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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
You mean Ofcom, who are no more then a arm of BSkyB
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Actually Ofcom have done far more in standing up to Murdoch's empire than the PCC or Government IF you had been paying any attention.Ofcom were the one body that said that Murdoch should not be allowed to buy BSkyb outright..It was the government who were going to allow it through on the nod..It's just that Ofcom hasn't the teeth to tell the government to get lost and to stop interfering.
Plus Ofcom is actually an INDEPENDENT regulatory body unlike the PCC.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/wo...nt&tntemail1=y
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An e-mail to Rupert Murdoch’s son James that referred to “a nightmare scenario” of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid was deleted from his computer less than two weeks before the police opened their current investigation into phone hacking, lawyers said Wednesday. The deletion was part of an “e-mail stabilization and modernization program” in which accounts were “being prepared for the migration to a new e-mail system,” said Linklaters, a law firm representing News International, the British newspaper arm of the Murdoch media empire.The e-mail was a chain of messages sent June 7, 2008, to James Murdoch, head of News Corporation’s European and Asian operations, warning that the potential legal fallout from hacking at The News of the World was “as bad as we feared.”
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The disclosure of the deletion came in a letter from Linklaters to the Commons committee. The letter says that the deletion occurred on Jan. 15, 2011. Operation Weeting, the police inquiry into phone hacking at The News of the World, began 11 days later.
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Well,well,well.Do we believe this?