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News Corp. scandal roundup
A summary of the latest news in the ever-widening News Corp. scandal:The end of an era? Maybe. Maybe not.Rupert James Murdoch may be questioned by police "at least as a witness."A computer from...
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FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH IX: Showdown in Parliament: the Play and...
Drama in the House?So it's finally here: the day I never thought I would see. Around 2.30 BST Rupert and James Murdoch will appear before the Culture Select Committee to answer questions on the hacking...
View ArticleWho is Buying News Corp Stock?
News Corp stock is up today as Rupert Murdoch testifies before Parliament. The obvious connection to make is that Murdoch's testimony must be going well so that's why the stock is up after being dumped...
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News Corp. scandal roundup
(Reuters TV)Today was the day Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks testified before a parliamentary hearing. Short version: nobody knew anything. And they are really sorry. And about...
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News Corp. directors lawyer up
Rupert Murdoch (World Economic Forum/Wikimedia)The Guardian: The independent directors of News Corp have appointed their own legal team as the company faces shareholder law suits and an investigation...
View ArticleUPDATED: Parliamentary Committee finds News International Obstructed Justice
In a report to be released Wednesday, a Parliamentary committee has found that News International "deliberately" blocked the hacking investigation.Rupert Murdoch's News International has been found by...
View ArticleThe Buck Stops.....Over There!
Summary of yesterdays hearingsRupert MurdochOh it is so horrible......but I knew Nothing!Rebekah BrooksSomeone else did the payments....it wasn't in my job description!James MurdochWell I did sign a...
View ArticleJon Stewart brilliantly skewers Fox News's continued defense of Rupert Murdoch
Jon Stewart really took it to Fox News and other News Corp-owned holdings for their continued defense of Rupert Murdoch in the phone hacking scandal, showing how hypocritical they are to pretend it's...
View ArticleRebekah Wade Brooks new career: videographer
Man o wowzer this girl haz da mad skilz, now she's a videographer and singer, with all that's going on she found time to do this, bless her little heart.
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Was James Murdoch being truthful? (Reuters TV) Lots of small bits of news happening today. Small, but potentially important, as the scandal continues to widen. Two News of the World executives disputed...
View ArticleNews Corp Stalked Subjects through Cell Phone 'Pinging'
A board member of the Metropolitan Police Authority has asked Scotland Yard to investigate the allegation that News Corp employees stalked subjects by “pinging” their cell phones:Scotland Yard, still...
View ArticleRupert Kabuki
First he said he wouldn't show up. Then he said he would. He looked doddery, a pie was thrown, his hot young wife/attendant threw herself on his attacker. The Very Serious panel chair apologized to...
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News Corp. scandal roundup: Justice Department preparing subpoenas
Out of the frying pan, into the fire (Reuters TV) The Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journalreports: The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp....
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XII: James Recalled, Mulcaire sings, Smoking Gun...
It's been a week since my last instalment of this riveting saga of dynasty, criminality and corruption at the heart of our government, and though things haven't been playing out in the same tremendous...
View ArticleMurdoch Just Axed CurrentTV in Italy. Sunday Last Day UPDATED x2 w/ACTION
Breaking from AdWeek:Current TV’s last-ditch efforts to save its left-leaning Italian-language network, Current Italy, have failed and the channel will go dark this Sunday, according to an internal...
View ArticleCertain knowledge of NoTW knowledge of criminal behavior. Prepare popcorn
This is a question. And barely a diary. The facts are these: The NYT has just posted a story detailed the contents of the letters retained by NoTW's solicitors Harbottle and Lewis which 'led' the...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XIII: Watch out Newscorp! Nick Davies Arrives in...
A rather brief update on the saga than normal, as I have kids here. However, I'll update if more comes in the afternoon. Ericlewis0 has done a great job of explaining how the phone hacking scandal that...
View Article2010 Intentional deletions emails at NI. Call for Kossian expertise. Is it...
The Guardian posted this headline at 21:00 BST. The headline says it all.News International ordered mass deletion of emails nine times Lawyers for firm contracted to NI said it deleted emails on nine...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XIV: Key Figure at News International Arrested:...
OK. This turns out to be Stuart Kuttner, former managing director of News of the World, but not a major figure in Newscorp terms: I'll update this diary below the fold if anything big comes of this....
View ArticleUpdate Can it happen here, research inspired by MP Watson on life as the...
Update: Title change, to reflect research taken up in response to a challenge received from commentator (H/T) Grannus who opines that it wont happen here. So I did research and found one learned expert...
View ArticleFOTHOM XV: 9/11 Victims: Murdoch in NY Schools! Davies on US Hacking UPDATEDx2
The FOTHOM story may simmer over the summer, but have no fears it will go away. Most of Europe goes away in August, and though we're not as bad as the French, don't be surprised to see a lack of live...
View ArticleMurdoch - When did phone hacking start?
One of the most regular questions asked is when did the phone hacking start? Now the initial story, on which the police had no choice but to act happened in 2005, the reason they acted was that the...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XVI: BREAKING: DOJ looking at RICO Statutes
This will be very short. As London burns - there are riots ringing Central London where I live tonight - and the stockmarket crash, some stunning news from Michael Wolff, Murdoch's acerbic and...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XVII: BREAKING: "Dynamite" Revelations about...
Brace yourselves everyone. While multiple police enquiries into various aspects of Murdoch's Newscorp are grinding their slow progress through the summer, Tom Watson, the heroic MP and campaigner who...
View ArticleFOTHOM XVIII: Gordon Brown tape; James' Bonus; BREAKING UPDATE: Victims...
Important Update: Hacking Victims Lawyers TargetedJust when I thought it was safe to go to bed Tom Watson has tweeted quite a devastating new story breaking overnight from the Independent. Just when...
View ArticleFall of the House of Murdoch XIX: NI Lawyers in Parliament
Yes, Parliament is back nipping at the Murdoch's heels. Two public inquiries begin to day, the Leveson Inquiry into the state of British media, and another into the riots of the summer. But in terms...
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FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XX: How Cameron got Seduced by Newscorp
This week's testimony by News International's former lawyers and executives turned into a bit of a damp squib (executives and lawyers boring? How's that?). But with the start of the Leveson Inquiry,...
View ArticleFOTHOM: News International offers $3.5M settlement to Dowler family
Milly Dowler's family have been offered a multimillion-pound settlement offer by Rupert Murdoch's News International, in an attempt to settle the phone-hacking case that led to closure of the News of...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXI: BREAKING! Newscorp Quizzed by DOJ
This needs must be quick because the unofficial news has just hit the street, but for those of you who think Holder and the Department of Justice aren't taking the what Gordon Brown has called the...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXII: US 9/11 Lawyer Joins Class Action Lawsuit...
The contagion is spreading. Hot on the heels of news that the DOJ is seriously investigating Newscorp for alleged corruption of foreign officials, there is breaking news that Mark Lewis, the solicitor...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXIII: Bernstein on Murdoch and Nixon:...
Bernstein on the Watergate Analogy and the Culture of LawlessnessIf you think the Watergate analogy is hyperbolical or fanciful, don't forget it was first made by Carl Bernstein himself in The Daily...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXIV: 64 Lawsuits Already - Will be 'Thousands'
Hackgate: A Pattern of Criminal BehaviourYes, the Murdoch story may be flying under the mainstream media radar, but with three British police investigations ongoing, two Parliamentary committees, a...
View ArticleMagnetic Reversals: the Political Compass Shifts
This is partially inspired by a conversation on Labour List, the premier British Left of Centre blog, where a version of the Political Compass Test was taken by several diverse commenters.Now most...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXV: BREAKING: Wall Street Journal Scam Exposed
Over the course of these diaries, both myself and other FOTHOM aficianados have tried to stress that the UK hacking scandal is just one indication of the corrupt and anti-competitive practices that...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXVI: BREAKING: The Dynasty is Over
No, there is no major news about the three major investigations into multiple phone and computer hacking, bribing police officials, or perverting the course of justice by News International in the the...
View ArticleToday in Murdochland: The Hub
And another day goes by with more evidence of the problems on the inside of News Internationals UK papers. A person who has been hacked has had a meeting with the detectives of Operation Weeting...
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FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXVII: James Recalled, lacks Recall - Police...
Today in ParliamentAs expected, the appearance of James Murdoch, the Chief Executive of News International (and related to some other famous people) before the DCMS Committee today failed to produce...
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FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXVIII: BREAKING - Bombshell Emails UPDATE:...
A brief but potentially vital heads up.....It's been several weeks since I predicted the dynastic succession was over at Newscorp, mainly because of the independent shareholder rebellion last month,...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXIX: URGENT ACTION DIARY: 72 Hours to Stop Murdoch
I've been slightly absent from Kos because I've been attending the Leveson Inquiry into Press 'ethics, culture and practice' after the Hackgate scandal. But the opening day was excellently covered by...
View ArticleFALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXIX (b): URGENT ACTION DIARY: 24 Hours to Stop...
Apologies for what is effectively a repost of yesterday's diary, but the clock is ticking. I'll be transit to Poland on Thursday and so have automated the publication of this diary. In the meantime,...
View ArticleHackgate - 5 Arrests Today!
More news on the FOTHOM front.Brit doesn't seem to be about at the moment so here goes nothing.................There were five arrests today, four Sun Newspaper employees and a serving police officer.
View ArticleYour Morning News Corp Schadenfreude Fix - Rebekah Brooks +5 Arrested on New...
This morning between 5 and 7 am UK time, there were 6 more arrests in connection with the investigations into the News of the World phone hacking allegations:Police said one woman and five men were...
View ArticleFOTHOM - Breaking, James Murdoch Resigns from BSkyB Chairmanship
Sorry this is a hit and run as I have a doctor's appointment later and have to visit an elderly neighbor to sort out her TV as we are about to go through our digital switchover.Latest news is that...
View ArticleJames Murdoch Steps Down from BSkyB Chair, Sky News Admits Illegal Email Hacking
Two days after James Murdoch announced he is stepping down from the Chairmanship of BSkyB, we learn that its rolling news station, Sky News has admitted two cases of illegally hacking email...
View ArticleMURDOCHGATE - Rebekah Charged! - Vid Update - 2nd Vid Update
This is just in...Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie Brooks and 4 others are charged with Perverting the Course of Justice.This is a massive step in the FOTHOM story.Links below and apologies because...
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Google CEO Page Should Testify To Congress As News Corp. CEO Murdoch Had To...
Washington, DC - In an opinion piece published in POLITICO today, Consumer Watchdog's Jamie Court and John M. Simpson compare the treatment of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch – who was called before...
View Article6:05 EDT, pls move to ceebs' diary for discussion of Rupert Murdoch steps down
FYI The Guardian has reported in the last 20 minutes the above news.I am posting to get the news out and suggest a dot needing connecting, as I must run to an appointment and will delete afterwards if...
View ArticleBreaking: corporate charges vs. News Corp preped in England.
Gurardian headlines says it all:News Corporation directors could face charges for neglect of duties Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's company have protested against criminal charges amid fears over...
View ArticleMURDOCHGATE: UK MP Uses Parliamentary Privilege to Accuse News International...
and of making illegal payments to a serving member of the US armed forces, a part of which was paid in the US, the balance apparently paid by arrangement in the UK.Down the orange rabbit hole...........
View ArticleMurdoch Throws his Journalists Under a Bus: the Unintended Consequence of the...
Crossposted from Motley MooseI tend to avoid cross posting material from my work at the Daily Beast, but this is an important unintended consequence of Murdoch's reaction to the Phone Hacking scandal...
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