Etienne
Life sorted but now lacking time for OTF
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posted 08-04-2011 15:59
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I'm assuming this is a NotW ploy to allow them to pay-off celebrities rather than to continue having to allow lawyers access to their dodgy dossiers.
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posted 08-04-2011 16:05
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So, does anyone want to run a sweepstake on how long before Yates resigns?
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posted 08-04-2011 16:28
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I think that I would set the over/under at 6pm on Monday.
Or do you think he goes over the weekend?
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posted 08-04-2011 18:07
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Ask The News Of The World; they'll know...
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posted 08-04-2011 20:36
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According to Robert Peston
This is certainly humiliating for the company - it implies that its management controls were woeful
Or that the management supported what was happening all along.
Surely Peston can say that, can't he? Why so timorous?
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posted 10-04-2011 19:21
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Yes, I was wondering that, too.
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posted 13-04-2011 15:21
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The New Statesman had an extraordinary update on this, courtesy of the unlikely figure of Hugh Grant. At first I thought it was some kind of April Fool, but it appears to be genuine.
Which places this story in the Mail (apologies for linking to that rag, but needs must) into a completely new light.
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posted 13-04-2011 16:14
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Thats a fantastic story by hugh grant. My opinion of him has gone up a lot.
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posted 15-04-2011 11:06
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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote:
Thats a fantastic story by hugh grant. My opinion of him has gone up a lot.
I've met him. He's still a cunt.
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posted 15-04-2011 11:47
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Private Eye refers to Peston's "old FT chum Will Lewis, now general manager of NI". That might explain a few things.
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Last Edit: 15-04-2011 11:48 By The Exploding Polnik.
Reason: one of these: /
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posted 15-04-2011 12:05
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Man our police are on the ball. They begin an investigation seven years after a public confession.
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posted 15-04-2011 12:13
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You're all overreacting, according to an ex-Sun man who may be contemplating a move back given the likelihood of a few empty chairs:
Another News of the World journalist has been arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal. The newspaper’s parent company is busy paying substantial damages to celebrities whose voicemail messages were intercepted.
I don’t condone what went on, although we’re not talking Watergate here.
But nor do I understand what the difference is between the Screws listening to Sienna Miller’s tittle-tattle, and the self-righteous Guardian publishing leaked emails from national security agencies. At least no one died as a result of phone hacking, unlike the WikiLeaks revelations.
There’s no moral high ground in this sordid affair, especially when you look at some of the unsavoury ‘victims’. No one comes out of this well.
Yes, the newspaper behaved badly, but the motives of some of the main protagonists don’t stand up to much scrutiny, either.
The likes of Alastair Campbell and ocean-going sleazebag Keith Vaz are trying to assassinate the character of Yates of the Yard in revenge for him coming whisker-close to nailing Labour over cash for honours — even though he was not involved in the original phone hacking inquiry.
Incredibly, there are now 50 officers investigating this matter full-time, having been pulled off rape, robbery and murder cases. Is this a proper use of scarce police resources at a time when London is in the grip of gun crime?
The paying public don’t share the collective Fleet Street/Westminster/Scotland Yard fascination with phone hacking.
They must conclude that this particular three-ring circus has gone stark, staring mad.
Yep, he's grasped all the complexities there, hasn't he? And the public interest idea of journalism.
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posted 15-04-2011 12:44
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The Sun, and other tabloids, have argued with a straight face in court that "the public interest" means "stuff that the public is interested in".
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posted 15-04-2011 12:51
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That bit about Yates is just bizarre, isn't it? He's saying because he wasn't involved in the original enquiry, then he can't have done anything wrong? He can't have bullshitted to the Select Committee or anything.
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posted 15-04-2011 13:00
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Yer man's argument there is monumentally shit, but the issues it throws up are worth raising. Duplicitous obtaining of information, per se, should not be seen as a bad thing, if it really passes a public interest defence. Nor should we rejoice at the prospect of the police raiding a newspaper office and seizing journalistic source material. These can be worrying paths.
However, the NOTW has brought it all on itself, and those responsible deserve to go DAAHHN.
And, of course, Jeremy Cunt needs to reverse his decision on the BSkyB acquisition in the light of recent revelations.
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posted 15-04-2011 13:12
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As far as I can see those important issues were raised by you just there, not by the shithead I quoted. You're dead right, of course.
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posted 15-04-2011 13:19
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Did anyone see the utter gobshite of an excuse for a human being hack on 10 o'clock live last week? he was so obviously a rat-fucking seedy muck-raker I honestly thought it was an actor, right down to the yellowed fingers and rumpled jacket. it was hilarious just how much of a cunt he came across as. So much so he made Two-Jags look good.
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posted 15-04-2011 19:26
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There's the chap recorded by Hugh Grant on now saying cash payments to police officers are fine. I'd have thought the Inland Revenue might have something to say about this.
Prescott out of government has been quite good. He'll have a very successful media career.
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