Kowalski Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Is there a bigger shower of cunts in the country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kowalski Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 A fair point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_min Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Can't wait until Murdoch gets control of all of BskyB at the end of this week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I don't get to see channel 4 news as much as i used to, but i caught it tonight. proper journalism! the worst thing that could happen is if news/journalists get tarnished with the same brush as murdoch's editor cunts. I suspect that's exactly what's going to happen though, because those who oppose murdoch and the practices of his companies have known exactly what he's about ever since the sun fabricated stories of liverpool fans pickpocketing the dead and dying at hillsborough. people will be angry about the dowler hacking for a wee while, then forget. In the meantime, murdoch will have bought up more of the industry and sooner rather than later, there will be no honesty or integrity left. just cunts writing what they're told to because it sells papers. the reason it will be allowed to happen is because most people think that's what all journalists already are. when things like this happen, the public allow it to turn into a 'tabloids/hacks are scum' story, rather than 'rich megalomaniacal cunts controlling press and politicians are scum' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 Several big companies pulling their advertising from NOTW. Lots of people on Twitter bombarding companies that advertise in the NOTW asking if they will be reconsidering spending any more money advertising with them. Ruper Murdoch will start taking this very seriously if it affects his income. EDIT: http://www.pint.org.uk/notw.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 News at Ten have just alleged that News International have passed emails to Police containing evidence that they systematically and repeatedly paid Police for information while Rebecca Wade was Editor. The staggering thing is that all the evidence for the hacking comes from just one Private Investigators seized notes, surely News International employed several such individuals who have now had years and years to destroy any evidence while the Met Police have fucked about and avoid the case. Their ineptitude in all of this must verge on incompetence if not out right corruption. They should be hammered for this and with so much of New International closely entwined with both main Political Parties and esp David Cameron the political fallout will be interesting to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 News at Ten have just alleged that News International have passed emails to Police containing evidence that they systematically and repeatedly paid Police for information while Rebecca Wade was Editor. The staggering thing is that all the evidence for the hacking comes from just one Private Investigators seized notes, surely News International employed several such individuals who have now had years and years to destroy any evidence while the Met Police have fucked about and avoid the case. Their ineptitude in all of this must verge on incompetence if not out right corruption. They should be hammered for this and with so much of New International closely entwined with both main Political Parties and esp David Cameron the political fallout will be interesting to see. I don't imagine there will be any proper political fallout. Basically, there is criminality from some journalists, editors, police and politicians. Who can investigate that and reach a balanced conclusion that benefits the public when all sectors are potentially corrupted or in collusion at various points? The only people who can expose these things are responsible, investigative journos. But the finances are currently squeezing such people out of the industry completely. ~The petition for a public inquiry: http://hackinginquiry.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Tradesman Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Good to see the papers getting a spoonful of their own medicine. Although I doubt Murdoch will even get a taste of it. Build them up, build them up, build them up, then once they think they're untouchable - BOOYA! - knock the fuckers down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Can't wait until Murdoch gets control of all of BskyB at the end of this week http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14045715 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azteca1903 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Interesting piece from today's Independent. Matthew Norman: Now is the moment to stop Murdoch It beggars all belief that the BSkyB takeover might still be permitted. It will be a staggering disgrace, after this, if it is Wednesday, 6 July 2011 It has many villains and one or two heroes, while its chief victim lies cocooned from the shock that has winded even the world-weariest media cynic like a kick to the solar plexus. But the story of Milly Dowler's mobile phone speaks of infinitely more than the posthumous violation of a murdered schoolgirl by Rupert Murdoch's demons and the visceral revulsion that this has induced. This is an amorality tale of systemic corruption as insidious, deep-rooted, all-embracing, diseased and destructive as any known to a modern Western democracy. To understand how it came to this – how prime ministers and our premier police force became the enablers of News Corporation's abundant wickedness – you must go back several decades. When Margaret Thatcher made her Faustian pact with Mr Murdoch in the 1980s, granting him his every heart's desire in return for his unwavering slavish support, she hastened the creation of the monster we see revealed in all its gruesome hideosity today. In general terms, she gifted him the preposterous media market share he expertly parlayed into a stranglehold over the political elite. In a country without a written constitution, bereft of checks and balances and devoid of oversight, the levers of power are there to be seized by the most ruthless buccaneer in town. This he did with wonted dark genius, coaxing and cajoling, bullying and bribing, to inculcate the near universally received wisdom that without his approval, no party can be elected or prosper in power for long. Once Thatcher had established the precedent of obeisance, it was rigidly and cringingly adhered to thereafter by Mr Tony Blair, the successor but one she begat, and now by his self-styled heir David Cameron. Specifically, meanwhile, she politicised the police by using them as a political truncheon at Wapping as with the simultaneous miners' strike. In so doing, she placed them in Mr Murdoch's pocket, where they have snugly remained ever since. Those scouring yesterday's Sun for a full account of the Milly Dowler obscenity will have been disappointed by a page two report barely bigger than the nipples on the facing page. But those who ploughed on to the centre spread found a nicely-timed reminder of the unholy trinity at work. "On Thursday," ran the taster for the Sun's 16th Police Bravery Awards, "Prime Minister David Cameron will welcome the 59 nominees to Number 10 before a glittering awards ceremony at The Savoy." Glittering indeed. How could it be otherwise when the Murdoch press, the police and the PM come together to celebrate the tripartite partnership forged at Wapping? If the juxtaposition of "police" and "bravery" in a News Corp context acquires a viciously satirical ring, it would trivialise this affair to harp on about the pitiful performance of John Yates, whose primary offence, one likes to think, was naively accepting the assurances of colleagues too timid to risk the wrath of the hand that feeds. Similarly, it feels almost banal to dwell on Rebekah Brooks, whose tenure as News Corp chief executive might not survive a return to a police interview room for the first time since then-husband Ross Kemp, TV's Hardest Man, dobbed her in to the fuzz during a domestic. The details of who knew what and when are as ghoulishly fascinating as they are undeniably significant. But fixating on the personnel risks obscuring the grander portrait of a system so dominated in absentia by its unconstitutional monarch – two-bit politicians come and go while Murdoch, like the Queen, abides – that its nominal leaders quail in mortal terror of his wrath. So does everyone else, from the Met upwards. The Press Complaints Commission is the industry's eunuch, while the Tory chair of the Commons media select committee, John Wittingdale, tells us he admires no one in the media as much as Rupert Murdoch. One committee member, Labour's Tom Watson, has been utterly heroic on phone-hacking, in starkest contrast to his leader Ed Miliband – every inch as craven as Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State whose rampant personal ambition dovetails so cutely with the PM's wishes over Murdoch's acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in BSkyB. If Mr Watson's magnificent example inspired others to conquer their fear, we would be on the cusp of a revolution. Just as in the immediate aftermath of MPs' expenses, mass public fury prises open a window of opportunity. Today there is that tantalising sense that we no longer need to tolerate such Murdoch-Government axis powers' outrages as Mr Blair ceding policy on a euro referendum to him, and attending a party at Rupert's daughter's home on the arm of Mrs Brooks; Mr Cameron's covert Christmas kitchie sups at her Oxfordshire home, shortly before waving through the BSkyB deal and abandoning the greatest chance for penal reform in a generation on the say-so of The Sun; the Murdoch titles – The Times, to its eternal shame, alongside the red-tops – saving Mr Blair's hide over Dr Kelly's death in pursuit of its commercially-driven campaign to destroy the BBC. I could go on and on cataloguing the Murdoch tentacles that spread everywhere, from the trivial granting of lucrative columns to semi-literate former ministers and retired coppers, to Mr Cameron's breathtaking misjudgement in hiring Andy Coulson as his media supremo. If the PM has discovered that the second iron rule of national life is that you cannot get into bed with Murdoch without one day waking to a nasty rash and an embarrassing discharge, he has always known that the first is this: whatever the battle, whatever the terrain and whatever the stakes, in the end Murdoch wins. Today there is the hope, faint but seductive, of change. Public repugnance on this scale is a rare and precious force in a country beset by apathy. It fades very quickly, and must be harnessed and deployed before it does. It would take cross-party unity on a scale seldom witnessed outside time of war, with all three leaders agreeing that this, finally, is the moment to take up Vince Cable's rallying cry and go to war with Murdoch to break his dominion. A full independent inquiry into News Corp's internal workings should be as automatic as one into the Met's scandalous collusion by lethargy. So, needless to add, should an instant reversal of the green light on the BSkyB deal. It beggars all belief that the take-over might still be permitted. It will be a staggering, transcendent disgrace, after this, if it is. Murdoch has never been as vulnerable as today and, if allowed to wriggle free, never will be again. This is an historic opportunity for parliament to excise the most aggressive malignancy in the body politic these past three decades, or at the very least stop it growing. Doing so would not mean that Milly Dowler did not die in vain. It would be insufferably glib to suggest that. But it would honour the memory of her name if something wonderful could be salvaged from an unspeakable tragedy that meant no more to Murdoch's minions, as ever working to the Fuhrer in whose image they are cast, than another opportunity to cash in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Tom Watson MP is meeting Aamer Anwar tomorrow to discuss the new evidence that Coulson lied under oath at the Shagger Sheridan perjury trial. Coulson claimed not to be aware of payments being made to police. Watson said he believes the evidence may make shagger's conviction unsound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/parents-%27have-right-to-know-if-news-of-the-world-pervert-lives-next-door%27-201107054034/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Families of dead soldiers also phone-hacked: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909 Jesus wept, it's open season on the NOTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harcus Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Tom Watson MP is meeting Aamer Anwar tomorrow to discuss the new evidence that Coulson lied under oath at the Shagger Sheridan perjury trial. Coulson claimed not to be aware of payments being made to police. Watson said he believes the evidence may make shagger's conviction unsound. So there may be a downside to this situation then? We get the Shagger Sheridan media circus in full swing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Families of dead soldiers also phone-hacked: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909 Jesus wept, it's open season on the NOTW! I can understand, if not condone why they hacked the phones of the parents of missing children etc, but what the fuck were they trying to unearth by hacking the phones of dead soldier's families? Bizarre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizer Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 What Im surprised to have been not mentioned more was that Cameron and his family spent time at Christmas with Rebekah Brooks and her family. She is also a close personal friend of the Blairs - it just shows how incestuous politics and wealthy London are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azteca1903 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World. From the Guardian live blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizer Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said. In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the families of 7/7 bombing victims and bereaved military families. Sky News said proceeds from the paper's last edition would be given to good causes. In a statement made to staff, Mr Murdoch said the good things the News of the World does "have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong - indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company". "The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Fooking hell..... Fucking Sunday Mail will be rubbing their hands. Would imagine that most Scottish NOTW readers would migrate to it instead. Murdoch must have been really concerned about the knock on effect this was going to have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRIOOOOO CHEERIO CHEERIO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Quite something. Perhaps they didn't have much option with the amount of advertisers deserting them, not to mention the serious flak they are taking. Wonder if its the start of something for Murdoch's empire. Fingers crossed. Must be some job losses though! How long before there's a "Sunday Sun"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 How long before there's a "Sunday Sun"? Exactly the conversation we've just been having Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Exactly the conversation we've just been having About a week I would guess. Basically a bit of remarketing to try and keep the market share for News International and get away with it. Text I just got suggests Sun is going 7 days, Brooks keeps her job (quite how the fuck I have no idea) and Murdoch gets to slash the pay roll by paying off a load of NotW hacks (who may or may not have any connection to all of this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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