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

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.

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/jonnie-marbles-comedian-activist-attack-murdoch

2000 words on why Jonnie Marbles is the greatest hero who ever lived from L. Barton tomorrow

He wasn't even tasered or beaten up by 20 cops? idgi

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

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.

xp He really "lost" his "marbles" didn't he?

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.

Will these hearings be on a free DVD with The Guardian soon then?

http://hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/life-in-hell-e1311098118902.gif

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.

murdoch eats humble pie seems to be the line all the newspapers are taking tomorrow

So did the pie help or hurt things today? Aside from livening it up a bit

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.

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.

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

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

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

theatre dude on newsnight OTM comparing Murdoch to Lear - dividing his kingdom among chosen heirs, fissures developing, mental and political powers dwindling

however that did mark the moment when I realised no more news would be occurring on this special bumper edition of NN

Profile on Wendi:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/wendi-deng-charlies-angel-moment

most iiiiinteresting daily mail front page about the 'real scandal'

they're not, you know, entirely wrong, buuuuut

Truly, a tool:

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/heres-jonnie-marbles-pie-thrower-aimed-for-activism-and-laughs/

“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

Hahaha I knew you would love that.

loooool

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFusX363cg

omg

thought everybody had seen this by now tbh

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/19/is-woman-hear-her-roar-wendi-deng-murdoch-fights-back/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtz-se1wgo

does that feature him getting cock-punched? otherwise i don't think i'll click

oh dear

I am impressed with the audience for not laughing AT ALL at his first joke.

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.

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.

that Domfall was amazing, well done whoever

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.)

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.

Fuck that comedian guy, I had never seen Domfall and now that's eclipsed Murdoch in my memory

Not yet sure if this is directly related: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/07/murdoch-biographer-rupert-wants-lachlan-to-buy-news-limited.html

News Ltd is the local arm of News Corp. It controls something like 70% of the newspaper press here.

Is it that high? That seems very high.

He also owns all those Leader community papers, and Brisbane & Adelaide have nothing but the Courier Mail/Tiser and the Oz.

think lachlan is too smart to buy a bunch of papers that will start leaking money within five years tbh

I thought Australian media was controlled by the Murdochs, kangaroos, and the progeny of felons

it is!

think lachlan is too smart to buy a bunch of papers that will start leaking money within five years tbh

― root 86 tram (haitch), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:24 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You're that sure?