That's some slimy isht, Mr Murdoch

[admiralsnackbar]

Evidently old news, but new to me... cripes!
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Phone Hacking at Murdoch's Tabloid Was Widespread, Unapologetic (http://gawker.com/5628391/phone-hacking-at-murdochs-tabloid-was-routine-widespread-unapologetic)


By Hamilton Nolan,


Four years ago, Rupert Murdoch (http://gawker.com/tag/rupertmurdoch/)-owned UK tabloid The News of the World got caught hacking the voicemail of "hundreds of celebrities" and other public figures. Now, the full extent of the hacking's coming out (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine)—and it's bad. Amazingly dirty, actually! It would be a shame if all the stories the tabloid got by stealing private phone messages got more attention than the scandalous methods this paper routinely employed to get those stories. Even in the amoral world of UK tabloids (and Rupert Murdoch's empire), this is well beyond the pale. So it's nice that the New York Times Magazine has finally produced a definitive report (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine)—showing that phone hacking was a routine and accepted procedure at News of the World.
The paper worked with a private eye named Glenn Mulcaire, who was found in 2006 to have "several thousand mobile phone numbers of potential hacking victims," and was later imprisoned. The NYT says that Scotland Yard stuck to prosecuting only the hacking of the phones of members of the Royal Family (http://gawker.com/tag/royalfamily/)—and neglected the hundreds of other victims, including politicians, celebrities, PR executives, and anyone else whose private business might be momentarily useful for a tabloid story.

News of the World was hardly alone in accessing messages to obtain salacious gossip. "It was an industrywide thing," said Sharon Marshall, who witnessed hacking while working at News of the World and other tabloids. "Talk to any tabloid journalist in the United Kingdom, and they can tell you each phone company's four-digit codes. Every hack on every newspaper knew this was done."
Now, many of those victims are filing lawsuits, as they discover they were hacked. The story depicts Murdoch's tabloid as a harsh, demanding place where reporters did whatever it took to satisfy their editor, Andy Coulson. Hacking phones was a relatively easy assignment—"One reporter was ordered to spend 24 hours inside a plastic box, in the newsroom, to emulate a stunt by the magician David Blaine."


Coulson has said he was "unaware" of the hacking, but several of his reporters contradict him. (He resigned in the wake of the scandal, and became communications chief of the Conservative Party). Coulson's boss at the time, News International head Les Hinton (pictured, with Murdoch), is now CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The NYT's story makes clear that News International-owned tabloids during Hinton's leadership had few if any ethical scruples. And it makes equally clear that Rupert Murdoch does not care. Hundreds of hacking victims could still potentially come forward and sue, which would cost Murdoch millions. But it's a small price for him to pay for the news he got in a competitive market.
This is the man who controls more of New York's media than anyone else.


http://gawker.com/5628391/phone-hacking-at-murdochs-tabloid-was-routine-widespread-unapologetic?skyline=true&s=i

[RandomGuy]

Symptomatic of the morally bankrupt culture that Mr. Murdoch promotes.

[admiralsnackbar]

Symptomatic of the morally bankrupt culture that Mr. Murdoch promotes.

Innit, though?

[SnakeBoy]

Symptomatic of the morally bankrupt culture that Mr. Murdoch promotes.

British?

[admiralsnackbar]

British?

Thanks for the laugh, man :lol

[Blake]

The NYT says that Scotland Yard stuck to prosecuting only the hacking of the phones of members of the Royal Family (http://gawker.com/tag/royalfamily/)—and neglected the hundreds of other victims, including politicians, celebrities, PR executives, and anyone else whose private business might be momentarily useful for a tabloid story.
[INDENT] News of the World was hardly alone in accessing messages to obtain salacious gossip. "It was an industrywide thing," said Sharon Marshall, who witnessed hacking while working at News of the World and other tabloids. "Talk to any tabloid journalist in the United Kingdom, and they can tell you each phone company's four-digit codes. Every hack on every newspaper knew this was done."


Why would Scotland Yard not prosecute unless it was the phone of a Royal Family member?

[boutons_deux]

Murdoch's entire organization, typified by the scumbags at Fox Repug Propaganda networks, is pure garbage.

"According to the UK's Guardian, Adam Price, a former lawmaker from the Welsh national party Plaid Cymru, said that a Conservative Party member warned lawmakers that the News of the World, a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, would "go after us" if they forced the tabloid's chief executive to testify in front of parliament.

Lawmakers wanted Rebekah Brooks, the CEO of NoW's parent company, to testify about what the company knew about the phone-hacking scandal that has embroiled the tabloid for the past five years. Brooks refused to appear, and parliamentarians did not use their power to compel Brooks to appear.

“We decided not to, I think to some extent, because of what I was told at the time by a senior Conservative member of the committee, who I know was in direct contact with News International execs, that if we went for her, called her back, subpoenaed her, they would go for us – which meant effectively that they would delve into our personal lives in order to punish them,"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/lawmakers-threatened-murdoch-owned-company/

[Winehole23]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

[TeyshaBlue]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

:lol:lol

[EVAY]

Why would Scotland Yard not prosecute unless it was the phone of a Royal Family member?

The stated reason was that they were, at the time, trying to deal with multiple terror threats that used up their resources. I don't know if that is the real reason, but that is the reason they gave. They don't have a choice about investigating any intrusion to Royal Family members, but they do have discretion about any others.

Sure would feel kinda lousy if you were one of the politicians or celebs who weren't as protected as the Royals, though, wouldn't it?

I have no sympathy for any of the bozos who invade people's privacy for crap like this...if it didn't sell newspapers they wouldn't do it...so it really comes back to the public's appetite for this junk.

[Winehole23]

The criminal investigation into British tabloid skullduggery turned full force on a second Rupert Murdoch publication Saturday, with the arrest of four current and former journalists from The Sun on suspicion of bribing police. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/british-police-arrest-5-tabloid-125228779.html

[Winehole23]

The editor of the Times, James Harding, is to be recalled to the Leveson Inquiry after evidence the newspaper had used email hacking.



Earlier, it emerged the newspaper is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police over email hacking claims.


It comes after the inquiry was told that a Times journalist hacked the emails of a police blogger, NightJack.


Labour MP Tom Watson said the Met police had confirmed to him the paper was being investigated.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16856481

[boutons_deux]

New Arrests Rock Murdoch Empire

Five senior journalists are held in police corruption probe amid speculation over future of the Sun


upert Murdoch is expected to fly to Britain this week to tackle the latest allegations to rock his media empire, involving the corruption of public officials by Sun journalists.

The deputy editor, Geoff Webster, chief reporter John Kay, picture editor John Edwards, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker and deputy news editor John Sturgis were arrested in early morning raids on suspicion of bribing police and public officials. There was also a search of the Sun's offices. A Surrey police officer, a member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee were also arrested.

Part of Operation Elveden, Scotland Yard's investigation into newspaper corruption, the arrests follow those of four former and current Sun journalists and a serving Metropolitan police officer.

Senior Sun employees Chris Pharo and Mike Sullivan, executive editor Fergus Shanahan and News International's editorial development director, Graham Dudman, were arrested on 28 January. Rebekah Brooks, the Sun's former editor, and Andy Coulson, ex-editor of the News of the World, have also been questioned. The arrests have prompted speculation that News Corp, News International's US-based parent company, may be forced to consider closing the Sun, as it did with the News Of The World, in an attempt to protect the Murdoch empire.

Legal experts believe allegations that officials were bribed by a subsidiary of a US company could cause an investigation by the US department of justice under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an inquiry that could prove hugely damaging for News Corp.

"The developments show this is no longer only about phone hacking," said Labour MP Tom Watson. "It goes to the very heart of corporate governance of the company led by Rupert Murdoch. Was Sun editor Dominic Mohan aware of allegations of payments to police before he gave evidence under oath to Lord Leveson?"

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/317-65/9934-new-arrests-rock-murdoch-empire

[boutons_deux]

Sue Akers - the Jane Tennison-like top cop at the helm of the Scotland Yard investigation into British newspapers, who helped Helen Mirren prepare for her leading role in the hit TV drama Prime Suspect - told the Leveson inquiry last week that the News Corp. team "are the people who have passed us information on which we've made arrests." She had just increased her Operation Elveden team by 50 percent. And the investigation, she suggested, still had a long way to go.

The arrests, as Murdoch's trip to London suggests, imply serious problems for his media empire, and not just in Britain.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/12/rupert-murdoch-s-latest-debacles-arrests-at-the-sun.html

[Winehole23]

James Murdoch steps down:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17209375

[Agloco]

The cookie is crumbling........

[Wild Cobra]

Wish I could have partially retired at 39.

[Winehole23]

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has been dragged into allegations of corporate espionage in the lucrative satellite television market dominated by News Corp companies.


An Italian computer expert who is the prime suspect in a piracy ring on trial on Italy for the alleged targeting of pay-TV companies was working as a consultant for a News Corp subsidiary involved in the industry.


Documents obtained by The Independent show that Pasquale Caiazza was receiving regular payments from a bank account controlled by News International, Mr Murdoch’s British newspaper business.


The American Department of Justice is understood to be monitoring the Italian court proceedings as part of a wider review of evidence of potential wrongdoing within the News Corp empire.


The DoJ probe was triggered by Britain’s phone hacking scandal and could lead to Mr Murdoch and the News Corp board being formally investigated under US anti-corruption laws.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/scandal-spreads-to-murdoch-tv-empire-7586250.html

[EVAY]

And now the Wall Street Journal is owned and published by the Murdoch empire.

[Winehole23]

yah

[TeyshaBlue]

And now the Wall Street Journal is owned and published by the Murdoch empire.

Mebbe so...mebbe not for long.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/05/will-the-wall-street-journal-fall-with-murdoch.html

[EVAY]

Mebbe so...mebbe not for long.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/05/will-the-wall-street-journal-fall-with-murdoch.html

From your lips to god's ears!!:lol

Seriously, I read the article. What do you think will happen? Will he give up the WSJ and New York Post if he has to give up his UK publications?

[Nbadan]

FBI is very, very interested in what's going on in Britain.

[boutons_deux]

Sky News head John Ryley made clear that the hacking was authorized and said that they "stand behind these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest."


The Sky case is particularly interesting because for the first time, the company has admitted that hacking was not only approved of, but in fact officially sanctioned by the management of the channel. John John Ryley, the head of Sky News, told reporters, "We stand by these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest." Ryley continued: "Material provided by Sky News was used in the successful prosecution, and the police made clear after the trial that this information was pivotal to the case."

Regardless of intentions or the criminal behavior of a target, it is not in the realm of a private entity to determine which laws to follow and which to ignore. It's because of this hubris, which runs up and down the News Corp. ladder, that the company has landed in this place.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201204080004?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair+%28Media+Matters+for+America+-+County+Fair%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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Just corrupt right-wing, corporate, political assholes doing what they do best, what they do exclusively.