News International In Deep Shit

Good. I hope the some twats end up in jail. I hope this becomes a nationwide Hillsborough for Murdoch's tabloids. But seeing how tight the main culprits seem to be with that homunculus of a PM you have and how even the competing tabloids are trying to bury it, severe punishment seems unlikely.

Someone is going to release a Kate panty-shot and all will be forgotten. I hope I'm wrong though.

Yeah? because the front pages I saw yesterday were clear of this. That's nice. Let's see if the mock moral superiority they have been feeding all these years brings them down. It would be a nice bit of poetic justice.

What the fuck did they do with 7/7? Yesterday I was joking about that, you're telling me they actually got into that? I can see no conceivable way to avoid prison for a LOT of people.

7/7? I can't believe how much I'm enjoying seeing the full cuntitude of these bastards come to light.

In related news, the best thing Hugh Grant has been involved with since The Remains of the Day (didn't see this posted anywhere a few months back when it hit):

http://www.newstatesman.com/newspapers/2011/04/phone-yeah-cameron-murdoch

Someone give the man a medal.

And Disciple, why do you ignore About A Boy?

Murdoch will throw whoever to the wolves and get away clean.  Depiste the fact that all of this will have come down from the very top (stop at nothing for pop news for the masses). 

The whole "hacking a missing girls phone, then deleting mails to see if more show up" is sub-human vileness.  The fact that the family could then leave more messages on the phone, and thought she was alive because only she must be deleting mails is horrific.

I genuinely believe Murdoch to be one of the most evil men in the world today.  There's a great section on him in John Pilger's A Secret Country that shows he's been manipulating the WORLD for his own ends for years

For years I hoped that Murdoch's Bond-villain like career would come to a Robert Maxwell ending. I just know he's involved in shady shit up to his neck and figured he'd cross one his undoubtedly many accomplishes. The guy just seems bulletproof, sadly.

Probably hoping they'd catch someone cheating on her husband while he was getting his head blown off in Afghanistan. Nothing sells papers as well as a chance for a braindead housewife  to act morally superior.

Wow, I'm posting a lot in this thread. The schadenfreude is strong in me it seems. And in this case, justified.

Is there a high ranking politician with enough guts to really go after them? I guess not.

If they axe the NOTW it means that there will be an upswing in white van driving fucktards on the streets drinking on a Sunday. Now thats bad for the country!

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Originally Posted by stelios 

Is there a high ranking politician with enough guts to really go after them? I guess not.

apparantly Kenneth Clarke is on the Warpath and it will probably spell the end of the BSkyB taker oveer, which is good news.

All today has lacked so far is Spider Jerusalem showing up with the Chair Leg of Truth and repeatedly battering Rebekah Brooks with it. Perhaps that will come tomorrow.

That said, there could well be a method to News International's madness: http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/07/07/is-murdoch-free-to-destroy-tabloids-records/

Holy shit, Hugh Grant's on Question Time and he's tearing into all of them, Murdoch, the Tories, Labour. It's actually kinda bizarre and awesome.

sunonsunday.co.uk was apparently registered on 5th July.

Get to rebrand, ship unwanted staff, lower the amount of newsrooms they have and carry on regardless.  That's spinning a disaster into a win and still being able to claim it a 'strong response to the situation'.

And Rebeccah Brooks just carries on untouched

No matter how much I despise Murdoch, the man is astonisingly good at what he does (be a world class cunt)

Agree that Hugh Grant has been great in this thing. Murdoch and his lackeys will make him pay eventually but what he's doing is pretty incredible.

Grant has been ridden harder by the tabloids than probably anyone alive today. It's great seeing him just let go and speak what I'm guessing 99% of their targets think.

Brookes can't survive this, everyone including the PM (and they are friends)  is calling for her head.  Glad Coulson got arrested though.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/407842-rebekah-brooks-addresses-anry-notw-staff

The actual audio from her speech to the ever-so-slightly irked NotW staff this afternoon. Awwwwwkward, etc.

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Grant has been ridden harder by the tabloids than probably anyone alive today. It's great seeing him just let go and speak what I'm guessing 99% of their targets think.

Yeah, it's a pretty sweet revenge he's got going. I've seen the clips of Question Time and some other interviews with Grant online, it's like his new mission in life or something. I love that the quintessential meek, bumbling, befuddled Englishman has turned into such a sharp, witty, and articulate thorn in Murdoch's side. Yes, we live in a time where Hugh Grant is apparently the last guy in the world you wanna fuck with. I hope this thing gets even more momentum and just keeps going and going until it touches every part of the evil empire.

Also been watching CNN to see if some of this sticks to that tosser Piers Morgan, sadly nothing yet. If you want a laugh though, read his Grant-related Twitter messages from the 7th. LOL do you think Hugh hit a raw nerve?

http://twitter.com/#!/piersmorgan

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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 

 

Yeah, it's a pretty sweet revenge he's got going. I've seen the clips of Question Time and some other interviews with Grant online, it's like his new mission in life or something. I love that the quintessential meek, bumbling, befuddled Englishman has turned into such a sharp, witty, and articulate thorn in Murdoch's side. Yes, we live in a time where Hugh Grant is apparently the last guy in the world you wanna fuck with. I hope this thing gets even more momentum and just keeps going and going until it touches every part of the evil empire.

 

Also been watching CNN to see if some of this sticks to that tosser Piers Morgan, sadly nothing yet. If you want a laugh though, read his Grant-related Twitter messages from the 7th. LOL do you think Hugh hit a raw nerve?

 

http://twitter.com/#!/piersmorgan

 

I think Grant needs to team up with Steve Coogan to form some kind of anti-tablid avenger force...

Holy shit! What an absolutely gigantic cunt that McMullen(?) guy is. The BBC guy looked ready to throw up.

Strangely, I get a somewhat tortured and apologetic vibe off him, like he is actually aware of the terrible things he's done (#1 Driving Deholm Elliott's daughter to suicide) and is haunted by it. On the other hand, fuck him and it's hilarious to see he hasn't dared go home for about 3-4 days now and is still slumming around in the same clothes as he was when it all kicked off earlier in the week.

Greg Dyke a man who had the decency to stand down when the shit hit the fan on his watch (despite it not being his fault) vs a man who is happy to tap celebrities phones because they have two houses.

I cannot stand the News of the World and I am very glad to see this happen.

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Holy shit! What an absolutely gigantic cunt that McMullen(?) guy is. The BBC guy looked ready to throw up.

indeed.  The fact that he fell back to 'well how many houses do you have, how long are you on the red carpet being photographed?' after failing on the 'freedom of the press' angle was just pathetic

I hope Coogan lamped him one in the green room after.

Any one who has not watched this weeks' Question Time should go ahead and do so now. That was some compelling stuff right there.

nauseating:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/5265129/Murdoch-makes-Rebekah-Brooks-top-priority

It needs to be taken with a pinch of salt as it does come from The Daily Mirror but *if* true, shit's about to go nuclear: they're claiming NI may have also hacked into the phones of September 11 victims.

http://twitpic.com/5o9wj1

jesus.  I'd forgotten what a wretched rag the Mirror (my Mum's paper of choice) was.

As one of the commenters said '45p - that's a fucking disgrace' :)

I just became a Steve Coogan 'fan' what a national treasure....

So they allegedly bought a book containing all the royal telephone numbers from a crooked policeman working in the palace.

This is the gift that keeps on giving.

Please please please let the Daily Mail get caught up in this.

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I just became a Steve Coogan 'fan' what a national treasure....

I feel I must chastise you for being so late to the Coogan train. Unacceptable!

Seriously though, that clip is righteous. I love that Coogan's tone is EXACTLY the same as in so many classic in character angry rants.
 

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Strangely, I get a somewhat tortured and apologetic vibe off him, like he is actually aware of the terrible things he's done (#1 Driving Deholm Elliott's daughter to suicide) and is haunted by it.

I don't think he's tortured at all, I think he's putting on his best victim face while EVIL MILLIONAIRE STEVE COOGAN rips him a new one. And the thing with Denholm Elliott's daughter needs to be mentioned more, it's just as horrible as the phone hacking stuff if not more so. To find a whole new way to destroy the life of someone who is at her lowest point already? I hope this cunt dies alone, slowly, in pain.

And when are we going to get names of the bent cops who provided all these leads? They need to be exposed too.

Charlie Brooker read the last NOTW so you don't have to...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/10/charlie-brooker-news-of-the-world

HA!

Hurting that scumbag's wallet is immeasurably more important than any amount of public humiliation. 

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The bigger they are...

I still can't get over the fact that he claimed his top priority was to save Rebekah Brooks ass rather than save the jobs of the ordinary folk at NOTW.

I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Robin Day, Peter Sissons or one of the Dimblebys?

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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 

. And the thing with Denholm Elliott's daughter needs to be mentioned more, it's just as horrible as the phone hacking stuff if not more so. To find a whole new way to destroy the life of someone who is at her lowest point already? I hope this cunt dies alone, slowly, in pain.

 

 

didn't know anything about that - jesus.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1433889&mesg_id=1433889