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

She's just killing time iirc.

i do wonder what brooks and co have on him, and whether it'll get to a point where they reveal it.

i liked it when she said coulson was hired on geo. osborne's advice. did she have to volunteer that information?

I wonder why nobody has mentioned Steve Hilton's name in connection with this clusterfuck... so far.

i think hilton on the whole really hates the osborne tendency, and it's osborne who is most keen on NI. otoh he was apparently at the pre-dowler summit the other weekend. idk.

Really feeling sorry for ilx user NI atm

@NeilInnes on Twitter:

Harbottle and Lewis were my lawyers when the Rutles "arrived". I was left with no copyright, no writing credit and no producers royalties.

the NI thing is limp, & shouldn't even be reported as cooperation if it's selective. like palin's e-mails.

Adam McLuhan
Louise Mensch = Cersei Lannister. #gameofthrones #phonehacking

Louise Mensch
@adammcluhan danaerys targarean and @maindepowr is the khal

I really want to contribute to this thread but am still hypnotised by the flan throwing loop. Esp. Mensch going 'O' and then looking over at the chair as if to check if it's ok to stand up, and then standing up, all in the blink of an eye.

And Sheridan not moving at all.

Sheridan's from Paisley, he's probably non-plussed by far worse forms of assault.

Meanwhile, in today's Times:

http://lockerz.com/s/122196367

what i love about the pie gif is that there are six mps around that table who do not react at all

that times cartoon is so o_0

can't believe the guardian is purposefully starving those somalian kids

let's think about who the real villains are here

As if the lying, mendacious, greedy fucks that Murdoch supports have absolutely ~nothing~ to do with the international politics that creates global poverty?

That cartoon might have some weight if they spent, you know, one "QUANTUM" of effort changing it the rest of the damn year.

this deborah orr piece is good on the psychology of it all http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/20/deborah-orr-murdoch-downfall

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen the Sun or the NoW lead on a famine story.

otm. what a choice moment to gain perspective. like with clegg, in his speech at the moment, saying, let's talk about the real issue, the economy - it is not in dispute that the two things are generally characteristically different, but that the phone-hacking thing is about the fabric of our democracy rather than the specifics and scale of what acts were carried out. it's like treating watergate as a burglary.
xxxp

That Times cartoon just got sent to a Somali friend who will probably complain to NI about how offensive it is.

clegg, in his speech at the moment, saying, let's talk about the real issue, the economy

We've got 4 fucking years to talk about the economy, is it OK for use people to talk about what they want to talk about, you arsehole?

clegg, in his speech at the moment, saying, let's talk about the real issue, the economy leave him alone, he's my friend...

he's reeling off a list of, 'i was the first person in government to req a judge-lead enquiry, the first to call for murdoch to...' &c&c; he somehow manages to do the exact opposite of what he intends - signifying independence & LD vision - by sounding like some asshole housemate who has kept track of how many toilet rolls they bought.

'i was the 200th first person in government parliament to req a judge-lead enquiry

well yeah that they're either pedantic or selective references to how he joined a pile-on is a whole other thing. it was a thing that was frustrating about the reports of the murdochs' 'contrition' at the hearings - it isn't sincere at the point at which you've been compelled to do it & its become the option most likely to work well for you.

there wasn't much more than a quantum of contrition anyway. a lot of blather from james and the uncle junior act from rupe.

think the hearings were a kind of climax followed by a bit of a lull now, but im assuming caek's brother is 'all over it' and will provide some content at some point.

clegg, in his speech at the moment, saying, let's talk about the real issue, the economy he didn't think the last Coldplay single was much cop, took it back to HMV, got some points for his reward card

Team 2012 and Visa sold the exclusive rights to interview British athletes during the Olympics to News International back in January:

The partnership allows News International newspapers (The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times) to all carry the title ‘Official Newspaper of Team 2012’. Over the next 18 months News International will undertake a multi-channel campaign featuring Team 2012 to engage their audiences to get behind each of the athletes, their sports and their personal stories as they prepare for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

It's just under review, isn't it?

Media Week says "News International is understood to have lost exclusive access to Britain's top athletes" - http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1081280/News-World-closure-hits-News-Int-Olympic-deal/

AWESOME

Via twitter:

anonymouSabu - We're releasing something we found in The Sun's mail server, shortly. Ouch. Ready for the media storm? 9 minutes ago via web

there's a 'maybe we won't' message up now, regarding provisional release of the sun's e-mails - i can't quite tell how the two relate/whether they are referring to the same thing. the drama of this kind of thing is a bit offputting.

Yeah, Louise Boat needs to shit or get off the pot here

Reading anonymouSabu's bickering with CharlesArthur today makes him read like a 16-year-old.

If only the manager of Metallica had the surname Boat.

And forename, Viking

Had to unfollow LulzSec and AnonymousSabu after like a day, they come across as total cretins tbh

xp Middle name Long

We think, actually we may not release emails from The Sun, simply because it may compromise the court case.

http://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousIRC/status/94012373748285440

Guardian blog pushing quite hard on the Coulson security clearance question, basically saying that for Cameron not to put him through developed vetting was very anomalous.

Reading anonymouSabu's bickering with CharlesArthur today makes him read like a 16-year-old.

― stet, Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:27 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

he probably is a 16-year-old

am trying to work it up into something more indignant but my antipathy towards the hacker guys who aren't releasing their sun e-mails it mainly just frustration, because i am bored. today is boring so far.

im trying to figure out if there is a relevant court case in hand...? until that happens i don't think anything is sub judice; but im guessing i know about as much as a lulzsecker on this score.

yah dont think i approve of these modern hacker guys. why cant they be more like that nice young man from 'War Games', genial, well-meaning, perhaps chill to some Simple Minds whilst waiting for their 'dial-up' 'modem' to 'log on'

Really feeling sorry for ilx user NI atm

― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:07

haha cheers, i'm one of the forgotten victims in this whole sorry saga :(

Would releasing the Sun info actually threaten anything? Couldn't the police then be like "ummm, we would like to see this file" to get what they had already read online? Or am I being fickle?

LATEST: Ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler and legal chief Tom Crone issue statement saying James Murdoch's evidence to select committee was 'mistaken'. More details soon …

6.47pm: James Murdoch's account to the Commons culture select committee about his involvement in agreeing the out-of-court settlement with the former head of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, was mistaken, according to a statement issued by former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former News international legal manager Tom Crone.

The statement says:

"Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS Select Committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

In fact, we did inform him of the "for Neville" email which had been produced to us by Gordon Taylor's lawyers."

The Neville referred to in the statement is Neville Thurlbeck, the paper's former chief reporter. In 2009, documents passed to the culture committee revealed that he read transcripts of 35 hacked telephone messages between Gordon Taylor and Jo Armstrong, a legal advisor at the PFA.

They were sent in an email to the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire by an unnamed junior reporter on the paper on 29 June 2005. In the email, the reporter says "Hello, this is the transcript for Neville". The committee was told by Guardian reporter Nick Davies this was Neville Thurlbeck.

Trying to gauge the exact significance of this. I note also that Miskiw is apparently heading back to the UK for police questioning.

The Murdochs lied to the select committee? What a massive shock.