The News of the world is no more

[Flabio]

She's backtracking on the whole 'we paid police' thing at the moment.

[toythatkills]

That journo that died yesterday had a post-mortem and they couldn't establish a cause of death.

Police: "Er, it's probably fine."

['Press Start']

That journo that died yesterday had a post-mortem and they couldn't establish a cause of death.

Police: "Er, it's probably fine."

What a lovely clear message to anyone else thinking of coming forward. They may as well put his body on the hood of a Bently and drive up and down Fleet Street.

[abigsmurf]

I dont even see him making any good points either tbh. He repeats himself constantly despite trying to jumble the words around so you dont notice, has no real conviction in his words, talks thru his nose & is just using his opponents weaknesses in a childhood playground "neh neh, neh neh neh" way.

I just wish he'd told us what he thought about the strikes the other week!

[Hohum]

Yeah, that was hilarious... I'll never be able to take him seriously after that interview.

[bash]

This whole thing is scary tbh, I mean I guess a lot of us suspected but ignored the fact that most tabloid journos were:

Paying off the cops for secrets,

paying off NHS staff for medical info

Vodafone (surely not the only network) for phone and pin numbers.

All to increase the newspaper sales/pure financial gain. Any politician/celeb/royal who gets in there way faces the threat of their dirty washing being publicly aired. Even lies get printed and later withdrawn but the damage is done. And now one of the big whistleblowers is found dead and no one is batting an eyelid. Proof that we live amongst braindead, mindless sheep.

Now, more than ever, if you buy a red top paper, you are a dik.

[sj33]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-skewers-fox-news-for-belittling-epic-murdoch-scandal/

I should watch The Daily Show more often.

[Decider-VT]

****Sec have alleged that the Guardian's technology editor has been feeding them information:

Charles Arthur from Guardian here. I've been illegally feeding ****Sec internal info for 3 months, then I ditched them. Someone arrest me.

Interesting implications for the Guardian and a grave error of judgement if true.

[abigsmurf]

The Guardian are rumoured to have hired someone with connections to l?lzsec for a while. One of the lists of info supposedly from that joker guy listed a junior Guardian member as being a member.

If there's enough evidence for it not to be immediately libelous, the tabloids will tear The Guardian to shreds.

You can bet The Times will now suddenly think the hacking scandal is more important than starving children in Africa.

[Decider-VT]

Bah, both parties have deleted the Twitter posts in question. Probably handbags at dawn over that failed interview Charles Arthur tried to conduct.

[abigsmurf]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/16/phone-hacking-now-reporter-letter

If you're going to promise to give someone their job back after being jailed in return for keeping quiet... You should probably keep your promise.

Kinda lollersome how NI keep lying and keep getting caught out.