Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?

Thanks Annabel, this ties in with other info here confirming that Murdoch has Cameron in his pocket for the Sun Article supporting the
Conservatives prior to the General election. Politics in Britain have never been so corrupt and I despair that nothing will improve.

I HEARD A FEW DAYS AGO OR SO THAT THE NEWS OF THE WORLD WERE HACKING MEDICAL RECORDS

Badboy wrote:I HEARD A FEW DAYS AGO OR SO THAT THE NEWS OF THE WORLD WERE HACKING MEDICAL RECORDS

Hi Badboy , if you read the article by Stephen Wright posted here on 12th November I think Armageddon has arrived. ,

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Hi Badboy , if you read the article by Stephen Wright posted here on 12th November I think Armageddon has arrived. ,

THE ONE ABOUT MILLION OF EMAIL ON A INDIAN SERVER

Badboy wrote:

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Badboy wrote:I HEARD A FEW DAYS AGO OR SO THAT THE NEWS OF THE WORLD WERE HACKING MEDICAL RECORDS

Hi Badboy , if you read the article by Stephen Wright posted here on 12th November I think Armageddon has arrived. ,

THE ONE ABOUT MILLION OF EMAIL ON A INDIAN SERVER

Yes, and this bit.

Discussions have taken place with the Crown
Prosecution Service about whether Mr Murdoch should be arrested and interviewed
under caution."

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested and is out on Bail.

James Murdoch warned over phone hacking, e-mail shows



By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
December 13, 2011 -- Updated 1638 GMT (0038 HKT)






Email
correspondence show James Murdoch was warned of a threat to sue his
News of the World newspaper over phone hacking in 2008.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The editor of News of the World e-mailed Murdoch about a case of hacking
  
• Murdoch has always denied knowing details about phone-hacking by his employees
  
• The paper was shut down after the scandal over illegal eavesdropping
  

London (CNN) -- Correspondence released Tuesday
shows that James Murdoch was warned in writing of the seriousness of a
threat to sue his News of the World newspaper over phone hacking in
2008.

"Unfortunately it is as bad as we feared,"
the editor of the tabloid e-mailed proprietor Murdoch about the case,
according to a copy of the correspondence published by Parliament
Tuesday.

The e-mail from Colin Myler appears to undercut Murdoch's repeated
testimony that he did not know details about phone-hacking by his
employees.

Murdoch concedes in a letter to lawmakers, also published Tuesday, that he replied to the e-mail, but he does not admit having read it.




James Murdoch to remain BSkyB chairman





Ex-Blair aide testifies on phone hacking


Murdoch is at the center of a scandal over illegal eavesdropping by
the newspaper, which he shut down in July in the face of public fury at
phone hacking.

Editor Myler e-mailed Murdoch in June 2008 about a phone-hacking
victim's threat to sue News of the World, describing Gordon Taylor as
"vindictive."

Myler requested that Murdoch meet him and the paper's lawyer, Tom Crone, for "five minutes" on June 10.

Murdoch appears to agree in his reply three minutes later, but said
in his letter to Parliament dated December 12 that he did not review the
entire e-mail chain, which includes detailed correspondence about the
Taylor claim.

News of the World ultimately settled with Taylor for 700,000 pounds (about $1.2 million.)

It also settled with several other celebrities, including actress Sienna Miller.

Police investigating phone hacking by journalists say that about
5,800 people, including celebrities, crime victims, politicians and
members of the royal family, were targets of the practice by journalists
in search of stories.

It involves illegally eavesdropping on voice mail by entering a PIN to access messages remotely.

James is in deep s*** because he lied to the CCC.!!! I think Newscorp will have something to say about this.

I READ(GUARDIAN?) THAT ARE 300 MILLION EMAILS ON NI SERVERS THAT MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO THE HACKING SCANDAL.
THE MIND BOGGLES HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE AN INQUIRY OF ANY KIND TO GO THROUGH THOSE.
THEY MIGHT HAVE TO EMPLOY ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT IT WOULD SOLVE THE ENTIRE UNEMPLOYEMENT PROBLEM.

Badboy wrote: I READ(GUARDIAN?) THAT ARE 300 MILLION EMAILS ON NI SERVERS THAT MIGHT BE RELEVANT TO THE HACKING SCANDAL.
THE MIND BOGGLES HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE AN INQUIRY OF ANY KIND TO GO THROUGH THOSE.
THEY MIGHT HAVE TO EMPLOY ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT IT WOULD SOLVE THE ENTIRE UNEMPLOYEMENT PROBLEM.

On Channel 4 News tonight, I missed the report but James was being escorted with a Policeman behind him into a Buiding that looked like Scotland
yard, I am just going to check out sky news.

ec 13, 2011


James Murdoch Clarifies Hacking Evidence




James Murdoch writes to the culture, media and sport select committee to clarify his evidence.

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16129596

James Murdoch warned over phone hacking, e-mail shows



By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
December 13, 2011 -- Updated 1638 GMT (0038 HKT)






Email
correspondence show James Murdoch was warned of a threat to sue his
News of the World newspaper over phone hacking in 2008.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The editor of News of the World e-mailed Murdoch about a case of hacking
  
• Murdoch has always denied knowing details about phone-hacking by his employees
  
• The paper was shut down after the scandal over illegal eavesdropping
  

London (CNN) -- Correspondence released Tuesday
shows that James Murdoch was warned in writing of the seriousness of a
threat to sue his News of the World newspaper over phone hacking in
2008.

"Unfortunately it is as bad as we feared,"
the editor of the tabloid e-mailed proprietor Murdoch about the case,
according to a copy of the correspondence published by Parliament
Tuesday.

The e-mail from Colin Myler appears to undercut Murdoch's repeated
testimony that he did not know details about phone-hacking by his
employees.

Murdoch concedes in a letter to lawmakers, also published Tuesday, that he replied to the e-mail, but he does not admit having read it.




James Murdoch to remain BSkyB chairman





Ex-Blair aide testifies on phone hacking


Murdoch is at the center of a scandal over illegal eavesdropping by
the newspaper, which he shut down in July in the face of public fury at
phone hacking.

Editor Myler e-mailed Murdoch in June 2008 about a phone-hacking
victim's threat to sue News of the World, describing Gordon Taylor as
"vindictive."

Myler requested that Murdoch meet him and the paper's lawyer, Tom Crone, for "five minutes" on June 10.

Murdoch appears to agree in his reply three minutes later, but said
in his letter to Parliament dated December 12 that he did not review the
entire e-mail chain, which includes detailed correspondence about the
Taylor claim.

News of the World ultimately settled with Taylor for 700,000 pounds (about $1.2 million.)

It also settled with several other celebrities, including actress Sienna Miller.

Police investigating phone hacking by journalists say that about
5,800 people, including celebrities, crime victims, politicians and
members of the royal family, were targets of the practice by journalists
in search of stories.

It involves illegally eavesdropping on voice mail by entering a PIN to access messages remotely.

A couple of the comments about the latest on this saga/

Posted by: Exasperated Brit on December 13, 2011 5:02 PM

No
wonder the war criminal Tony Blair developed his relationship with the
Murdoch's, he heard they has just acquired the sole rights for the
recipe for Teflon!

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Posted by: 8132jimmy on December 13, 2011 4:49 PM

The buck stop at the top!!!

Well it doesn't if your a Murdoch, because you can blame everyone else.

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Posted by: memoryman on December 13, 2011 4:34 PM

The buck still stops with him.
Just because he reckons he didn't read it right thats his fault!
He must have known about hacking and if he says he didn't then he's a liar!

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The International Monetary Fund has tonight released its latest
assessment of the Greek economy, or the wreck that remains of it. And a
gory sight it is too. Much of the information has already leaked into
the public domain, though there are plenty of titbits which illustrate
the trouble the economy is in. A few highlights:
- The IMF has
slashed its economic growth forecasts for the country. The economy will,
at its worst point, contract at an annual rate of almost 6%, and will
shrink by up to 3% next year. It adds that long-term growth rates have
also been revised down.
- As a result, the country’s fiscal
position will be far worse than previously thought. The IMF says that
the country will take longer to reach a primary surplus (in other words
to have its budget in positive territory once interest costs are
subtracted). This is key: until the country is in primary surplus, it
means that even if it were to default on all its debts, it still
wouldn’t be able to run its public sector.
- The fire-sale of the
country’s public sector assets is taking far longer than expected. The
programme of sell-offs will now be extended until 2020 – a decade-long
privatisation programme that will rival anything carried out (even
willingly) by any modernising government in recent history.
- The
plan to impose a haircut on private sector investors in Greek debt is
seriously vulnerable. The IMF said the previous plan, agreed in July
this year, “would not work”, but, perhaps even more worryingly, raised
concerns about the successor plan, which sees private sector investors
accept a 50% haircut on their investments. This plan, which is still
being negotiated by the Institute for International Finance, a lobby
group of international investment banks, would only bring down public
debt to an “acceptable” level of 120% of GDP with “near-universal
participation”. It added that:
With low participation in the
debt exchange and a significant amount of hold outs to be amortized with
European support—a real risk under a purely voluntary approach (i.e.,
an approach not involving any measures to induce higher participation
levels)—debt could stick above 145 percent of GDP in 2020. Moreover, the
trajectory would no longer be robust to the usual range of shocks.
Thus,
securing a sustainable debt position will depend on whether PSI
negotiations deliver the targeted €100 billion in debt reduction, in
particular on the ability of the features of the exchange to deliver
near-universal participation.
- Some illustrations of the
strength of a possible new Greek independent currency. The IMF has run
its slide rule over the “competitiveness gap” faced by the country – in
other words the difference in efficiency between the country and its
euro neighbours. It calculated that, on the basis of an “equilibrium
real exchange rate approach”, the gap is some 33%. The significance of
this is it illustrates how overvalued the euro is for the Greek economy.
There
are plenty of other details in the tables and charts of this 160-page
document, but the overall impression is quite clear. The austerity plan
imposed on the country is not working, pushing it further into economic
depression.
Baleful as this is for Greece itself, it is even more
worrying for the broader euro area. For the fiscal union written into
last week’s EU summit, mainly by Germany, essentially imposes the same
kind of fiscal fundamentalism across the eurozone. The lesson is that it
is economic suicide to impose enormous spending and borrowing cuts on
an uncompetitive economy when there is no monetary antidote (in other
words an independent central bank to slash rates and lessen the blow).
When that pain gets beyond a certain point, the country finds itself in a
debt deflation spiral of the kind the US and much of Europe experienced
in the 1930s.
But that’s the wisdom, or otherwise, of the route
currently mapped out by the euro leaders. That’s why it will have to be
amended, and soon, or else why the European Central Bank will have to
intervene. Some euro policymakers insist it is impossible to predict the
future. But it’s there written between the lines of the IMF’s latest
assessment of Greece.

New Challenge to a Murdoch Over Hacking

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LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s son James received and responded to e-mail messages in 2008 that referred to “a nightmare scenario” of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the tabloid The News of the World, a chain of e-mail messages and replies released Tuesday by a British parliamentary panel shows. It is the first documentation that Mr. Murdoch had been notified of a wider hacking problem long before he has admitted.


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James Murdoch, who runs News Corporation's operations in Europe and Asia, was warned in 2008 about problems at a Murdoch tabloid, e-mails show.

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Colin Myler, the editor of The News of the World at the time, warned Mr. Murdoch about the problems.


In statements released Tuesday, James Murdoch, who runs the News Corporation’s operations in Europe and Asia, admitted he had received and replied to the message on his BlackBerry, but he said he “did not read the full e-mail chain.” He said he stood by his repeated public denials that he knew of widespread hacking at the tabloid at the time he approved a large legal settlement with a victim of the practice in 2008.
But the new documents appear to add fuel to a controversy that has severely damaged the reputation of the News Corporation and the Murdochs’ leadership, both in Britain and the United States. The e-mail chain of messages backs ups the accounts of two of James Murdoch’s former senior executives, an in-house lawyer and an editor, who said they had told him of evidence that illegally intercepting voice mail messages to gather news and gossip went beyond a single “rogue reporter.”
The top e-mail in the chain — the one Mr. Murdoch replied to directly — came from the editor of The News of the World at the time, Colin Myler, who wrote that the potential legal fallout from the hacking problem was “as bad as we feared.” Mr. Myler urged Mr. Murdoch to call a meeting promptly to discuss the issue. Mr. Murdoch replied within minutes, saying he could be available that evening or the next day.
The e-mails do not show conclusively that Mr. Murdoch knew more about the extent of hacking than he has said. But they make clear that his subordinates informed him about the potential fallout at the time they were seeking his approval for an unusually large payment of more than $1 million to a victim of hacking. That victim had obtained evidence that the practice was common at The News of the World.
Mr. Murdoch, viewed as a possible heir to his father at the News Corporation, has come under pressure from British politicians and some shareholders of the global media company to explain how much he and other senior executives knew about the hacking. The e-mails seem likely to provide ammunition to critics of the News Corporation’s leadership who have expressed doubts that James Murdoch or his father could have been as unaware of intrusive reporting practices at the tabloid as they have claimed.
The e-mail messages were sent to the panel, the committee on culture, media and sport in the House of Commons, as part of an internal investigation by News International, the tabloid’s parent company. The parliamentary committee is investigating allegations that the tabloid illegally intercepted the voice-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people in the news between 2001 and 2009.
After several years of denials, News International admitted widespread phone hacking earlier this year after a cascade of revelations, followed by dozens of lawsuits. At least 18 former News of the World employees have since been arrested, and the 168-year-old newspaper itself was closed this summer.
In several intense and dramatic sessions of the parliamentary committee this year, Mr. Murdoch and his former executives gave differing testimony over the crucial question of what he knew, and when. Directly contradicting Mr. Murdoch’s statements, the executives told the committee that they informed him in 2008 that the company line — that phone hacking was the work of one “rogue reporter” — was not likely to be true.
They say that when Mr. Murdoch approved a large settlement of £725,000, then about $1.4 million, in a phone hacking lawsuit that year, he did so with full knowledge that other reporters at the paper may have been involved in similar practices. Mr. Murdoch has consistently countered that on the contrary, he knew of only a single reporter who was guilty of phone hacking at the paper and that he approved the settlement, which included a confidentiality clause, because his lawyers told him it made financial sense.
The e-mails, from June 7, 2008, discuss that lawsuit, brought by a British soccer union executive, Gordon Taylor, whose phone had been hacked by The News of the World. One lawyer said the case was a “nightmare scenario” because it might uncover other voice-mail interceptions and names other journalists implicated. Another message noted that Mr. Taylor wanted to demonstrate that hacking was “rife throughout the organization.” As he forwarded the chain to Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Myler, the editor, warned that the situation was “as bad as we feared” and requested a meeting to discuss the matter further.
In a letter that Mr. Murdoch sent to the parliamentary panel, also released on Tuesday, he said he recalled no conversation with Mr. Myler that weekend and reaffirmed his position that he was “not aware of evidence that either pointed to widespread wrongdoing or indicated that further investigation was necessary.” He also apologized for failing to bring up the e-mail exchange when questioned extensively this year, saying he had been reminded of it only last week by the internal inquiry.
The lawyer who represented Mr. Taylor, Mark Lewis, who also represents several of those currently bringing lawsuits over allegations of phone hacking, said Tuesday that he was not convinced by Mr. Murdoch’s statement. “James Murdoch accepts that he signed the check to Gordon Taylor,” Mr. Lewis said. “Now we have to believe that not only didn’t he know but no one asked him what he thought of the e-mail he was sent.”
A spokeswoman for News International declined to answer further questions. But a company official, who did not want to be named discussing a continuing investigation, said Mr. Murdoch still maintained that he was never given access to crucial documents that showed, in detail, the depth of the illegality at the newspaper.


A version of this article appeared in print on December 14, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Murdoch Son Is Challenged Over Hacking.

Daily Telegraph 16/12

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  NOTW lawyer gave 'direct evidence' to James Murdoch of hacking
  
  

Mr Crone said he took a copy of counsel's opinion and the 'for Neville' email
to the meeting with James Murdoch.


He said he cannot remember if he passed the email across the table to Murdoch,
but he was "pretty sure" he held a copy of the email up - and says he is
"pretty sure" James Murdoch already knew about it.

In the Journal IE 23rd November it was reported that James Murdoch had resigned from the Board of the Times and The Sun,
my guess is he was forced to because of the NOTW scandal which he professed to know nothing about.

Wikipedia

Rebekah Brooks


Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World
and former chief executive of News International, was arrested on 17
July on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on
suspicion of corruption. She was arrested by appointment at a London
police station^[124][125] by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's phone hacking investigation, and Operation Elveden, the probe examining illicit payments to police officers.^[126]

Following twelve hours in custody, Brooks was released on bail until late October.^[127]

On 18 July, police reported the discovery of a rubbish bag containing
a laptop, documents, a phone dumped in an underground parking garage
near Brooks' home.^[128]
Brooks' husband had initially tried to claim the trash bag, which he
said contained his property unrelated to the investigation.^[129]

this was on a tickertape just now but I can"t find the source.

"Tables turn on Murdochs with latest scandal affecting them in year of scrutiny from Newscorp".

It looks as though Rupert will resign and James lose his seat on the Board.

Award yourself a Medal Panda for finding this/


December 22, 2011, 1:34 pmYear in Media | Phone-Hacking Scandal Rattles the Murdochs

By AMY CHOZICKStaff members of The Times’s media news department are highlighting the most significant developments this year in the industries they cover.
Until this past summer, The News of the World tabloid didn’t mean much to readers outside Britain. When it suddenly stood at the center of a phone-hacking scandal, that didn’t change much. Even the British weren’t that engaged. (The public may lap up chatter about celebrities, but evidently they don’t care much about how that gossip was gathered.) But public opinion did change with reports in The Guardian newspaper that a private investigator for The News of the World, part of the News Corporation, had hacked the voice mails of the kidnapped and murdered teenager, Milly Dowler. (Another allegation, that the investigator erased some of the messages, thereby giving hope to the the Dowler family that Milly was still alive, has been thrown into question in recent weeks.)
By July, News Corporation’s chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, closed the 167-year-old newspaper, and Mr. Murdoch and his son James Murdoch were called before Parliament. The scandal not only raised the curtain on news gathering at Britain’s oldest tabloid (and the British press in general), but called into question the relationships between the Murdochs and the country’s political leaders. The climate in Britain prompted News Corporation to withdraw its $12 billion bid to acquire the portion of British satellite service BSkyB it didn’t already own. And, larger still, the scandal has tainted the News Corporation’s image, stroked shareholder discontent and called into question who will take over from the 80-year-old Mr. Murdoch. Once the inevitable successor, James Murdoch continues to face scrutiny from British lawmakers. His predicament could lead to a power vacuum at one of the world’s largest and most influential media conglomerates.

I was watching Youv"e been framed on T.V. tonight and there was a lot about animals. One scene showed a Cat taking the receiver off the phone and
Harry Hill says" he likes listening in ,like Rebekah Brooks".

Since she hasn"t been found guilty yet she might get her Lawyers on to him.

For all you twitter members who can post on here any relevant info, Rupert Murdoch has opened an account there. Apparently , he was at a party with John Dorsey , the owner of twitter , and encouraged to enrol.....has had 60,000 hits so far, I wonder if the Mccanns have been mentioned?

He has only made 24 tweets and they're mostly about Obama. I'll keep you up to date if anything exciting happens.

Iris wrote:He has only made 24 tweets and they're mostly about Obama. I'll keep you up to date if anything exciting happens.

Thanks Iris....they are suggesting that he has only become a Member to promote a Politician for the upcoming election, I didn"t catch the name so
maybe it IS Obama although the Election now is for a Republican Candidate because Obama doesn"t need to do any canvassing until nearer the General
election. I hope he does get a few responses about the McCanns and Hacking. Keep me informed because I think he will be asked to stand down from
Newscorp.

Well, Well, Well,.........is Murdoch wielding his power in the U.S. Elections? When I reported he had a twitter account which had received 60,000 hits
the announcer said he could be supporting Santorem, which never registered with me at the time.

The first Election campaign by the Republicans was held in Iowa yesterday and Newt Romney was favourite with Santorem about 4th. the result was
Romney won by EIGHT votes with Santorem second.!!!!!!

IT WAS BEING SAID IN GUARDIAN TODAY THAT IT OR A SIMILIAR TWITTER ACCOUNT IS A HOAX.