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

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.

I'm not so much sure it's that, but as NV said upthread, it's getting people to commit to positions in public, in front of a select committee, that later become unsustainable. It's because Rebekah Brooks painted The Sun newsroom as persil white that any revelations concerning The Sun will fray the fabric of her evidence.

Meanwhile, don't forget...the bag!

7.09pm: More news of the mystery bag belonging to Rebekah Brooks's husband which was found in a bin in an underground car park near the couple's home on Monday.

Charlie Brooks has said the bag – which contained papers and a lap top – is his and does not contain material connected with the phone hacking inquiry. My colleague Amelia Hill has a story on this soon. Here's a taste:

The Brooks's spokesperson David Wilson said that Charlie Brooks is currently "disappointed" that three days later, police are still refusing to return the bag but remains confident that, once they have established the bag is his, it will be returned to him.

"Police have been in touch and have asked for the passwords," he confirmed. "Charlie was hoping it would be returned before now but he is adamant that everything it is his computer and that there is nothing on it that is Rebekah's and nothing that has anything to do with the case [into phone hacking].

"He hopes it will all be returned without much more delay. It is in their [the police's] hands now but Charlie is confident they will return it in the fullness of time," he added.

james murdoch to be recalled to the sel com, lol

I was about to say! So maybe there will be something about that...

Love the new image on the Guardian front page:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Business/Pix/pictures/2011/7/20/1311192784970/James-Murdoch-at-phone-ha-007.jpg

BTW:

7.25pm: James Murdoch stands by what he told the select committee about the Gordon Taylor settlement, according to a statement by News Corp.

And in 40 years' time he'll look more like

http://images.newstatesman.com/articles/2011//20110721_119432497_w.jpg

ok now we got fun

Yeah, this is some bad newsie-wewsies for James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5z4CJRFBKY

'then i guess that would be the first time somebody's lied under oath.'

Whoa, things firing up again:

8.33pm: A former News of the World executive has been sacked from the Sun, according to Sky News.

Meanwhile a full Guardian story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/21/james-murdoch-select-committee-evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMnnQUZ9R8

8.19pm: The top civil servant at the Department for Education (DoE) has confirmed that one of his senior officials believed his mobile phone was being hacked.

The allegation was raised with David Cameron by Labour MP Nick Raynsford, who said the official had been targeted while Andy Coulson was Downing Street's director of communications.

The confirmation comes in a letter from the permanent secretary of the DoE, Sir David Bell, to Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary.

The letter states that in July 2010 the official told the DoE security officer that "as well as media harassment by telephone and outside his home, he suspected his mobile phone had been tampered with, for the purposes of intercepting calls."

Bell adds that the official decided to deal with the matter himself. In a follow-up conversation, "the official confirmed that neither the police nor the mobile telephone company were able to identify any malpractice. He also confirmed that he no longer had concerns about phone tampering.

"I therefore concluded that no further action was appropriate, and that it was not necessary to inform either you or the secretary of state for education."

altogether was p impressed by jimmy at the hearing, lieing through his teeth for three hours with oleaginous poise

Prescient tweet from Matt Nixson the other day:

Gutted by @billybragg's new song. Massive massive fan for years. Now I'm not allowed to have a job anymore. 2:27 PM Jul 11th via web

Really sad how nasty Twitter has allowed people to become and how publicly. 2:32 PM Jul 11th via web

^ Not like that News of the World at all

Wait, this Matt Nixson who has just been sacked from the Sun - is he the same Matt Nixson that also works for... the Mail on Sunday???

ok that guardian front page is hilarious

soon to be a quandom quantum...

has this been posted already:

A former Fox News producer told the London Telegraph that the cable network had a "black ops" team that carried out "counterintelligence" on its enemies in the late-1990s. What people thought was a Fox News research department "was staffed by 15 researchers and had a guard at the door," Don Cooper, who helped launch Fox News in 1996, told the paper. "No one working there would engage in conversation."

A spokesman for Fox News vehemently denied the Telegraph report: "Each of these allegations is completely false. Dan Cooper was terminated six weeks after the launch of the Fox News Channel in 1996 and has peddled these lies for the past 15 years.

And the "brain room" referenced in the Telegraph piece "is nothing more than a creatively named research department," a Fox spokeswoman told The Cutline.

Hahah, some fun detail here...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/may/10/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing

A little more about this sacking:

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9.09pm: In a statement issued tonight in response to questions about the reported sacking of Sun features editor Matt Nixson, News Corporation confirmed that an employee had been sacked over his work at the News of the World.

"News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee can confirm that News International today (Thursday, July 21) terminated the contract of a member of staff in relation to his previous work at the News of the World.

The MSC is authorised to co-operate fully with all relevant investigations and inquiries in the News of the World phone hacking case, police payments and all other related issues across News International, as well as conducting its own enquiries where appropriate."

Nixson was appointed news editor of the News of the World in 2006 and became features editor the following year.

Tom Watson having a real pop at Peston on Twitter.

TomArgh, Stet beat me to it. Watson vs Robert Peston currently on Twitter has the potential to be as hilarious as Charles Arthur vs Sabu earlier.

Argh.

STILL can't read Sabu without thinking ee-cee-dub and getting disappointed remembering things didn't suddenly turn into a death match

About Nixson -- theoretically he'd be arrested as well, yes? Kinda find it hard to believe they'd just go 'oh he's fired for phone hacking' and nobody does anything, at this point.