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

Never mind phone hacking, what about these REAL problems, asks the Daily Mail?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2015004/Never-mind-phone-hacking-real-issues-facing-Britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2015591/Phone-hacking-buying-votes-blood-whats-worse.html

Methinks the Mail doth protest a little too much.

Except the problem is not phone hacking now, but corrupt officials.

to be fair the daily mail is actually leading on the stephenson resignation, and one of those links is a ~maverick~ opinion piece

ok, that is true. Sorry, Daily Mail.

For catchphrase frenzy, it's hard to beat this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2014981/Hacking-They-hell-handcart.html

"Hacking They hell handcart" indeed

Who knew the Daily Mail would support the Orange Order and other loyalists in the recent disturbances? I need to remember never to read more of the DM than I have to...

Interesting interview with Watson:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/17/tom-watson-rupert-murdoch

Even though the News of the World has been closed, the BSkyB takeover bid withdrawn, and Rupert Murdoch has promised to co-operate with the judicial inquiries, the bloodlust – orchestrated by a vastly subsidised BBC – continues.

The state records our emails, spies on our rubbish bins and uses airport X-ray machines to peer sneakily at our naked bodies.

hahahahahaha!

Apparently Watson shared a flat at uni with... Neil Codling?

The alternate universe in which Watson was playing keyboards on "Trash" while Codling went on to interrogate Murdoch is an unusual one to be in.

yeah, do you know Neil?

ah fuck d'you know i never realised he was in Suede.

Sarah Gurling was at Hull around this time too.

I don't know NC at all. The one in Suede I know best (though not well) is Brett.

Hold on, NV, you know Neil but missed the Suede connection?

i knew him vaguely, i didn't pay a lot of attention to who was in Suede, or to Suede after the first album really

altho i saw them play at Hull the week before the debut album came out? Neil joined later on tho

^^^He is Simon Gilbert's cousin.

Ah okay, I was just getting my head around the idea you and he were buds but he never mentioned his day job.

"So what do you do anyway, Mr. Eastwood?"

nah this would've been 87 to 92 ish

I don't know, there's a clear BBC link to the DMill, Mandy dinner mentioned up there somewhere.

Does this mean some of the rumoured suppressed threads surrounding the RWade/RKemp marriage will now come out?

Oh, what: affair with chef GR?

is it true rebekah smacked rkemp up because she caught him in bed with some tory boy?

That and the whole beard thing.

haha, that's the story I was thinking of.

i thought we'd decided it was Phil Mitchell

I once saw them together at a book launch and R. Kemp had the most hostile body language ever.

I kind of liked the personal time I spent with RKemp but it was at a charity dinner with a number of people much harder than him.

ah, the Loose Women presenters

looooooool

Apparently there's some hilarious Fox & Friends bit where they have the NOTW as the victims, then they finish with how this foreign news isn't important anyway and that's when their Casey Anthony bit starts? (can't search, my provider has probs with youtube at the moment)

for a sec there i was wondered wtf rainer werner fassbinder had to do with this... still am but in a different way

'i was wondered' - 2:1 degree yall

xps - I once saw them at...ahem...Daylesford Organic (yea, verily, I walked into the very heart of the Chipping Norton set and ate overpriced chocolate with them) and there was a very nasty moment over a jar of organic artichoke hearts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtC4gT-_Nj0&

"If I'm not mistaken Murdoch has apologised, but FOR SOME REASON the public, the media, keeps going over this"

loooooool

James Murdoch may be arrested?

Reading rumors about same.

wow this could be the best summer ever

Thanks, Nate! It's even better than I'd read.

Am I right in thinking that Brooks is apparently still being questioned?

i'm really suspicious about these arrests before the committee thing on tuesday.

As well you should be.

Course, if *Rupert* got arrested too...

As likely as Santa Claus getting arrested for breaking & entering.
Can't shake this feeling that the whole lot of them are going to get off scott free.

from that mail "What about the REAL problems?" post

The state records our emails, spies on our rubbish bins and uses airport X-ray machines to peer sneakily at our naked bodies.

Can't shake this feeling that the whole lot of them are going to get off scott free.

After Murdoch Jr. owned up to the payments? I think not.

it may yet happen. also no police arrested yet iirc. but the committee is a spectacle, an entertaining one sure but a spectacle. starting criminal proceedings against the guilty parties is much more important in the big scheme of things.