News of the World
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News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain’s ruling elite By Robert Stevens
The trial of former News of the World (NotW) editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and others connected with phone hacking has ended with Coulson, former head of communications of Prime Minister David Cameron, found guilty of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. Brooks, the former head of billionaire oligarch Rupert Murdoch’s media-empire in Britain, was… Continue reading
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Media: The Leveson Inquiry: Should We Care? By Des Freedman
The aftermath of the phone hacking scandal and the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry, ‘is a hugely significant moment both for the British media and for British democracy’ and that ‘the spell of media power is facing its most serious challenge to date’. Given that official inquiries rarely generate genuinely radical proposals and we have… Continue reading
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Interrogating Contemporary News: Asking the Right Questions By Natalie Fenton
The Leveson inquiry has been launched to investigate phone hacking and the culture, practices and ethics of the press; there is a Lords Select Committee on the future of investigative journalism; a joint Select Committee on privacy and injunctions; all of which will feed into a Communications Review leading up to the New Communications Act… Continue reading
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New moves by British parliament to shield the Murdochs By Robert Stephens
The Murdochs rely on the fact that the British political elite and the police are seeking at all costs to prevent a serious investigation of the hacking of thousands of phones and the bribing of police officers, and block the bringing of criminal charges against the guilty. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Murdoch’s Other Moral Crimes
When Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before the House of Commons media select committee on July 19, not one of the MP inquisitors demanded accountability for News International’s biggest moral crime – its shameful role as a facilitator of war. Continue reading
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Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications
Thirteenth Report of Session 2010–12 House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Continue reading
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News International: A scandal rooted in union-busting
Socialist journalist Eamonn McCann explains how the assault on newspaper unions helped pave the way for the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 22-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking In Brief: 23/07/2011 The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight News Corp executive ‘leaked Cable story’ Ian Burrell Kroll, the global corporate investigations company, has named a top News Corp executive as the strong suspect in ‘orchestrating’ the leak of a tape which led to the downfall Continue reading
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Outsourcing power (and its consequences) By William Bowles
In a sense the corporate press and the state have been hoisted by their own petard: by outsourcing propaganda to the corporate media it has exposed the media as an integral component of state/corporate control but one no longer under the direct control of the Establishment. Ergo, the arrogant bastards who run News Corp. Continue reading
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch’s “News of the World” By Sherwood Ross
As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. Continue reading
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The NewsCorp inquiry: an exercise in mass deceit By Robert Stevens
For the British ruling elite, Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to a specially convened session of parliament was a critical moment. The decision to hold the special session was dictated by demands that Cameron respond to Tuesday’s appearance of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah… Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks for 21 July 2011
21 July 2011 — williambowles.info James Murdoch evidence questioned BBC News Today at 20:27 News International chairman James Murdoch’s evidence to MPs on phone hacking is called into question by two former company executives. Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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Video Rerun: Murdoch Shaped British politics for 40 Years
Leo Panitch : Murdoch used sex scandal journalism to attack left-wing of the Labor Party and later helped create Tony Blair Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 19-20 July 2011
20 July 2011 Updated: 21:05:34 — williambowles.info 20 July 2011 Murdoch Empire Sinking Beneath The Sands By George GallowaySince becoming prime minister just fifteen months ago, Cameron has had 26 meetings with Murdoch’s executives. Cameron’s wife was likely the only person to get more meetings with the PM than Murdoch’s executives. Continue reading
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Democracy Now! Daily News Digest: Murdoch’s Denials Are Tough to Believe
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing questions from lawmakers today on his handling of the widening News International phone-hacking scandal implicating the British police and top government officials. Continue reading
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What did he know and when did he know it? Cameron, Coulson and those pesky emails By William Bowles
The political/corporate class must be ruing the day email arrived, it is proving to be the undoing of many a powerful individual and perhaps even the downfall of the government? But only if the media do the job they claim to be doing, investigating malfeasance at every level. Continue reading
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Coaching, Media and Public Discourse
For all those complaining that the Murdochs had been carefully coached in presentation before the Select Committee, I say this is much worse. You do have to watch to the end to understand what I mean: Continue reading
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