Murdoch hacking scandal latest

[Boilk]

Someone mentioned that this could become the British Watergate. I would love to think that it would be.

Then we need a catchy soundbite...
NoWgate?
Rupertgate?
Rebekahgate?
Wadegate?
Coulsongate?

Camerongate?
Notting Hill gate?

[Stillhomewardbound]

Cowgate!!

Oh sorry, that's a dairy isn't?!

Err ...

Col-gate

[Frances_iom]

Expect employees of the phone companies to be implicated soon as the News of the World seemed to have an amazing database or personal numbers.
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its been known for many years that staff at mobile companies sell information to others (eg there was a case a few years ago of wholesale theft by employees of an off shored call centre) - mostly sold to spam callers - catch is most companies are US owned/connected and there are no data protection laws in place in USA - Europe needs to really get its act together and say NO to the US - much of Murdoch's empire was built on a descent to lowest possible standard (and in NotW not even legal) but there are other pornographers owning redtop papers (+ an ex chairman of one such paper serving time for finacial irregularities)

[Stillhomewardbound]

Re: the staff of the News of the World. Yesterday we heard how virtually none of the staff there had been around at the time of the first scandals in 2005/2006.

Well, there we have a typical picture of employment trends in the Murdoch land. Obviously, staff churned over on a frequent basis and no doubt young and cheap.

[Serial_Apologist]

Re: the staff of the News of the World. Yesterday we heard how virtually none of the staff there had been around at the time of the first scandals in 2005/2006.

Well, there we have a typical picture of employment trends in the Murdoch land. Obviously, staff churned over on a frequent basis and no doubt young and cheap.

Couldn't help noticing circumspection in of one of the NOW reporters being interviewed by Channel 4 last night. No, there hadn't been any "lynch mob mentality" in the plant, just a feeling of shock, etc. Wonder how many of the NOW staff could be taken back on board if it repoened as the Sun on Sunday...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

......Rebekah was born on 28 May 1968. Same day as Kylie Minogue.

Not quite as important as the joint birthday of 29th December, 1876.

[Mahlerei]

Pros to the end, one of the journos secretly recorded Brooks' speech today. Old habits die hard....

[antongould]

E_A I never knew you were born on the same day as Pablo! But will Sunday's loss match that of 23/04/1616?

[amateur51]

Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/08/phone-hacking-emails-news-international

Rats? Sinking Ships? This story writes itself

[Serial_Apologist]

Why didn't the police hack into News Internationals' files? Since everyone else was at it!

[Frances_iom]

Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, ...

Rats? Sinking Ships? This story writes itself

no just a belief that with their connections they were above the law - remember this is the company that is about to control much of UK TV

[Stillhomewardbound]

You know it's bad when the RNLI go out of their way to say they won't accept free advertising from News International, and they've not even been asked. That's like the fire brigade saying don't count on us to p*** on you if you're on fire, or 'sorry distressed seafarer, we ain't even thinkin' 'bout touching you with a barge pole'.

[amateur51]

Thanks lateralthinking for that excellent resumé that you posted in message #109

[Lateralthinking1]

Thank you amateur51. That is very kind.

I am falling behind on my work on "The Verb" and must catch up soon.

Still - and this will really prove that I don't get out of the house enough - do have a look at this very short clip from the BBC this week of the Parliamentary debate.

Specifically, watch Osborne's expression and mannerisms. I know the subject is serious but they seem downright bizarre to me as if his mind is both there and not quite there. Unless, that is, he always looks like that when Cameron is speaking!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14036673.

Incidentally, in case I come across like the Archbishop of Canterbury, I feel quite indifferent to cannabis use, certainly in respect of the general public. I only see it as an issue if politicians are waving the finger at others while not admitting to their own pasts unless really put on the spot. A past Home Secretary springs to mind.

On cocaine, I don't have any hard line stance in respect of ordinary citizens. We all make mistakes of one kind or another. However, from what I have seen of the drug, albeit from a considerable distance, I don't like it. It seems to me to have the impacts of arrogance and recklessness. I still feel that it had a bigger role in the financial crash than is genuinely recognised and therefore find its use among the wealthy and influential unforgivable.

With politicians, and particularly Ministers, it goes further. They are legislators. The question about the use of cocaine is essentially one that asks "have you ever seriously broken the law?" It has never been acceptable to me that this should be batted away with the argument that it is a matter of privacy. It is difficult to say how relaxed the general public would be on hearing about past use among any Prime Ministers and Chancellors to be. However, in any shall we say theoretical situation where it emerged that there was a very detailed cover-up, there would obviously be big concerns about possible crucial impacts on election outcomes.

[Mandryka]

The only thing I find surprising about this story is that so many people claim to be suprised by it.

Anyone with the merest knowledge of tabloid journalism knows that its most successful practitioners live by a very strange moral code, to put it politely.

The off-message Tory journalist Peter Oborne had a very good piece in the Telegraph this week (think it may even have been referenced upthread).

Having read between the lines in a Guardian article, I'm concluding that Ms. Brooks is a bicycle that can be ridden by any man (or woman, for that matter) in possession of power, influence and connections. Which would seem to explain her indispensability to Mr.Murdoch, Mr. Cameron (with whom she is said to be 'more than intimate'), as well as Mr. and Mrs. Blair.