News Of The World

**HoreTore** · 07-13-2011, 00:29

Originally Posted by drone

News Corp. is a registered US corporation. News Corp. employees bribed foreign government officials. News Corp. sets itself up for prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when the executive branch is run by Democrats. Lulz were had by all.

This could get very interesting, but I don't see anyone with the balls to do the proper thing.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-13-2011, 00:32

Yeah, Gitmo is still open. Send them there to sort it out.

**gaelic cowboy** · 07-13-2011, 00:39

The not very nice thing about this is all the journos in the Irish News of the World got sacked too and they never hacked any phones.

Apparently they got an email in there inbox saying "guluck your all chucked", on the plus side twas a rubbish paper so they must have been useless anyway.

**TinCow** · 07-13-2011, 14:45

Originally Posted by HoreTore

This could get very interesting, but I don't see anyone with the balls to do the proper thing.

Yesterday I would have agreed with you, but this changes things:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z2

July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Jay Rockefeller called for U.S. agencies to investigate whether alleged phone hacking at News Corp.’s U.K. newspapers targeted American victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“I am concerned that the admitted phone hacking in London by the News Corp. may have extended to 9/11 victims or other Americans,” Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, said today in a statement posted on the website of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which he chairs. “If they did, the consequences will be severe.”

Reporters at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid are alleged to have hacked into hundreds of mobile-phone voice mails, including those of murder and terror victims, and bribed police for confidential information. The scandal prompted Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch to close the 168-year-old tabloid.

According to a report in the Daily Mirror, a competitor to News of the World and other News Corp. publications, an unnamed private investigator and former New York City police officer alleged reporters at the newspaper offered to pay him to retrieve private phone records of victims of the 9/11 attacks.

If that's true, News Corp is in a huge amount of trouble. People will be absolutely enraged over here if they hacked the phones of 9/11 victims.

**Adrian II** · 07-13-2011, 16:22

That's it, Murdoch's in full retreat with the US Senate and some funny little Brit in a dress and whig on his tail.

AII

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-13-2011, 22:48

Originally Posted by TinCow

Yesterday I would have agreed with you, but this changes things:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z2

If that's true, News Corp is in a huge amount of trouble. People will be absolutely enraged over here if they hacked the phones of 9/11 victims.

Well, you guys did for Conrad Black, Murdoch may be more powerful now - but he also looks more corrupt and therefore more vulnerable.

**aimlesswanderer** · 07-14-2011, 14:54

The whole mess is quite amazing. The criminality, complete lack of morals, the long running high level cover up, bribing police... As someone who has had a very low opinion of News Corp for a long time, I only hope that this breaks the Murdoch grip on the company, leads to new tighter journalistic and privacy rules, and stops the encroachment of the company into every media market and media type in the world.

Then there's the bizarre attempt to engineer a dynastic succession in a private listed company, and the 2 classes of shares... all very strange.

**InsaneApache** · 07-14-2011, 15:20

If nothing else it's given the equally corrupt politicos a great reason to control the press. I'm sure I won't be disappointed. Not to mention bringing in a huge raft of new laws that will ensure that troughing MPs will never be scrutinized again ordinary members of the public never have their 'phones hacked again.

He's an idea. Try enforcing the laws we already have.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-14-2011, 15:32

Originally Posted by InsaneApache

He's an idea. Try enforcing the laws we already have.

Never seems to occur to those in power, does it? All those new Terrorism offences when it could all have come under "Treason", a law abolished by Gordon Brown a few years ago.

**Adrian II** · 07-14-2011, 18:58

Now the leadership of the Metropolitan Police are coming under suspicion as well. No wonder they couldn't find fault with News Corp in several previous investigations.

This is getting interestinger and interestinger.

AII