[Update] The News Corp scandal

http://labourlist.org/2013/03/news-i...st-six-months/

Today The Sun issued a correction to a story about Gordon Brown. That might sound unremarkable, but it’s the 8th time a News International paper has issued a correction about Gordon Brown since October.

Hmm!

Did Gordon Brown really never publicly accuse The Sun of hacking medical records? I thought he did? Oh wait, article said blagging. I don't think it's a much of a correction since Brown accused them of worse....

Social Engineering, rather than hacking, I believe.

[mertle]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://labourlist.org/2013/03/news-i...st-six-months/



Hmm!

You wonder if the propaganda influenced voters to effect the election.

There should be regulations to stop fabricating news. I though mindful without press prying we would not get scoops.

What do make cameron spat walking from meeting to shape regulations talk on internet he was advised too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21785611

It was shocking comment by the spokeswomen from the victims that cameron not seen fit to go see them talk to them. She said he cant look them in the eye. While not having courtesy to meet them he gone talked to press barons.

My feeling he should not be in any way shape involved in shaping regulations. He tainted with his close association with brookes and others. Also think anyone else close in parliment should be removed for this motion. whether ed milibrand anyone else. Also think clegg(which think he neighbour is murdock lobbyist) should take no part.

If they do this in council voting councillors has to declare links remove themselves from the chamber, else vote if found later it can be challenged. Surely parliment should follow same rules.

Originally Posted by Hugh

Social Engineering, rather than hacking, I believe.

Well that is blagging...

[Derek]

Interesting piece about the long bail times of suspects and how certain groups are strangely silent on the matter.

http://huff.to/14CoYcG

Many have spent well over a year under arrest and on bail like Mike and I did, but their suffering continues. So what has Liberty, supposedly Britain's biggest campaigner for individual rights and at the forefront of the worldwide fight to protect human freedom, had to say about this? Or Amnesty International, so fervent when it comes to fighting for justice in foreign lands?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22248633

News Corp has reached a $139m (£91m) settlement with shareholders over complaints filed against the company's board of directors.
The 2011 suit related to the company's UK phone-hacking scandal and the purchase of a UK TV production firm.

Trustees of Amalgamated Bank of New York and the Central Laborers Pension Fund, which are both News Corp shareholders, first filed a lawsuit in March 2011.
It was directed against News Corp's directors for overpaying when the company bought Shine Group, a UK TV production company, from News Corp's chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth.
They claimed that the takeover deal was "unfairly" priced and that the News Corp board of directors failed to challenge Mr Murdoch about the terms of the transaction.

The pair then expanded their lawsuit in July 2011, to accuse the board of providing "no effective review or oversight" and permitting a "culture run amok" at the News of the World, which News Corp owned. The extent of phone hacking at the tabloid, then owned by News Corp, led to its closure in 2011.

So some shareholders do have teeth.

[Sirius]

Just shows that Murdoch thinks they have done nothing wrong in hacking into the phones of the public and the families of dead children and soldiers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23175564

Rupert Murdoch secret tapes: News Corp defends head

News Corp has defended chief Rupert Murdoch after a secret recording was released of him criticising the police inquiry into alleged phone hacking.

He also offered his backing to the journalists, even if they were found guilty.
No other company has done as much to identify what went wrong, compensate the victims and ensure the same mistakes do not happen again”

"I will do everything in my power to give you total support, even if you're convicted and get six months or whatever," he said.

What a *******, he really should have his ability to be connected with media revoked in this country

[denphone]

Yes l quite agree as a leopard never changes his spots and this nefarious and insidious person will certainly never change his.

This was reported in Private Eye a month ago..why it's taken this long to get mainstream beats me.

Actually I think it's a fair acknowledgement from the boss of the company that whatever his staff did wrong, they did so in the midst of a culture where everyone was at it. Only a few of them are ever going to be brought to justice and therefore it's fair enough for the boss to promise that he's not going to hang anyone out to dry over it.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Chris

Actually I think it's a fair acknowledgement from the boss of the company that whatever his staff did wrong, they did so in the midst of a culture where everyone was at it. Only a few of them are ever going to be brought to justice and therefore it's fair enough for the boss to promise that he's not going to hang anyone out to dry over it.

But those found guilty should be hung out to dry. If they are not then he is as guilty as them as he must agree with what they have done.

They can be hung out to dry by the courts, that's their job. But I can understand why their boss would wish to stand by them in any case.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Chris

They can be hung out to dry by the courts, that's their job. But I can understand why their boss would wish to stand by them in any case.

If he does then he is as guilty as them because in my eyes he feels that what they did is allowed. If that is the case then we cannot trust that he or his employees are not still breaking the law. So news international and there group of companies cannot be trusted if there boss believes its ok to hack phones.

Originally Posted by Sirius

. So news international and there group of companies cannot be trusted .

Did we not already know that before any of this kicked off?