So Hunt has referred the BSkyB purchase to the Competition Commission, but not long before NI changed the proposal in such a way that perhaps made it easier for the government to do that. I'm not really sure on the details here, or what NI is playing at
Murdoch is willing to sacrifice the newspaper to get the TV.
So Hunt has referred the BSkyB purchase to the Competition Commission, but not long before NI changed the proposal in such a way that perhaps made it easier for the government to do that. I'm not really sure on the details here, or what NI is playing at
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.
So Hunt has referred the BSkyB purchase to the Competition Commission, but not long before NI changed the proposal in such a way that perhaps made it easier for the government to do that. I'm not really sure on the details here, or what NI is playing at
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.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Monday became the most senior official to publicly urge Rupert Murdoch to drop a $12 billion bid by his embattled News Corporation for Britain’s most lucrative satellite broadcast company, British Sky Broadcasting, as the government sought advice on possible regulatory proceedings.
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After meeting with Ms. Dowler’s parents on Monday Mr. Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government, urged Mr. Murdoch to “look how people feel about this — look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations” about the phone-hacking scandal.
“Do the decent and sensible thing, and reconsider, think again about your bid for BSkyB,” Mr. Clegg said, referring to the satellite broadcaster by its initials.
So Hunt has referred the BSkyB purchase to the Competition Commission, but not long before NI changed the proposal in such a way that perhaps made it easier for the government to do that. I'm not really sure on the details here, or what NI is playing at
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.
the full quote from the guardian:
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, referred News Corporation's bid for 100% of BSkyB to the Competition Commission, after News Corp withdrew its promise to spin Sky News off into a separate company, a key element of making sure the bid passed media plurality conditions.
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.
Eh, Milipede and Clegg have gone all out anti-Murdoch. The election is 4 years away, so Cameron has a lot to gain and little to lose from bedding down with Murdoch.
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edited July 2011
Oh man, please be the scorched earth campaign against News Corp that I've been hoping for. Please oh please oh please let it be burned and the earth be salted in the wake of the destruction. Nuke the Murdochs and their empire from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
What can I say? I'm a Cubs fan; I'm using to having unrealistic expectations going into things.
The consortium would have to convince Rupert Murdoch to sell the News of the World title or face a legal challenge but they argue that public support would play a part in rescuing the paper.
Zilla, NotW was the largest Sunday Newspaper in terms of copies sold. If marketed correctly, it's not impossible to get a sizeable portion of its reader base reading any potential new one.
The consortium would have to convince Rupert Murdoch to sell the News of the World title or face a legal challenge but they argue that public support would play a part in rescuing the paper.
Public support? Hah! From where exactly?
Well, the people who bought the paper and made it into one of the biggest papers.
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edited July 2011
Oh, I know that. It's just hard to imagine how they'll market/present it if it did come back.
They'd have to make the first new edition entirely about kittens and supermodels I guess.
Does this mean Fox News is also in danger? Cause that'd be awesome
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.
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Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"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."
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
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.
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Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"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."
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
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.
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Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"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."
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edited July 2011
I don't know if anyone's seen this, but it's all the News Corp things one would have to avoid if boycotting anything Murdoch has anything to do with:
Trechent to the hacking and NI crusade against Brown it seems a judge buried Plymouth detectives evidence as a case was deemed to be a waste of taxpayers expense.
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.
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.
Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"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."
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Trechent to the hacking and NI crusade against Brown it seems a judge buried Plymouth detectives evidence as a case was deemed to be a waste of taxpayers expense.
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.
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.
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
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.
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
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.
So how can you get a hold of somebody's medical records without a crime being committed in the process?
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
So how can you get a hold of somebody's medical records without a crime being committed in the process?
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.
Yeah, I'm confident tabloids have enough knowledge of how the law works to be able to get around almost anything in order to persue a story. It seems it usually involves using a third party or ensuring not to handle sensitive documents themselves.
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.
The Sun and the Daily Mirror breached contempt of court laws during their coverage of the murder of Joanna Yeates in Bristol, the Attorney General told the High Court yesterday. Dominic Grieve QC said the nature of reporting from the two tabloids after the arrest of Ms Yeates' landlord Chris Jefferies was "so exceptional, memorable and adverse" that there was "substantial risk of serious prejudice" to any trial he might have faced...
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.
I find it surprising that Brown didn't nail Brooks to the wall after that (legally speaking of course), he was one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
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.
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.
They could have done it legally, maybe in a alternate candy world they did. The problem is this is not candyland.
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Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk:
"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."
The Sun and the Daily Mirror breached contempt of court laws during their coverage of the murder of Joanna Yeates in Bristol, the Attorney General told the High Court yesterday. Dominic Grieve QC said the nature of reporting from the two tabloids after the arrest of Ms Yeates' landlord Chris Jefferies was "so exceptional, memorable and adverse" that there was "substantial risk of serious prejudice" to any trial he might have faced...
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.
Oh come on Bad-Beat, he clearly looked a bit funny: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
Just looked on The Sun's website. They went for the headline: Hold'em Balls.
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)
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edited July 2011
Not sure if this has been posted, but John Oliver was very funny about this on the Daily Show
I don't know why I do it but I keep reading Littlejohn's column in the Daily Mail. Maybe, there's a part of me that believes Littlejohn is capable of turning a corner and realising where and how he went wrong but no, he can't even see the wood through the trees in this whole phone hacking affair.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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That and, as pointed out, back then with an election a couple of years away she seemed far more powerful than she is now.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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