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[Phone Hacking In The UK] - An Old Fashioned English Fox Hunt
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Murdoch is willing to sacrifice the newspaper to get the TV.
The EU competition commission waved through the BSkyB takeover, so they are hoping/planning that ours will follow suit.
They're taking it out of the hands of the politicians, who now want very much to stop, or at least delay the deal, and hoping for arbitration to break in their favour. It's not a win, as they've been fighting against this happening for ages, but right now it's better than the alternative, which is to let politicians who want nothing to do with him all of a sudden put the kibosh on the deal.
the full quote from the guardian:
why they think they can change the proposal to their favour in these circumstances worries and confuses me.
the death of NI newspapers isnt so unplanned, methinks.
if this actually took old Rupes down it would be glorious although that's probably far too much to hope for
What can I say? I'm a Cubs fan; I'm using to having unrealistic expectations going into things.
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Well, the people who bought the paper and made it into one of the biggest papers.
They'd have to make the first new edition entirely about kittens and supermodels I guess.
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Apparently a small selection of USA shareholders have lodged legal challenges equating News corp being treated as a family candy jar.
The fact that the sun is implicated and old becca Brook lorded over Brown that she knew his son was dieing pretty much kills the NI defense of :few bad apples.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Yow do know what Twain said, right?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/11/police-mps-hacking-cockup-conspiracy
He denied ever having said he had "reviewed" the Met's phone-hacking investigation following revelations in the Guardian in July 2009
So you decided not to look at the evidence again before making a decision, because well fukit that'd be work.
A concerted Yard fightback saw Yates acknowledge to the Sunday Telegraph that his 2009 decision was "pretty crap"
So your argument was that you had an off day. . .
In a letter to the committee released on Monday, Yates said the failure to detect the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone was "a source of great regret".
Just pathetic: I'm sorry we're actually no good at our job, corruption happens because I was stupid and therefore you cannot blame me. . .
Please let me keep my job because I am trying to prove I'm to stupid to be corrupt and by extension too stupid to recognise or stop corruption.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Well, it's probably easier to go down as an incompetent than as a corrupt fucker.
It looks like he did not connect that Brook calling him about knowing his son was going to die would be connected to illegal phone hacking. Or he took on board Brook's implied threat that NI could and would smear him by any means.
It's like poor Ryan getting Brook and coulson to admit to paying off cops and within months there are photos of him in his underwear (on gay sites not less because homo's are icky amrite News corp) on the front page.
Coogens correct in his statement that it was a protection racket.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/11/evidence-data-checks-gordon-brown
Files buried in police archives detail the discovery of an extraordinary nationwide network of private investigators, whom a corrupt local police officer was feeding with information filched from the police national computer (PNC).
To the detectives' surprise, the targets included the then chancellor of the exchequer, listed by his full name, James Gordon Brown and date of birth, as well as two other Labour politicians.
They were the chancellor's close colleague, the agriculture minister Nick Brown, plus the embattled MP for Reading West, Martin Salter, who at the time of the PNC break-in had been publicly put on an "enemies list" by the then News of the World editor, Rebekah Brooks.
Guys guys my Girl Rebekah did not know of any wrong doing at all, besides this and suborning Police officers. . .
The Judge Darlow has had a history of being a scumbag.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1539699/Judge-Dont-be-racist-call-him-fat-instead.html
because Police men should just let people call them F*&^ing Paki's. "Just call him fat" when you don't want to be touched by a Paki doctor, I'm a judge I know the law and how to avoid charges of racism. . .
I really like this one: look just dog whistle next time.
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Judge-slams-ignorant-legal-error/story-11437639-detail/story.html
Don't charge people for sexual assault after attempted sexual assault, charge them for trespass. I'm a judge I know the LAW!
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Judge-pints-beer/story-11830096-detail/story.html
Hey You having a history of assaulting people is peanuts to the insanity of drinking 5 pints of beer, that's just unhealthy.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
What a classy gent. Glad to see he was watching out for us
There are a number of ways the Sun could have got the information without it being illegal for the paper. That is indeed the defence NI is mounting now with regards to the Brown information it published.
That and, as pointed out, back then with an election a couple of years away she seemed far more powerful than she is now.
Asking nicely
Well, medical report access is governed in parts by the Access to Medical Reports Act (iirc), which usually requires written authorisation from the patient. Whether or not that law covers all other kinds of access I do not know
Not illegal for the paper, not that it's not illegal at some point. If the paper doesn't solicit the information (does not organise or encourage a crime to take place) and doesn't pay for it then I'd imagine they are mostly in the clear.
It's also clear they absolutely do not give a fuck about falling into morally 'grey' areas. The culture of the tabloids is one of 'it's not a matter of morals, it's a matter of what sells.' and that's what sickens me most about tabloids.
This ongoing case helps to sum it up: LINK
Throughout the course of this story, the papers never once stopped to ask whether or not it was right to effectively charge a man with murder before police had even finished questioning him.
Yeah but they did not go down the route of just legal information harvesting. . .
Files buried in police archives detail the discovery of an extraordinary nationwide network of private investigators, whom a corrupt local police officer was feeding with information filched from the police national computer (PNC).
To the detectives' surprise, the targets included the then chancellor of the exchequer, listed by his full name, James Gordon Brown and date of birth, as well as two other Labour politicians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/11/evidence-data-checks-gordon-brown
They could have done it legally, maybe in a alternate candy world they did. The problem is this is not candyland.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Oh come on Bad-Beat, he clearly looked a bit funny: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
Well see we need to forgive bad or illegal behaviour of the tabloids as that is what allows them to bring to our attention issues of public import, as well as acting as a key aspect of Freedom of Speech (tm)
http://gawker.com/5820243/jon-stewart-tackles-the-news-of-the-world-scandal
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums.
Actually, reading his latest article, it's hard to work out who or what the fuck he actually likes. He shows disdain (in this one column alone) towards:
News of the World
All Celebrities
The Guardian
The Independent
The Sunday Times
Met Police
The Labour Party
Lib Dems
Max Clifford
The BBC
Rupert Murdoch
David Cameron (sort of)
The man is clearly a very bitter and generally unsociable prat.