The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

Uh? Via the Telegraph:

14.49 Barack Obama is expected to break his silence on the phone scandal this afternoon. Stay tuned for more.

TRIBAL BRAH

When James Murdoch was a hip-hop mogul

that's lachlan tho, guessing his boutique psytrance label didn't get bought by pops

It's hard to tell these wealthy white boys apart, with all their tattoos and suits and board positions.

I wouldn't want someone jailed if they lobbed a bin at my car whilst I was driving it, but I'd definitely want some sort of punishment that would be more than a mild inconvenience to them

if someone threw a bin at a human being in a car i think it wd be naughty but in this case

Rupert Murdoch is very sad:

We are sorry.

The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself.

We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred.

We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected.

We regret not acting faster to sort things out.

I realise that simply apologising is not enough.

Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society. We need to live up to this.

In the coming days, as we take further concrete steps to resolve these issues and make amends for the damage they have caused, you will hear more from us.

Sincerely,

Rupert Murdoch

Grovelling little bastard

Oh and apparently Cameron had Coulson over for tea or something two months after the latter resigned. Bros, kicking back.

Everyone deserves a third chance

hope he's got the same idea of "taking concrete steps" as me

16.14 Rupert Murdoch is meeting the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail was hacked into by the News of the World, BBC News reports.

"No, really, I insist, please take all this money."

yeah they seem quite happy to support the super soaraway lying cunt

16.20 More on that meeting between Rupert Murdoch and the Dowlers. BBC News reporting that the meeting at a central London hotel was arranged hastily this morning, with the Dowlers told: "Rupert wants to meet you".
They were said to be desperate not to be used as an instrument of spin but still agreed to the meeting. Murdoch was wearing a full suit this afternoon as he went into the hotel, a change from the tracksuits and casual wear we've seen him in this week.

Really, really wish he had gone in in the tracksuit.

And that ad as it will run:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2011/7/15/1310742686365/Rupert-Murdoch-ad-001.jpg

WE ARE SORRY plzleaveusalone

they should get Morrissey to release "Suedehead '11" for this

OK, soz, thxbye.

xpost -- that would make the final lines a little...weird.

16.29 A little more detail is coming from Downing St about Andy Coulson's stay at Chequers in March. He was invited to dinner and to stay overnight as a "thank you for his work" before his resignation in January.

i smell a slash fiction genre

the most terrifying of smells

Slash *is* the genre. The term you are looking for is "pairing".

sorry K i knew it was badly worded

the most terrifying of smells

At the least, rather moist.

At Dave’s house Andy listened to the message with a smile on his face. Soon enough Dave would know all about the Game. Andy felt himself harden at the thought of what lay ahead for them both, not just tonight but over the weekend to come.

Andy’s hand slipped down inside his pants, grabbing his cock and gently pulling his hand along its engorged length. He moaned at the sensations flooding his body. Preparing for what was to come had made him so sexually charged he could have climaxed right there and then.

Stop that, he told himself, there is still so much to do before Dave gets back, everything must be perfect. Reluctantly Andy released his hand from his cock and went back to work.

Stop that

otm

xpost -- Yeah yeah, docudrama and all, but where's your slash entry?

Chancellor of the SexChequers

sb'd everyone itt, risk of contagion too great

Slowly Darragh inched his hand towards the throbbing SB button.

jesus CHRIST

He gasped...

lolling like a mf here

.. he shouted(xpost), but it was OK, now was not the time..

amazing

was anyone else old/lame enough to be reminded of this

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/5939909003_69e5d33aab_z.jpg

The perfect thing is that Murdoch's referenced two-thirds through!

17.24 Mark Lewis, Dowler family solicitor:

"It was a private meeting that had been called for by Rupert Murdoch and he was humbled to give a full and sincere apology to the Dowler family.

"We told him, the Dowler family told him, that his papers should lead the way to set the standard of honesty and decency in the field and not what had gone on before.

"At the end of the day actions are going to speak louder than words. Thank you."

He went on to say, when questioned over Rupert Murdoch: "I think he was very humbled, I think he was very shaken and sincere. I think it was something that has hit him on a very personal level that it shouldn't have happened.

"Yes, he did apologise, he apologised many times. I don't think somebody could have held their head in their hands so many times to say they were sorry.

"It was a heartfelt and what seemed to be a very sincere apology."

"Share values keep dropping, you have no idea how sorry I am!"

sepukku or he don't mean it imo

Probably saving that for Tuesday.

Would be interested to know the size and nature of Brooks' golden parachute.

i have just reached a point where i'm sick of hearing about this. yes please punish everyone who broke the law but i'm just never going to care about it as much as the ppl writing the newspapers obviously (and understandably) do

Actually thinking about Murdoch being all apologetic to the Dowlers makes me think about the opening of Snow Crash where it's clear the pizza mogul does not like having to go out and apologize for late delivery.

We've been caught.

The News of the World was in the business of catching other people. It failed when it came to not getting caught itself.

We are sorry we've been caught.

We are deeply sorry for the hurt we as individuals have suffered by getting caught.

We regret not acting faster to prevent ourselves being caught.

We realise that simply apologising won't change the fact we've been caught. But it might start to give the corrupt politicians and policemen we rely upon to look after us an excuse to start looking after us again.

Our business was founded on the idea that if we owned the press we would be immune from being caught. Your vindictive little country didn't live up to this.

In the coming days as we take further concrete steps to try to obscure the issues and limit the damage caused you will hear more bullshit from us.

Sincerely,

Rupert

I am honestly having a difficult time reconciling the amiable hippie I met in passing 15 years ago with modern-day CEO James Murdoch, lightning rod of scorn and hatred.

I mean it's not even like I KNOW know him or anything, just that apologetic rhetoric matches the person I met much more than the allegations swirling among his underlings does.

I kind of wish I'd made an actual connection/friendship there so I could dish more effectively about this

Well, we're talking two different Murdochs here, plus lawyers/PR people, so...

Meantime, so Jude Law is suing the Sun. Fun bits at the Telegraph:

18.59 The hunt is on for the four articles published in 2005 and 2006 that could be the source of the lawsuit. Do you know what they are?

19.01 The Sun website has quite a good search function. Get sleuthing, internet!

19.05 Hmmmm this is interesting - When you type Jude Law into The Sun's website it gives you a chronological archive going backwards. But get to the last page and the stories jump abruptly from 2007 to 2004 - cutting out the exact period covered in the lawsuit.

Could be that less was archived online back then. Could be something else...

19.11 We're working on a full archive search for the Jude Law stories and will hopefully have some results soon.

19.15 Worth remembering that it was Law's ex, Sienna Miller, who kept the issue of phone hacking in the public eye by suing the News of the World.

Fox finally covers the scandal. "You would think martians have landed in New Jersey"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qtC4gT-_Nj0#at=37

Murdoch better not wear a beige turtleneck: he will look even more like an old man's penis.

Also, FOX pundits are reacting and - surprise, surprise - they just don't get it:

On the Fox and Friends show, Fox journalist Steve Doocy wondered just what the fuss was all about: "The company has come forward and said: 'look, this happened a long time ago, at a tabloid, in London, somebody did something really bad,' and the company reacted. They closed that newspaper, all the people got fired, even though 99 percent of them had nothing to do with it."

Doocy's guest, public relations consultant Robert Dilenschneider, was in agreement:
"If I am not mistaken, Murdoch, who owns it, has apologised but for some reason, the public, the media keeps on going over this, again and again. It's a little bit too much."

"The bigger issue is hacking and how we as a public are going to protect outselves," said Dilenschneider, who earlier listed a number of US companies which had recently become the targets of hacking.

Doocy added later: "One of the things about the media, you look at some sites and you would think that martians had landed in New Jersey - again"

Holy shit, can someone confirm? Supposedly Hinton stepped down at the WSJ.

A total of eight out of the 13 people arrested on suspicion of phone hacking will face charges.

A further three people on police bail over hacking allegations have not been charged. The decision relating to two others has been deferred, the CPS has said.

The eight individuals to face charges are: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Glenn Mulcaire, Greg Miskew, Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup.

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

full charge sheet here

hope that delia smith exclusive in 2005 was worth going to prison for, whatever the fuck it was.

Maybe it was a recipe for baking a cake with a hacksaw hidden in it

so for wade this is in addition to perverting the course of justice, but no news yet about a decision on possible corruption charges (i.e. police bribery), right?

Is that a separate investigation? I think they have three on the go at the moment.

I expect Cameron, Blair and Brown have been texting her to send their commiserations... uhhhhhhhhhhh

yeah i think it must be. not keeping up with leveson, so i'm missing a lot of the actual news here.

yeah, i think these are from operation weeting (phone hacking); the bribery one is operation elveden and there's also operation tuleta (computer hacking), neither of which the CPS have made a decision on yet.

lol

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/25/business/media/25hacking-span/25hacking-span-articleLarge-v2.jpg

coulson looks a bit like dom.

This is cool

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/23/rupert-murdochs-daughter-news-international-_n_1825510.html

not too be super cynical but i'd like some more info about how her thing is run, & what she'd actually propose NI do - it's obviously a really nice contrast from just hearing james murdoch at all but it's a very sensible move to distance herself from their gross & toxic overly corporate rhetoric. but yeah hearing someone defend the license fee is neat &c.

have we really not updated this in six months??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/08/police-officer-prison-officer-the-sun

remember this guy? pretty sure he's a motherfucker with dark secrets... http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2013/march/14/former_tabloid_journalist.aspx#.UU2XKCVFvlg.twitter

His masochistic glee in receiving kicking after kicking while defending the press in every TV studio in the land suggested he had, uh, issues

the picture in the piece looks like it was taken the morning after he received a drunken kicking in a gutter somewhere. he reeks of 'wrong-un' to an almost comedic degree.

still, i bet that piers hernu looks at mcmullan and wistfully thinks, that could have been me.

What a nugget, it took me 20 seconds to find that jam jar story debunked on google http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ec-labels-ban-on-re-using-jam-jars.html

Mr McMullan, who is 45, says he was inspired to put himself forward as a UKIP candidate by two events.

The first was the fact that three months ago his 80-year-old mother, who likes making jam, was among those affected by the new law from Europe saying she could not re-use jam jars.

“There has to come a time when enough is enough,” said Mr McMullan, who runs the Castle Inn and backpackers hostel in Russell Street, Dover.

my clearest memory of this guy is when steve coogan destroyed him on newsnight, and yet here he's basically just alan partridge

I was just thinking about this thread this morning. Some great posting up there.

Looks like a second season's been commissioned . . .

What's your favourite post from this thread? Let's take a trip down memory lane.

http://gawker.com/rupert-murdoch-caught-on-tape-we-will-hit-back-660365967

I can't even

heartbreaking stories from these poor journalists whose families have suffered at the hands of an uncaring police force. i wonder if any of them suffered the same agonies on behalf of the people they've smeared and libelled thru their gutter comic over the years?

begging for a 'downfall' parody video, isn't it?

http://gawker.com/did-rebekah-brooks-fuck-rupert-murdoch-and-his-son-lach-926651851

just

ugh

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i read that story last night. i find it quite hard to believe tbh.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/04/phone-hacking-trial-rebekah-brooks

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/19/tony-blair-rebekah-brooks-phone-hacking

I know this isn't directly phone-hacking/newscorp related, but

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair

I know it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke but vanity fair really is just gutter journalism with a coat of gold paint

News breaking that Coulson has been found guilty of hacking (but perhaps not other charges), Brooks not guilty.

I will never forget the giddy euphoria of June 2011.

If I had to pick one to go down it would be Coulson, so fair enough

Fuck with the Royals, down you go. Fuck with anyone else, retain the firm of the PM's brother for your defense, and off you get.

^

new season starting a bit slowly but paedophile political conspiracies definitely a promising plotline.

Putting the Great back into Brittan.

this thread reminds me i need to buy private eye this week

Geoffrey Dickens as I shall always remember him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d29HX0I46sQ