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[Kevin S. Assilleekunt]

Regular readers of the rags won't be too fussed, borderline illiterates in my experience.

[peasepud]

THe whole thing is disgusting but overall imagine being the parents, leaving heartbreaking message after message. Pouring your heart out in the hope it will convince your child to come home. Then to find out years after she was murdered that some low life reporters have probably sat round a table listening to every word.

[Craig]

peasepud, on Jul 5 2011, 08:05 PM, said:

THe whole thing is disgusting but overall imagine being the parents, leaving heartbreaking message after message. Pouring your heart out in the hope it will convince your child to come home. Then to find out years after she was murdered that some low life reporters have probably sat round a table listening to every word.

....and then deleting them so you get a false impression they're still alive and leave some more.

Cunts want locking up. And the very least that should happen is that bint Brooks should get the boot. Fucking disgrace!

[Meenzer]

And to think people were after Johann Hari's blood the other day for cutting and pasting a few quotes. He apologised, but you can bet there'll be no remorse from this lot.

[Howmanheyman]

It just reaffirms your beliefs that these people are parasitic, detestable vermin. Saw a documentary the other day on the Miners strike of 84. One of the talking heads they had on was Mckenzie. What a grade A numero uno cunt this man is. The stuff they published about the Liverpool fans sums up the contempt this bloke holds for the common man outside of the South East. Your heart goes out to the Parents anyway, when you take shit like this into account, well.......a fine isn't good enough.

[ChezGiven]

Meenzer, on Jul 5 2011, 07:26 PM, said:

And to think people were after Johann Hari's blood the other day for cutting and pasting a few quotes. He apologised, but you can bet there'll be no remorse from this lot.

I missed that, what happened?

[ChezGiven]

Advertisers are pulling out: Ford, Halifax, T-Mobile, Orange. Good.

http://www.guardian....ord-advertising

[Meenzer]

ChezGiven, on Jul 5 2011, 08:28 PM, said:

Meenzer, on Jul 5 2011, 07:26 PM, said:

And to think people were after Johann Hari's blood the other day for cutting and pasting a few quotes. He apologised, but you can bet there'll be no remorse from this lot.

I missed that, what happened?

That, basically:

http://www.guardian....nterview-quotes

I have a lot of time for Hari, for all his flaws, but he has acted like a bit of a divvy throughout this one.

[Billy Castell]

That Rebbeca Thingy is the one who printed the names and addresses of sex offenders to encourage vigilante mayhem, and is/was with Ross Kemp and had attacked him*. I hope she and Kelvin McKenzie die slowly from some nasty disease, as that what scum like them deserve. These vermin deserve prison, but no doubt Coulson and Thingy will get away with it, and the lackeys will carry the can.

If I was Murdoch, I'd close down the NotW, sack every journalist involved and launch a replacement Sunday tabloid with a whole new crew. The paper is too badly damaged.

*=It's OK as when domestic violence is a woman attacking a man, it is hilarious and only minor. It's only wrong if it is the other way round  

[Lazarus]

ChezGiven, on Jul 5 2011, 09:05 PM, said:

Advertisers are pulling out: Ford, Halifax, T-Mobile, Orange. Good.

http://www.guardian....ord-advertising

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One journalist said he had been told by a News of the World employee that a succession of people were ringing the newsdesk, "shouting the c-word down the phone, and hanging up".

[snakehips]

Anyone who buys this rag next Sunday should hang their head in shame.  Trouble is, it's readership are probably mostly cretins who have no conception of what is happening.

I would love it if we were witnessing the beginning of a slow death of this meaningless rag.

Maybe some day we will find out how many of the other 'papers' were happily going along with this fone hacking business. Until we do, the NOTW will have to be the sole focus of my detest.

Edited by snakehips, 05 July 2011 - 08:41 PM.

[Kevin S. Assilleekunt]

snakehips, on Jul 5 2011, 09:40 PM, said:

I would love it if we were witnessing the beginning of a slow death of this meaningless rag.

Aren't they dying a slow death anyway? I think circulation has been dwindling, or perhaps worse. Hopefully we will see due process and the prosecution of the criminals involved.

[ewerk]

Billy Castell, on Jul 5 2011, 09:12 PM, said:

That Rebbeca Thingy is the one who printed the names and addresses of sex offenders to encourage vigilante mayhem, and is/was with Ross Kemp and had attacked him*. I hope she and Kelvin McKenzie die slowly from some nasty disease, as that what scum like them deserve. These vermin deserve prison, but no doubt Coulson and Thingy will get away with it, and the lackeys will carry the can.

If I was Murdoch, I'd close down the NotW, sack every journalist involved and launch a replacement Sunday tabloid with a whole new crew. The paper is too badly damaged.

*=It's OK as when domestic violence is a woman attacking a man, it is hilarious and only minor. It's only wrong if it is the other way round  

Even more hilarious when you consider that her paper was running a campaign against domestic violence at the time.

[Kevin S. Assilleekunt]

I remember reading this article online a while ago, didn't realise it was from The New Statesman. It's cropped up again in light of these allegations. Basically Hugh Grant secretly records a conversation with a former NOTW hack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...agazinemonitor/

http://www.newstates...cameron-murdoch

Here's a key excerpt used in the beeb piece:

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Hugh Grant: "Ah . . . I think that was one of the questions asked last week at one of the parliamentary committees. They asked Yates [John Yates, acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] if it was true that he thought that the NoW had been hacking the phones of friends and family of those girls who were murdered...the Soham murder and the Milly girl [Milly Dowler]."

Paul McMullan: "Yeah. Yeah. It's more than likely. Yeah...It was quite routine. Yeah - friends and family is something that's not as easy to justify as the other things."

[dbsweeney]

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The phone-hacking crisis enveloping the News of the World intensified on Tuesday night after it emerged that Scotland Yard has started to contact the relatives of victims of the 7 July 2005 attacks to warn them they were targeted by the paper.

The revelation that bereaved family members may have had their mobile phone messages intercepted by Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator employed by the paper, in the days following the 2005 London bombings will heap further pressure on the title's owner, News International, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

[StevenL]

Craig, on Jul 5 2011, 08:16 PM, said:

peasepud, on Jul 5 2011, 08:05 PM, said:

THe whole thing is disgusting but overall imagine being the parents, leaving heartbreaking message after message. Pouring your heart out in the hope it will convince your child to come home. Then to find out years after she was murdered that some low life reporters have probably sat round a table listening to every word.

....and then deleting them so you get a false impression they're still alive and leave some more.

Cunts want locking up. And the very least that should happen is that bint Brooks should get the boot. Fucking disgrace!

Don't they delete automatically after a period of time?

Not defending them or anything.

Edited by StevenL, 06 July 2011 - 06:39 AM.

[Happy Face]

Apart from the emotional reaction to the worst of these cases, I marvel at how this exemplifies Murdoch's inversing the role of the news media entirely.

A functioning media are supposed to shine a light on the actions of the most powerful to inform and empower the electorate.

At the rags, I knew they ignored anything and everything of real importance to the country and the electorate in order to protect the elites, but to see the extent they'll go to to fuck over some of the most unfortunate people on the one hand while protecting those in power on the other is both staggering and depressingly unsurprising.

Let's let the BSkyB deal go through though, and hand over 90% of the media to the evil scum.  

Edited by Happy Face, 06 July 2011 - 08:18 AM.

[Happy Face]

alex, on Jul 6 2011, 09:18 AM, said:

Looks like the shit has really hit the fan with this one. Good.

Normally when there's revelation after revelation it's the gutter press I blame for drip-feeding to squeeze every last drop out of it.

Who exactly is drip-feeding these stories though?  Every day there's more.

[Craig]

StevenL, on Jul 6 2011, 07:39 AM, said:

Craig, on Jul 5 2011, 08:16 PM, said:

peasepud, on Jul 5 2011, 08:05 PM, said:

THe whole thing is disgusting but overall imagine being the parents, leaving heartbreaking message after message. Pouring your heart out in the hope it will convince your child to come home. Then to find out years after she was murdered that some low life reporters have probably sat round a table listening to every word.

....and then deleting them so you get a false impression they're still alive and leave some more.

Cunts want locking up. And the very least that should happen is that bint Brooks should get the boot. Fucking disgrace!

Don't they delete automatically after a period of time?

Not defending them or anything.

Depends on the provider.

Anyway by the sounds of it they weren't giving it chance to fall off naturally. Providers should be able to determine whether they were deleted and who by.

This needs a a public enquiry ASAP.