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

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

peculiarly clunky officious cant

Sounds like Andy Hayman, "Gawblimey, on my muvva's eyes, I never took a bung in me life, straight up!"

quit it while i spit it blackwood

breakin ma flow blud

seriously what has ed llewelyn been doing is he just on ilx all day at work while critical issues pile up on his desk

Thought they'd actually have to go into the House of Commons.

"Biographer Michael Wolff is suggesting Rupert Murdoch could resign before the culture committee."

Is that guy on crack?

remember that old rumour about how arthur lee blew his brains out onstage at the end of signed d.c.? michael wolff is talking about it re: murdoch's culture committee appearance

BBC live feed a shambles - anybody have a better one?

remember that old rumour about how arthur lee blew his brains out onstage at the end of signed d.c.?

No!

here's one - http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

and the feed direct from the government -

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=8910

currently playing test tones

Is the new Eye actually out? My local South London places have only got the last one so far. Was already stoked enough for the schadenfreude before I saw that cover.

blew his brains out onstage at the end of signed d.c.?

Hoping that'll be Cameron's resignation speech tbh

ha

"No
One
Cares
(bang!)
for me...."

remember that old rumour about how arthur lee blew his brains out onstage at the end of signed d.c.?

No!

mm, i wonder if i can find it; it sorta got rolled up amongst all the donut-store-robbery bullshit that dogged them for awhile, and circulated, apparently, while he was out of sight in the eighties i guess - that him & his band were playing and he killed himself.

i can't really find anything other than this amusing list of just crazy rumours-
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:57ce15iS-PYJ:psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.com/2011/02/forever-changes-arthur-lee-love-book.html+arthur+lee+suicide+rumor+donut&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

Did "Arthur Lee" collect pigeons and dye them, so he could watch all the colors fly through the sky?

I think it's funny how the cops under interrogation seem never to spend any time fighting crime.

Just reviewing employment procedure and seeking assurances.