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

She basically confirmed conspiring with Dacre and others about silencing coverage, though.

WITCHES DROOP

I can understand a strong privilege to protect from being forced to incriminate oneself but it seems that Parliament's prerogative would trump a corporation's legal interests, esp if the indivds wish to do so. Isn't that precisely what parliaments are for?

― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:41 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

an actual lawyer says they could break legal privilege if summoned to testify, apparently.

"In this current climate, there is a lot out there that isn't true..."

oh ffs putting untrue stories out there has been your fucking core business

caroldecker carol decker

God will you all knob off! I do not look like RB!!!!! You mother fuckers!!!

i can see why it'd be her default assumption

xp

I love the way John Yates says he's taken responsibility, others should too

Who?

very quietly and quickly: 'News International'

by which I suppose he must mean the people who run it, as several others have already quit.

She enjoyed it so much she wants to come back!

STARE OF DEATH

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James doesn't wanna be eating anything his step-mom might make for him any time soon

That seems like an episode of Law & Order waiting to happen.

fkn hell, newsnight tonight with alan rusbridger, louise mensch, tina brown, paul mcmullan, earl spencer, will self, carl bernstein and michael grade

I hope McMullan has got around to washing his shirt.

http://i.imgur.com/tguLO.jpg

A+

james is hot, wendi is fierce. a small part of me is feeling slightly team murdoch as a result which i am disgusted by.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303795304576456213707284104.html?mod=e2tw

Wendi Deng :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmW3B_Ims0Q

Turns out Jonnie Marbles is one of those guys who thinks comedy is telling bad anecdotes in an arch voice

The Youtube hordes seem to not actually be acting like he's a lol legernd, which is good because you'd hate for there to be some kind of misguided outcry against his being kneecapped and jailed for life without trial

enough is enough i guess

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/19/new.york.anonymous.warrants/

New York (CNN) -- At least 14 people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, a federal government official said Tuesday.

The arrests have taken place in locations including Florida, the San Francisco area in California and New Jersey, the official said.

Earlier, a senior federal law enforcement official said up to 15 total arrests are expected following the execution of more than 15 search warrants.

This apparently has no irony in it:

piersmorgan Piers Morgan
Rebekah Brooks (a great, and loyal friend) just been cut off from live #CNN USA coverage for President Obama speech. She won't be happy.

hahahaha

piers morgans tv career is proof of the absence of irony in this world. just crushing sophoclean doom.

i hope Jonnie Marbles' commitment to free speech means he won't moderate any of his Youtube comments

xpost -- I'll give him this much:

piersmorgan Piers Morgan

One day I will, relax RT @YouCantEditSam I want @piersmorgan to die with a passion.

j. murdoch's "to my knowledge certain things were not known" is a classic for the ages

like, maybe they actually were known, but that would only be the case if he had less complete knowledge

Was he talking about the known unknowns or the unknown unknowns?

oh noes!

http://i.imgur.com/QTmdt.png

robble

jesu christo that's a bottom-third car crash

i mean lower-third. i always do that. the CC is like the cherry on top.

So... now what happens?

Pie happens.

Tom Watson said in a Guardian interview the other day that these hearings weren't going to be a sudden series of smoking-gun revelations, but cutting ever closer to the truth, whatever it might be. On that level he was exactly right.

well exactly. the thing today was to gradually push the Murdochs and Brooks to adopt a position, altho I'm sure they all know that position is vulnerable to further revelations. it also gave us a chance to look at exactly where the evasions were strongest, cos that seems to be the likeliest area to start digging for evidence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/jonnie-marbles-comedian-activist-attack-murdoch

2000 words on why Jonnie Marbles is the greatest hero who ever lived from L. Barton tomorrow

He wasn't even tasered or beaten up by 20 cops? idgi

great to catch up with this thread today. listened on radio from just before the circus act courtesy of our idiot urban clown.

only two things to add that haven't been mentioned before:

When they were asking Murdoch if his employees had told him about the verdict of 'collective amnesia', I wished he'd said 'they must have forgotten'.

― kip winger; radio ventriloquist (jel --), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1. the clip on the bbc site shows watson asking the question about 'collective amnesia', murdoch evading and mumbling, then watson's coup de grace: 'did they forget to tell you'?

(so often i wondered whether rm was having to hold down his magic wand/super bark/jedi mind trick that he's so used to playing. hating being shown up as a dick.)

2. in midst of rebekah questions around milly dowler and how sunday newspapers are run, she started a paragraph about the dowler events with "i mean, the milly dowler story was so h..." she caught herself very quickly and went on to say "it was so awful, so tragic", but it was obvious she had meant to say the story was HUUUUGE. you can take the girl out of the tabloid....

what fun.

xp He really "lost" his "marbles" didn't he?

she caught herself very quickly and went on to say "it was so awful, so tragic", but it was obvious she had meant to say the story was HUUUUGE.

TOTALLY noticed this!

funny thing is i don't think calling the story HUGE would've been a particular faux pas - it just revealed how much care she was taking over how she came across.

Will these hearings be on a free DVD with The Guardian soon then?

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For some inspired reason, the PIE ATTACK video on The Graniuad's website has a slow-motion replay with slow-motion action film musical bedding in the background.

murdoch eats humble pie seems to be the line all the newspapers are taking tomorrow

So did the pie help or hurt things today? Aside from livening it up a bit

I'm not sure its going to make a huge difference in the long run, but in the near future it gives Murdoch's outlets the perfect chance to frame him as a victim.

i don't think it hurt things as much as people made out somewhat melodramatically - sure it'll be the focus of the headlines but i don't think it makes murdoch sympathetic as such, there was no big splash that would've got the headlines in any other case - actually it just feeds into the overall impression that the whole thing was a bit farcical. the story is the overall inadequacy of their answers.

also it's not like the story is going to cease any time soon.

it won't affect things much i think we were just all pissed off with the unfunny attention ho trying to screw things up. worth it for Wendi D's sweet right-hander tho

yeah it doesn't change the fact that the dude needs to be hung, drawn and quartered basically

i KNEW wendi would do something special. i tweeted before it started that i had a feeling she might be amazing and SHE WAS <3