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It was interesting that Rupe's daughter who I think managed some Italian TV media outlet turned down the offer to join the News Corp board. Maybe she has a game plan where she keeps her hands clean and then moves in when her dad and bro get banged up.

The Mail Online has taken a hammering at Leveson. This was over their reporting of the death of a British schoolboy in a coach crash on a school trip, last March - which as Brian pointed out, was five months after he had started his enquiry and a month after Gove's attack of verbal Nº7s.
Usual Mail Online tactics - information and photos pinched from Facebook and blogs, requests for privacy ignored, doorstepping, sending notes to the distraught parents via the police, long distance photographs of grief-stricken children - the young sister of the victim, then lying through their teeth (or through their counsel).

When the family lawyer contacted the PCC they asked him to draft a letter to editors asking them to stay away - in effect to follow the Editors' Code...
The Mail claim they couldn't do as asked because Dacre wasn't around (says a lot about his power, too) because he was washing his hair or something, or suffering from catarrh.

The Mail subsequently took down some of the photographs, but not that of the boy's distraught sister - they said they didn't know it was her - despite having cropped the father out of the picture. It was also a long-lens picture taken without consent, intruding into private grief, photograph of a child published without permission etc etc.

Truly shocking and disgusting behaviour, also exhibited by the Sun (quelle surprise) and the Telegraph (going down faster than a Portsmouth whore on pay night).

This is as bad as Dowler.

Have we discussed this yet?



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ju ... borne-gove

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I'm sure Leveson could have if he wanted to but Gove's arrogance at the Inquiry wouldn't have gone unnoticed. Osborne and Cable have had to be treated likewise.

Is Mellor suggesting his announcement of a second Chalcutt Inquiry in the summer of '92 is not a little unconnected with newspapers reporting details of his affair with Antonia de Sancha?

This is truly awful; the fourth estate at it's most wretchedly venal, and of course, they pimp the pieces with Facebook snippets quick enough, while slamming the site and getting the "never again" long lens out on the founder's honeymoon

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As I found myself saying to some guy yesterday, what is it about the British tabloid press?

Broadsheets, foreign papers, magazines, radio and TV reporters, bloggers, all find it possible to produce incisive, informative journalism of genuine public interest, including investigative pieces and scoops, while working within the rules.

The British tabloids produce tawdry smear pieces, hatchet jobs and recycled garbage. To do this, they cannot manage either to stick within their rules or produce quality results. indeed, to insist that they do is to try to muzzle them, and effectively neuter them. So the say.

The central question is this - just what is so fucking special about the British tabloid press?

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I've just stumbled across this story in the Mail dating back to January 2001.

'Plot to bug William at university'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-18898/Plot-bug-William-university.html

On the face of it it looks like just another tabloid non-story but given that we now know that people like Piers Morgan were joking about the use of phone hacking in early 2001, I wonder if a story such as this might have been published to distract attention away from the fact that instead of using bugging devices to spy on the Prince the newspapers were actually hiring private investigators to listen into his voice mails.

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More pregnancy speculation/reporting:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... omach.html

Christ, incredible, isn't it?

So far gone they can't behave while the headmaster's in the room.

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This might sound bizarre, but do you know who I think might end up being Leveson's greatest asset? Gove. The odious creep is so obviously positioning for the top job, but so egotistically doing so *far* too early and publicly, that Cameron and anyone else who fancies power will want to destroy his power base. So if Leveson comes up with a host of strict but fair new rules, it'll be in Cameron's interest to go with the recommendations as quickly as possible so Gove is neutered as a leadership threat before the next election.

That may well be the case. I'm sure Cameron hoped to get Blair much more entangled than he was, and now that hasn't worked he has a plan B to nobble his rivals. His greatest asset, though, are the memos he wrote before becoming leader saying he was unhappy about getting too close, and then reluctantly doing so to 'save his party'. There'll be some sympathy for that line, I think.