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

I am not expecting much new information to emerge from the hearings today. However from the imaginary film version perspective, forcing Rupert Murdoch to answer questions on the affair in a public forum must surely count as a dramatic highlight.

I am pretty ignorant re the MPs on the committee - given that they are politicians I presume that a fair amount of grandstanding / showboating is likely?

http://images.wikia.com/godfather/images/8/87/Michael_Corleone_senate.jpg

People have started saying WRONG a lot, I've noticed.

"We now recognise this was WRONG."

Such a handy word. It sounds forceful and conclusive, and yet it's such a fudge at heart. What KIND of wrong?

Notice how Stephenson is rubbing his watch with his right index-finger almost all the time

Don't think the masons can help him now

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

Notice how Stephenson is rubbing his watch with his right index-finger almost all the time

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I guess Al Calavicci isn't showing up just yet.

nicola blackwood POW

(Side question: What the fuck is Julian Assange doing playing rhythm guitar for Cher in that video?)

Per the NYTimes piece on News Corp's - News Corpse? Noose Corpse? - this will end with Murdoch literally buying Parliament.

i am kind of bored now, there's only so long a man finding new ways of saying DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING NO REASON FOR ME TO KNOW ANYTHING can be entertaining

Phone hacking was not a priority for the Met, admits Sir Paul, unlike the "night stalker" rapist case, the murder of Stephen Lawrence...

Did a really good job on those two cases guys *thumbs up*

And know he's quite obviously beating around the bush.

THERE'S A REASON I HAD DINNER WITH NOTW A MILLION TIMES.. BUT I AGREE THIS SHOULD BE DONE DIFFERENTLY. The question was, WHY did you dine with them so often.

He was hungry.

lol at this:

@BBCMichaelCrick
Michael Crick
Rumour among Cons MPs that Coulson kept diary since joining Cam. Sensational if so. Even Coulson memoirs 2014 cld wreck Cons election hopes

£1,000 a day and wallis was the cheapest option available?!

*changes career*

My workmates would give no fuck about this shit at all but I'm still tempted to use it as an excuse to be late tomorrow.

Woke up to this on the radio. How come everyone in the room keeps laughing?

Depressing lunchroom convo today: workmate peruses paper, says "oh, [AFL footy player] is resigning". I'm like "uh whatever... how about this Murdoch scandal?" and he looked at me like I grew 2 heads :(

I got that too Trayce, from people who read murdoch tabloids

We only have the Age at work in the lunch room, there was no excuse! :(

But, even my own bf had no idea about all this shenanigans, but he is in the middle of a masters thesis so I'll give him a pass.

A key phone-hacking suspect worked for senior detectives while he was chief crime reporter of the News of the World, the Standard reveals today.

The activities of Neville Thurlbeck, which date back to 1995, trigger new fears of collusion between the Met and the press.

Thurlbeck, who was arrested on suspicion of illegally accessing voicemail messages in April, has admitted working as an official police source under the codename "George".

He gave a "substantial volume of information that was extremely useful" to Scotland Yard and the security services.

This is all turning out like a season 3 Bab 5 episode mixed with Jennifer Government :/

Could be worse, my boss defended Murdoch on Monday. Because he didn't know anything was happening, y'know.

KathViner

Stephenson: 10 out of 45 press officers at the Met have worked for NI! #hackgate
3 minutes ago via web

everyone has just says 'ask yates' so far

Stephenson: 10 out of 45 press officers at the Met have worked for NI! #hackgate
3 minutes ago via web

it sounds like a technicality but i was surprised that this question was phrased based on current data - eg, how many ex-NI staff are there now, rather than over the past decade, throughout key periods, etc, how many ex-NI staff have there been on hand

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg740/scaled.php?tn=0&server=740&filename=lkpqg.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Finally!

I thought it'd be out last week as a special. Too much happening I guess.

vaz's attack dog style is getting plaudits but i'm also taken by nicola blackwood's dry-as-a-bone supercilious approach. speaking very slowly as though to a slightly stupid six-year-old.

http://in.reuters.com/video/2011/07/19/british-pm-discusses-media-in-nigeria

Yates up next.

boggling at how fedorcio attained such a senior position in any organisation, that was embarrassing

#scintillagate

Alistair Campbell on Daily Politics right now...

chief of staff again!

HE IS THE MOLE

Media committee's John Whittingdale is Facebook friends with Rebekah Brooks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8644425/Phone-hacking-Media-committees-John-Whittingdale-is-Facebook-friends-with-Rebekah-Brooks.html

John Whittingdale MP is also friends with Les Hinton, a long time Murdoch ally who quit last week.

Mr Whittingdale, the Tory chairman of the Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport committee, is the only MP among 93 “friends” of Mr Hinton on the social networking website.

the nuances of what a scoping is

tom watson was repping for this guy, & a previous step he took in extending the enquiry, but yeah it's a significant enough conflict that you wouldn't think he'd be there

I want to compile a list of all the funny linguistic habits these guys have, it’s so peculiar hearing them speak. I liked the guy who said, 'i’d say that that’s slightly over-egging the pudding ... to put it mildly!’

senior police officers have a peculiarly clunky officious cant

are you writing cockney phonetically there

peculiarly clunky officious cant

haw

lol his 'no....no..' just now was quite reminiscent of hugh abbott's select committee appearance

no hand over mouth tho

you interrupted my flow