[Update] The News Corp scandal

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Indeed the knock on effect has started

The problem is if Murdoch ends up getting his jewel in the crown, he could get it now at a vastly reduced rate

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chris

Sounds like he's constipated ...

l expect he is constipated with the CR*P that comes out of his mouth Chris.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

The problem is if Murdoch ends up getting his jewel in the crown, he could get it now at a vastly reduced rate

l think Murdoch's chances of getting BSKYB are receding by the hour.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by denphone

l think Murdoch's chances of getting BSKYB are receding by the hour.

Just like my hair line

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by denphone

l expect he is constipated with the CR*P that comes out of his mouth Chris.

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l think Murdoch's chances of getting BSKYB are receding by the hour.

Hopefully you are right , I guess only time will tell.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Just like my hair line

Yes l am afraid the grey hairs are showing on me as well so when l look in the mirror l try to tell myself that l am George clooney.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by denphone

The worse is yet to come according to Brooks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...king-live.html

Worse than hacking phones and emails belonging to murder victims, dead soldiers and their families?

WTH have they been up to?

Like I said a few days ago: Anyone get the feeling that all these stories are the pilot fish before the big story breaks? There is clearly something such worse on the horizon. They have shut down the News of the World to help avoid some of the impending scandal.

I suspect it's related the the story about the detective channel 4 had a few days ago. I wonder if The News of the World interfered with the murder investigation to protect a private investigator they had on staff? That would be my theory, and I stress theory, given the information we know so far. First of all here is an interesting comment from The Telegraph's Peter Oborne:

Originally Posted by Peter Oborne

The Prime Minister cannot claim in defence that he was naively drawn in to this lethal circle. He was warned – many times. Shortly before the last election he was explicitly told about the company he was keeping. Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian newspaper, which has performed such a wonderful service to public decency by bringing to light the shattering depravity of Mr Murdoch’s newspaper empire – went to meet one of Mr Cameron’s closest advisers shortly before the last election. He briefed this adviser very carefully about Mr Coulson, telling him many troubling pieces of information that could not then be put into the public domain.

Here is what Alan Rusbridger said yesterday in response to the above claim:

Originally Posted by Alan Rusbridger

Peter Oborne is right. Before the election it was common knowledge in Fleet Street that an investigator used by the NoW during Andy Coulson's editorship was on remand for conspiracy to murder. We couldn't report that due to contempt of court restrictions, but I thought it right that Cameron should know before he took any decisions about taking Andy Coulson into Number 10. So I sent word via an intermediary close to Cameron. And I also told Clegg personally.

So Andy Coulson had used a private investigator who was on remand for conspiracy to commit murder according to the editor of The Guardian.

Now let's visit those Channel 4 News allegations again:

Originally Posted by Channel 4 News

Exclusive: Channel 4 News learns that a Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance by News of the World journalists and his personal details targeted.

The surveillance operation came during a crucial murder investigation which implicated private investigators who had alleged links to News International.

Did The News of the World seek to interfere in a murder case by putting surveillance on, possibly in an attempt to discredit, the investigating officer to protect a murder suspect whom they had connections with?

[denphone]

Yes the repercussions of all this are going to last for a very very long time and the Bskyb deal as far as l am concerned is dead in the water.

Originally Posted by denphone

and the Bskyb deal as far as l am concerned is dead in the water.

I doubt it, just delayed would be my guess.

Money talks. Someones palm will need the grease.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Tuftus

I doubt it, just delayed would be my guess.

Money talks. Someones palm will need the grease.

Maybe in other deals but somehow l doubt whether that will be allowed to happen here.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by denphone

Maybe in other deals but somehow l doubt whether that will be allowed to happen here.

There will be to many watching the out come

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Sirius

There will be to many watching the out come

Oh most definitely and if Murdoch thinks he has stopped the leaking pipe well l think the flood is yet to come.

I have no doubt there is much more to come out and it will come pouring out as the rats involved in this look to get themselves deals to avoid the justice they deserve. I also don't believe this is limited to one paper or one media company anymore then it is limited to anyone political party i think all three are about to have some dirty laundry washed in public.

We have a problem here in that all of this could do massive damage to many insttutions in this country and set us back in many ways for years here and abroad. Right now i wouldn't want to be the political leader having to sort this out because all political partys have either been in bed with the media or tried and all of them have things in those dealings which are not going to look good in the light of day.

One thing i am absolutely sure on is this is going to get a hell of a lot worse long before it gets better and the nastiness we are going to see is going to surpass anything seen so far as people who were involved try to dodge the jail bullet.

[Derek]

Maybe this will sort out the media and their dodgy practises just like saving the banks has sorted out their dodgy practises and huge bonuses.

Oh...

[Sasha222]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

I have no doubt there is much more to come out and it will come pouring out as the rats involved in this look to get themselves deals to avoid the justice they deserve. I also don't believe this is limited to one paper or one media company anymore then it is limited to anyone political party i think all three are about to have some dirty laundry washed in public.

We have a problem here in that all of this could do massive damage to many insttutions in this country and set us back in many ways for years here and abroad. Right now i wouldn't want to be the political leader having to sort this out because all political partys have either been in bed with the media or tried and all of them have things in those dealings which are not going to look good in the light of day.

One thing i am absolutely sure on is this is going to get a hell of a lot worse long before it gets better and the nastiness we are going to see is going to surpass anything seen so far as people who were involved try to dodge the jail bullet.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source...i3a7nQ&cad=rja

LONDON — Police raided offices of Britain’s Daily Star paper Friday after arresting one of the newspaper group’s journalists who was jailed in 2007 for phone hacking when he worked at the News of the World.

“I can confirm that a search is ongoing at a business premises in central London,� a Metropolitan Police spokesman told AFP when asked to confirm reports that the Daily Star’s offices had been raided.


And it starts
The search came just hours after Clive Goodman, who now works for the Daily Star’s Sunday edition but was jailed in 2007 for phone hacking during his time as News of the World royal editor, was re-arrested over corruption allegations.