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

Don't worry, Clive Goodman's Harry Redknapp impersonation is worth seeing twice.

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^^ that indeed helps, thanks Snoball!

@NickB: LOL

James Murdoch, the beleagured News Corporation executive, has received a ringing endorsement from MMR manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline according to Reuters news agency on Friday. GSK who appointed him to their board in February 2009 insist Murdoch has made “a strong contribution” to the group and received share payments worth $158,000 in 2010. Murdoch was appointed to the board of the pharmaceutical manufacturer with a brief to “review…external issues that might have the potential for serious impact upon the group's business and reputation."

Within a fortnight of his appointment News International had published at least 5 articles attacking MMR researcher Andrew Wakefield’s integrity.

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hmm that may be true but wouldn't credit anything from a site that defends Wakefield.

christ

Wakefield didn't really need a Murdoch to discredit him.

from the site that brought you The Age of Autism:
Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic

i.e. it's Mercury Hat time

I keep staring at NV's judgesiren.jpg. Infuriating how it doesn't blare.

*throws Noodle Vague a http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/UEKoi.gif *

drudgesiren, even

I would rather NI had published pro-big pharma propaganda if that means they were also publishing anti-Wakefield propaganda, if you see what I mean.

i wd rather not pick a side in terms of good guys and bad guys but i guess Wakefield and co. have arguably done more harm over the short term

if we could just roll up every major news story of the last decade into this that would be fab.

Apparently there's some hilarious Fox & Friends bit where they have the NOTW as the victims,

Don't remember that bit...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLAcxCkjqJs&feature=related

haha

A little melody to help you through your day..

A comment on the short tenure of the chief of police there....

(ahem.. tiptoes away)

Inspector Gadget commenters are more upset with Stephenson for a) making them wear ties and b) not allowing them Tasers than anything, you know, substantive.

Them coppas were queueing up and fighting amongst themselves to have a go at tazering RMoat "No let me" "Gerrof, I want to" "SARGE!!!"... etc.

"But I would say that the situation in the Metropolitan police service is really quite different to the situation in government so suck on that Boris"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14182703

The Metropolitan police authority is currently holding a meeting to discuss Mr Yates' handling of the phone hacking affair and his links with Mr Wallis, a former senior executive at the News of the World.

It is understood the authority has decided to hold an investigation into the assistant commissioner. It is expected he will be asked to step down while this investigation is carried out.

A source close to the mayor told The Daily Telegraph: "If an investigation is ongoing he cannot stay in his job."

Although it's not like Boris is still in charge of the MPA, so it's not like he's trying to grab the glory for himself.

oh nononono nooo

Just thinking about annoying style journalist, initials DJ, whose fealty to Cameron caused an industry to sick up onto its taxi shoes...

Yes, excellent choice - please let him be implicated...

Yates gone now?

Soundtrack for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEO7AtBvmgA

was going to link to this just in case anyone wanted an overview, but it has some pretty fun moments:

Nick Davies had been alerted that Brooks had told colleagues that the story was going to end with “Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for mercy.” “They would have destroyed us,” Davies said on a Guardian podcast last week. “If they could have done, they would have shut down The Guardian.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/17/how-the-guardian-broke-the-news-of-the-world-hacking-scandal.html#

Those evil far left Liberal Democrat supporters

“Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for mercy."

oh man the more i hear about this story the more i love this woman

she is the greatest villainess of all time

I mean... who in the world could you cast that would do justice to her? She is amazing.

TILDA SWINTON

that just might work!

This shot is just unbelievable

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/07/article-2012326-0CE9646C00000578-34_634x382.jpg

That was the day the NOTW was shut down

TILDA SWINTON

... and featuring, in his first dramatic role, as David Cameron, PM... Michael McIntyre

lol @ tilda swinton, word. tilda swinton reprising her role from the last ten minutes of michael clayton.
the bit where she was saying that the guardian 'had it in for them' to departing staff is still the thing that kills me, that you could be so mired in shit & still see it as a conspiracy.

It's weird to be able to actually enjoy the Guardian being smug about something

Scotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner John Yates says he's done "nothing wrong", amid speculation he could be suspended over the phone-hacking scandal. He tells reporters who ask if his position is untenable: "Give me a break."

LOL, what a twat

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I like the way it appears there's a little mutant hand trying to get out of her chest.

i was thinking nicole kidman (botox would help, when have you ever seen our rebekah have a facial expression) but SWINTON seems perfect

or cate blanchett for full rebekah brooks/elizabeth i crossover

great opportunity for a bonnie langford comeback here

shameless wall street journal editorial: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576451812776293184.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

as bad in a way as that fox & friends clip

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Our readers can decide if we are a better publication than we were four years ago, but there is no denying that News Corp. has invested in the product. The news hole is larger. Our foreign coverage in particular is more robust, our weekend edition more substantial, and our expansion into digital delivery ahead of the pack. The measure that really matters is the market's, and on that score Mr. Hinton was at the helm when we again became America's largest daily.

Another day of chucking journalism down the news hole...

The overnight turn toward righteous independence recalls an eternal truth: Never trust a politician.

And uh, uh, I know you are, but what am I?!?

Hearing that Cameron was about to employ Coulson, the editor of the Graun let him (and, separately, Clegg) know that

in 2005 Coulson’s NotW had rehired as one of its investigators a man named Jonathan Rees, who was just out of prison having served a seven-year sentence for planting cocaine on an innocent woman. Rees was now in prison, awaiting trial for conspiracy to murder his former business partner, a man who had been found in a pub parking lot with an ax in his head.

He appeared rather dismissive of its significance and only a little rattled.

"Melanie Phillips" strikes again:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2015829/Phone-hacking-scandal-If-Ed-Miliband-hero-wont-tackle-BBC.html