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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14024668
New allegations about phone hacking, this time that it was Milly Dowling's phone and that the NOTW's routine deletion of her messages to make space for new ones led the family and police to believe she was still alive.
Whoever was responsible for this is a fucktard, and hopefully a spell in prison will teach them a lesson.
New allegations about phone hacking, this time that it was Milly Dowling's phone and that the NOTW's routine deletion of her messages to make space for new ones led the family and police to believe she was still alive.
Whoever was responsible for this is a fucktard, and hopefully a spell in prison will teach them a lesson.
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Brooks should be spending a long time in one of Brenda's holiday camps.
Funny how it takes something like this for people to wake up to this story which has been smouldering for months/years now. What you have is a viper's nest slowly being unvcovered, one which goes to the heart of how the UK print media operates, how the Met interracts with them and how our politicians are their bitches...
And so it turns out that it was fishy. And yet Jeremy Hunt (how Naughtie's spoonerism suddenly seems appropriate) seems to think that News Corporation are fit and proper people to own all of BSkyB.
I think Private Eye might have something on Brooks. Apparently the plan is to move her to the safety of maternity leave and some very serious and detailed Ugandan discussions are already underway.
On an appropriate note, isn't the best course of action simply to boycott their papers? Its not as if you'll be ill informed if you don't read News Of The World everyday.
As the 2-inch coverage in The Sun (and massive gaps in other papers today) would have it... move along, nothing to see here.
Nothing to see here.
http://notwadboycott.posterous.com/encourage-a-news-of-the-world-advertiser-boyc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733
1 down.
Yeah, usual "we're in this together" response by those in power. Protect the guilty, sack the workers.
From what i have seen this morning closing the paper down is actually a good thing for Murdoch it seems like the perfect excuse to get rid of a failing paper and replace it with the same old crap under a diffrent name. Its typical of him and his kind to try and make a public gesture when all along its just about money the replacement paper is likely to be The Sun on Sunday which no doubt will be a collection of rehashed stories already run in the sun through the week with some headline grabbing crappy sex story splashed across the front.
Additionally, it currently reduces his % of the media market, which is a main objection to his BSkyB plans.
Surely the damages thing only makes a difference if News International closed, not just shutting down part of its operations
News Intl cannot be held liable because, well, it wasn't them that did anything. It was NOTW. Unless, of course, they haven't been smart enough to separate the companies to protect their assets.
Which is his ultimate goal. If anyone really thinks he cared about the people who had their phones hacked they need to think again. He's a ruthless sod who's realised BSkyB will make him more money than a sleezy paper.
They may have done, but that would be on the assumption that one of the most profitable bits of his empire was so fundamentally risky that it might pull everything down. And if it is seperate he would have lost major tax benefits and economies of scale (not having to sign off seperate audited accounts for example).
I'm not an accounting expert, but looking at companies house it appears that News of the World no longer trades seperately (it is a dormant company)
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/8ce1e637bf32977a799d51088a6470b7/compdetails
I liked NotW for the trashy stories, good escapism. I made cash from them over the years too, selling certain photos to them and they always paid the best money.
Anyway, he's certainly up to something. Of course both News International and BSkyB's share prices have dropped dramatically today; maybe in six months he thinks he'll get BSkyB on the cheap when the fuss has died down.
200 jobs lost at NOTW, 2 senior News Intl execs have resigned. As of right now we've just had the second senior Met Officer go... A Judicial inquiry (in two parts) yet to come and you can bet your arse that there are going to be more revelations into what else was hacked (email etc).
So far, few people have even looked at the Information Commissioner's report which highlighted in 2006 that NOTW wasn't even close to being the worst offender when it came to using illegally obtanied information. To save you reading the report, the number or "transactions" is in brackets:
1st - Daily Mail (952)
2nd - Sunday People (802)
3rd - Daily Mirror (681)
4th - Mail on Sunday (266)
5th - News of the World (228)
So, here's to many more revaletions and resignations. Sit back and enjoy as the whole rotten edifice slowly collapses.
NB Is it any wonder that the Daily Mail have been circling their wagons in the past week - publishing numerous stories about "press freedom" being under threat...?
Daily mail still upto their games. Had a snipe at the BBC this morning and on the weekend over the issue.