Phone Hacking

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:46 am

I stumbled across this today whilst searching for something else on Youtube. It's Marcus Brigstocke on the Now Show from Nov 2011 talking about the press coverage of the Leveson Inquiry.
I thought it should be here as he mentions the Mail.

Also foxes.
Shitting.
On bin handles.
Do you think Marcus is one of our lurkers?

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Hello Marcus you cunt

yumicho · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:10 am

yumicho wrote:

Tonight at 9 pm, PBS UK is running a Frontline on Murdoch and hacking scandal:

http://www.pbs.co.uk/156/Murdochs-Scandal/220

Sky 166/Virgin 243 It's repeated several times during the next week.

There wasn't too much new territory covered, but it was well done. It told the story in an interesting narrative. I was hoping people could catch up on it on the US Frontline site, but it looks like it might be geographically blocked. Modify headers on Firefox or some other work around might work. There is a lot more accessible information on the site though, including breakdowns of how Murdoch makes his money, more in depth interviews, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... s-scandal/

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:59 am

Gourami wrote:

Hello Marcus you cunt

Have I missed something?

smod · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:42 am

Quote:

The Met’s director of public affairs Dick Fedorcio has announced his resignation after it emerged the force was planning to initiate proceedings for gross misconduct.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into Fedorcio’s relationship with former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis in July 2011, focusing on the circumstances surrounding Wallis's appointment as a communications consultant.

Today the IPCC said the investigation – which was concluded in January - had concluded Fedorcio had a case to answer. After the report was sent to the Met's directorate of professional standards the force last week proposed to initiate proceedings for gross misconduct.

IPCC deputy chair Deborah Glass said she agreed with the proposal, adding: “In light of Mr Fedorcio’s resignation today, those proceedings cannot now take place and I propose to publish our investigation report detailing our findings, in the next few days.”

A Met statement said: “Dick Fedorcio, our Director of Public Affairs for the past 14 years, has taken the decision to leave on 31st March 2012. During that period he has made a very significant contribution to the work of the MPS.”

The force paid Neil Wallis £24,000 for communications advice between October 2009 and September 2010.

Fedorcio has been on extended leave from Scotland Yard since August pending the results of the investigation

Last August it emerged that 10 of the 45-strong staff at the director of public affairs office had previously worked at the News of the World and that the force had hired former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis’s daughter.

When he gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in March Fedorcio revealed how he let the NoW’s crime editor Lucy Panton write and email an article about former Metropolitan Police commander Ali Dizaei from his computer at the Met.

He also told the inquiry how he negotiated the loan of a police horse to retired former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, which he thought would result in positive media coverage for the Met.

Brooks, who was at that time editor of The Sun, rang him in September 2007 to say she was interested in offering a home to one of the force's horses and Fedorcio arranged for Brooks to visit the police stables.

The hearing was also told that Fedorcio's son Alex did work experience at The Sun while at school in 2003 or 2004 and again after university in 2007.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp ... =49035&c=1

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1625

Murdoch 'planning his own sports network to compete with ESPN'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1qV9xlao6

Unmoderated if anyone wishes to point out any of the allegations currently doing the rounds about the fate of ITV Digital.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:47 am

Lord Brett wrote:

Gourami wrote:

Hello Marcus you cunt

Have I missed something?

Nothing stirs the Mailwatch pot like the mention of a comedian's name.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:45 pm

smod wrote:

Quote:

The Met’s director of public affairs Dick Fedorcio has announced his resignation after it emerged the force was planning to initiate proceedings for gross misconduct.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into Fedorcio’s relationship with former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis in July 2011, focusing on the circumstances surrounding Wallis's appointment as a communications consultant.

Today the IPCC said the investigation – which was concluded in January - had concluded Fedorcio had a case to answer. After the report was sent to the Met's directorate of professional standards the force last week proposed to initiate proceedings for gross misconduct.

IPCC deputy chair Deborah Glass said she agreed with the proposal, adding: “In light of Mr Fedorcio’s resignation today, those proceedings cannot now take place and I propose to publish our investigation report detailing our findings, in the next few days.”

A Met statement said: “Dick Fedorcio, our Director of Public Affairs for the past 14 years, has taken the decision to leave on 31st March 2012. During that period he has made a very significant contribution to the work of the MPS.”

The force paid Neil Wallis £24,000 for communications advice between October 2009 and September 2010.

Fedorcio has been on extended leave from Scotland Yard since August pending the results of the investigation

Last August it emerged that 10 of the 45-strong staff at the director of public affairs office had previously worked at the News of the World and that the force had hired former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis’s daughter.

When he gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in March Fedorcio revealed how he let the NoW’s crime editor Lucy Panton write and email an article about former Metropolitan Police commander Ali Dizaei from his computer at the Met.

He also told the inquiry how he negotiated the loan of a police horse to retired former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, which he thought would result in positive media coverage for the Met.

Brooks, who was at that time editor of The Sun, rang him in September 2007 to say she was interested in offering a home to one of the force's horses and Fedorcio arranged for Brooks to visit the police stables.

The hearing was also told that Fedorcio's son Alex did work experience at The Sun while at school in 2003 or 2004 and again after university in 2007.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp ... =49035&c=1

Excellent.

Paul · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:31 pm

Daily Mail made 1,728 potentially illegal requests to private detective

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ma ... -detective

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:36 pm

Daily Mail has another crack at the Leveson Inquiry

Filthy paedos running amuck on the streets of London as 150 police officers are assigned to phone hacking investigation

No comments allowed. I wonder whether Mr Leveson will have something to say?

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2082

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17547568

He's getting angry. Good. Angry people make mistakes and dig themselves in deeper.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:22 pm

He'll over-reach himself and the mask will slip even more, so that the dimmest journo can see the lizard underneath.

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:42 pm

He doesn't get it - people aren't scared Murdoch any more. He's become a toxic name for politicians and the law to be associated with. They clearly hated being beholden to him for all those years and all but the most stupid are overjoyed to be free of his malign influence.

I hope the worthless old bastard sees his empire crumble to dust before he finally makes a noise like a frog.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:55 pm

Lord Brett wrote:

He doesn't get it - people aren't scared Murdoch any more. He's become a toxic name for politicians and the law to be associated with. They clearly hated being beholden to him for all those years and all but the most stupid are overjoyed to be free of his malign influence.

I hope the worthless old bastard sees his empire crumble to dust before he finally makes a noise like a frog.

Obviously I hope you're right.

But I'd caution against writing him off whilst he still owns Britain's biggest selling newspaper, it's most famous 'quality' newspaper and it's biggest satellite broadcaster. I can't see many politicians picking a fight with him whilst he still has so much power.

The beast has been irritated, maybe wounded a little but we've yet to see anything life-threatening.

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:03 pm

I'm putting my money on the Americans hitting him with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the other News Group shareholders jettisonning both the Murdoch family and the News International papers.

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