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

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

aitch i was thinking about Ivan earlier. no doubt RB knew quite a lot being friendly with them, but i would also assume their phones were hacked.

breaking news - coalition will support motion for murdoch to drop sky deal

pannus - i keep on disappearing to work but it's going , ,

You see this dropping of the Sky deal business... don't you think there is something else going on ...

I have very nearly closed the PC down about 15 times today

cage i'm seriously worried about data privacy too, to the extent i don't use loyalty cards. mse would be disappointed in me, i'm sure!

I dealt with Piers when he was at The Sun and NOTW - he is being uncharacteristically quiet isn't he? I wonder why?

I have a bit of a soft spot for joey jones (political comm) on sky news

ponders i'm hoping the morgan story breaks before i have to pick up dd from school trip - no closing the PC until the last possible moment

If this brings down PM it will be great. He is very quiet Is in the US I think.

Norman I would mostly like to know exactly why all this is coming out exactly at this point.
NC/NI wouldn't really be at the crux of it so as to facilitate a share buy-back at a comparatively knock-down price in order to cement their stranglehold on the company?
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/12/news-corp-plans-share-buyback

Murdoch's only partisan political agenda is the furtherance of Rupert Murdoch by backing the winning horse. He is not adverse to giving said horse a help over the finish line naturally, but he wants to be on the side of winners, and if he can have the perks of having played kingmaker all the better.

Georgi agreed he will drop his natural politics in order to win - but it's about more than the perks of being kingmaker, he want to run the whole show, in effect.

The Independent have just suspended a writer J Hari. Must be linked I suppose?

teej...yesterday I took my 11 year old son to Clarks for new trainers and spent most of it looking at my android showing me up to the minute reports of what was going on (I did apologise to the clarks girl but it was around 4pm and all hell was breaking loose).
If Piers Morgan was indeed up to anything then the Americans will love that....his tweets are so hollywood darling.

johann hari? for the plagiarism thing?

Yes him Pending investigation by a former editor I think. I don't 'do' twitter so friend sending me bits Don't think she is getting a lot done today at work!

This all just gets worse.

Why is it that news is being 'broken' so late ? Is it because we are all available all-day-all-night now, so we don't need to wait for the morning's papers (ha) to break significant news ?

Just wondered.

might not be linked. he was in schtuck last week for plagiarism. whittam-smith will be investigating. wonder what it is?

it's on order order, the Hari thing

it's not linked

He lifted all those 'quotes' from various places and passed them off as parts of interviews. Would that be up for investigation when you look at the rest of the news atm?

I will start believing in God if Piers Morgan is sent to prison.

johan hari thing is plagarism- specifically for a piece for which he won a journalism award iirc

TCF me too! I will have a bloody party too