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.htmlCabinet re-shuffle ahoy!
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
if only
― conrad, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
a quantum of pwnage
― all the small zings (history mayne), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
odds he might be a bit busy this time round?
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
va va cunts
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
whoa http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/16/phone-hacking-met-court-order
― caek, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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
― caek, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
brazen.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
should have tried the "you should tell us who your source is so we can disappear them give them a medal!" tactic instead imo
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
it worked so well in infernal affairs after all.
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Milly Dowler's family offered a £2m settlement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14975549
― StanM, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
i hope they don't take it.
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z0-m31oh2w
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
two million is nothing to them, I refer you to Noodle's tube
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Noodle's tube [citation needed]
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOZ1vuwc_D8
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CIpN_ydkxBI/TTignEcrq8I/AAAAAAAAA3Q/zZifZhnSxG8/s1600/156813599_d29a757530.jpg
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone know what happened to the big cache of Sun emails that anonymous were supposed to be releasing?
― AJD, Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
coulson is suing news int'l?
― conrad, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
because they're no longer paying for his lawyers
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
think clive goodman is also suing over this
weird
― conrad, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"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."
"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."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
boss-eyed no mark Mohan is for it IMO
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
The Sun getting dragged into all this properly would make me so so happy.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hacking Claim Against People Paper
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
"He wrote in a witness statement leaked to Sky News"
Yrah, funny that.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
*Yeah*
WHY OH WHY HAS NO ONE clicked on to the fact that the problem is also with the MOBILE POHONE COMPANIES
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
"ET, pohone home!"
Secret mobile pohone found
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-met-finds-secret-phone-at-centre-of-ni-hacking-2375996.html
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
sun hack jamie pyatt (best known for the story about prince harry in nazi fancy dress) is apparently the latest to be arrested over illegal payments to police. guess murdoch will just have to shut the sun as well.
― joe, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
In a 2001 Vanity Fair story about Liz [Murdoch] and [husband Matthew] Freud’s courtship, Freud was quoted openly mocking Rupert. The article infuriated Rupert. A story later circulated through Freud’s London office that one night, Freud got home and couldn’t get a signal on his TV. When he called the BSkyB customer-service line to ask about the problem, the representative responded coldly, “We’ve been instructed not to turn on this account.”
― max, Saturday, 5 November 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
via http://nymag.com/print/?/news/media/elisabeth-murdoch-2011-11/
Ngl, if I had evil Murdoch-like powers I would do this to anyone I disliked.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.The investigator secretly videoed Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris as well as family members and associates. Evidence suggests this was part of an attempt to gather evidence for false smears about their private lives.
The investigator secretly videoed Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris as well as family members and associates. Evidence suggests this was part of an attempt to gather evidence for false smears about their private lives.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 7 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
is it me or shd the senior execs at News International be in jail?
― Bond 23: Skyrim (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/07/phone-hacking-oasis-manager-alan-mcgee
^ and now they've hacked mcgee's calls to wee boaby g
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
The whole idea seems to have been to catch one of the lawyers having a affair. "Yes, m'lud, we did hack into a dead teenagers phone but one of their lawyers a bit of slapper so...you know, better just let us off..."
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 7 November 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, how did they think this was going to play out in their favour?
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 7 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
The investigator secretly videoed Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris as well as family members and associates
This is the Leggy Blonde? No, not Mark Lewis. I saw her the other week, she's a tiny little thing.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
... saw her in the street that is, in case anyone from NI is monitoring this... and not actually in the street, not lying down drunk or anything, just to clear that up
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
... but they've probably got it all on film anyway
"It turns out that my name has popped up in the News of the World phone-hacking case and they are investigating as I type."He added: "Joking aside, if the police confirm that I have indeed been hacked, and even though this will have been years ago, I will still sue
He added: "Joking aside, if the police confirm that I have indeed been hacked, and even though this will have been years ago, I will still sue
it's the way he tells them
― a guy called Gerard (onimo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/unrest-at-wapping-spreads-to-the-sun-after-arrest-6259192.html
Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of News International ... addressed The Sun's journalists to explain why News International was supplying the Metropolitan Police with information about the activities of staff. He warned them that without the company's co-operation – and that of its staff – police officers would be entering the newsroom with search warrants....At the end of the address, Mr Mohan and Mr Mockridge asked for questions. There were none and staff walked away in silence. "People felt like they were watching the end of The Sun," said one.
...
At the end of the address, Mr Mohan and Mr Mockridge asked for questions. There were none and staff walked away in silence. "People felt like they were watching the end of The Sun," said one.
― joe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://onegayatatime.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/cautious_optimist.jpg
(although obviously feel for the cleaners, etc. if they're made redundant)
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link