a care in the world

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2012 12:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

So all I saw of Cameroon was him answering every qu that he couldn't remember anything, anytime, anywhere or know about any subject.

Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

wouldn't pass his CSE that way

Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 21 June 2012 09:06 (11 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Early tweets say Rupert Murdoch's just resigned as director of NewsInt and The Times!

higgs' besom (suzy), Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:10 (10 months ago) Permalink

O_O

PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:11 (10 months ago) Permalink

this was implicit in the announcement of int/corp split up a couple of weeks ago i guess?

caek, Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink

but lol

caek, Saturday, 21 July 2012 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink

A total of eight out of the 13 people arrested on suspicion of phone hacking will face charges.

A further three people on police bail over hacking allegations have not been charged. The decision relating to two others has been deferred, the CPS has said.

The eight individuals to face charges are: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Glenn Mulcaire, Greg Miskew, Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup.

caek, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:28 (9 months ago) Permalink

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:41 (9 months ago) Permalink

full charge sheet here

joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

Maybe it was a recipe for baking a cake with a hacksaw hidden in it

mod night at the oasis (NickB), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

so for wade this is in addition to perverting the course of justice, but no news yet about a decision on possible corruption charges (i.e. police bribery), right?

caek, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

Is that a separate investigation? I think they have three on the go at the moment.

Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

I expect Cameron, Blair and Brown have been texting her to send their commiserations... uhhhhhhhhhhh

SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah i think it must be. not keeping up with leveson, so i'm missing a lot of the actual news here.

caek, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i think these are from operation weeting (phone hacking); the bribery one is operation elveden and there's also operation tuleta (computer hacking), neither of which the CPS have made a decision on yet.

joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol

caek, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

coulson looks a bit like dom.

caek, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

not too be super cynical but i'd like some more info about how her thing is run, & what she'd actually propose NI do - it's obviously a really nice contrast from just hearing james murdoch at all but it's a very sensible move to distance herself from their gross & toxic overly corporate rhetoric. but yeah hearing someone defend the license fee is neat &c.

very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...
2 weeks pass...

His masochistic glee in receiving kicking after kicking while defending the press in every TV studio in the land suggested he had, uh, issues

Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 March 2013 13:35 (1 month ago) Permalink

the picture in the piece looks like it was taken the morning after he received a drunken kicking in a gutter somewhere. he reeks of 'wrong-un' to an almost comedic degree.

still, i bet that piers hernu looks at mcmullan and wistfully thinks, that could have been me.

The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 23 March 2013 13:37 (1 month ago) Permalink

What a nugget, it took me 20 seconds to find that jam jar story debunked on google http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ec-labels-ban-on-re-using-jam-jars.html

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 23 March 2013 14:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

Mr McMullan, who is 45, says he was inspired to put himself forward as a UKIP candidate by two events.

The first was the fact that three months ago his 80-year-old mother, who likes making jam, was among those affected by the new law from Europe saying she could not re-use jam jars.

“There has to come a time when enough is enough,” said Mr McMullan, who runs the Castle Inn and backpackers hostel in Russell Street, Dover.

my clearest memory of this guy is when steve coogan destroyed him on newsnight, and yet here he's basically just alan partridge

Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 23 March 2013 20:37 (1 month ago) Permalink


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