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New thread to continue from God those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

You mean MNers didn't change the world, cage ?!
back to being a mere mortal again, then

and agree - thank god for Puttnam - RM would just have bullied to get his way otherwise.

watching EM in the debate. he's making a decent fist of it but still struggling to warm to him....

OMG!!!!! GB is actually in the house
I suppose it is directly relevent to him, though....

ofcom confirm they are examining fit and proper status for the 39% of bskyb that murdoch still owns!

oh and GB announced it...

BornSicky you and me both (punching the air that is).

But how has GB seen so many names of those targeted - and if he has known for some time maybe he should have spoken up earlier?

i think he said he's seen some of it. presumably he's been interviewed by the police and they've asked him if he knew about XXX or XXX as it was during his time in parliament/as PM.

oh and i think i heard earlier today that the police are only able to get through data amounting to 30 people per day, with up to 3000-4000 people potentially affected.

oh and gb is doing well.

Where the hell is Cameron???

brilliant news about ofcom

those figures still scare me BornSicky.

i think Gb is trying to self-justify a bit here. but whoever is shouting at him to sit down is totally out of order.

Found it!

Panorama March this year. Programme with hard evidence of computer hacking of army intelligence officer by NOTW.

The programme is Tabloid Hacks Exposed and is available for another 8 months on iPlayer.

(Stars Alex Marunchak, NOTW editor mentioned by Gordon Brown a few minutes ago.)

TIANC - the article you did link to by Puttnam is very good. Thank you.

Please give me another cup of caomile tea, teej.
xx

OK, in case anyone here is actually reading ExNOTWJourno2, she's made the following claim:

"Fact about J.Rees: he was charged this year with involvement in axe murder of former business partner Danny Morgan. Rees was acquitted. M"

This is untrue. Jonathon Rees was NOT acquitted. His trial collapsed because of the investigation being hampered by corruption, and police losing evidence.

(This is the case wrt Scotland Yard spoke to R Brooks in 2002. NI was spying on the police investigating the case, which was about people working for NI.)

He may also, perhaps, be part of a network of contacts between the, possible, blagger-of-Gordon-Brown's-private-information and the NoTW:

www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23969667-brown-blagger-linked-to-private-eye.do

Lovely, lovely people.

A horrible network of corruption and undermining of institutions.

It's like David Peace and John le Carre have collaborated to produce a blockbuster ... . Unfortunately, though, it's real.

Oh very creepy stuff from MP in HoC just now.

Never mind how fucked up things are now, he says; how are the new media going to be fucked up?

Google is massively dominant search engine and actively suppresses other search engines. Google News is major driver to news sites, ie influences which news we read.

So Google has the capability to promote and suppress news stories, if it so desires.

I don't know of any examples of this yet wrt Google News, but Google Search isn't purely algorithmic. There are tweaks, it sells rankings and does also blacklist (there's already been a spat with those cheapest-price-finding search engines). Don't know how it ranks news, but there must be some human-influenced mechanism.

Oh well found, animula. Also thanks to BornSicky for link to Telegraph analysis of NOTW stories (which made me becomeSicky; dear god, what were NOTW readers thinking when they read that shite?).

Where is DC?

Grabbing a seat, picking up needles and catching up.
Fantastic news about BSkyB bid withdrawal and Ofcom applying fit and proper test. Who said this could be RM's Watergate? I bloody hope so.

For a watergate, a head of state must fall. Which begs the question, how much did Cameron know?

australian press today

www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/unearthing-truth-will-take-a-judge-20110713-1hdxn.html

Thanks to LucaBrasi on the big thread for this link - www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/01/rupert_murdoch_-_a_portrait_of.html - absolutely fascinating archive footage and interviews.

oh very good geoffrey robertson- he's basically reused his Daily Beast piece in Sydney Morning Herald

ooh, guardian blog reporting that Rebekah Brooks is appearing before the Select Committee on Tuesday next week. Definitely unpluging the phone, locking the door and finding lots of lovely baby entertainment.

Keep reading Private Eye for the foreseeable. They have been reporting on this issue for years and will keep on doing so. If you want to know what is happening vis a vis another NI bid in 6m or 2years, Private Eye will be writing about it. They will also be reporting on all the other aspects of Murdoch's 'enterprise'.