No More News of the World... Murdoch Calls His Media Outlets 'Deplorable'

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KWICKO

Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:50 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/phone-hacking-scandal-cl
oses-news-of-the-world/2011/07/07/gIQAy5RA2H_story.html

Apparently there ARE consequences for hacking into someone else's account.

Of note, Murdoch has hired Viet Dinh, former Bush Justice Department official and one of the chief authors and architects of the Patriot Act, to help in his "investigation".

That should go well.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:45 PM

Maybe there is a god after all

KWICKO

Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:25 PM

And I'm sure that it's a complete coincidence that FauxNews's Twitter feed was "hacked" (allegedly) around the same time this pattern of abuse was being unearthed.

This is stuff that Murdoch's businesses have been doing since at least 2005, and establishes a clear pattern of illegal behavior which likely continues even today.

There are records indicating that company officials knowingly paid out over a million pounds to try to keep details covered up, and this behavior likely includes even Murdoch's son, as well as numerous other newspapers and media outlets in his empire.

So we have a documented pattern of such hi-jinks by this company and its managers, we have a history of cover-ups of this stuff, we have the Patriot Act guy involved. It has the feel of being more than just a little non-story hack job.

Maybe Murdoch WANTS more controls placed on media, thinking that he's going to be in control of those with the control. If so, he's probably not far wrong; one of the BBC newscasters yesterday said it's unusual that PM David Cameron was speaking out against NewsCorps this way, since he takes his orders from them. It sounded more serious than jokey when they said it, too.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, July 8, 2011 12:15 AM

at least 2002, given that they hacked phones of murder victims phones back then

Murdoch is a truly vile individual and his media empire is responsible for so much wrong on so many levels. I for one will be very pleased if his house of cards tumbles down.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, July 8, 2011 12:40 AM

And how do you level an empire, folks ?

CUT OFF THE MONEY.

Those advertisers had a little help making the decision, and to my everlasting amusement, none of it came from me - got my hand slapped by some well connected orgs for tryin to stick my nose into it.

-F

GEEZER

Friday, July 8, 2011 12:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Apparently there ARE consequences for hacking into someone else's account.

And unfortunately one of them is that a lot of folks at NOW who had nothing to with the hacking will be out of work. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch will lose a scarcely noticeable fraction of his income.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, July 8, 2011 1:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Apparently there ARE consequences for hacking into someone else's account.

And unfortunately one of them is that a lot of folks at NOW who had nothing to with the hacking will be out of work. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch will lose a scarcely noticeable fraction of his income.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

This is more than Murdoch losing money, this is about his reputation going down the drain. People have been fed up with his vicious tabloids (along with a whole lot of other stuff) for years. Now they are finally seeing the depth to which this gutter journalism sinks. And if you've chosen to work for News of the World, frankly I'm out of sympathy already.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, July 8, 2011 1:52 AM

Murdoch has virtually chosen the political leaders in the UK and Australia over the past 20 years, probably major influence in the US as well.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Can't stand the man.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, July 8, 2011 2:41 AM

James Murdoch faces jail

Media scion James Murdoch has joined the list of those facing possible jail over the News of the World phone hacking scandal that has seen the 168-year-old newspaper killed off overnight, UK media have reported.

Former British home secretary Alan Johnson has suggested to the BBC Murdoch's statement announcing the paper's closure contained an admission that could expose him to prosecution.

Murdoch, News International's chairman, is quoted in a press release admitting he personally - and wrongly - approved out-of-court settlements to phone-hacking victims.

Mr Johnson said that may have put him in breach of Britain's Regulation and Investigatory Powers Act, The Guardian has reported. The act states:

"Where an offence under any provision of this Act (...) is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body he (as well as the body corporate) shall be guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly."
Under fire ... News International chairman James Murdoch.

The messenger ... News International chairman James Murdoch. Photo: Reuters

However, the paper has quoted an unnamed criminal lawyer as saying Murdoch was not at risk because the payment of compensation to victims was allowable under the law.

"You would have to show that he had knowledge at the time rather than after the fact," the source said.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman were jailed in January 2007 over the affair, with speculation police are poised to arrest the newspaper's former editor Andy Coulson. Pressure is also mounting for former editor-turned News International CEO Rebekah Brooks to be sacked.
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves the office of The News of The World overnight.

News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves the office of The News of The World overnight. Photo: Getty

In an astonishing response to a scandal engulfing his media empire, Rupert Murdoch shut down the News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper.

As allegations multiplied that its journalists hacked the voicemails of thousands of people, from child murder victims to the families of Britain's war dead, the tabloid haemorrhaged advertising, alienated millions of readers and posed a growing threat to Murdoch's hopes of buying broadcaster BSkyB.

Yet no one, least of all the paper's 200 staff, was prepared for the drama of a single sentence that will surely go down as one of the most startling turns in the 80-year-old Australian-born press baron's long and controversial career.

"News International today announces that this Sunday, 10 July 2011, will be the last issue of the News of the World," read the preamble to a statement from James Murdoch, who chairs the British newspaper arm of News Corp .

Staff gasped and some sobbed as they were told of the planned closure of the 168-year-old title, the profits of whose final edition will go to charity.

"No one had any inkling at all that this was going to happen," said Jules Stenson, features editor of News of the World, outside the News International offices.

It seemed a bold gamble, sacrificing a historic title that is suffering from the long-term decline of print newspapers to stave off a threat to plans to expand in television: "Talk about a nuclear option," said a "gobsmacked" Steven Barnett, professor of communications at Westminster University.

But some analysts predicted Murdoch would make The Sun, the tabloid daily that is Britain's best-selling newspaper, a seven-day operation and that the demise of the News of the World would ultimately benefit News International's bottom line.

Nevertheless, Murdoch still faces pressure to remove hi

KPO

Friday, July 8, 2011 3:00 AM

Hugh Grant on how he first exposed the practise, interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052690

It's not personal. It's just war.

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