Murdoch 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...
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 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 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 ArticleGoogle 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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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...
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