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

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.

Mensch had a busy night, what with fending off Limmy.

http://thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/11/10/limmy-apologised-controversial-tweets-tory-mp-louise-mensch-gets-involved

Nicked from cookdandbombd

Would Prince William write to FIFA on behalf of the Scotland team wearing poppies? No. Cos he thinks ENGLAND won the war.

I'd love to slide a samurai sword up Prince William's arse to the hilt, then yank it towards me like a door that won't fucking open.

I don't gie a fuck if Prince William's the president of the English football whatever it is, we're talkin poppies here.

Absolutely fuck England and its royal wee family living it up while pensioners freeze to death.

England voted in the Tories KNOWING what would happen, just like Germany voted in the Nazis KNOWING what would happen. SAME PEOPLE.

To my mind, there is no difference between what's going on in England right now and Nazi Germany.

When England voted Tory they voted to plunge all people of Scotland, including the English here, into darkness, squalor and the common cold.

This is fucking excellent, I've got a shower of Tory cunts coming after me, retweeting everything.

This is the best night of my life so far.

Tim Montgomerie, Editor of @ConHome, founded Conservative Christian Fellowship @TimMontgomerie HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

COME INTAE ME, TORY SCUM, COME INTAE ME!!!!

I'm going to change my avatar to Stalin while I've got their attention, send them over the edge.

Buy my DVD in time for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/limmydvd

If you want to gain 100 followers in an hour, like me, put "BBC" in your bio and wind up the Tories.

Netted a 17k+ follower Tory SHARK. It was THIS big. Night night.

Tory troller, Tory catcher, Tory eater.

Dear offended Tories, you stole our milk and next you plan to steal our sunrise. Fuck ye.

If I was to find out right now that Thatcher had died, I don't think my heart could take it. Jackpot.

How removed from reality must you be to not see Thatcher's death as a celebration?

My Die Now Thatcher avatar reminds me of the "DIE MORTAL" Jet Set Willy face.

That Tory has 17,191 followers. I had 16,550, but now have 16,937 thanks to him. And tomorrow I will overtake. HAHA. LOSER.

LouiseMensch Louise Mensch
“@DaftLimmy: If I was to find out right now that Thatcher had died, I don't think my heart could take it. Jackpot.” is that his avatar, BBC?

Bingo.

Big time.

Just caught myself a blue whale.

This is big time, Lachance.

Limmy tweeted an apology, stating: “I have deleted my tweets, and I'd like to apologise for any offence caused. It is never my intention to offend. Please RT.”

Fuck sake, Limmy, you wee shitebag. You've let Scotland down, you've yourself down and, most importantly, you've let me down

SR: If it's revealed that the Sun does appear in the Mulcaire file, will you close the paper like you did the News of the World

JM: I think it's important not to prejudge the outcome of any of the investigations

JM: I don't think we can rule out any corporate reaction to behaviour or wrongdoing.

http://www.epicpeople.co.nz/store/images/Group_punching_air.jpg

Louise Mensch apologises that she has to leave immediately after her questions to collect her children which she says are the same ages as Murdoch's.

12.54pm, that was.

which Murdoch's?

Jack Irvine, former editor of the Scottish Sun and managing director of News International in Scotland said "there seems to be a witch hunt at the Sun run by a former Daily Telegraph executive" who didn't know how tabloids operated.

*moan moan whinge whinge*

"The Sun boys are feeling very threatened and demoralised by all of this," Irvine told Sky News.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/SjqFOyfjyktkxzgq73EkIxDco1_400.jpg

are there no women who work at the sun?

Well, they did, but they fired her.

column on p3 iirc

“I am aware of the case of surveiling Mr Watson and again, under the circumstances I apologize unreservedly...It is not something I would condone, it is not something I had knowledge of. It’s important to say that certain surveillance of prominent figures is acceptable in investigative journalism, but in this case it is absolutely unacceptable.”

Found nothing then?

they caught him pwning n00bs on xbox

"we followed him into a room where he disappeared into a hole in the wall and somehow appeared behind us, carrying a box"

james murdoch arrested!

https://twitter.com/#!/SkyNewsBiz/statuses/135489287373336576

huh, weird, they deleted the tweet

Rebekah Brooks' PA arrested. Could be interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3HM0BUz3WA

Awww man why did no one tell me Ian Hislop was giving evidence to the Leveson Enquiry today?

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Asked if he has evidence for this, Hislop says: "Oooh."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/19/phone-hacking-news-international-settles

is it wrong to be bummed at celebs willing to settle? i want these fuckers to go to trial. or am i massively misunderstanding what's going on?

Hard to imagine Prescott settling up + shutting up

... well, shutting up, tbh

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/19/phone-hacking-settlement-now-publisher

Although the lawyers' statement does not name names, it specifically accuses directors of News Group Newspapers Ltd, the Murdoch subsidiary which controlled the News of the World, of seeking to conceal the wrongdoing by "deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/23/phone-hacking-news-world-milly-dowler

What in blue blazes has Bob Crow got on his head:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58091000/jpg/_58091688_013811667-1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Tz7NO.jpg

Ha! Two Great Beasts!

4 The Sun writers and a copper arrested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16771809

News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".
News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".
News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".
News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".
News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".
News Corporation said it would continue to pursue "legitimate journalism".

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/8/8e/Legitimate_businessman

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/29/data-pool-3-sun-arrests-murdoch

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/35973/james-murdoch-leaves-sothebys-board-of-directors/

A slow but sure unwinding.

Police probe hacking at The Times

boom

I think we're past the end of season finale and onto the extras disk no-one gets around to watching at this point.

Starting to kick into high:

The Sun has been plunged into crisis following the arrest of five of its most senior journalists, including the deputy editor, over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.

The five Sun journalists are understood to be: deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker and reporter John Sturgis.

The Sun's editor, Dominic Mohan, said: "I'm as shocked as anyone by today's arrests but am determined to lead the Sun through these difficult times. I have a brilliant staff and we have a duty to serve our readers and will continue to do that. Our focus is on putting out Monday's newspaper."

A News International source said Mohan was "not resigning" but added that it was "obviously a dramatic day for him".

Sky News reported that Rupert Murdoch is flying into the UK to reassure Sun staff that he will not close the paper in the wake of the latest arrests.

Sky News reported that Rupert Murdoch is flying into the UK to reassure Sun staff that he will not close the paper in the wake of the latest arrests.

Very, very difficult to imagine he'd close The Sun. Think the NotW closure was primarily based on the Millie Dowler evidence.

There's a suggestion that this could be much more serious for News International than the Dowler phone hacking because of US statutes preventing the payment of bribes to foreign officials, but i'm not sure how much weight that has.

"Witch-hunt has put us behind ex-Soviet states on Press freedom - The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh on the biggest police operation in British criminal history."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4124870/The-Suns-Trevor-Kavanagh-Witch-hunt-puts-us-behind-ex-Soviet-states-on-Press-freedom.html