Anyone else hearing these rumours?

[headfairy]

Apparently Rebekah Brooks will be arrested either late this afternoon/evening or tomorrow morning.

[headfairy]

:o at Damien from The Omen

[TanteRosmerta]

Even, Charlie was spot-on, wasn't he?

[headfairy]

"Still, the Addams Family reference will have been well-considered because James knows a thing or two about horror households: he's the son of Rupert Murdoch, which makes him the closest thing the media has to Damien from The Omen.

That's a fatuous comparison, obviously. Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard"

You've got to love Charlie Brooker haven't you? :o

[donnie]

I loooove Charlie Brooker. His response to Jan Moir's Stephen Gately assassination was right up there in my all time top ten. Thanks for the link Puffin.

[TanteRosmerta]

ooh, do you know him, headfairy?

[EvenLessNarkyPuffin]

He is a star.

[CinnabarRed]

Amazing that Charlie Brooker wrote that opinion piece in September 2009. Talk about prescentient!

[Smellslikecatpee]

CinnabarRed got a link?

[headfairy]

but this whole NoTW thing has been rumbling on for years Cinnebar... as far back as the mid 90s. I think far more people in Fleet Street knew about this than we give credit for.

[headfairy]

tante I wish

[CinnabarRed]

It's linked to in EvenLessNarkyPuffin's post of 12:48. She deserves the credit for finding it!

Headfairy - sorry, was being sarcastic. Guess it didn't come across .

[headfairy]

cinnebar... :o I'm just too dim to have noticed!

[Smellslikecatpee]

Ta kindly, missed it, that the problem with trying to work and MN working just gets in the way

[VivaLeBeaver]

The arrest will be by appt at a police station rather than been dragged off the street but it will happen.

[headfairy]

smallwhitecat I've never said I think DC should call for RB's arrest. He said in his press conference that if he was in Rupert Murdoch's position he would have accepted her resignation. You can take it at face value, or read it as a distancing exercise.

I wouldn't want to live in a country when the prime minister can remove a chief executive of a private company at will either.

[donnie]

smallwhitecat: it would seem that although the government cannot control news intl, the latter almost certainly wields enormous power over the former.

I also despair. Perhaps it is true and people really do get the government - and the media - they deserve.

[doozle]

Looks like allegations now that a NI executive deleted millions of emails in their archive as recently as this January, potentially hampering the police investigation. Media Guardian has the story.

[headfairy]

but smallwhitecat I didn't ask DC to say that in the press conference.... his choice of words. He obviously felt compelled to say those things in response to the public mood. Nothing more sinister than that.

[headfairy]

But has Cameron ever taken advice from anyone on anything? Including this?

[BenHer]

A very dangerous woman.


www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooks

[EvenLessNarkyPuffin]

SmallWhiteCat, it's because he's desperate to distance himself from RB. They are friends. They (with their other halves) spend New Years together etc. And he hired Coulson despite the fact that he came straight from resigning as editor of TNOTW over phone hacking.