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

morgan suspension confirmed by jon snow?

no, he's the reason the fake rumour got currency.

lol

In the final edition of the NoW on 10 July, Ms Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper describing its staff as "my good and trusted friends".

Story rejected, way too far fetched.

What, it's reality? Hmm.

http://www.boomtron.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/game-of-thrones-hbo-jon-snow1.jpg

"Welcome to The Wall, Brother Piers."

"The idea that anyone on the newspaper knew that Sara or the campaign team were targeted by Mr Mulcaire is unthinkable. The idea of her being targeted is beyond my comprehension."

Something tells me she's going to eat those words

she doesnt deny it, just doesnt want to think about it

In the final edition of the NoW on 10 July, Ms Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper describing its staff as "my good and trusted friends".

Story rejected, way too far fetched.

What, it's reality? Hmm.

― StanM, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:34 (28 seconds ago) Bookmark

private eye has a devastating little story about this. sara payne suffered a terrible stroke recently and is severely incapacitated. when she came into the office, lots of her actual good and trusted friends at the notw saw how ill she was and insisted they send her home. but sara said she couldn't go because "rebekah said she was calling in a favour".

Statement from Payne family:

"Whilst it was previously confirmed by ‘Operation Weeting’ that Sara Payne’s name was not on Private Investigator ‘Glenn Mulcaire’ list, it has now been confirmed by the ‘Operation Weeting’ that Sara’s details are on his list.

"Sara is absolutely devastated by this news, we’re all deeply disappointed and are just working to get her through it.

"Sara will continue to work with the proper authorities regarding this matter, there will be a further statement in due course, but at this point in time, she (or we) can make no further comment."

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^^ this dude said earlier it was going to be published at 5pm today. sounds like guido fawkes bollocks to me. he and the telegraph are desperate to get the mirror implicated, because they'd obv prefer it was bipartisan illegality. but they haven't got a treasure trove of info like the mulcaire files, so even though the mirror almost certainly hacked phones, they can't land a blow.

Jesus.

"It was not a personal gift."

This is not made better by the fact it was for business.

"The idea that anyone on the newspaper knew that Sara or the campaign team were targeted by Mr Mulcaire is unthinkable."

Why is it unthinkable? He's been convicted for doing similar.

"The idea of her being targeted is beyond my comprehension."

"I am lying through my teeth and appear to have learnt fuck-all during the past month."

James Murdoch received a ringing endorsement from directors of satellite group BSkyB earlier today just as the phone hacking scandal reached a new low with details that Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah, had been a victim of the News of the World. A lengthy board meeting at BSkyB ended with unanimous support for Rupert Murdoch's youngest son to continue as chairman of the group following the collapse of his family firm's bid for the 61% of the satellite business it did not already own.

James Murdoch could soon earn a cash bonus of up to $12m (£7.3m) from News Corporation on top of his $3m salary even though the part of the company he has run has been mired in the phone-hacking scandal, shut one of its flagship British newspapers and been forced to abandon the bid for BSkyB in the wake of cross-party hostility in the UK.

nearly half the non-exec directors of bskyb are current or former employees or murdoch businesses. add the votes of the CEO and CFO and the murdoch payroll has a majority. not sure this is "good corporate governance".

*of murdoch businesses.

i was going to do a poll of the news corp directors

^^ this dude said earlier it was going to be published at 5pm today. sounds like guido fawkes bollocks to me. he and the telegraph are desperate to get the mirror implicated, because they'd obv prefer it was bipartisan illegality.

― joe, Thursday, July 28, 2011 5:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf to the telegraph, they did far more of the running on the NOTW/NI story than the mirror (or the bbc or anyone except the guardian and the nyt for that matter), and pretty much all of them hate NI far more than they care about any political party.

yeah, it's a few of their loony bloggers i've got in mind tbh. when's your bro going to pull his finger out and publish his big terrorhack story though?

fairly diverting michael howard on newsnight/kafka style bullshit on vetting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/27/andy-coulson-guardian-questions

interesting speculating on whether at some point this will pay off but it's quite amusing to see it pursued & ignored meanwhile

Sophy Ridge posting about tears in the office following the closure today of The Sun's Buzz magazine. Fuck them. I'm sure they're all getting jobs on the Sunday Sun soon, anyway.

or siberia

http://i.imgur.com/Uf1zb.jpg

Well, he's at least working on his Mr Burns imitation

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Where was Murdoch fils raised?

someone should shop like a child's head or half a puppy into his burns-esque grasp, above

http://www.fluxmagazine.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/murdochs.jpg

James Murdoch went to Horace Mann iirc.

lachlan looks like a remedial thug from some australian backwater

Well his dad's from Adelaide so

I thought Murdoch sr was Burns & jr was Smithers

isn't Lachlan technically Jr? Would James be "Minor"? how does this work?

Technically would only be a Jr if named Rupert like their pappy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_(name)#Generational_titles

i hope people realise that every time people compare these deathbots to loveable plutocrat Monty Burns they are a) unnecessarily humanising them and b) wanking up a dead elm

Actually I did know that, duh. Major and Minor are elder and younger bros though rite? If there's a third, is he Minimus?

Louise Mensch (left) is the Tory MP who accused CNN talk show host Piers Morgan of admitting to phone hacking during his time as editor of the Daily Mirror in his autobiography during last week's culture committee hearings. He furiously denied this and the relevant passages of the book do not back her up.

Now Mensch – who writes chick-lit novels under her maiden name Louise Bagshawe – has been accused of relatively minor incidents of impropriety during her years working for EMI in the 1990s, and has hit back by publishing both the allegations and her own responses and denials.

A self-described investigative journalist called David Jones accused Mensch of the following:

• Taking drugs in the company of violinist Nigel Kennedy at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham "including dancing on a dance floor, whilst drunk, with Mr Kennedy, in front of journalists".

• Writing a novel "of a sexual nature" on her EMI work computer during working hours, leading to EMI terminating her employment.

• In the resulting novel, basing a character on her line manager Roger Lewis, and making "derogatory references" to this character.

Mensch sent out the following replies:

1. Although I do not remember the specific incident, this sounds highly probable. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Nigel Kennedy, whom I remember with affection. Additionally, since I was in my twenties, I'm sure it was not the only incident of the kind; we all do idiotic things when young. I am not a very good dancer and must apologise to any and all journalists who were forced to watch me dance that night at Ronnie Scott's.

2. Writing the first few chapters of Career Girls on my EMI computer is quite correct. However, it was all done after work hours. It was also not why I was fired by EMI. "Leaving work early" and "missing the odd day at work" along with "inappropriate dress" were the reasons quoted to me.

3. Career Girls was my first novel. I used the names of many real people I knew for minor characters, such as journalists, chauffeurs, bankers, and so forth. Roger Lewis was probably amongst them, as were (off the top of my head) Therese Coffey MP, now my colleague on the Select Committee, Jeremy Quin, Damian Hinds MP, Maurice Oberstein, Rod Clayton, James Robertson, and many more. None of them have ever complained about my using their names in this way.

She adds: "Most importantly, I have not the slightest intention of being deterred from asking how far the culture of hacking and blagging extended in Fleet Street."

Mensch embarrassed herself with her accusations against Morgan at the culture committee hearings, which were not correct, and which she would not repeat outside parliament, where she has immunity from libel law. But in my opinion she has reacted straightforwardly and admirably to this attempt to drag her name into the mud via these minor allegations. The only one of any degree of seriousness is the accusation and admission of taking drugs, although since many much more senior politicians than Mensch have admitted various kinds of drug taking in recent years this is unlikely to make any waves. And the mentions of dancing, writing a novel "of a sexual nature" during work time and making derogatory references about a character based on someone she once worked with are so irrelevant they are laughable.

This is an excellent level of superfluous background detail for those of us who haven't really been following the Mensch subplot.

Well done the Guardian.

Not the Peter Sellers and Anthony Burgess biographer Roger Lewis shurely?

"i mean, something historical would have been fine, louise - but this novel is of a sexual nature"

if there was chick lit of a sexual nature i'd be reading more of it

I honestly don't think they could fit many more nudge-nudge-wink-wink phrases in there if they tried.

anybody who's been to ronnie scott's with nigel kennedy has probly suffered enough

Well done on the hypocrisy front, The Guardian, for continuing to flog Bagshawe with that "OMG, writes chick lit" snideness in the news section, while expressly spelling out exactly how sexist and demeaning that label actually is buried away in the gender section, three drill-down clicks down in the "life and style" section. Yeah, you're damn right that sticks in the throat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/21/sneering-chick-lit-female-authors if I mucked up the tags on that link.

totally agree but don't a bunch of these authors play the game a fair bit?

and it's right to say that there's been some fucking horrible hornby-esque "lad lit" or "sensitive can't write for shit doe-eyed geezer" lit that targets its own set of stereotypes. sure don't get snobby about genre fiction but please nobody try and pull a "shopaholic writer is the 21st century jane austen" puhleese?

Will be interesting to see who the investigator turns out to have been working for. It's clearly going to backfire hugely, if it can be linked to any of the participants in the hacking affair directly.

I'm amazed at the leniency of the fines they've received in the Christopher Jeffries case. I would have liked to see a couple of people doing jail time for that as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/29/sun-daily-mirror-guilty-contempt

Career Girls (1995)
The Movie (1996)
Tall Poppies (1997)
Venus Envy (1998)
A Kept Woman (2000)
When She Was Bad... (2001)
The Devil You Know (2003)
Monday's Child (2004)
Tuesday's Child (2005)
Sparkles (2006)
Glamour (2007)
Glitz (2008)
Passion (2009)
Desire (2010)
Destiny (2011)

In fairness looking at these titles I'm not exactly expecting Virginia Woolf here.

Monday's Child (2004)
Tuesday's Child (2005)

well?

Actually the last six were the names of her children.

Shallow writing is shallow writing whether it's "Career Girls" or "Spies and Guns Shoot Em Up" but it is completely sexist to imply, as that "chick lit" label does, that it's the gender of the writer and *perceived* consumers that inherently causes the shallow.

But whatever. This is not the thread.