Plainly Not Fit and Proper Persons 165

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Rebekah Brooks has now laid down several hundred jobs to save her own. She has also made way for the brand new super soaraway Sunday Sun. News International have evidently decided to gamble on the idea that there is no end to the gullibility of the British mass public.

But let us stop and consider. A great part of British newspaper history, a paper that supported imprisoned Chartists , has just been lost. With it have gone hundreds of jobs. It has been lost because the management of News International at the News of the World was either criminally involved or culpably negligent – there are no other choices. By their destruction of the News of the World, News Corp have proven beyond any doubt that they are not fit and proper persons to run media in this country. Ofcom must now act on this to use its powers to disbar unfit persons, and force News Corp to sell all its media interests in the UK.

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  • Azra

    Dreoilin , did you notice the reason they gave? it would hurt their fund raising potential, and right they are.

    Suhyal, what are you knitting man, is it another scarf? where is the famous tea today?

  • technicolour

    Suhayl, yes. And what about the Express? Hate-mongering of the very best sort, and run by a man whose first action was to throw out the archives.

    And are people seriously expected to think that the Sun wasn’t involved in this kind of thing too?

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Yep, it’s systemic, Technicolour, absolutely. The pot is full of rot. Now is the time for Auld Reekie! The Met, too. Show us the bent coppers! Put ’em in the kettle! Kettle ’em!

  • Methuselah Now

    Hi,

    Let’s call it The Murdochgate [hacking affair], all news corp. assets should be considered radioactive esp. for retailers, advertisers and politicians.

    This isn’t a one-off.

    Just think, when everyone else has been thinking about the personal details, news corp., the Murdoch’s and brooks have been working on launching a new newspaper………

    Kind regards,

    MN

  • Suhay Saadi

    Night boat to Juba… best wishes to the people of South Sudan.

    Re. Murdoch, indeed: !Down with Davros! !Flush out the rats! !Cut off their tales!

  • anno

    Deepgreenpuddock, the Miliband bros may be in HM’s opposition in this country, but they are in government, in power, in the New World Order on the front benches with star of David Cameron.
    Big Society means: Don’t be disloyal to the NWO Big Team.
    As Cameron and Ed M sit on the wall and eat wafers and ice cream, the Big NI spacecraft docks onto Planet Earth thousands of miles above Wapping. The brave new world that is just around the corner is not one of integrity and questioning, but one of operational expedience and the extermination of the germs of freedom and well-being.

  • Methuselah Now

    Hi,

    In one place, please forward/link:

    http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/police-chief-in-clear-over-leak-as-murdoch-paper-accused-20100611-y3o6.html

    http://www.nswpolicecrime.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=371

    http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2011/07/rebekah-brooks-wade/#more-15850

    http://mobile.slate.com/rss.jsp?rssid=411&item=http%3a%2f%2fwww.slate.com%2fdefault.aspx%3fdisplaymode%3d201%26id%3d2167464%26device%3drss

    http://www.tvlicensing.biz/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2885

    http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1194240&page=7

    Posts 166 (penultimate section before sign-off), 172, 177 (page 8).

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-elstein/ofcom-pay-tv-review-what-does-it-really-mean

    Systematic.
    Institutional

    http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/09/03/what-would-the-met-get-for-not-pursuing-notw-phone-hacking/

    http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2010/12/andy-coulson-andy-hayman/

    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/above-the-law/

    Kind regards,

    MN

  • YugoStiglitz

    911 was committed by 19 Arab Muslim terrorists. You’re a very dumb person if you buy into the “inside job” conspiracy theories.

  • dreoilin

    “did you notice the reason they gave? it would hurt their fund raising potential, and right they are”
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    I did indeed, Azra.
    I can’t quite figure out if Suhayl is making tea, cutting off rats’ tails, filling kettles or knitting. But I’m off to have my dinner. 🙂

  • harpie

    Enter: An American lawyer:

    5.31pm: Rebekah Brooks is no longer in charge of the News International internal clean up committee – following a recommendation from James Murdoch and News Corp directors.
    An official message sent to staff following her 4pm meeting reveals Will Lewis, Simon Greenberg and Jeff Palker – Brooks’s lieutenants – will “report directly” to New York based Joel Klein on the clean-up.

    Klein was in the White House Counsel’s Office under [Democratic] President Clinton, who then appointed him to the Department of Justice, in charge of the Anti Trust Division. [He was the lead prosecutor in US v Microsoft] Afterwards, he was Counsel to Bertelsmann, an international media group. In 2002 he was appointed New York City School’s Chancellor by [Republican] Mayor Michael Bloomberg until late 2010, when he became EVP for News Corporation.

    And, as for the part of the Evil Stepmother, Brooks seems to be well cast. This is from the Media Talk podcast

    [@27:20] Nick Davies: And I do recall an incident which Alan [Rusbridger] may or may not remember, after we published the first story in 2009, when Coulson’s close friend Rebekah Brooks was talking to somebody, and that person said to Rebekah: “How’s this phone hacking thing going to end?” And she said, “With Alan Rusbridger on his knees begging for mercy.” And, they would have destroyed us. They would have put Alan out of his job. They would have put me out of my job. If they could have done, they would have shut down The Guardian. And these are very, very destructive, ruthless people.

  • mary

    Agree Suhayl. The West has meddled there long enough and drawn too many lines on the map of Africa. But if the racist Zionist Nicky Campbell talking to ex BBC correspondent Martin Bell, Oliver Kamm’s uncle by the way, portrays Bashir as the baddie, I immediately see red. Hear them chatting on Radio 5 this morning on this link -http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1310140208.html
    Remember too that the ICC only take black men to trial (that is apart from the Serbs, also ‘baddies’) and never whiteys like Blair, Bush et al.

  • Herbie

    On a day when the various estates of the British establishment are tottering and quaking in their boots, looking into the abyss, quoting Browning etc etc.
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    You’d think it just couldn’t get any worse.
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    But it can and it did!
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    Man with the contacts, finger on the pulse, Guido Fawkes scooped by Jemima Khan tweet!!!
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    “Just heard that Coulson to be arrested this afternoon” – Jemima
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    “Guido is trying to verify…” – Guido
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    Sadly, Guido was unable to verify until we all heard the breaking news together.
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    Now he’s dissing the Guardian journo who “officially” broke the story.
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    Poor Guido…
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    http://order-order.com/2011/07/07/rumour-of-coulson-arrest/

  • angrysoba

    “I understood that South Sudan was a grab of resources especially the oil.”
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    Well, why don’t you speak to someone from South Sudan. Ask them what they want?

  • dreoilin

    [rolling eyes at YugoStiglitz aka Larry_OCD]
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    I’ll be back for the Tea Party later.
    Save me a seat and a cup.

  • YugoStiglitz

    Don’t forget dreoilin – 911 truthers like you started the recent tea party silliness.

  • Tony

    Brooks is being retained as a lightning conductor to protect Murdoch himself. She will be sacrificed when the worse, and there are worse, depravities come out. The good news, as well as the demise of the execrable NOTW is the toileting of the useless PCC.

  • Conjunction

    Having listened to that Martin Bell piece, he, along with many others is going on about the corruption of the press. No doubt the press has always been corrupt, but a big turning point in this country was the Gilligan affair and then crucially the Hutton report. The Hutton report made me angrier than any other single political occurrence in fifty years. The trouble with events like that is not only the immediate damage they cause, but they set a precedent. What Blair and Campbell effectively did was to say to the entire establishment: this kind of stuff is OK.

    Having said that I have noticed gradually over the last, say two decades, how Labour and Conservative seem to depend for a large extent to get their election victories on a deal with the Sun.

    thats why all this is so important

  • harpie

    From the Live Blog:

    7.16pm: More than £1 billion has been wiped from BSkyB’s market value today, the Press Association has just reported.

    PA adds:

    Investors ditched shares in the company fearing that the recent revelations could lead Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to refer News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61% of shares it does not already own to the Competition Commission. […]
    It was a similar story at News Corp, which saw its share price drop nearly 4% today, causing its market value to fall by some 1.9 billion US dollars (£1.2 billion).

  • mark_golding

    Thank-you Anon.
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    “Murdoch was also a great supporter of the illegal invasion of Iraq. Every one of his 179 newspapers also supported this policy. He claimed at the time that the invasion would result in lower oil prices and an increase in stock market shares. His newspapers also played an important role in persuading the public that Iraq had WMD.”
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    Murdoch also supported the ugly false-flag operations of the moronic black task force of the British secret services who used men like fallen Naval marine Martin McDaid and ‘Supergrass’ Mohammed Junaid Babar to construct dubious operations to farther the ‘war of terror’ that resulted in prosecutions driven by the security services themselves invoking secrecy and causing young gullible men to ‘go down’ for 40 years while other individuals appear to have protected status in that they have either never been arrested or have miraculously evaded prosecution over a period of time when many lesser figures were rendered to the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay.
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    I’ve had enough after ten years worth of deception which now *has* to change in a clean-up that must include poking a big stick into MI5/MI6’s back door.

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