BskyB bid is withdrawn

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Hooray

Thank goodness! Can now stop arguing with DP over the Sky subscription (I wanted to cancel, he wanted the sports).

They will hope to push this through in two years time, quietly, under the radar.
In the meantime the news has put a smile on my face.

TBH I think people like Tom Watson and of course the fantastic Private Eye deserve much of the credit - for years they have been ploughing away despite the intimidation of NI. Also Hugh Grant was just brilliant for wearing the wire, he tipped the balance so the police HAD to pursue an investigation. I believe the Spectator helped with that. Mumsnet and the great british public have been absolutely brilliant and to be frank have restored the country to a true democracy - albeit with the help of the internet.They have finally made their politicians listen and act.

Finally Senator Rockerfeller has given NewsCorp the knock out blow....calling for an investigation in a democratic run senate (and the white house detests fox for its loaded reporting).If hacking took place in america....well I wouldn't like to be a director of NewsCorp.

Well done mumsnetters :)

Wow. Just wow. Murdoch must be planning some other way of getting his paws on Sky, but I'm really chuffed that he's dropped the planned takeover. Well done to all the people who helped expose the hacking, and to all those who campaigned for an investigation and for Murdoch to drop the bid. Now I hope they shut down The Sun.

I think that the Nation should be grateful to the one person who sadly is no longer around to witness all of this - Milly herself.

It looks like a wholesale descent of UK broadcasting into a similar mire to that which the UK press has now found itself, has thankfully been avoided thanks to a huge public reaction to NOTW.

I think that the way the Dowler family have conducted themselves has been admirable, given all that has happened to them, particularly within the last few weeks. I hope that they can now be left to try and pick up the shattered pieces of their lives.

capisce?

Ho captito, finally.

Anybody envy my choices ? Mr M or Mr B, can't get a fag paper between them in the nasty bastard media mogul stakes.

I can't find exNOW 2 on Twitter.......

Cinnabar - we have been holding off cancelling our Sky, hoping that the deal would fall through. Really pleased it has because the sports coverage is really very good!

From all the postings here, it is really sad that not one mentions the hundreds of innocent NI employees that are now under threat of redundancy. We and our families are paying a high price for other peoples dreadful abuse of privilege and position.

supercaley - I really, really feel for you.

It's quite grim what you and other NI people have been put through, but somehow you aren't getting the sympathy you deserve - not because you're tainted by association, I hasten to add. After some of what's come out in the past week - partic Milly & Brown's Baby - I'm not sure you're coming too high in the outrage ratings at the mo. Which is very unfair, if you ask me.

Good luck moving on. Would anywhere else in NI take you on? Do you, er, want to go back?

Alibaba - we need a 'relieved' emeticon!

supercaley, there was mention of those who lost their jobs on the huge thread - I'm sure of it. (can't get onto it to point out where as it keeps crashing my browser)

As I said on another thread - astonishing news but has NC withdrawn the bid to try and save their necks in the States? (Rockefeller making comments about looking into hacking of victims of 9/11)

Thank you corygal. No and definately no and I don't work in editorial so what does that tell you:).
I now have to think of a clever way to erase two years off my career and cv for fear of being judged.

Thoughts on a postcard please.

supercaley, I am sorry for your personal position.

However, sadly NI tried to remove democracy from the people and bully our police, politicians and just normal individuals.

The blame sits squarely with NI and the people who worked for it that happily and arrogantly carried out these threats and intimidation. I hope your family member was not one of them, maybe they could give information to the inquiry as to what they saw?

@Supercaley, can't you sue? There was a H of L decision made about former employees of BCCI sueing, because they were tainted by having worked for BCCI. Or Barings. I think it was BCCI.

Supercaley if you are not in editorial I hope life will be a bit easier for you to get a job.

The precedent is the 1997 House of Lords case Malik v Bank of Credit and Commerce International (coupled with Mahmud v BCCI).

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Not my area of interest but remember reading about this.

Like Bullet I think this will, sadly, probably still happen but in a few years' time when it suits the politicians it's all calmed down.

I also suspect that the timing of all of this is not a coincidence.

Well, supercaley, if you could sue (and a lot of lawyers are saying you could) it would only be after you were fired, which I hope is not yet. It would be a group action, so not much effort required from you personally, although it would take years to see any cash.

Suggest you call yourself a NI survivor, which seems accurate and truthful.

I really wish the Guardian was a little less lip-licking about the Murdoch fallout. Thousands of NI workers are in truly pitiful circumstances at the moment. And for a paper which campaigned against the hacking on grounds of taste, they might be a touch more tactful about the myriad innocent NC employees who are also, if not so publicly, victims.

The other thing that makes my eyes roll is that now lot of people think the G's reporters did the investigations that floored Murdoch, not the publications who set up most of it and kept on hammering away - the Spectator and Private Eye.

OYBBC After recent events nothing would surprise me but what happens here is a seperate issue to what they may be accused of in the USA.

Coreygal - thank you for your advice and words of wisdom. As for The Guardian - they have held power to account which is at the heart of good journalism - but they should be a little less self righteous which is not good journalism.

it is sort of a separate issue supercaley, except it is symptomatic of the leadership at the top. But you are right, they should be dealt with separately, with each country using its own law of the land. I hope your family does ok.

(I am fairly sure that the editors of the Mirror, if not the Guardian, attended the weeding of Rebekah. I don't think that the Mirror in particluar should be licklipping. My feeling at the time was that, understandably, no journalist wanted to jeopardise their chances of working, at some point in the future, for NI. Must dig out the photos).

Hrumph. Good luck. The Guardian are perilously close to the worst sort of dog-eat-dog journalism - people are tweeting at the mo saying ooh, isn't it fun watching journos tear each other up. Lovely.

But worst of all, as they are all middle-class and quite rich, none of the journos at the Graun has even acknowledged the vast job losses faced by the support staff who work at NI - prob because they are too lofty to even acknowledge they exist. But if the job losses were faced by hospital staff, by now Polly Toynbee would have wrung her gem-clustered hands right off.

If I worked in the Guardian canteen right now, I would flob in the soup.

Triplets - The weeding of Rebekah - isn't that happening right now?

What I would pay to see a pic of that...