[Update] The News Corp scandal

Because they make a living out of not acting their age.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ption-and-lies

If you have a spare hour..

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Chris

Because they make a living out of not acting their age.

The gullibility of their 'followers' is more disturbing than the pretend argument between these two over-paid egotists.

It seems you can make a career from being a bitch these days. It's Piers Morgan's turn to bend over apparently .

This is a thread about the criminality of some who worked for News Corporation NOT Jeremy Clarkson's stupidity.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Kursk

The gullibility of their 'followers' is more disturbing than the pretend argument between these two over-paid egotists.

It seems you can make a career from being a bitch these days. It's Piers Morgan's turn to bend over apparently .

Piers Morgan is hated by most celebrities, not just Clarkson, due to his involvement in printing stories about them while he was editor of the News of the World. Phone hacking (I don't why they call it hacking, it's nothing of the sort) was likely going on while he was editor too, as the weakness in the mobile voicemail system was known about in many circles at the time he was editor. Must admit I have kept away from most news articles about it so not sure if he has got in any trouble over it.

Piers Morgan is disliked by a lot of people, just that only a couple have had the pleasure of actually smashing him in the face, Clarkson being one of them. It's not fake and not for anyone else's benefit. Watch mock the week or Have I got news for you and you will see they all totally dislike Piers too. Seems most Americans dislike him too after he run a show there too. I suspect he is a complete twit and that is the reason for the hate, rather than his involvement with NotW

[MalteseFalcon]

In his diaries, I think he made some sort of admission about using sources in police for news and maybe phone hacking. He certainly touched on the fact that whilst being investigated for insider trading in shares that his mobile voicemail service had possibly been hacked into as other newspapers knew before him about interviews with the relevant authority.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35070715

There is to be no further action taken against journalists over phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
It said there was "insufficient evidence" to bring corporate liability charges against News Group or charges against 10 individuals at Mirror Group.

Well is anyone surprised? I know I'm not..but then I've been reading Private Eye for the past three years.

[heero_yuy]

Given that the CPS have proved incapable of getting convictions over the perceived offences, though the machinations of those involved may leave a bad taste in the mouth, most haven't broken laws according to the courts.

IMHO a very badly managed witch hunt spurred on by pressure groups keen to keep the spotlight off their murky lives.

The whole thing lost focus when they went after the payments to officials.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...ukhpmg00000001

The Sun has used the "hated" Human Rights Act, which it wants to see abolished, to win a legal case against the police for intercepting the phone records of its journalists.

The Metropolitan Police breached the journalists' human rights when it seized the data to identify the source of information about Plebgate, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled on Thursday.

It agreed with the tabloid that this was a breach of protection of freedom of expression, guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which is enforceable before UK courts thanks to the Human Rights Act (HRA).

The paper announced it was going to the tribunal in October 2014, telling HuffPost UK it would rely on the HRA, just after it splashed on its demand that the "hated" law be axed.

Supreme irony..

[heero_yuy]

THE bungled £20million criminal probe into Sun journalists finally collapsed with a whimper today as the last strand of the investigation ended with yet another humiliating failure for Scotland Yard.

Operation Elveden - which saw 29 journalists charged and then cleared of wrongdoing over payment for stories - is being wound-up in disgrace after almost five costly years.

It comes after out-of-touch Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who is under pressure to quit over a string of botched inquiries, told MPs he found it "odd" that juries had repeatedly refused to convict journalists at trial.

Free speech campaigner Mick Hume said: "Operation Elveden was the biggest witch-hunt against journalists in a supposedly free society in modern times.

Linky

"In order to arrest those 34 journalists under Elveden, the Met and state prosecutors effectively tried to make up a new law of 'conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office', specifically framed to fit up reporters and editors for doing their jobs.

No law broken so no conviction. What's so hard to understand Mr Plod?

[denphone]

Well what else did we expect.....

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...reach-of-trust

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well what else did we expect.....

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...reach-of-trust

Well, I think the press have got the message by now, and I don't think it is worth chucking sackfuls of money at this inquiry any longer.

The government knows the issues, and what is required now is sensible legislative changes to avoid similar problems in the future.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, I think the press have got the message by now, and I don't think it is worth chucking sackfuls of money at this inquiry any longer.

The government knows the issues, and what is required now is sensible legislative changes to avoid similar problems in the future.

Never going to happen...

[denphone]

Indeed diddly squat will happen that is for sure..