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

There's a suggestion that this could be much more serious for News International than the Dowler phone hacking because of US statutes preventing the payment of bribes to foreign officials, but i'm not sure how much weight that has.

"Witch-hunt has put us behind ex-Soviet states on Press freedom - The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh on the biggest police operation in British criminal history."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4124870/The-Suns-Trevor-Kavanagh-Witch-hunt-puts-us-behind-ex-Soviet-states-on-Press-freedom.html

What a shame for the highly-paid amoral lawbreakers at The Sun that the higher-ups are dobbing them in to the law.

We will build on the Sun's proud heritage by launching the Sun on Sunday very soon.

uh-oh

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9102231/Phone-hacking-News-of-the-World-bosses-ordered-emails-to-be-deleted.html

wonder if this story will be covered in depth in the debut issue of the sun on sunday?

Will Charlotte Church settling mean that we don't get to hear the real dirt (on New Int, not on Church) or will it all come out in the inquiry anyway?

Getting weirder

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

She only adopted the animal so it would have a stable home.

If she was sensible she would have worn one of these, while out riding her police horse:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DHcE_DhQ6oQ/TnN7XUiyGYI/AAAAAAAACyY/-ABXKFXGiQo/s640/IMG1061.jpg

"A horse, a horse, favourable coverage in the United Kingdom's best selling tabloid for a horse"

I can see that as tomorrows Sun frontpage.

um, unless..

James Murdoch quits News International

James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International [...] Mr Murdoch will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News Corporation.

corporate boardroom musical chairs is all greek to me.

another innocent bites the dust

from Rawkus to this, quite a tumble

At this rate they'll need their own wing and prison uniform

police announced in last few minutes further arrests for phone hacking

i guess none of this will really stick until prosecutions begin? this thing seems so big now - news int, police, politicians - i wonder if its not gonna blow over because people would rather corruption than cleaning house

yeah, i know, 'people'

Arrests incl 43yo woman in Oxfordshire. Who do we think that is?

samantha cameron too young unfortunately

sky has said it's rebekah brooks. conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

samantha cameron too young unfortunately

― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:58 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OH BOY THAT WOULD BE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

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

Rupert Murdoch ‏ @rupertmurdoch

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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.