Tabloid phone hacking scandal involving kidnapped girl roils Britain

[Grallon]

So, what mechanism of enforcing that service are you suggesting?

I'm partial to gas chambers and ovens personally.  There's something about people squirming and screaming while they suffocate, when yesterday they thought they were on top of the world, that I find immensely satisfying.  The upside is to terrorize those left alive into obedience.  The downside however is this needs to be used sparingly, otherwise it loses its impact over time.




G.

[Martinus]

Apparently senior police officers were hacked in '06 and blackmailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/europe/12yard.html?_r=1

Oh dear, it does get better with each revelation. 

I do enjoy seeing Murdoch thus compromised. He was apparently planning to bid for the largest Polish private information network to be auctioned soon, but hopefully the scandal can keep him occupied elsewhere.

[Martinus]

I'm partial to gas chambers and ovens personally.  There's something about people squirming and screaming while they suffocate, when yesterday they thought they were on top of the world, that I find immensely satisfying.  The upside is to terrorize those left alive into obedience.  The downside however is this needs to be used sparingly, otherwise it loses its impact over time.

Staying classy, I see.

[Gups]

Apparently senior police officers were hacked in '06 and blackmailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/europe/12yard.html?_r=1

It doesn't say they were blackmailed. Christ a 10 word summary and you can't even get it right.

[Brazen]

Early day motion 2054

NEWS OF THE WORLD

    * Session: 2010-11
    * Date tabled: 11.07.2011
    * Primary sponsor: Mitchell, Austin
    * Sponsors:
          o Clark, Katy
          o McDonnell, John
          o Riordan, Linda
          o Singh, Marsha
          o Williams, Hywel

That this House condemns the sacking of over 200 journalists and staff at the News of the World (NotW); supports the National Union of Journalists in its campaign to help journalists facing compulsory redundancy at the NotW; believes that shutting the NotW is an act of political opportunism by News International (NI); notes that the Chief Executive of NI, Rebekah Brooks, was Editor of theNotW at a time when alleged hacking of mobile telephones was underway; calls for a full public investigation into the apparent systematic abuses at the top of the operation run by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson; and welcomes the referral to the Competition Commission of the takeover of BSkyB by News Corporation.

http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-11/2054

[The Brain]

[Grey Fox]

So you mean Politicians aren't happy that people lost their jobs? That's newwwwwwwwwwww!

[Brazen]

I lost my job working for Enron and I wasn't the one selling shares against non-existent products and services.

[Neil]

I'm partial to gas chambers and ovens personally.  There's something about people squirming and screaming while they suffocate, when yesterday they thought they were on top of the world, that I find immensely satisfying.  The upside is to terrorize those left alive into obedience.  The downside however is this needs to be used sparingly, otherwise it loses its impact over time.

Staying classy, I see.

That is exactly the sort of thing that you would post.  You do realize that in his head, it's all non-homosexuals who are getting murdered, right?

[Gups]

No doubt Ageslatus still thinks this is a storm in a teacup.

Must be a nighmare in that boardroom right now. Qonder what they're going to do. The real problem is that there's no end in sight to this. The police reckon that only a few hundered out of 4,000 or so victims have been contacted. There's probably going to be a number of trials and a number more arrests. There's a judicial inquiry.

And if the rumours that the 9/11 victims were hacked too, there'll be a shitstorm in the States to come.

[jimmy olsen]

Apparently senior police officers were hacked in '06 and blackmailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/europe/12yard.html?_r=1

It doesn't say they were blackmailed. Christ a 10 word summary and you can't even get it right.

Seems implied

Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own cellphone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.

The disclosure, based on interviews with current and former officials, raises the question of whether senior investigators feared that if they aggressively investigated, The News of the World would punish them with splashy articles about their private lives.

[Richard Hakluyt]

News Corporation shareholders are sticking the boot in too :

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100010767/shareholders-sue-news-corp-over-news-of-the-world-scandal/

[Gups]

Tim, no it doesn't. "Raises questions" means there's no evidence at all and the paper doesn't want to make the accusation of his own bat. And even that sentence doesn't imply blackmail, it implies that officers might have held back on their investigations. Blackmail means something else entirely.

[Brazen]

See, Tim's assumption is the sort of thing journalists should really be sacked for and what the writer of the article very correctly avoided. Note that even "the disclosure" is the subject of the questions that are raised rather than implicating any individual or group of individuals.

[Martinus]

News Corporation shareholders are sticking the boot in too :

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmcowie/100010767/shareholders-sue-news-corp-over-news-of-the-world-scandal/

Yay. It's finally coming all crashing down. What a beautiful catastrophe.