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

enh who knows

i do think he should answer the question why he was hot to hire coulson

he'll never say 'bc he did me a solid', but what will he say?

xp

haha yeah

yeah despite her dominatrixing, the power relationship here runs along pretty traditional contours

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'bc he did me a solid'

I hope this is not a reference to some of the services offered by Ms. Rowe's colleagues, as mentioned upthread.

Better that than "he did me a sloppy".

There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson. We knew about George, cocaine and prostitutes, we knew that Newscorp and Coulson were positively spinning things to suit the Tories, we knew that Cameron wouldn't have hired him if he hadn't.

I assume this is one of those things that gets roundly ignored by the mainstream media who are terrified of the lawsuits until such time as it's all over the internet and they can do so with impunity.

There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson.

it's a Good Story though, a good theory: why did osborne back the toxic coulson? one might ask. this is a plausible reason.

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oh - 'her pals' in my previous post was not meant to imply fellow sex workers; I meant the tories she knew.

Oh It's An Amazing Story.

... but I'm assuming they were, uh, delivering the solids services to said Tories? Scatological rumours never go out of fashion it seems.

shit happens.

What's in that aerosol in the photo? Seems like a strange item to be sitting on the table.

Imagine these, uh, encounters get a bit smelly

https://images.jmcatalog.com/prdimgs/Mes3et674/MESS/MESS3.JPG

wait so she'd bring in tories she knew to shit on other clients? metaphorical fetishes, i like it.

to clarify, as I understand it: the tories would be hanging out at their dominatrix friend's place. A client would come to see her, & presumably be taken to a private room. The client likes being pooed upon. At some point, someone – presumably not the client (one imagines him masked) – decides it would be a laugh for one of the young tories to do the chest-pooing instead of the dominatrix. Then, as Mark says, shit happens.

yes, i mean i don't know if the details really hang together but I have had faith in the story ever since I heard it.

Has it been confirmed anywhere yet that Paul McBride is defending Coulson? Only seen it as a rumour.

I'm sure I read it in a news report last week sometime, can't remember where.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/261888-andy-coulson-hires-former-sheridan-lawyer/

Damian McBride would have been funnier

grauniad has reported the story

And the Telegraph now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8757740/Phone-hacking-Andy-Coulson-helped-spin-story-of-George-Osborne-and-dominatrix.html
Cabinet re-shuffle ahoy!

if only

News International chairman James Murdoch will be recalled to give evidence on phone hacking to the culture committee, its chairman John Whittingdale has said.

The decision comes after MPs heard conflicting evidence over how much Mr Murdoch knew about the practice at one of News International's papers.

Separately, it has emerged the mother of a 7/7 bombing victim is to pursue a civil case against News International over alleged phone hacking.

a quantum of pwnage

odds he might be a bit busy this time round?

Renault has u-turned on its decision to boycott advertising in all News International titles following the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World that led to the paper’s closure.

The car marque, which became the only advertiser to boycott a News International title beyond the News of the World in July as a result of the “seriousness” of the phone hacking allegations, says it has now reviewed its advertising plans following a series of discussions with the publisher.

A Renault spokesman says: “News International has apologised for the wrongdoing committed. We have sought and received reassurances that they are fully and actively co-operating with the Metropolitan Police enquiry, that they welcome a broad inquiry into press and police standards and that they are reviewing their internal procedures and practices to prevent such serious problems arising again.”

va va cunts

whoa http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/16/phone-hacking-met-court-order

An obscure clause – section 5 – of the 1989 Official Secrets Act, highly controversial at the time of its passing, allows individuals to be prosecuted for passing on "damaging" information leaked to them by government officials in breach of section 4 of the same act. This includes police information "likely to impede … the prosecution of suspected offenders".

The clause is aimed at those who deliberately derail investigations by, for example, tipping off a suspect about an impending police raid. But it is being used in this case in an unprecedented way, against individual journalists for publishing a news article. The Guardian's reporters did not pay any police officers.

yeesh

brazen.

should have tried the "you should tell us who your source is so we can disappear them give them a medal!" tactic instead imo

it worked so well in infernal affairs after all.

Milly Dowler's family offered a £2m settlement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14975549

i hope they don't take it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z0-m31oh2w

How long can they continue settling out of court for? Given the scale of the phone-hacking this is going to put a serious dent in their finances at some point if it hasn't already.

two million is nothing to them, I refer you to Noodle's tube

Noodle's tube [citation needed]

not only is it a piddling amount of money to NewsCorpse but the settlements will be made on a "how good is the publicity?" basis. on those grounds the Dowlers are probably higher profile than any other victim - nobody really cares if celebs get hacked, and if the evidence of hacking the phones of dead soldiers' families is there, the individuals are made less visible by their numbers and lack of a story.

people - maybe understandably - want exciting triumph of the little guy movie developments but it's not much gonna happen that way. this isn't done tho - NewsCorpse has undoubtedly suffered serious strategic blows, and investigations and eventual trials are certainly ongoing. sorry it won't be the revolution or anything but this whole affair is still a loss for the forces of unmitigated evil, whether we get to see a happy ending or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZ1vuwc_D8

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CIpN_ydkxBI/TTignEcrq8I/AAAAAAAAA3Q/zZifZhnSxG8/s1600/156813599_d29a757530.jpg

Does anyone know what happened to the big cache of Sun emails that anonymous were supposed to be releasing?

coulson is suing news int'l?

because they're no longer paying for his lawyers

think clive goodman is also suing over this

weird

"Do you really think that hacking only happened on the News of the World?" he said. "Ask Dominic Mohan, the current editor of the Sun. He used to joke about lax security at Vodafone when he attended celebrity parties. Ask the editor of the Sun if he thinks Rupert Murdoch's contagion has spread to other newspapers. If he gives you an honest answer, he'll tell you it's only a matter of time before we find the Sun in the evidence file of the convicted private investigator that hacked Milly Dowler's phone.

"This month we learn that journalists at the Times are affected by this scandal. The paper is shutting down its BlackBerry phone network – I hope they aren't deleting the records."

boss-eyed no mark Mohan is for it IMO

The Sun getting dragged into all this properly would make me so so happy.