DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

Is that a Cameron lookalike sitting behind Brooks at Wimbledon?

Murdoch wit "this facial expression"

old but wth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AJjnl2y8U

pause at 0:24 for impromptu witch impersonation

A spokesman for T-Mobile said: "We're currently reviewing our advertising position with News of the World, following the recent allegations, and await the outcome of the ongoing police investigation."

Orange put out a similar statement, saying: "We're currently reviewing our advertising position with News of the World, following the recent allegations, and await the outcome of the ongoing police investigation."

Those statements are actually pretty similar

This was tweeted then deleted:

BREAK - @tom_watson tells @itv_news that a senior News Intl executive has confirmed to him Rebekah Brooks will resign tomorrow morning.

Apparently at 9am tomorrow from quite a few reputable tweets.

And this twitter quote is so. fucking. true.

If this had happened at the BBC everyone working there would have been made to resign. Even the cleaners.

holding out for a couple of days then getting brooks to resign seems like a straightforward way to ensure it blows over, with a high-profile visible scalp placating most, without anything substantial being affected :(

dunno it's really kicking off:

Peston
News Int passed emails to police that seem to show Andy Coulson as editor of NOTW authorised payments to police. No comment from Coulson.

he's got to go ham and take brooks down with him.

oh, and 7/7 victims' families:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8619373/News-of-the-World-bereaved-relatives-of-77-victims-had-phones-hacked.html

OH SHIIIIIITTTTT.

fucking hell

incredible scenes

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/05/world/05britain_337cham/05britain_337cham-custom3.jpg

How many more times are they gonna top themselves before this is over?

xxxpost Orange and T-mobile are owned by the same company now, so it's no surprise they would have the same media line.

hope this works:

http://i.imgur.com/Z5EM2.gif

This is really fucked up

how much worse could this get? i am running out of ideas?

have always been opposed to the death penalty but

maybe they hacked the 9/11 guys' phones and deleted the message saying "hey let's blow up the twin towers"?

how much worse could this get? i am running out of ideas?

― caek, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:41 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark

where this all started is the worst story: there's a guy whose murder has never been solved because corrupt cops covered it up. the corrupt cops who were being paid by newspapers including...

McMullen: Of course [Rebekah Brooks] knew about it.
Paxman: She denies it, of course.
McMullen: That's an interesting position to take!

jesus who is this sociopath on newsnight?

(not campbell)

the guy who hugh grant bugged

McMullen trying to make phone hacking seem acceptable by estimating that about 10% of the country does it anyway is certainly an interesting tack to take

"this is not a big deal"

You'd have thought he'd have been embarrassed by what he got caught saying in the Grant wiretapped stuff in public, but he seemed to just be happily pushing the same line on national TV, barefaced

Turned on late, did he manage to plug his his pub?

"Sociopath" label otm

I should go to bed before I become too bile-filled to sleep, but I can't tear myself away.

lol @ arianna huffington shamelessly plugging

ya seriously.

Paxman: Will you stop plugging your publications
Huffington: ABSOLUTELY NOT~~~

AC dropping in casual zings of Peston; hoping the camera will slowly pan back to reveal Peston sitting in the room in tears

private eye should be lolz this week

tomorrow's Sun
http://web10.twitpic.com/img/338875321-6bed9508136c9d0087e73c7c64749848.4e139068-scaled.jpg

becktum from blechdom

Looks like hanging Coulson was the Plan A today; Indy stuff about Wade is going to blow that one up. C4 stuff also unbelievable.

Mumsnet's pulled its Sky adverts, good on 'em, unlike fucking Ford's Twitter-friendly shift-ads-to-Sun move.

I really hope that all this gets the country, as a collective, to really think about what we want and expect from our press. Not at all defending anyone, but if the orders from above are to go follow Jade Goody's children or whatever, and you know a) if you say no you're out of a job, and b) someone else will do it if you don't, because thats the all-too-competitive nature of the industry, then it's going to be awfully difficult to refuse, and I'm certainly not sure that I myself would be able. But if audiences were to make it clear that they weren't that bothered about this kind of intrusive story... Obviously I'm dreaming and hoping rather than being realistic, which is so horribly depressing.

Although, not nearly as much as the idea that a final message to someone in the 7/7 attacks never made it as hackers intercepted messages while the event was taking place.

My opinon of the tabloid press, especially of the Murdoch variety, was low enough already, but I am actually genuinely quite taken aback at this.

tomorrow's express: http://twitpic.com/5lqufv

before i look i'm gonna say bikini shot of kate middleton and a free pound of butter for every reader

not bad

oh so close on the butter

Well, you've got the Riposte to Health Fascists Bit right

if you mix bread and water you get butter i think

lead story on daily mail website:

Public sector salary myth exploded: State workers earn MORE - not less - than equivalent staff in the private sector

I really hope that all this gets the country, as a collective, to really think about what we want and expect from our press.

Totally with you on this, boxedjoy. But about "the all too competitive nature of the industry": in the end it's the people buying these fucking tabloids. The people are the industry. So to have those same people think about "what we expect from our press" leaves one horribly depressed indeed.

Plus, there is a massive discrepancy about what people in the UK file under journalism. Newspapers and tabloids, most people don't know the difference and see them all as "press", all as the same "journalism". This has been a unsettling discovery for me (as a Dutchman who's an editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Holland that'll be looking for a job in journalism in the UK next year).

Wait does "health fascists" mean the Express likes them or not?

I went out for 3hrs and this story went absolutely mental and could get worse but Caek basically wins ILX for that 9/11 post.

Yeah, Hillsborough aside it's rare to get a serious boycott for tabloid shit. But that doesn't mean readers don't condemn it, either, or that papers don't get burnt. The Sun's readers famously give it doings when it misreads them, like on Frank Bruno and a few of their "immigrants gtf" stories; I think at least some NoTW readers will on this, too.

The problem is that it's invisible -- a story got by voicemail taping just looks like any other in print. One answer is a PCC with balls, but the hopes of that also leave you a bit depressed. xxp