j. murdoch's "to my knowledge certain things were not known" is a classic for the ages
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
like, maybe they actually were known, but that would only be the case if he had less complete knowledge
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Was he talking about the known unknowns or the unknown unknowns?
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh noes!
http://i.imgur.com/QTmdt.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
robble
― g++ (gbx), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
jesu christo that's a bottom-third car crash
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
i mean lower-third. i always do that. the CC is like the cherry on top.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
So... now what happens?
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Pie happens.
Tom Watson said in a Guardian interview the other day that these hearings weren't going to be a sudden series of smoking-gun revelations, but cutting ever closer to the truth, whatever it might be. On that level he was exactly right.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
well exactly. the thing today was to gradually push the Murdochs and Brooks to adopt a position, altho I'm sure they all know that position is vulnerable to further revelations. it also gave us a chance to look at exactly where the evasions were strongest, cos that seems to be the likeliest area to start digging for evidence.
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/jonnie-marbles-comedian-activist-attack-murdoch
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
2000 words on why Jonnie Marbles is the greatest hero who ever lived from L. Barton tomorrow
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
He wasn't even tasered or beaten up by 20 cops? idgi
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
great to catch up with this thread today. listened on radio from just before the circus act courtesy of our idiot urban clown.
only two things to add that haven't been mentioned before:
When they were asking Murdoch if his employees had told him about the verdict of 'collective amnesia', I wished he'd said 'they must have forgotten'.― kip winger; radio ventriloquist (jel --), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― kip winger; radio ventriloquist (jel --), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
1. the clip on the bbc site shows watson asking the question about 'collective amnesia', murdoch evading and mumbling, then watson's coup de grace: 'did they forget to tell you'?
(so often i wondered whether rm was having to hold down his magic wand/super bark/jedi mind trick that he's so used to playing. hating being shown up as a dick.)
2. in midst of rebekah questions around milly dowler and how sunday newspapers are run, she started a paragraph about the dowler events with "i mean, the milly dowler story was so h..." she caught herself very quickly and went on to say "it was so awful, so tragic", but it was obvious she had meant to say the story was HUUUUGE. you can take the girl out of the tabloid....
what fun.
― whatever, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp He really "lost" his "marbles" didn't he?
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
she caught herself very quickly and went on to say "it was so awful, so tragic", but it was obvious she had meant to say the story was HUUUUGE.
TOTALLY noticed this!
funny thing is i don't think calling the story HUGE would've been a particular faux pas - it just revealed how much care she was taking over how she came across.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Will these hearings be on a free DVD with The Guardian soon then?
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/life-in-hell-e1311098118902.gif
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
For some inspired reason, the PIE ATTACK video on The Graniuad's website has a slow-motion replay with slow-motion action film musical bedding in the background.
― Scritti Eros Poli (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
murdoch eats humble pie seems to be the line all the newspapers are taking tomorrow
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
So did the pie help or hurt things today? Aside from livening it up a bit
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure its going to make a huge difference in the long run, but in the near future it gives Murdoch's outlets the perfect chance to frame him as a victim.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think it hurt things as much as people made out somewhat melodramatically - sure it'll be the focus of the headlines but i don't think it makes murdoch sympathetic as such, there was no big splash that would've got the headlines in any other case - actually it just feeds into the overall impression that the whole thing was a bit farcical. the story is the overall inadequacy of their answers.
also it's not like the story is going to cease any time soon.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
it won't affect things much i think we were just all pissed off with the unfunny attention ho trying to screw things up. worth it for Wendi D's sweet right-hander tho
― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it doesn't change the fact that the dude needs to be hung, drawn and quartered basically
i KNEW wendi would do something special. i tweeted before it started that i had a feeling she might be amazing and SHE WAS <3
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8648350/Phone-hacking-Neil-Wallis-advised-Andy-Coulson-before-election.html
not sure if this came up before, 'old news' now, but david cameron not mentioning it till now is definitely a thing that makes you go hmmm
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
theatre dude on newsnight OTM comparing Murdoch to Lear - dividing his kingdom among chosen heirs, fissures developing, mental and political powers dwindling
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
however that did mark the moment when I realised no more news would be occurring on this special bumper edition of NN
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Profile on Wendi:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/wendi-deng-charlies-angel-moment
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
most iiiiinteresting daily mail front page about the 'real scandal'
they're not, you know, entirely wrong, buuuuut
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Truly, a tool:
http://www.observer.com/2011/07/heres-jonnie-marbles-pie-thrower-aimed-for-activism-and-laughs/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
“He was very, very unfunny,” the source added, insisting that we refer to him as a classmate or acquaintance. “Please don’t use the word friend.”
:D
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Hahaha I knew you would love that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
loooool
― Bilge Pump Up the Volume (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
hey my comment's made it to the top of his youtube :D
omg omg omg and through that I just discovered that majestic DOMFALL <3 <3 <3
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFusX363cg
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
thought everybody had seen this by now tbh
― Bilge Pump Up the Volume (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/19/is-woman-hear-her-roar-wendi-deng-murdoch-fights-back/
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtz-se1wgo
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
does that feature him getting cock-punched? otherwise i don't think i'll click
― Bilge Pump Up the Volume (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear
― owenf, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
I am impressed with the audience for not laughing AT ALL at his first joke.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
That incident is now clearly the most important thing that will be remembered/written about from these hearings. Hope marbles was hired by NI to create a diversion, because it worked perfectly.
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
holy lol at domfall.
this marbles cunt's voice sounds a lot like that of a very nice person i know, it's putting me off of my attempts to hate him unreservedly.
― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
that Domfall was amazing, well done whoever
― jack-off all trade, masturbate nuns (sic), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
HAH from that FOX piece:
(Those of you with better things to do might not know that the media mogul Murdoch is being questioned about the tactics some of his reporting staff undertook, including wire taps, paying for news tips and generally beating the competition to shreds with scoops. In response, politicians are clamoring for a chance to say – on camera – how horrified they are about the entire ordeal. Simply horrified.)
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Paying for news tips? Why that doesn't sound bad at all!
Whoever done Domfall, I love you and will buy you more than one pint in honour. RIP Big Man indeed.
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link