The Law British Phone hacking Scandal

[MaddAdam]

central casting: gamine oxbridge grad, blueblood aristocrat stock, il guardina columnist,
= MaddAdam got wood.

what really turns one on like wolstencroft hellfire,

patty hearst stockholm, aristocrats turning gauche towards Scott Trust offices in Manchester. even if, if the office HQ is close to Wapping or wherever in London

Its more her truly brilliant columns I like.

 

[MaddAdam]

Fairly sure they knew each other there, may have even flatted together.

MaddAdam may have mentioned it previously?

God, that does ring a bell.

 

[Maggie5]

Yep, NOW shut down due to a Guardian lie re messages being deleted. IIRC they had to make something like 19 apologies/corrections re their reporting. Nick Davies did a great job (his book Flat Earth News was excellent too, well at least the first half) but Rusbringer et al were very poor in reporting the story.

Interesting to see if the CPS bothers with this. As you correctly stated Piers should be in all sorts of trouble.

Not only that but their is another mass market newspaper (not red top) that was worse than News. Paul Dacre may come to regret his evidence to Leveson.



Maggie see MaddAdams post. The Guardian have long known this but just gone hard at News. NB the industrial bit was a quote from a barrister I think.

Not even on front page of Guardian online.

Do you think it is likely that this has happened in Australia and USA as well?
Maybe The Guardian has something to hide as well?

 

[blackcat]

The relevance to Australia is that Gillard and Bob Brown tried to exploit the issue to put pressure on the Murdoch owned press here.

Ms Gillard told reporters people are "disturbed" by what they have seen happen in the United Kingdom.

The scandal has lead to the closure of the 168-year-old News of the World paper, the first masthead Mr Murdoch bought in Britain.

Ms Gillard says Australians want answers.

"I do believe Australians, watching all of that happening overseas with News Corp, are looking at News Limited here and wanting to see News Limited answer some hard questions," she said.​

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-20/gillard-demands-answers-from-news-ltd/2803108

Later that year she launched the sham inquiry into the media.

p'raps not the most politically sound choice of her administration.

she should have been able to ask around, off-the-record, in the gallery, and the communications staffers in Canberra, what the chances of this occurring with the Sydney Tele or Melbourne Hun. Then she would not have poked the bear. Poking the bear, politically daft, especially if she is extemporising for points scoring and political traction with the public for the succour moms and doctors wives who might pay attention, and to the innercity greenies, but they lost them a while back. Who are the political comms guys here who have worked as staff officers? MaddAdam GuruJane

 

[medusala]

Do you think it is likely that this has happened in Australia and USA as well?
Maybe The Guardian has something to hide as well?

A) Doubt it. The US is far tougher on that sort of thing. Not sure re Oz but there isn't the same tabloid culture as the UK
B) There was a previous inquiry in to invasions of privacy (hence everyone knowing that the Mirror and Daily Mail was even worse than the NOTW/Sun). There were some but very few instance of the quality newspapers hacking/ blagging. Then again I think its always been acceptable with a public interest defence to do certain things. The Sunday Times investigative journos for example have probably had certain colourful methods to get info. The Guardian possibly as well ie Snowdon.

p'raps not the most politically sound choice of her administration..

She was clueless both on policy and strategy. Playing the victim was all she had and that was only ever going to appeal to a small minority. Even Blair, a far, far better operator started to lose it with his anger at the BBC.

A certain "community organiser" would have made a good fit at Slaters.

 

[medusala]

You have to wonder is the CPS utterly useless or was their immense political pressure brought to bear.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rnalists-acquitted-over-payments-to-officials

Four senior Sun journalists, including the deputy editor and executive editor, have been acquitted in a landmark trial over payments to public officials.

The acquittals will be seen as a major blow to the Crown Prosecution Service, which has so far brought24 journaliststo trial from the Sun and other tabloids as part of the Operation Elveden investigation into payments by newspapers for stories.

So far there have been only two convictions, that of the former News of the World journalist Dan Evans and a second journalist who worked at the Sunday tabloid who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Shanahan said some of the journalists would have been on bail for four years before they knew their fate.

“In other circumstances the CPS puts serious criminals in front of the courts within in months. The personal strain on the families is utterly appalling. As journalists we are accustomed to having thicker skins, but for the families and children, it’s been a terrible ordeal

 

[blackcat]

A certain "community organiser" would have made a good fit at Slaters.

I think the firm of choice is now Maurice Blackburn Cashman. since SG went public, the knew interns with canberra or sprint street in their eyes, at MB. David Feeney's better half Liberty Sanger there.

 

[medusala]

I think the firm of choice is now Maurice Blackburn Cashman

#freehills4Gods1stXV

 

[blackcat]

#freehills4Gods1stXV

for the tories, right, capitalists. not those going into union mg't

 

[medusala]

for the tories, right, capitalists. not those going into union mg't

Management. Probably another word better describes it

or three letters

#HSU

 

[medusala]

All falling apart now. Deafening silence from the Murdoch hating bien pensants.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3043537/Four-journalists-cleared.html#ixzz3Xvzqxhym
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The pursuit of journalists for paying public officials was in ruins last night after prosecutors dropped a raft of cases.

Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders was forced into a humiliating climbdown after a jury threw out yet another Old Bailey case.

She abandoned the trials of nine reporters accused of illegally paying public officials for information, finally admitting there was little appetite among the public for journalists who expose matters of public interest to be jailed.