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    Bloody Jurno scum eh?

    Deleting voicemails and thereby giving the family false hope is pretty funny

    Granted that's just one of the many hiliraous things about this scandal

    Murodoch standing by his (wo)man
    Hugh Grant wearing a wire
    Hacking war widows phones
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    Implying nobody knew tabloid journalists did these kinds of things, and yet read it and be outraged when it it officially told that they do so. Come on, the whole world knows English tabloid journalist did these kind of things.
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    Pretty big scandal, actually. I listen to BBC World News while driving, and it's pretty much all they're talking about.

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    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.
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    I'm gutted that the NoW has shut. What am I going to do now when I run out of bog paper?
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    Come on Apache: it's not like Mr Murdoch doesn't have plenty of other rags on sale.
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    I'm surprised that it took someone so long to post this.

    I'm a bit dissapointed in Strike, as he doesn't seem to be ironic.

    Anyway, lets move on.

    The core issue here is not that the "Screws" was dirty, but the depths to which it sunk - interferring with murder investigations, bugging people who's daughters were abducted raped and murdered, stealing the medical records of Godon Brown's sick son. Even more troubling is that contagion is already spreading to the Times and the Sun. Murdoch might be able to get away with amputating one paper but if his entire rag division is shown to be in the same boat them, at the least, News International would have to be disbanded and broken up, and it might kill off News Corp.

    The real issue though is that UK politicians aren't scared of Murdoch any more, if he tries to attach David Cameron, Nick Clegg or even Miliband they will come off as the victim.

    The burning question is when US politicians will join the bundle, and who will be first?
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    there are a lot of pet birds out there that are gonna be left without their favorite cage floor liner.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
    The real issue though is that UK politicians aren't scared of Murdoch any more [...]
    Bang on, my friend. British politicians have been Strauss-Kahned for decades by Murdoch. The NotW phone hacking thingy was basically covered by Nick Davies in Flat Earth News (2008). No news there, except that it's suddenly become big news. And that of a sudden Mr Murdoch is living in interesting times. He stands to lose his BSkyB bid along with his most profitable rags. Looks like a tectonic shift is in the making. He may even be indicted in both the UK and the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    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.
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    Yeah, Gitmo is still open. Send them there to sort it out.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    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.


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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    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.
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    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.
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