God, those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

[headfairy]

apparently by deleting Milly's messages her family still had some hope that she might still be alive

Of course its absolutely awful, but who is reading this stuff. Somebody must be buying these rags for them to stay in business. Where do they think all the info comes from?

Good article www.spectator.co.uk/essays/7075673/what-the-papers-wont-say.thtml

I think senior staff at NI are very, very keen to please RM and want his approval (and fear his disapproval) so that they will do these horrible things to win favour - but do I think he knew the details of what they were doing at the time? No. He is responsible for the scandal from the time the allegations surfaced (or whenever he first found out about it) and I think he has behaved appallingly in doing the minimum he could since he found out and obviously hoped that the accusations would just go away.

I have no idea why he is standing by Brooks - madness. I'd agree James Murdoch must have had some idea of what was going on.

you think he isn't responsible for implicitly encouraging whatever it takes to get the story, lala?

oh please!!!

this all happened nearly 10 years ago & NI have been trying to get away with covering it up ever since. You think he didn't know?

Rebekah Wade told MPs in 2002 that she paid police officers
and Andy Coulson (sitting next to her) that it was within the rules
BUT
they were both lying as it is AGAINST THE LAW
and our stpid MP's were too thick to have them both arrested on the spot.

Also, there's this meeting in January this year, when Rupert Murdoch flew into London and Ian Edmondson (assistant editor) was sacked for phone-hacking related stuff.

If it turns out that Brooks and Murdoch fils came clean to the old man at this point, and she kept her job, that will put him squarely in the frame.

What I also find particularly bad, is the fact that some Policemen,get paid for passsing on info.I thought they were on our side.

Journalists have always paid police for stories - across all media organisations

I have just sent this to Tesco:

Dear Mr Clarke,

as a British expat living abroad, one of the absolute highlights of my trip home is a visit to one of your stores. That will sound strange to anyone who is never lived abroad for a longer period of time, but it is true. I stock up on tea bags and lemsip, Heinz beans and Scottish pies.

We are travelling to Scotland this weekend and I shall sadly have to forgo the pleasure of a Tesco experience, travelling several miles more to go to the nearest Sainsburys. While this is a pain for me, it likely does not bother you much. But it should. For I am not alone.

All over the UK today, people are making the same decision. Regardless of the inconvenience, they will not be shopping with Tesco until you stop fence-sitting and announce that Tesco will not place advertisements in the NI press, until the completion of a thorough police investigations into the hacking allegations. Across the UK decent people are horrified at the actions of the News Of The World, that the life and death of a child is deemed unimportant, as long as they get the scoop. They should be ashamed of themselves, and frankly so should you ? for not standing up and being counted.

If a parenting website such as Mumsnet can forgo £30k of revenue, then surely the largest retailer in UK can postpone ads for the duration of the investigation.

I am sure that this email will never get through to you, Mr Clarke, as you must be receiving many such emails, but I hope that the sheer volume of complaints will persuade you to change your mind.

Kind Regards,

MmeLindor

Whats even more sickening are the mps hawking themselves round media outlets crying "outrage". Make no mistake if the public hadnt reacted to this story neither would they. Milly dowlers name is now being used for thir own political ends, its quite shamefull.

The MPs are afraid of Murdoch/NI's power.

Bravo MmeLindor!

Has anyone linked to this yet?

David Cameron is in the sewer - very scathing blog post.

Has there been any coverage of Ocado's position on the matter? Usually Ocado orders come with a promotional mini-brochure for the Times, with an offer on subscription fees.

I assume NI is paying for this. Have Ocado made any statement on whether this relationship will continue?

A bit pedantic, but she is now Rebekah BROOKS, not Wade. She chose to keep her maiden name when married to Ross Kemp, but to become Brooks on her marriage (attended by Cameron, Brown and other clierati) to Charlie Brooks.

Great email, Mme Lindt. Really hope that Tesco take heed so that you can do your shop before you go back.

If you only write one thing do this! You have 1 day to hit Murdoch hard where it really hurts by responding to the consultation on the BSKYB merger: Send any message you like (they have to read them all and it slows the process up)

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bskyb - newscorp consultation

Dear Jeremy Hunt

I along with every single adult I have spoken to today is totally opposed to
you allowing the Newscorp takover of Bskyb.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation already owns 40% of British newspapers and
40% of BSkyB, the UK?s largest commercial broadcaster. In the US, Australia
and elsewhere this degree of media dominance would not be allowed. News
Corporation has admitted responsibility for hacking the phones of
politicians and celebrities, and now stands accused of tampering with the
phone of a murdered 13 year old girl. But your government wants to give
Murdoch power over half of our media, allowing him to then squeeze out his
rivals one by one. This takeover is unconstitutional and your government should protect the British people and disallow it.

Way to go Mme Lindor!

It will be interesting to see how Tesco will justify advertising costs to account management for space in NOTW, when it will read by so few people (hopefully) this weekend and forever more.

With people power, it would be nice to think that any ads placed in NOTW from now on were read by so few, that they would be as effective and worthy as someone walking around the Sahara Desert with a sandwich board.

Rupert Murdoch has reportedly 'ordered his staff to comply fully with the police investigation into phone hacking'. Does that suggest that he can do otherwise?

An Advertising expert on Breakfast commented that most company's were boycotting advertising in the NOTW,and that Mumsnet boycott of Sky was "isolated"....I would rather call it "inspired"....or "pioneering".

I caught a bit of something on R4 this morning.

I think it was Frank Fields speaking in the House.

He was spot on. That MPs and PMs had been courting the media for years. They were scared of what they would say if they didnt. They were ever mindful of what the next big Sun 'outrage' would do and they [the MPs ] should be taking responsiblity for the situation we find ourselves in.

I am totally paraphrasing but you get the picture.

The media have been running this country for years. The Sun etc decide who should resign and why. They even attempt to set tarriffs for prisoners already sentenced.

The Sun was at its recent lowest (IMO) when it took ownership of Baby Peter and put up a bloody headstone thing for him.

But surely NOTW and NI were not are not the only ones who pay crooked coppers / scum bags and also hack phones?

The silence, and lack of other investigative journos digging suggests to me that UK Journalism plc has some housekeeking to do.

It is telling that the most digging has been done Hugh Grant of all people!

He beat the cops to confessions from NOTW hacks [read that carefully]

The brassneck of NOTW to try to ride-out the newscycles when the previous stories broke was the right decision at the time - no loss of revenue. The actions in the last days of companies that actually walk the walk of the Corporate social responsibility values is heartening but painfully rare.

Well done, MN for leading the charge on NI's bottom line - Are Sky still sponsoring some product test threads in talk? www.mumsnet.com/microsites/sky

I am strangely unmoved by this whole story. I have thought the tabloids scum for years and know for a fact from a close acquaintance's bitter experience that there is no low they won't stoop to. I don't buy these papers or shop in tesco so cannot really do anything constructive and am finding it difficult to even get angry! It is a bit like becoming hardened to horrific news the more it is shown This sort of thing is like a disease in our press and is not a surprise in any way. Agree with whoever said AC is going to take one for the team

erm... that'll be a no then.

At 6.30am BBC Breakfast's finance guru, Simon was reporting that OFCOM wasn't happy with BSKYB takeover due to 'fitness'. At 8am this has changed to 'shares have dropped but not enough to stop merger going ahead'

Having attended a Commmunications briefing with the Chief Exec of Central Office of Information at Westminster City Council (to Tory controlled local authority comms staff) last summer, I can now see how tightly the governement is keeping control of the BBC message. Think we should be as worried about that as Murdoch.

N.B. Senior Comms Manager at Westminster was Lyndsey Coulson but sure that was just a coincidence?

There are so many boycotting notw now, any company that doesn't looks like they are actively supporting them.

So proud of MN, that is more than a publicity stunt. Well done.