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

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

What a shame for the highly-paid amoral lawbreakers at The Sun that the higher-ups are dobbing them in to the law.

We will build on the Sun's proud heritage by launching the Sun on Sunday very soon.

uh-oh

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9102231/Phone-hacking-News-of-the-World-bosses-ordered-emails-to-be-deleted.html

wonder if this story will be covered in depth in the debut issue of the sun on sunday?

Will Charlotte Church settling mean that we don't get to hear the real dirt (on New Int, not on Church) or will it all come out in the inquiry anyway?

Getting weirder

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

She only adopted the animal so it would have a stable home.

If she was sensible she would have worn one of these, while out riding her police horse:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DHcE_DhQ6oQ/TnN7XUiyGYI/AAAAAAAACyY/-ABXKFXGiQo/s640/IMG1061.jpg

"A horse, a horse, favourable coverage in the United Kingdom's best selling tabloid for a horse"

I can see that as tomorrows Sun frontpage.

um, unless..

James Murdoch quits News International

James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International [...] Mr Murdoch will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News Corporation.

corporate boardroom musical chairs is all greek to me.

another innocent bites the dust

from Rawkus to this, quite a tumble

At this rate they'll need their own wing and prison uniform

police announced in last few minutes further arrests for phone hacking

i guess none of this will really stick until prosecutions begin? this thing seems so big now - news int, police, politicians - i wonder if its not gonna blow over because people would rather corruption than cleaning house

yeah, i know, 'people'

Arrests incl 43yo woman in Oxfordshire. Who do we think that is?

samantha cameron too young unfortunately

sky has said it's rebekah brooks. conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

samantha cameron too young unfortunately

― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:58 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OH BOY THAT WOULD BE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

Misread twitter and genuinely thought that Charlie Brooker had been arrested - my heart gave a little leap of mean joy until I realised I was mistaken.

conspiracy to be really smug on television

Conspiracy to destroy humour forever.

This could be huge if it turns out to be true:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/news-corp-ondigital-paytv-panorama

almost identical allegations emerge in australia. four year investigation and 14,000 emails to back it up sounds promising. also:

The issue is particularly sensitive because Operational Security, which is headed by Reuven Hasak, a former deputy director of the Israeli domestic secret service, Shin Bet, operates in an area which historically has had close supervision by the Office of the Chairman, Rupert Murdoch.

and:

The actions are documented in an archive of 14,400 emails held by former Metropolitan Police commander Ray Adams who was European chief for Operational Security between 1996 and 2002.

a met police commander overseeing a criminal conspiracy on behalf of rupert murdoch? i'm astonished!

holy shit

i've just been through the whole story. they're clear in saying that the piracy and hacking wasn't illegal in australia then - although it's also clear they were hacking and pirating cards in other countries where piracy was illegal. (they even had the chutzpah to get one of their own hackers thrown in jail in thailand - via hacking his email!)

by the time you get to the end, they're charging other pay TV companies for "security", against the hacking that they'd sponsored. nice pay TV company you've got here, would be a shame for anything to happen to it, eh?

what especially sucks about that is that foxtel (only 25% owned by news corp btw) is essentially running a pay tv monopoly here, having either defeated in the market or attempted to acquire its opposition (in a country where murdoch already has far too much influence)

FREE MARKET BLARGH BLARGH BLARGH

Frontline all about this tonight for US Fans of Murdoch-Bashing.

I am another crazy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/05/sky-news-hacking-emails-canoe-man

LOL BSkyB

i think this is the right time to revisit this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5mVoqJpUk