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

Bar-L beckons

andy cLOLson

david cameROFLon morelike

"Jeremy Hunt says he thought about his own position but 'had conducted the bid scrupulously fairly through every stage'"

Seem to have gone from having a Prime Minister who would spend days and sleepless nights agonising over whether he prefers Bourbons to Jammy Dodgers to one who doesn't seem to have a thought in his head and a care in the world

So all I saw of Cameroon was him answering every qu that he couldn't remember anything, anytime, anywhere or know about any subject.

wouldn't pass his CSE that way

Early tweets say Rupert Murdoch's just resigned as director of NewsInt and The Times!

O_O

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9417815/Rupert-Murdoch-steps-down-from-NI-boards.html

this was implicit in the announcement of int/corp split up a couple of weeks ago i guess?

but lol

A total of eight out of the 13 people arrested on suspicion of phone hacking will face charges.

A further three people on police bail over hacking allegations have not been charged. The decision relating to two others has been deferred, the CPS has said.

The eight individuals to face charges are: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Glenn Mulcaire, Greg Miskew, Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup.

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

full charge sheet here

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

Maybe it was a recipe for baking a cake with a hacksaw hidden in it

so for wade this is in addition to perverting the course of justice, but no news yet about a decision on possible corruption charges (i.e. police bribery), right?

Is that a separate investigation? I think they have three on the go at the moment.

I expect Cameron, Blair and Brown have been texting her to send their commiserations... uhhhhhhhhhhh

yeah i think it must be. not keeping up with leveson, so i'm missing a lot of the actual news here.

yeah, i think these are from operation weeting (phone hacking); the bribery one is operation elveden and there's also operation tuleta (computer hacking), neither of which the CPS have made a decision on yet.

lol

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/25/business/media/25hacking-span/25hacking-span-articleLarge-v2.jpg

coulson looks a bit like dom.

This is cool

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/23/rupert-murdochs-daughter-news-international-_n_1825510.html

not too be super cynical but i'd like some more info about how her thing is run, & what she'd actually propose NI do - it's obviously a really nice contrast from just hearing james murdoch at all but it's a very sensible move to distance herself from their gross & toxic overly corporate rhetoric. but yeah hearing someone defend the license fee is neat &c.

have we really not updated this in six months??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/08/police-officer-prison-officer-the-sun

remember this guy? pretty sure he's a motherfucker with dark secrets... http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2013/march/14/former_tabloid_journalist.aspx#.UU2XKCVFvlg.twitter

His masochistic glee in receiving kicking after kicking while defending the press in every TV studio in the land suggested he had, uh, issues

the picture in the piece looks like it was taken the morning after he received a drunken kicking in a gutter somewhere. he reeks of 'wrong-un' to an almost comedic degree.

still, i bet that piers hernu looks at mcmullan and wistfully thinks, that could have been me.

What a nugget, it took me 20 seconds to find that jam jar story debunked on google http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ec-labels-ban-on-re-using-jam-jars.html

Mr McMullan, who is 45, says he was inspired to put himself forward as a UKIP candidate by two events.

The first was the fact that three months ago his 80-year-old mother, who likes making jam, was among those affected by the new law from Europe saying she could not re-use jam jars.

“There has to come a time when enough is enough,” said Mr McMullan, who runs the Castle Inn and backpackers hostel in Russell Street, Dover.

my clearest memory of this guy is when steve coogan destroyed him on newsnight, and yet here he's basically just alan partridge

I was just thinking about this thread this morning. Some great posting up there.

Looks like a second season's been commissioned . . .

What's your favourite post from this thread? Let's take a trip down memory lane.

http://gawker.com/rupert-murdoch-caught-on-tape-we-will-hit-back-660365967

I can't even

heartbreaking stories from these poor journalists whose families have suffered at the hands of an uncaring police force. i wonder if any of them suffered the same agonies on behalf of the people they've smeared and libelled thru their gutter comic over the years?

begging for a 'downfall' parody video, isn't it?

http://gawker.com/did-rebekah-brooks-fuck-rupert-murdoch-and-his-son-lach-926651851

just

ugh

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i read that story last night. i find it quite hard to believe tbh.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/04/phone-hacking-trial-rebekah-brooks

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/19/tony-blair-rebekah-brooks-phone-hacking

I know this isn't directly phone-hacking/newscorp related, but

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair

I know it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke but vanity fair really is just gutter journalism with a coat of gold paint

News breaking that Coulson has been found guilty of hacking (but perhaps not other charges), Brooks not guilty.

I will never forget the giddy euphoria of June 2011.

If I had to pick one to go down it would be Coulson, so fair enough

Fuck with the Royals, down you go. Fuck with anyone else, retain the firm of the PM's brother for your defense, and off you get.