News of the World
Discussion
Derek Smith said:
From the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/26/glenn-...
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has revealed the names of the News of the World staff who instructed him to carry out phone hacking, his solicitor has confirmed.
Surprised me that he Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has revealed the names of the News of the World staff who instructed him to carry out phone hacking, his solicitor has confirmed.
..... there's time.
Question is, does old Rupe still have enough influence/contacts to come back or are he and mini-Rupe toast?
My money says the despicable pair have been saved by (a) riots and (b) Libya. British public has the attention span of a goldfish and is more concerned about Cheryl Cole than fundamental decency.
Question is, does old Rupe still have enough influence/contacts to come back or are he and mini-Rupe toast?
My money says the despicable pair have been saved by (a) riots and (b) Libya. British public has the attention span of a goldfish and is more concerned about Cheryl Cole than fundamental decency.
Ozzie Osmond said:
..... there's time.
Question is, does old Rupe still have enough influence/contacts to come back or are he and mini-Rupe toast?
My money says the despicable pair have been saved by (a) riots and (b) Libya. British public has the attention span of a goldfish and is more concerned about Cheryl Cole than fundamental decency.
Ah yes, but mini-Rupe is almost certainly to be recalled to respond to his answers given to select committee questions. Snr Rupe might be. Question is, does old Rupe still have enough influence/contacts to come back or are he and mini-Rupe toast?
My money says the despicable pair have been saved by (a) riots and (b) Libya. British public has the attention span of a goldfish and is more concerned about Cheryl Cole than fundamental decency.
If they give evidence apart then their answers & stance may provide more cracks for the select committee & media to drive wedges into.
A nice time window is available prior to party conference season.
Being caught, seen to be lying to a parliamentary enquiry, will not go down well in USA.
Mini-Rupe is also British by birth (although now US citizen), so is on dodgier ground with parliament than his father. He might just get corporately thrown to the lions to save the family business - which has a 50:50 chance of working at best. Once one domino falls.............
If yet more comes out, junior is toast. Snr Rupe might just hold onto chair or life president of NI without any direct operational control or power as every move will be gone through with a fine tooth comb.
They will almost certainly never get overall control of BskyB, now.
Unfortunately the saddest thing is that they have happily run The Times at a loss for years, just because it is The Times. If forced to sell, other owners may not be so benevolent to one of histories great newspaper titles. The Times has changed its stance under NI ownership, but it is still the seen across the world as the London Times.
Do The Sunday Times and The Times operate as a profitable unit if combined ?
tubbystu said:
Unfortunately the saddest thing is that they have happily run The Times at a loss for years, just because it is The Times. If forced to sell, other owners may not be so benevolent to one of histories great newspaper titles. The Times has changed its stance under NI ownership, but it is still the seen across the world as the London Times.
Do The Sunday Times and The Times operate as a profitable unit if combined ?
Much as I used to like reading a newspaper of a morning, especially Sunday, times [see what I did there?] have changed and I now read the online versions of Guard, Telegraph, Mail, Indi and Times (I subscribe).Do The Sunday Times and The Times operate as a profitable unit if combined ?
My feeling is that the Times has become less and less relevant for comment over the years.
Murdoch has tried to stem the change by attacking the BBC but others, particularly the Mail, have built readership quite remarkably.
It's a worry. The press has been a defender of our democracy in the past.
The Telegraph and Guardian have given excellent coverage of the hacking scandal whilst others have not.
It is an unfortunate fact that most papers are running at a loss. Despite the Mail's high hit rate - 17m readers each day I read somewhere recently I think - it does still not make a profit.
Online news will develop over time but things are in a state of flux. I doubt anyone has any idea how things will turn out.
WEHGuy said:
You couldn't make it up!!
WEHGuy said:
His biography was entitled A Journey.It would appear that the route was up someone's arese.
Wendi Murdoch.
"Her engineer parents insisted that she study medicine, but she dropped out of her course. She was befriended by an American woman, Joyce Cherry, who taught her English and offered to sponsor her to study at California State University.
Having taken up the offer and moved in with the family, she embarked upon an affair with Mrs Cherry’s husband, Jake. He divorced his wife and married Wendi. The marriage lasted four months, during which time she gained a Green Card."
What a thoroughly lovely woman...
"Her engineer parents insisted that she study medicine, but she dropped out of her course. She was befriended by an American woman, Joyce Cherry, who taught her English and offered to sponsor her to study at California State University.
Having taken up the offer and moved in with the family, she embarked upon an affair with Mrs Cherry’s husband, Jake. He divorced his wife and married Wendi. The marriage lasted four months, during which time she gained a Green Card."
What a thoroughly lovely woman...
WEHGuy said:
Interesting to see the lengths they went to to cover it up.The christening was featured in Hello! magazine but Teflon Tony is not in any of the photos and wasn't listed as a Godparent but Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman were.
ralphrj said:
WEHGuy said:
Interesting to see the lengths they went to to cover it up.The christening was featured in Hello! magazine but Teflon Tony is not in any of the photos and wasn't listed as a Godparent but Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman were.
Soovy said:
ralphrj said:
WEHGuy said:
Interesting to see the lengths they went to to cover it up.The christening was featured in Hello! magazine but Teflon Tony is not in any of the photos and wasn't listed as a Godparent but Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman were.
trooperiziz said:
Wendi Murdoch.
"Her engineer parents insisted that she study medicine, but she dropped out of her course. She was befriended by an American woman, Joyce Cherry, who taught her English and offered to sponsor her to study at California State University.
Having taken up the offer and moved in with the family, she embarked upon an affair with Mrs Cherry’s husband, Jake. He divorced his wife and married Wendi. The marriage lasted four months, during which time she gained a Green Card."
What a thoroughly lovely woman...
She does make me think of the oft cited Mrs Merton question to Debbie McGee."Her engineer parents insisted that she study medicine, but she dropped out of her course. She was befriended by an American woman, Joyce Cherry, who taught her English and offered to sponsor her to study at California State University.
Having taken up the offer and moved in with the family, she embarked upon an affair with Mrs Cherry’s husband, Jake. He divorced his wife and married Wendi. The marriage lasted four months, during which time she gained a Green Card."
What a thoroughly lovely woman...
Soovy said:
ralphrj said:
WEHGuy said:
Interesting to see the lengths they went to to cover it up.The christening was featured in Hello! magazine but Teflon Tony is not in any of the photos and wasn't listed as a Godparent but Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman were.
Mermaid said:
NI to pay £2m to Dowler family + a further £1m to charity. Is that admitting guilt
I wonder why it isn't enough to stop the Met chasing the Guardian, which led in the revellations when the Met themselves, or at least some of those at the top, didn't want to proceed with the matter.I was talking to someone in TV news last week and he says the threat alone from the Met is enough to worry everyone. He was genuinely concerned.
Despite all the 'without prejudice' that will prefix the handover of the cheque, I doubt there is anyone in the world whose conclusion as to what this massive, tremendously big, payout says about NI's culpability differs from mine.
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