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

Misread twitter and genuinely thought that Charlie Brooker had been arrested - my heart gave a little leap of mean joy until I realised I was mistaken.

conspiracy to be really smug on television

Conspiracy to destroy humour forever.

This could be huge if it turns out to be true:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/news-corp-ondigital-paytv-panorama

almost identical allegations emerge in australia. four year investigation and 14,000 emails to back it up sounds promising. also:

The issue is particularly sensitive because Operational Security, which is headed by Reuven Hasak, a former deputy director of the Israeli domestic secret service, Shin Bet, operates in an area which historically has had close supervision by the Office of the Chairman, Rupert Murdoch.

and:

The actions are documented in an archive of 14,400 emails held by former Metropolitan Police commander Ray Adams who was European chief for Operational Security between 1996 and 2002.

a met police commander overseeing a criminal conspiracy on behalf of rupert murdoch? i'm astonished!

holy shit

i've just been through the whole story. they're clear in saying that the piracy and hacking wasn't illegal in australia then - although it's also clear they were hacking and pirating cards in other countries where piracy was illegal. (they even had the chutzpah to get one of their own hackers thrown in jail in thailand - via hacking his email!)

by the time you get to the end, they're charging other pay TV companies for "security", against the hacking that they'd sponsored. nice pay TV company you've got here, would be a shame for anything to happen to it, eh?

what especially sucks about that is that foxtel (only 25% owned by news corp btw) is essentially running a pay tv monopoly here, having either defeated in the market or attempted to acquire its opposition (in a country where murdoch already has far too much influence)

FREE MARKET BLARGH BLARGH BLARGH

Frontline all about this tonight for US Fans of Murdoch-Bashing.

I am another crazy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/05/sky-news-hacking-emails-canoe-man

LOL BSkyB

i think this is the right time to revisit this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5mVoqJpUk

POOR JAMES

Naughtie obv, murdoch can go boil

JM has got a really annoying voice. I can't work out whether he's irritated he's at the inquiry or just a bit thick.

shoulda stuck to the record industry imho

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/so-permanent-secretary-did-jeremy-hunt-tell-parliament-the-truth-yesterday-7681804.html

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sthing abt his cadence, nonsequiturs and partially demented rambling reminds me of lee perry

he is a great tweeter

he is a terrible human being

JM has got a really annoying voice. I can't work out whether he's irritated he's at the inquiry or just a bit thick.

non-stop corporate bollock speak does that - impossible to emote when talking that shyte.

i would love for some to drop him a tab, see him loosen up and see what happens then.

i reckon he is holding some serious secrets for future power games.

I reckon he is a bit thick

oh my

Entertaining stuff, this report.

(from the guardian):

‎"Philip Davies says it is not only way over the top, but completely ludicrous, to say that Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run a major international company.

"We all make mistakes, we all wish we'd done things differently," he says."

That's him admitting he shouldn't've been a Tory, then?

i would love for some to drop him a tab, see him loosen up and see what happens then.

it wasn't a tab, but he wasn't as wild and crazy as you'd think, and this was back when he was 21-22

although I guess now with all the money sitting around him he could really afford to be wild and crazy

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3n9ackSUt1qzmrkzo1_1280.jpg

zing

:D burrrrrrrn

On her relationship with News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch, she said "in the main, on the big issues we had similar views" but they disagreed over issues including the environment, immigration and font size.

"anti-Sky bid alliance"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/15/rebekah-brooks-charged-perverting-course-justice?CMP=twt_gu

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday.

oh that's too bad

Still, Chin up and lol, etc.

In a statement, they accused the CPS of "posturing" and said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision."

looking important to this important and high-profile news story gracing the cover of tomorrow's telegraph

I blame the Anti-Sky Bid Alliance

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

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

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

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.

... LOL, DC

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

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

lots of love

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"....

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