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

Nice little overview of the board via Sorkin:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/murdochs-board-stays-silent-as-scandal-widens/

timebomb about to go off y/n

All the hacked sites seem to be completely down now--anyone got a screencap or something showing what the hackers did?

Here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/sun-website-hacked-lulzsec
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-19/the-sun-hacked-by-lulz/2799822

Fantastic! Thanks

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/92159/news-corp-vs-its-critics

/meta
/uscentric

we covered the redolently desperate WSJ editorial itt already, but it was even worse that i thought

News Corp papers worldwide seem to be covering this thing in two ways:

1. by focusing entirely on the phone hacking aspect (as if to say "right well we've done our job as journalists, let's move on")
2. by cranking up the noise about anything at all that serves as an effective distraction

I'm not allowing myself to ~really~ believe it just yet, but this is starting to feel like the death of News Corp as a political force. Those WSJ pieces are the kicking and screaming laid bare.

papers media outlets

Remember how last week there was the fuss over Cameron hosting The Sun's Police Bravery Awards at Downing Street? The next night he hosted a Downing Street reception "to commemorate the top 100 companies listed in The Sunday Times Profit Track 100 2011 awards".

9.18am: Chris Bryant, the Labour MP who has been campaigning on phone hacking for ages, has just dropped an intriguing hint about "more to come" in an interview on BBC News.

The theatre of [today's appearance] is irrelevant. In the end we've got to get to the bottom of what is a very murky pool. And I tell you Rebekah Brooks was right. We're only half way into that pool at the moment. There's stuff about Surrey police as well and other things that are still to come out.

The Millie Dowler investigation was handled by Surrey police. So was Abigail Witchalls iirc.

it's kind of amazing to me that less has been made of hacking of the soham victims' families

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/07/dcamrb.jpg

Cameron in full photo-bombing mode

it's kind of amazing to me that less has been made of hacking of the soham victims' families

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:13 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's gone so fast that im not sure the full extent of the hacking is common knowledge. was sarah payne's family hacked? remember this as a rumour. but the milly dowler story has stood for all the rest.

I think that's Louise Boat stood behind him btw xp

http://www.isdavidcameronstillprimeminister.com/

LOLz...

"Bookmakers William Hill are offering odds of 16/1 about "under pressure" PM David Cameron being out of office by the weekend."

Bigger LOLz...

"London Mayor Boris Johnson, at 4/1, is favourite to replace him as permanent leader of the Conservative Party"

What was Darren Clarke again? 150-1?

What's the best (online) way to watch the questioning this afternoon?

The evil BBC are the only people allowed to broadcast Parliament I think?

Melanie Phillips won't be happy about this...

Oh, really? xps Thanks

CNN.com will stream the entire testimony live on its website as well as through a number of mobile apps.
C-SPAN will stream the testimony live as well on C-SPAN3.

Thanks James!

Oh, really?

Actually, now I come to think of it, no!

:-)

has the headline "Hacky Sack" been used yet?

^ nice

Can I listen to it? Is it on R4 or 5live or something?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/5live

Will anywhere be helpfully liveblogging the thing for those of us unfortunate enough not to be allowed speakers/headphones at work?

(updates and comments on this thread will suffice, I guess, probably better than untrustworthy media outlets anyway)

the guardian is still the go-to thing for this i think
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-mps

w/an eye on twitter which is slightly quicker for peripherally related stuff

For a politician to call for political control of the press is pretty sinister. Having spent the last decade and a half cosying up to the Murdoch press, Labour are now trying to turn this into a political vendetta which threatens to damage our democracy. Ed Miliband needs to distance himself from his mentor immediately.

what a disaster for neil kinnock

Can why the Tories are running with this angle, after all it worked in 1983.

between that & vetting a proposed labour addition to the committee last night, the tories recalcitrance is nagl; just further compounds the image of them as resistant to any change, & mired in it all

Like anyone has listened to anything Neil Kinnock has had to say since "WELL, AWWLLLLLLLLLLRIIIIIIIIGGHHHHHT!"

lol

will all this be a huge anti-climax, y/n, paying special attention to how disappointing this kind of thing usually is. i guess it's interesting to see how brooks plays it under the spotlight and all.

is there any more news on the anonymous/lulzsec/antisec hack? The redirect was fun and all, but are they really now sitting on a huge pile of NI emails?

Anti-climax: information and reveal-wise I'd say yes. But they are put on the spot. Hope the MPs questions won't be too cringe-worthy or facepalm.gif

's a pity Chris Bryant's not on this committee

ya it will be fun to see them shifting around in their seats like the grim reptilians they surely are

You're referring to the as-yet-unexamined David Icke theory about Hackgate, I take it?

is anyone running a book on how often they'll say I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THAT

Face? Bovvered? Catherine Tate shoo-in for Rebekah role in any upcoming drama?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01950/murdoch-bingo-hack_1950101c.jpg

Does anybody else think she's been pulling "Nicole Kidman" faces in all the photos recently, trying to affect the selection process for "someone to play me in the eventual movie"

^ ha, yes. But it's still a gimme for Tate (if Mick Hucknall decides he doesn't want a career in acting).

Cheers for Grauniad suggestion, will prob do that along with Twitter and this 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