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

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.

Hacking Claim Against People Paper

"He wrote in a witness statement leaked to Sky News"

Yrah, funny that.

*Yeah*

WHY OH WHY HAS NO ONE clicked on to the fact that the problem is also with the MOBILE POHONE COMPANIES

"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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

is it me or shd the senior execs at News International be in jail?

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

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..."

I mean, how did they think this was going to play out in their favour?

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.

... 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

... 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

it's the way he tells them

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.

http://onegayatatime.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/cautious_optimist.jpg

(although obviously feel for the cleaners, etc. if they're made redundant)

"People felt like they were watching the end of The Sun," said one.

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Why-Laughter-is-Contagious-2.jpg

J. Murdoch appearing before the culture select committee right now, bravely blaming his subordinates for the mess

Mafia boss! What a finishing move.

Watson then asks him about 'omerta'. Murdoch replies he is not an *afficianado. He adds that he finds the line of questioning offensive.

Awwwww, diddums

(*LOL Grauniad)

tom_watson
I've got a massive day tomorrow. Should be preparing questions but can't break away from Portal 2 on the xbox.
16 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkTw7J-hGmg

There is no cake.

Watson appears to have a lot more information than Murdoch.

He asks Murdoch has he ever heard of Operation Millipede?

Murdoch says no.

Watson now asks him about Operation Tuleta - Murdoch cannot help him here or either.

Getting weird now.

This is amazing, Murdoch is getting completely roasted question wise and tirelessly repeating the same argument without looking particularly flustered. It's like arguing with Geir.

My favourite bit was when he got asked whether not asking glaringly obvious questions made him look competent or incompetent.