Phone Hacking

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:26 pm

Here's someone else talking shit:

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John Whittingdale, the chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that phone hacking at the News of the World should not taint the rest of Rupert Murdoch's empire.

"You cannot necessarily condemn the entire of News Corp just because of the actions of some individuals in another part of the organisation," he said.

"News International is a part of News Corp but it's a different part. News Corp is a global enterprise and I don't think one should condemn the entire organisation because something very clearly was going wrong in the News of the World."

Of course the bit taking over BSkyB is the nice bit of News International. I know a nice bloke who works as a security man at Wapping. Glad it's him not Murdoch or Brooks involved in the takeover.

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:41 pm

My favourite comment on the disgraceful Telegraph article:

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This is either linkbait, or a desperate defence of unethical journalistic espionage from a paper that covertly bugged an MP and Minister of the Crown for political gain.

Maybe both, but definitely the latter. The Vince Cable bugging greased the BSkyB wheels, after all.

Despicable, greasy work from the Telegraph defending their NewsInt colleagues.

Typically, there are a couple of nutters on there putting up anti-BBC comments, but the huge majority are some fabulously well-written and sensible expressions of disgust at David Hughes' article.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:42 pm

Fozzy wrote:

As has been said in relation to Coulson, if she seriously did not know then she is a totally crap editor, and no-one thinks she was a crap editor.

Oh Christ yes, I despise Brooks / Wade, but even I respect her for being good at her job.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:46 pm

Ford apparently have pulled advertising from News International.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2898

mojojojo wrote:

Fuck me, that article is one of the most pathetic things I have ever read.

Agreed. And given that you'd normally be hard pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the Telegraph comments, it's interesting to see that the vast majority are critical of the article.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:54 pm

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Meanwhile, the chairwoman of the Press Complaints Commission, Baroness Peta Buscombe, which concluded in November 2009 there was "no new evidence" of widespread hacking at the News of the World following earlier Guardian revelations, admitted she had been "misled" by the News International paper.

Buscome said: "There's only so much we can do when people are lying to us. We know now that I was not being given the truth by the News of the World."

Not my fault but they lied? I feel a Jack Reagan analogy coming on.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:14 pm

By the way, I'd just like to say that I've been following this story all day (laid up with bad foot) and it really has been - on a certain level - brilliant. Real great it was in that dawn to be alive stuff at times.

There really is nothing like watching a bully get kicked in the bollocks repeatedly.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:17 pm

The Telegraph have another fool who's about 21.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danie ... s-at-risk/

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So something quite fundamental to our democracy, and which marks us out from other European countries – the independence of the media from the state – is threatened.

Europe! Their papers aren't as good as ours.

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And all thanks to one newspaper’s insatiable desire for pointless, voyeuristic scoops.

Yep, all came out of clear blue sky.

We have the worst TV in the world and the best newspapers. Of course we do.

spoonman · **Joined:** Tue May 11, 2010 2:27 pm **Posts:** 922

So the parents of the two girls killed in the Soham murders have been contacted by the police about also being targeted by phone hackers from NotW... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/ju ... ies-police

I'm just waiting to hear now that Kate & Gerry McCann's mobiles have also been hacked in the same way...

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2898

Latest development:

Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire blames 'relentless pressure' by NoW for actions

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7418

Messianic Trees wrote:

Latest development:

Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire blames 'relentless pressure' by NoW for actions

The public won't wear it methinks, unless he really works on his grovelling.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2898

Reading what Rebekah Brooks says
What today's statement says and does not say

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Up to the top slot on the DM's website now:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -quit.html

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:44 pm

Ford have pulled their advertising from News International. Others are considering their position.
They may expect Wade's head to get them back - and, of course, some healthy discounts, so their motives might not be 100% pure.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:57 pm

Emergency debate in the Commons tmrw.

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