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[TAP]

Wow, Rebekah Brooks arrested today.

http://www.nytimes.c.../18hacking.html

[Mr. Roboto]

Wow this is really getting bad. The backlash seems worse over there than here though, especially public outrage. Maybe it's just the way I'm reading it?

[TAP]

Wow this is really getting bad. The backlash seems worse over there than here though, especially public outrage. Maybe it's just the way I'm reading it?

It's way worse over there, dominating all media. Interesting thing is that it's not all dividing along partisan lines - you have right wing MPs and the non-Murdoch right wing papers all over it, yet the leftish BBC are very stand-offish, they seem to be a day behind always which is a long time in a story which changes by the hour. Other than their business editor who is bizarrely feeding chunks of New Corps spin to us. Anyway, the head of Scotland Yard just resigned and the Serious Fraud Office is investigating - this is potentially interesting since it's about shareholder money being spent inappropriately (bribes and pay-offs) and that might be the thing that tips it into US jurisdiction which is clearly what NC is dreading.
I think I said it earlier, the public outrage was about the murdered girls phone being hacked - that's not a central part (at this stage the hacking isn't really the major thing), but it focused the UK's public opinion right after the trial of her killer. That's why this is happening, there's nothing happening that people didn't know or strongly suspect.

[Mr. Roboto]

Wow, London police chief resigns....

[TAP]

Rupert and James Murdoch (plus Rebekah Brooks, though might not appear since arrested and possibility of self-incrimination) in front of parliamentary committees on Tuesday morning (US time), should be on C-Span. Think senior London police officers are also called that day.

[TAP]

http://www.theatlant...er-done/242037/

[Mr. Roboto]

Yea, the "piling on" by the liberal media. They are the true victims here.

[Jill]

Yea, the "piling on" by the liberal media. They are the true victims here.

You haven't heard the half of it. Read this Editorial from today's WSJ. Try not to have anything breakable beneath your chin.

The last time the liberal press demanded a media prosecutor, it was to probe the late conservative columnist Robert Novak in pursuit of White House aide Scooter Libby. But the effort soon engulfed a reporter for the New York Times, which had led the posse to hang Novak and his sources. Do our media brethren really want to invite Congress and prosecutors to regulate how journalists gather the news?

Uhm, yes, asshole, we do. We don't want you hacking into missing persons' cell phones. We don't want you bribing the fucking police. We don't want you doing many things that I'm sure haven't even been exposed yet, but which I'm equally sure are as lowlife despicable as the above.

Oh yeah, when the "liberal press" (please ) went after Novak to expose Scooter Libby, it's because Scooter Libby had COMMITTED A CRIME, for which he's now IN PRISON.

Fuck you, you self-serving turd.

[TAP]

The WSJ editorial is great - it shows how desperate and worried they are. Another senior policeman suspended, then resigned today.

[Jill]

Holy crap. News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

[Jill]

The WSJ editorial is great - it shows how desperate and worried they are. Another senior policeman suspended, then resigned today.

I knew you'd like that one, TAP.

[TAP]

too funny. LULZ has hacked The Sun's website, www.thesun.co.uk forwards to twitter.