Murdoch's News of the World hacks dead teenager's phone

[mudwhistle]

I think that Obama should apologize to the family of that dead ICE agent.

After all he hired the Attorney General. The ATF got caught red-handed smuggling guns into Mexico. The fires of justice are getting hotter and hotter and soon the flames will be on the doors of the White House itself despite Eric Holders' attempts to squash investigations at every turn.

 

[California Girl]

Only one small, yet significant point. It wasn't Fox News. I would have thought you more intelligent than to not understand basic corporation structure. There is not one accusation, not one, against Fox.

Yet.

Because Fox is under the Newscorp structure they are already implicated simply for that.

Now you have your first accusation Chris.

The problem, for the Fox loathing lefties, is that there is no allegation against News Corp, or Fox News. The cop, as far as I can find, has not specified which media outlets were involved - and from what he has said - ie that he was 'besigned' so that means lots of them were doing it. But, 10 years later, it will be difficult for him or anyone else to prove that it had any connection to Fox News.

All we have are accusations and a whole lot of speculation... and one of the main allegations has already proved to be false.

Calm, rational thought and patience is required. We aren't gonna know 'facts' until the Select Committee, Police, and Judicial Inquiry confirm some facts.

 

[Dot Com]

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

The clock is ticking

 

[mudwhistle]

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

The clock is ticking

So is the 15 mins of exposure for this trumped up story.

 

[California Girl]

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

The clock is ticking

So is the 15 mins of exposure for this trumped up story.

I suggest we bookmark Chrissie's prediction about Fox News being 'finished' and see whether, this time next year, it has come true. I'll bet not.

 

[California Girl]

No relationship is safe, no loyal bond strong enough for Rupert Murdoch who – looking more than the sum of his 80 years – is mounting a final battle to save the company he built from nothing.

His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

The problem for Murdoch is that every time he ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him.

Hinton was ditched because he was the crucial link between Murdoch's valuable US businesses and the tainted operation in Britain. He was at the helm of NI – the holding company for his UK newspapers including the News of the World and the Times – when it seemed that everyone who was in sniffing distance of a significant news story found their phones being hacked.

Questions were being raised about what Hinton knew about corrupt payments to London police officers: if he was shown to have been aware of them, that would be a felony in the US under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The problem for News Corp now is that, at every stage, its attempts to contain this story have failed. The decision to close the News of the World was motivated in part to save the chief executive of NI, Rebekah Brooks: that decision bombed and Brooks resigned on Friday.

But the departure of Brooks was not enough to contain the scandal in Britain, so Hinton, who has been more significant to the company's fortunes and to Murdoch personally for far longer than Brooks, also left.

The inevitable next move for Murdoch is prolicide. His son James, appointed in 2007 as chairman and chief executive of News Corporation's operations in Europe and Asia, based at News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, clings on – but only for now.

In London, James Murdoch oversaw the response to the hacking scandal. He approved the £700,000 hush money paid to Gordon Taylor, the former chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association – a decision he has blamed on poor advice. (The legal director of News International, Tom Crone, was one of the executives of News International to leave this week.)

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

At the risk of repeating myself.... there is not one quote, that I can find, from the ex cop that names the NotW.... and, even if there is, NotW is not Fox News.

There is no fucking evidence, just a bunch of (left wing) media linking the cop to News Int. Now, I might also throw into the mix that that bastion of truth, the Guardian, has already been forced to apologize for lying about The Sun.

I thought the left were all for honest journalism. Apparently, that standard only applies to other media, not to theirs.

 

[mudwhistle]

I wonder where journalists got the idea that Bush was hacking cell phones?

I remember all of those accusations a back in 06.

 

[Chris]

The clock is ticking

So is the 15 mins of exposure for this trumped up story.

I suggest we bookmark Chrissie's prediction about Fox News being 'finished' and see whether, this time next year, it has come true. I'll bet not.

I never made any such prediction, that was a quote from the Guardian.

Why do you lie?

 

[California Girl]

So is the 15 mins of exposure for this trumped up story.

I suggest we bookmark Chrissie's prediction about Fox News being 'finished' and see whether, this time next year, it has come true. I'll bet not.

I never made any such prediction, that was a quote from the Guardian.

Why do you lie?

So you don't support the view? It's very hard to tell what your opinion is.... all you ever seem to do is give the opinions of others? But you never put them in to a quote box, italic or distinguish them from your own bullshit so it is hardly surprising when others can't tell the difference.

But, happily, it does explain why the left accuse others of 'lying' so often. You don't know the difference between a 'lie' and misinterpreting.

You're no more than a shrill for Obama.

Would you be happy to see Fox News shut down if that shut down was based on dishonesty?

 

[Chris]

Interviews with current and former officials show that instead of examining all the evidence, investigators primarily limited their inquiry to 36 names that the private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, mentioned in one list.

As a result, Scotland Yard notified only a small number of the people whose phones were hacked by The News of the World. Other people who suspected foul play had to approach the police to see if their names were in Mr. Mulcaire’s files.

“It’s one thing to decide not to investigate,” said Jeremy Reed, one of the lawyers who represents numerous phone-hacking victims. “But it’s quite another thing not to tell the victims. That’s just mind-blowing.”

Among the possible victims was former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who asked the police last year to look into suspicions that his phones were hacked. In response, Scotland Yard sent him a form letter saying it was unclear whether the tabloid had eavesdropped on his conversations, people with knowledge of the request said.

The police assigned a new team to the hacking allegations in September after The New York Times published a magazine article that showed that the practice was far more widespread and which raised questions about Scotland Yard’s handling of the case.

Shortly after, the police finally reopened those “bin bags.” Now, the police are enduring the painstaking and humiliating exercise of notifying nearly 4,000 angry people listed in the documents that they may have been targets of what now appears to be industrial-strength hacking by The News of the World. The chore is likely to take years.

NYT: Stain from tabloids rubs off on Scotland Yard - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com

 

[California Girl]

Interviews with current and former officials show that instead of examining all the evidence, investigators primarily limited their inquiry to 36 names that the private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, mentioned in one list.

As a result, Scotland Yard notified only a small number of the people whose phones were hacked by The News of the World. Other people who suspected foul play had to approach the police to see if their names were in Mr. Mulcaire’s files.

“It’s one thing to decide not to investigate,” said Jeremy Reed, one of the lawyers who represents numerous phone-hacking victims. “But it’s quite another thing not to tell the victims. That’s just mind-blowing.”

Among the possible victims was former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who asked the police last year to look into suspicions that his phones were hacked. In response, Scotland Yard sent him a form letter saying it was unclear whether the tabloid had eavesdropped on his conversations, people with knowledge of the request said.

The police assigned a new team to the hacking allegations in September after The New York Times published a magazine article that showed that the practice was far more widespread and which raised questions about Scotland Yard’s handling of the case.

Shortly after, the police finally reopened those “bin bags.” Now, the police are enduring the painstaking and humiliating exercise of notifying nearly 4,000 angry people listed in the documents that they may have been targets of what now appears to be industrial-strength hacking by The News of the World. The chore is likely to take years.

NYT: Stain from tabloids rubs off on Scotland Yard - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com

And you're only just finding this out now?



Here is a really good suggestion..... don't take any media reports about who has been hacked too seriously yet. Nothing has been confirmed. Nothing. Not one. They are investigating. Investigating. It is mostly speculation. Speculation.

*I'm repeating salient points for the stupid.

 

[Dot Com]

Heads are rolling. The only question is how many will be sacrificed so that NewsCorp can go on?

 

[California Girl]

Heads are rolling. The only question is how many will be sacrificed so that NewsCorp can go on?

It might be the only question for you. Others, one's without an anti-Fox agenda, have a whole bunch of questions.... all far more valid than that one.

 

[Chris]

The ongoing meltdown of News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire is providing us with a reeducation on what can happen when those restraints are routinely ignored. Each day's revelations leave us with a clearer picture of Murdoch newspapers that routinely violated the privacy of Britons, from the sovereign and prime minister to the grieving families of murder victims and war widows. In the process, journalists and others employed by Murdoch's papers allegedly bribed police officers and officials, intimidated investigators assigned to probe reporters' misconduct and paid off some of those who cooperated with lucrative consulting and writing contracts.

Eager for the highly partisan Murdoch papers' support, and fearful of the retribution that seemed to follow anything the company's editors or executives construed as opposition to News Corp.'s interests, Britain's Parliament and political establishment cowered while unprincipled journalists attenuated freedom of the press into grotesque malevolence and corrupt officials made public accountability a dead letter. It was a mutually beneficial little arrangement for as long as it lasted, but like any relationship built on fear, it was bound to come apart — with a vengeance. Thursday brought the arrest of another former News of the World sub-editor, Neil Wallis, and Friday the resignations of Rebekah Brooks, formerly the paper's editor and, most recently, the executive in charge of Murdoch's British papers, and Les Hinton, chairman of Dow Jones, who ran the British papers from 1997 to 2005.

Here in the United States, the FBI and U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. confirmed that a preliminary inquiry has begun into allegations that News of the World reporters may have tried to enlist a retired New York police officer to assist in obtaining access to the voice-mail accounts of people killed on 9/11. New York Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) first requested that probe, and the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission also should respond to requests from other lawmakers that News Corp. be investigated under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

That law forbids U.S. corporations doing business abroad from bribing foreign officials to further their commercial interests, and it also penalizes companies that make such illicit payments and then fail to report them or attempt to conceal them on their balance sheets. Our own 1st Amendment protections might make payments made in the course of reporting difficult — perhaps even impossible — to prosecute, but not bribes paid to obstruct justice, as allegedly occurred in the News of the World case. Moreover, as Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), one of the senators requesting the probe, pointed out to the New York Times this week, "If indeed bribes were made and were not properly recorded, this too may be a violation of the law."

Tim Rutten: News Corp. meltdown has become an American problem too - latimes.com

 

[California Girl]

I see Chris steadfastly refuses to form his own opinions, preferring instead to regurgitate. I sometimes wonder if he is a real person or some bot that just posts articles to boost hit rates. LOL

 

[Zona]

No relationship is safe, no loyal bond strong enough for Rupert Murdoch who – looking more than the sum of his 80 years – is mounting a final battle to save the company he built from nothing.

His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

The problem for Murdoch is that every time he ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him.

Hinton was ditched because he was the crucial link between Murdoch's valuable US businesses and the tainted operation in Britain. He was at the helm of NI – the holding company for his UK newspapers including the News of the World and the Times – when it seemed that everyone who was in sniffing distance of a significant news story found their phones being hacked.

Questions were being raised about what Hinton knew about corrupt payments to London police officers: if he was shown to have been aware of them, that would be a felony in the US under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The problem for News Corp now is that, at every stage, its attempts to contain this story have failed. The decision to close the News of the World was motivated in part to save the chief executive of NI, Rebekah Brooks: that decision bombed and Brooks resigned on Friday.

But the departure of Brooks was not enough to contain the scandal in Britain, so Hinton, who has been more significant to the company's fortunes and to Murdoch personally for far longer than Brooks, also left.

The inevitable next move for Murdoch is prolicide. His son James, appointed in 2007 as chairman and chief executive of News Corporation's operations in Europe and Asia, based at News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, clings on – but only for now.

In London, James Murdoch oversaw the response to the hacking scandal. He approved the £700,000 hush money paid to Gordon Taylor, the former chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association – a decision he has blamed on poor advice. (The legal director of News International, Tom Crone, was one of the executives of News International to leave this week.)

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

At the risk of repeating myself.... there is not one quote, that I can find, from the ex cop that names the NotW.... and, even if there is, NotW is not Fox News.

There is no fucking evidence, just a bunch of (left wing) media linking the cop to News Int. Now, I might also throw into the mix that that bastion of truth, the Guardian, has already been forced to apologize for lying about The Sun.

I thought the left were all for honest journalism. Apparently, that standard only applies to other media, not to theirs.

So what is the future of News of the World? How they doin? and why...

 

[California Girl]

No relationship is safe, no loyal bond strong enough for Rupert Murdoch who – looking more than the sum of his 80 years – is mounting a final battle to save the company he built from nothing.

His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

The problem for Murdoch is that every time he ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him.

Hinton was ditched because he was the crucial link between Murdoch's valuable US businesses and the tainted operation in Britain. He was at the helm of NI – the holding company for his UK newspapers including the News of the World and the Times – when it seemed that everyone who was in sniffing distance of a significant news story found their phones being hacked.

Questions were being raised about what Hinton knew about corrupt payments to London police officers: if he was shown to have been aware of them, that would be a felony in the US under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The problem for News Corp now is that, at every stage, its attempts to contain this story have failed. The decision to close the News of the World was motivated in part to save the chief executive of NI, Rebekah Brooks: that decision bombed and Brooks resigned on Friday.

But the departure of Brooks was not enough to contain the scandal in Britain, so Hinton, who has been more significant to the company's fortunes and to Murdoch personally for far longer than Brooks, also left.

The inevitable next move for Murdoch is prolicide. His son James, appointed in 2007 as chairman and chief executive of News Corporation's operations in Europe and Asia, based at News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, clings on – but only for now.

In London, James Murdoch oversaw the response to the hacking scandal. He approved the £700,000 hush money paid to Gordon Taylor, the former chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association – a decision he has blamed on poor advice. (The legal director of News International, Tom Crone, was one of the executives of News International to leave this week.)

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp | Analysis | Media | The Guardian

At the risk of repeating myself.... there is not one quote, that I can find, from the ex cop that names the NotW.... and, even if there is, NotW is not Fox News.

There is no fucking evidence, just a bunch of (left wing) media linking the cop to News Int. Now, I might also throw into the mix that that bastion of truth, the Guardian, has already been forced to apologize for lying about The Sun.

I thought the left were all for honest journalism. Apparently, that standard only applies to other media, not to theirs.

So what is the future of News of the World? How they doin? and why...

The NotW got shut down because their advertisers (rightly) cut and ran. The reason they cut and ran was because the accusations are so heinous that their own reputations would be damaged by being linked to the NotW. 10 journalists have been arrested, and are currently on bail. No one has been charged.... yet.

I'm not defending NotW (which was a shit tabloid anyways), nor am I defending News Inc, News Corp, or Murdoch.... I'm just pointing out that, currently, all we have are accusations and speculation. And one major speculation - which was presented as fact - has already been proved false.

This is not rocket science. It's rational thought.

 

[MarcATL]

ACORN got unfairly destroyed by a lying media.

I don't see any tears from the right.

What I do see them CONTINUING to do is say that ACORN was guilty of what it has been found NOT guilty of.

Yet, the very same RWers want your to cry for FOX, like Argentina.

CLASSIC!!!

 

[California Girl]

ACORN got unfairly destroyed by a lying media.

I don't see any tears from the right.

What I do see them CONTINUING to do is say that ACORN was guilty of what it has been found NOT guilty of.

Yet, the very same RWers want your to cry for FOX, like Argentina.

CLASSIC!!!

So, there's video evidence of someone from Fox News hacking a phone? Oh, I haven't seen it. Got a link?

 

[Chris]

A former News of the World senior executive, who was arrested over the phone-hacking scandal, was paid £24,000 as an advisor by the police force now investigating him, Scotland Yard said.

Neil Wallis, 60, former executive editor and deputy editor of the now-closed Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, was arrested at his London home on Thursday "on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications", the Metropolitan Police said.

Wallis, who worked under the leadership of then editor Andy Coulson, was the ninth person to be arrested since the inquiry was reopened in January.

But just hours after he was detained, London's Metropolitan Police were forced to admit that until September last year it had paid him for consultancy work.

Wallis left the News of the World in August 2009 -- and just two months later his company Chamy Media was hired by the Metropolitan Police to "provide strategic communication advice and support", a Scotland Yard statement said.

This included advice on speech writing and public relations work while the force's deputy director of public affairs was on sick leave recovering from a serious illness, it said.

He worked two days a month for around a year and was paid £24,000 -- the equivalent of £1,000 a day of taxpayers' money, police confirmed.

Arrested ex-tabloid exec was paid police advisor - Yahoo! News