Phone Hacking

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:37 pm

Up the steps of Dacre Towers?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:48 pm

Oh I do hope so...

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:51 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Oh I do hope so...

satnav · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:44 pm

The bloke from the Sunday Mirror appears to have written quite a lot of stuff about the Jamie Bulger case in the past. Given all the legal action that has been taken in the past to protect the identities of Venables and Thompson it could well be that he has been paying police officers or probation officers to get confidential information about the pair of them.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:07 pm

That makes sense.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:35 pm

Even when not out and out stating who they now were or where they were, those articles tended to be dripping in innuendo along the lines of "We could tell you, but we'd better not - because of this ridiculous ruling that apparently we have to obey, and it's just not fair!". I also recall that the Mirror (and Sunday Mirror) ran a number of articles on a rapist who had won the lottery, which pretty much went "Here's a picture of his house, here's the name of the very small village he lives in, but we won't give the exact house number; now go round and shove some dogshit through his postbox".

Basically they flaunted the fact that they had confidential information, and loved to sail as close to the wind with it as possible. All too often, if asked about the ethics of what they were doing, the response was the old bleat about "What about the rights of the victims blah blah?".

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:13 pm

Remember Christopher Meyer's "totalitarin slippery slope gas chambers" performance at Leveson and in the press?

This may or may not be connected with him presenting a series on Sky. It's about (get this!) the very powerful.

satnav · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:59 pm

Just spotted this story in yesterday's Sun.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/article4424654.ece

The article claims that MP's on the Culture and Media select committee will turn the tables on Leveson by giving him a grilling. I don't really think Brian will be losing much sleeping worrying about being questioned by the likes of Whittingdale, Mensch and Philip Davies.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:20 pm

Davies was one of the better ones in the hearings. Before promptly following the party line in the report.

I think Leveson will be OK on balance.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:26 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

So the net is widening, the plot is thickening and the shadows are lengthening?

At the going down of the sun and in the morning.

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:00 am

Are they still at it?

Quote:

The news came as unsent emails composed by Mrs Rausing emerged showing her desperate battle with drugs and fear of death.
In one, written in January 2010 and published in a Sunday newspaper, she appealed for help to her husband’s father Hans, who built the family fortune.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z20mJB8ag3
How were the unsent emails obtained?

Samanfur · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:13 pm

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, anyone?

Quote:

Leveson Inquiry: Max Mosley calls for press tribunal

Ex-motorsport head Max Mosley has called for the creation of a press tribunal underpinned by statute.

The tribunal should have powers to fine newspaper groups up to 10% of their turnover, he told the Leveson Inquiry.

Mr Mosley said it should handle issues of "privacy, defamation, media harassment and accuracy".

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:14 am

another arrest- this time computer hacking investigation, Operation Tuleta.

There's no public interest defence for computer misuse, but if they could hack, they don't seem to have hacked anything very useful.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:28 pm

Mail Online was questioned about this one:

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.p ... issue=1318

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:04 pm

Jesus Christ.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ournalists

Quote:

Rhodri Phillips was the 21st journalist arrested as part of the Elveden bribes enquiry. If it had happened in Russia, Iran or an African dictatorship, readers of the Observer would know what to expect. Amnesty International and Index on Censorship would scream their heads off about the need for a free press to scrutinise power. Intellectuals would send a round robin to the liberal press. There would be questions in Parliament, perhaps a Radio 4 documentary.

But Phillips works for Rupert Murdoch's Sun, so no one gives a damn

Yep.

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