Yeah that's true although I tend to think that most Sunday Times or Telegraph readers/cultural journalists are basically Mark Corrigan and therefore not to be trusted.
I think "dancing on a dance floor" is lacking the implied "having taken a big bag of cocaine".
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
"Leaving work early" and "missing the odd day at work" along with "inappropriate dress" were the reasons quoted to me.
i think this is the best bit of her responses, anyhow
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^People get fired from record companies for any of these reasons? News to me, frankly...
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Friday, 29 July 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I think she's implying these were spurious excuses given for her sacking?
Mensch and Watson are showing every sign of loving every single minute of this anyway. Can't blame them.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Sparkles (2006)Glamour (2007)Glitz (2008)
imagining marih carey pitching a hissy fit on the publication of each of these. "that was gonna be MY next album title"
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
I'm assuming the Weekday's Child series was discontinued on the advice of Will Young's lawyers.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm honestly interested in picking up one of those titles based on her conduct the last month.
― abcfsk, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
A self-described investigative journalist called David Jones accused Mensch of ... 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".
That 'including....' part is very strangely worded. It makes it sound as if 'dancing on....etc, etc.... journalists' is a type of drug which she took. Even ignoring that, it makes it sound like being drunk is an example of the drugs she took. And even if it was worded correctly, accusing someone of dancing (on a dancefloor!) (while drunk!!) seems incredibly lame.
― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
assume "drunk" was a cop-out meaning "ripped to the tits on Bolivian disco talc"
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah come on this is NIGEL KENNEDY we're talking about.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
can't imagine how many hallucinogens you'd have to neck to find him tolerable company
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh come on this is a TORY MP we're talking about.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean maybe he is a secret massive Varèse enthusiast but i'm thinking no
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
she's a quite hot Tory MP tbf and in these circumstances the Tory MP bit sort of adds to the hotness for some of us pervs
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe it was during her Labour year.
― abcfsk, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
nigel kennedy a legendary caner, TRUFACT
― i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
True. Thinking this would be in The Brix Smth Years as well...
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
After leaving The Fall and disbanding The Adult Net, Brix... became romantically-involved with violinist Nigel Kennedy, and they collaborated on a cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" which was released as a single in 1993
Boy do I wish that was on youtube.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/07/news-corp-tells-new-york-post-to-save-documents-hacking.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/cartoon/2011/jul/30/josie-longs-alternative-universe#zoomed-picture
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Saturday, 30 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
that raises a lot of questions about the guardian
― conrad, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/02/phone-hacking-scandal-new-arrest
^ here we go again
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
James Murdoch please.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
Stuart Kuttner apparently, former managing editor
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
xxp amelia hill has just added on twitter that it's believed to be stuart kuttner, former managing editor.
Kuttner has been for over 20 years the whip-cracking schemer who always knew how to get what he wanted for the paper, who knew every trick in persuading hacks to misbehave, chiselling informers out of promised fees, covering up for the illegal activities of journalists and editors.It was he who, with cold calculation, duped former Private Investigator, Glenn Mulcaire into taking extra payments in cash, direct from the royal editor, Clive Goodman for royal stories harvested by hacking into Prince Harry and Prince William’s voicemails. That way, when Mulcaire was caught, as he was absolutely bound to be, Kuttner and then editor Andy Couslon could claim they knew nothing about it.
It was he who, with cold calculation, duped former Private Investigator, Glenn Mulcaire into taking extra payments in cash, direct from the royal editor, Clive Goodman for royal stories harvested by hacking into Prince Harry and Prince William’s voicemails. That way, when Mulcaire was caught, as he was absolutely bound to be, Kuttner and then editor Andy Couslon could claim they knew nothing about it.
http://www.peterburden.net/archives/233
― joe, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
BBC saying it's a 70-year old man - does that fit?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
can imagine an awesome OJ/glove courtroom scene in which he proves he is unable to even call his daughter using a mobile phone
― sitcom neighbor (schlump), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
kuttner played a bit part in the paper's famous harry potter/september 11 tapes. reporter charles begley tells him why he's been signed off work with stress:
CB: There were a couple of events which brought things to a head. A few hours after the attack on the World Trade Centre, I was asked by Rebekah to dress up as Harry Potter. She wanted me to dress up and go to her office in the middle of the newsroom.SK: Which date was that?CB: That was on Tuesday, September 11.
SK: Which date was that?
CB: That was on Tuesday, September 11.
― joe, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
I feel bad for laughing at that.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
Six weeks for the pie guy wtf:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/02/protester-jailed-throwing-pie-murdoch
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
not long enough
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
throw away the key tbh
i actually get more annoyed thinking about him than thinking about rebekah brooks or andy coulson
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Throw away the key lime pie more like. I dunno, it's a bit ott. Hefty fine and some sort of social penalty maybe, but using public money to bang him up is just silly beggars imo.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
he's a comedian, even prior to the pie i'd have advocated the death penalty
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
wait waht
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
you missed the "lex hates comedy" conversation?
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
he's potentially fucked public access to parliamentary inquiries, he shd be given a medal for his contribution to radical politics self-publicism by halfwit rag society cunts
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
don't think anybody's attitude to comedy impinges on Johnny No-laughs
You don't understand, this guy is being martyred in the name of pie-throwing.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
It was a terrible thing he did, but I feel like I want to send him a hollowed-out cake with a whole new cake hidden inside.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
Without him we'd never have seen Wendy Deng Prize Fighter so you know every lame cloud...
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UgiKW.png
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
I like how 'breach of law' is the base, but 'discourteous' is the real offence.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 August 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
Welcome to Britain.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 August 2011 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
Sock it to 'im, Tommy boy
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2011 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, very rude of him to interrupt Mr Cameron's fourth holiday in five months or whatever it is.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/another_british_journalist_adm.html
not really 'surprising' or dismaying - like presumably it is a sorta textbook investigative journalism case? - but i guess this could be a thing
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
No one is innocent, earth revolves around sun, let's evolve.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:48 (twelve years ago) link