[Update] The News Corp scandal

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Russ

I'd say it's more likely to be that the press have enough dirt on certain people in power to be able to keep things as they are.

I feel the press still don't see what they did wrong and continue to do wrong.

Originally Posted by Sirius

I feel the press still don't see what they did wrong and continue to do wrong.

Oh they know what they did wrong but don't care because they like the status quo with them in charge and pulling the strings..

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Oh they know what they did wrong but don't care because they like the status quo with them in charge and pulling the strings..

Thats just one of the reasons i dont buy there comics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20036822

Four people have issued High Court claims against the Daily and Sunday Mirror and The People, accusing the newspapers of phone hacking, their solicitor has told the BBC.
Solicitor Mark Lewis said the claims were filed against publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) on Monday.
The four claimants include former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.

So now it's not just Murdoch's papers..The net widens.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20031173

Two national newspapers found guilty of contempt of court over their coverage of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the murder of Milly Dowler have been fined.
The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror were each fined £10,000 by two judges at the High Court in London in a case brought by Attorney General Dominic Grieve.

During the contempt case earlier this year, the judges were told that stories in the Mail and Mirror were part of an "avalanche" of adverse publicity that followed the guilty verdicts against Bellfield.
Jurors had still been considering a charge that Bellfield had attempted to abduct Rachel Cowles, then aged 11, the day before he snatched 13-year-old Milly in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.
Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Tugendhat heard that as a result of the "totality" of the publicity, the Old Bailey jury was discharged from returning a verdict on that count.

The action was brought against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail, and MGN, publisher of the Mirror.

If there was any sort of statutory regulation of the press that had worked at the time he would have been found guilty.

[Derek]

Piers Morgan getting done for perjury?

That thought gives me a warm glow inside.

[denphone]

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks face Operation Elveden charges

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20405915

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by denphone

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks face Operation Elveden charges

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20405915

That cheered me up no end.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

That cheered me up no end.

So it did turn out to be a good day

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...y-8343289.html

The report from the first part of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards is to be released next Thursday.

Inquiry chairman Lord Justice Leveson will publish the report, which is expected to include recommendations for the future regulation of the British press, at 1.30pm next Thursday, followed by an "on-camera statement".
The report will be laid in both Houses of Parliament, the inquiry said, and will be available on its website once it has been laid in Parliament.

http://hackinginquiry.org/news/voice...-now-be-heard/

[thenry]

Breaking News: Hugh Grant accepts subtantial sum from NOTW.

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Hugh Grant will fight until election to derail press regulation 'stitch-up'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...ion-hugh-grant

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Mother of Hugh Grant's daughter sues Daily Mail publisher
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...ues-daily-mail

[Julian]

Police officer guilty of trying to sell information to the NOTW

LINKY

Apparnetly the Judge may not jail her because she is adopting a child.

So you now know what to do to avoid jail time.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Julian

Police officer guilty of trying to sell information to the NOTW

If she was trying to be a whistleblower she went about it in the completely wrong way.

It does raise the question of priorities if counter terrorism operations are being scaled back to investigate phone hacking.

[denphone]

two current Sun staff among six new arrests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/fe...-staff-arrests

[denphone]

Ex-police officer admits selling John Terry information to Sun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21711544

An ex-police officer has admitted selling information, including details about footballer John Terry's mother, to the Sun newspaper.

Alan Tierney, 40, a former Surrey police constable, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to two offences of misconduct in a public office.

Prison service worker Richard Trunkfield also pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office.

Both were charged as part of Operation Elveden into corrupt payments.

It is being run alongside Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking.

[Julian]

Mirror now implicated.

LINKY

No surprises there.