Murdoch hacking scandal latest

[Stillhomewardbound]

I think I'm right in saying the scrapping of the Screws for the new Super Sun on Sunday was prophesied on thes boards earlier in the week!

[amateur51]

Me too






Love it! Never heard that one, Ams!! And I've heard a few Soames stories....

Glad you like it, Caliban

I think I'll spare ff's blood pressure & exchange further Soames stories in private

[MrGongGong]

I think I'm right in saying the scrapping of the Screws for the new Super Sun on Sunday was prophesied on thes boards earlier in the week!

indeed
but

its just another crock'o'shite IMV
so what's new ?

[BetweenTheStaves]

Here's a thought....you want to takeover a satellite channel but the price is too high...

so you 'leak' news of wrongdoings at one of your key Sunday newspapers...and fuel the feeding frenzy with carefully orchestrated 'new' revelations.

Meanwhile, you are creating an alternative Sunday newspaper to replace the 'problem' newspaper so you can close down the 'problem' newspaper....one of your own making...thus getting brownie points...

and as a bonus driving down the share price of the very satellite company that you want to take over in the first place.

A concept worthy of the News of the World? A figment of the imagination?

Or maybe not. So please give a thought to signing this petition http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/m...-deal-petition

[Stillhomewardbound]

Absolutely ... it's pure Sellafield out of Windscale. It's so easy to imagine that the tabloid press is so terrified that all the red tops will regain their virginty overnight ... if you've been at the Benylyn again, auntie.

Of course, no such thing and still some five-seven millions of the public will carry on purchasing the daily gossip fixes, still forgetting that there are things marginally more important than the latest celeb hair transplant, boob job or collagen diasaster. I do not rashly disparage a mjaor segment of the population, but I really wish some people would stop for two seconds and imagine the vile invasion that applies when our fellow citizens are spied on by the media as if some random specimen smeared on a petrie dish beneath a microscope's gaze.

Perhaps we really do need a privacy bill after all. We've had nearly twenty years of drinking up time in Mellor's 'Last Chance Saloon', so never mind 'let's be 'avin those glasses', it's time that more than just one of these Murdoch purveyors of noxious effluence finally bit the dust.

[Stillhomewardbound]

BTS, hoorah, I signed two days ago ... and if any further inducement is required, can we please remember that the government of the day currently serves without mandate. So, the mere notion that they play so tritely with this society's pluarility ought to make us all shudder within.

[amateur51]

BTS, hoorah, I signed two days ago ... and if any further inducement is required, can we please remember that the government of the day currently serves without mandate. So, the mere notion that they play so tritely with this society's pluarility ought to make us all shudder within.

Bravo BTS & SHB!

Keep signing those Avaaz & 38 Degrees e-petitions folks (only one sig/person of course)

[Stillhomewardbound]

Never mind the Profumo scandal ... this is Britain's Watergate and it will prove to be every bit as destructive.

[Frances_iom]

much more interesting as and when the police investigation into their wrongdoing comes out is just how deep was Cameron in the pockets of the Murdoch empire - very friendly with the exEditress (+ now such a key executive that she is being protected) and employer of the previous editor who had to resign (tho touted as doing the honourable thing - but then would you buy a used excuse from a PR spinner? - but then much of the Tory leadership come from this 'profession')

[Mahlerei]

So they've changed one window display, but it's still the same shop. As one NoW journo bleated this evening, can 7 million readers be wrong? Reminds me of a similar quote about turds and flies...

[Simon]

much more interesting as and when the police investigation into their wrongdoing comes out is just how deep was Cameron in the pockets of the Murdoch empire - very friendly with the exEditress (+ now such a key executive that she is being protected) and employer of the previous editor who had to resign (tho touted as doing the honourable thing - but then would you buy a used excuse from a PR spinner? - but then much of the Tory leadership come from this 'profession')

Oh dear. I go away again for a break, having successfully demolished Frances's last silly - and untenable -conspiracy theory about the PM, only to find that she's coming up with another hysterical idea.

Now, I don't expect many on this MB (rapidly becoming the "Friends of Radio 3 as long as you are leftist anti-Western, pro Islamic, pro-unlimited-immigration, anti-coalition, pro-EU, anti cuts, pro increasing the deficit till we are bankrupt" MB) who seem to be living in some unreal world with Guardian headlines as wallpaper and who believe all they read in the Morning Star, to worry very much about things like accuracy and evidence as long as the thrust is directed against the current Government, but it is perhaps worth pointing out that there is NO, repeat NO, evidence whatsoever that David cameron was or is in any way "in the pockets" of the Murdoch empire. Other than being on friendly terms, as are most senior politicians of both parties as far as they can be, with most national newspaper editors and owners - and with most senior BBC and ITV staff too - the PM has not been involved with any of this rubbish at all.

As for signing petitions, the laughable "38 Degrees brings you together with other people to take action on the issues that matter to you and bring about real change" is simply a front for yet more leftist propaganda. It should read "38 Degrees brings you together with other people to take action on the issues that matter to you and bring about real change as long as they are politically-correct, leftist fantasy that a few pseudo-intellectuals have dreamed up and which bear little resemblance to the values of most of the country and have no basis in common sense".

But back to the story - to be fair, it isn't surprising that so many of the media are jumping on the bandwagon. They are terrified of Murdoch, and will use all this to damage him as much as possible. If they can hurt the Government, so much the better for some of them - they want to go back to the free-spending days of Labour and unlimited credit (and to hell with the consequences for future generations). But the vision of amoral hacks from some other papers pretending to be upstanding and ethical journalists "horrified" at such goings on is hilarious. My work keeps me in contact with journalists from time to time, and with a few exceptions I find them unethical, grasping, small-minded and with no concern for the truth whatsoever, as long as they get "a story". I actually prefer politicians, as quite often one meets one of these with a sense of morality and duty. (The late Mrs Dunwoody, whom I knew quite well, was a case in point).

Don't get me wrong: I'm delighted that the NoW is finished. I wish all similar grubby, sordid, sensationalist rags would go too, irrespective of political bias. The world would be cleaner and healthier. Celebrity trash, gossip, sex titillation and soaps have provided nothing worthwhile for any community. But it's become a symbiotic relationship where each makes money out of the gullible public by using each other. A shame indeed.

[Frances_iom]

Oh dear. I go away again for a break, having successfully demolished Frances's last silly - and untenable -conspiracy theory about the PM, only to find that she's coming up with another hysterical idea.

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remind - what was that idea - though I have lost track of our Davids latest series of U-turns - I agree some politicians are honest and principled tho I suspect very few of those in senior positions today are (and I include all 2.5 parties here).

[Simon]

Remind - what was that idea

"much more interesting ... is just how deep was Cameron in the pockets of the Murdoch empire..."

was your idea that I was referring to. And unless you know something that we don't, I maintain you have no evidence that the PM had been bought and corrupted by anyone to do with News International.

[Boilk]

Is shutting down the News of the World a cunning stroke of genius, whereby it removes obligations to retain documents that could be relevant to civil and criminal claims against the newspaper—even in cases that are already underway?

One media commentator thinks so.

And I rather like this headline .

[Stunsworth]

Celebrity trash, gossip, sex titillation and soaps have provided nothing worthwhile for any community

I'm not so sure, look at the plots of many operas.