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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
Panda Fri 17 Aug - 5:46
Ex-NoW Editor Charged Over Sheridan Trial
Ex-News of the World Scotland editor Douglas Wight is charged with perjury and conspiracy to hack phones.
2:35am UK, Friday 17 August 2012
Former MSP Tommy Sheridan pictured with wife Gail
Douglas Wight, 39, also faces allegations of other data protection offences following an investigation by officers from Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police.
A force spokeswoman said a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow.
A statement from Strathclyde Police said: "Officers of Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police arrested and charged an 39-year-old male with perjury before the High Court in Glasgow during the trial in 2010 of Tommy Sheridan, the former MSP, conspiracy (in Scotland) to hack telephones, multiple charges of conspiracy to obtain the personal data of members of the public in breach of the Data Protection Acts and individual offences under these Acts."
In May, David Cameron's former communications chief Andy Coulson was arrested and charged with committing perjury at the same trial.
The 44-year-old former News of the World editor gave evidence in Sheridan's perjury trial at the High Court in Glasgow in December 2010. Mr Coulson said he would "vigorously contest" the allegations.
Operation Rubicon detectives have been looking at whether certain witnesses lied to the court during Sheridan's trial as part of a "full" investigation into phone hacking in Scotland.
Sheridan was ultimately jailed for three years in January last year after being found guilty of perjury during his 2006 defamation action against the News of the World.
He had been awarded £200,000 in damages after winning the civil case but a jury at the High Court in Glasgow found him guilty of lying about the now-defunct tabloid's claims that he was an adulterer who visited a swingers' club.
The trial, which lasted almost 12 weeks, was one of the longest of its kind in Scottish legal history.
The former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader represented himself after parting company with QC Maggie Scott.
He was convicted of five out of six allegations in a single charge of perjury relating to his evidence during the civil action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
His wife Gail was on trial along with him but was acquitted of lying to the court during his successful defamation action against the News of the World in 2006.
He was released from jail in January after serving one year of his sentence and vowed to continue the fight to clear his name.
Ex-News of the World Scotland editor Douglas Wight is charged with perjury and conspiracy to hack phones.
2:35am UK, Friday 17 August 2012
Former MSP Tommy Sheridan pictured with wife Gail
- The former news editor of the News of the World Scotland has been arrested and charged with committing perjury during the trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan and conspiracy to hack telephones, police have said.
Douglas Wight, 39, also faces allegations of other data protection offences following an investigation by officers from Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police.
A force spokeswoman said a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow.
A statement from Strathclyde Police said: "Officers of Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police arrested and charged an 39-year-old male with perjury before the High Court in Glasgow during the trial in 2010 of Tommy Sheridan, the former MSP, conspiracy (in Scotland) to hack telephones, multiple charges of conspiracy to obtain the personal data of members of the public in breach of the Data Protection Acts and individual offences under these Acts."
In May, David Cameron's former communications chief Andy Coulson was arrested and charged with committing perjury at the same trial.
The 44-year-old former News of the World editor gave evidence in Sheridan's perjury trial at the High Court in Glasgow in December 2010. Mr Coulson said he would "vigorously contest" the allegations.
Operation Rubicon detectives have been looking at whether certain witnesses lied to the court during Sheridan's trial as part of a "full" investigation into phone hacking in Scotland.
Sheridan was ultimately jailed for three years in January last year after being found guilty of perjury during his 2006 defamation action against the News of the World.
He had been awarded £200,000 in damages after winning the civil case but a jury at the High Court in Glasgow found him guilty of lying about the now-defunct tabloid's claims that he was an adulterer who visited a swingers' club.
The trial, which lasted almost 12 weeks, was one of the longest of its kind in Scottish legal history.
The former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader represented himself after parting company with QC Maggie Scott.
He was convicted of five out of six allegations in a single charge of perjury relating to his evidence during the civil action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
His wife Gail was on trial along with him but was acquitted of lying to the court during his successful defamation action against the News of the World in 2006.
He was released from jail in January after serving one year of his sentence and vowed to continue the fight to clear his name.
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
Panda Sat 25 Aug - 10:07
The Prince Harry scandal and the Sun's decision to print the nude photograph has caused the PCC to be flooded with complaints ,850 against the Sun. Apparently, since the incident took place in a Private room, the Palace could sue the Sun, but it is expected they will not. However, it is now thought that the Editor of the Sun would have had to get the O.K. from Murdoch himself , which obviously would affect Newscorp if legal action took place. The Leveson Report might also take this latest "freedom of the Press" argument into account and actually make things tougher for the Press . There is also the question of the U.S. intervening on the standard of reporting on a U.S. Companys' subsidiarys'. actions abroad.
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
Panda Sat 25 Aug - 13:25
Citizen Rupert
Jul 25, 2011 1:00 AM EDT
The need for a responsible press to dig deep, and then even deeper.
Rupert Murdoch appears before a parliamentary committee in London on July 19, 2011. (Reuters TV-Landov)
Parliament’s remarkable three-hour hearing on July 19, focusing on the role of Rupert Murdoch and top News International executives in the immense phone-hacking scandal, proved an epic Westminster moment. It’s now possible to see with historic clarity how a cunning press lord and a gang of enabling thugs, under a cloak of journalistic high-mindedness, managed to capture and control the three essential institutions of contemporary British life: the political system, the media, and the police. A transfixed audience of millions learned how a bullying owner of old-fashioned printing presses and satellite television networks could break Britain’s civic compact. It was absolutely riveting—and deeply depressing.
Let’s begin by acknowledging what was painfully apparent in Westminster: that Rupert Murdoch is a figure of stature, whose acumen, appetite, and fulfillment of grandiose ambitions place him head and shoulders above the Lilliputian pols and coppers he bought with such apparent ease. He had managed repeatedly to slip in and out the back door of 10 Downing Street with no one raising a peep.
Worst of all, perhaps, Murdoch and his hack handmaidens wrought their havoc with the tacit approval of tens of millions of Britons whom he understood better than the politicians, comprehending that readers of his tabloids would revel in the amusement of trash “news” while he bought up ever-more respectable journalistic properties to consolidate his power.
Yet there he was seated before the M.P.s, fumbling and halting and forgetting, perhaps sensing that he was being hoisted on his own petard. There were moments in the hearing—and in the dizzying days leading up to it—when he looked caught in the headlights of the merciless vehicle he helped to invent and worked to empower. He was a paparazzi-pursued old buck past his prime, hounded by a thousand flashcams and a horde of hacks he inspired, reduced to mumbling “I wish they’d leave me alone” to the politicians who once courted his approval and pleaded for the endorsement of his newspapers.
That he—or the institutions he bought and built and nurtured—would eventually overreach and run afoul of the law was probably inevitable. He had taken a gutter-tabloid press and sent it drilling ever deeper into an abyss, establishing in his tabloid newsrooms a reckless disregard for the essential elements of good journalism: fairness, concern for context, and a commitment to the best obtainable version of the truth.
In the United States, things have been distressingly similar. Those in Murdoch’s thrall have included too many of the nation’s most prominent editors, publishers, and media executives. Few of them had ever condemned the kind of journalism on which he built his empire, regularly hobnobbing with him just like the British pols. Many American news executives had imported to their own enterprises the same crude practices that are the stock and trade of Murdoch’s style of journalism.
It is thus fitting, and predictable, that the scandal was brought to light by elements of what remain of genuine journalism in Britain. Nick Davies of The Guardian doggedly pursued the story for five long years, along with decisive help from The New York Times in 2010. Old-fashioned journalistic hard work has exposed how deep the corruption ran within the Murdoch enterprise.
All the more galling, then, that his younger son, James, seated by Rupert’s side before the parliamentary committee, insisted the cover-up was over. There was a problem with this, however. Within days two former executives of News International contradicted his testimony, claiming that James must have been “mistaken” in some of his assurances to the M.P.s about what he knew about hacking and payments to its victims back in 2008. Even Prime Minister David Cameron, attempting to show that he’s no longer under the Murdoch family thumb, commented on the contradiction, stating that “James Murdoch has got [more] questions to answer in Parliament, and I’m sure he will do that.”
And yet there was Rupert, announcing, risibly, to Parliament and the British people on July 19 that “frankly, I'm the best person to clean this up,” with “this” referring to his own stable and what had soiled it—just as Richard Nixon, caught in the vice of his own entrapment in April 1973, proposed to undertake his own investigation of the Watergate matter. Murdoch, you see, had merely been “misled” and let down by people he’d trusted—just as Nixon dismissed Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, insisting they were “two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know.”
The lesson should be obvious by now—but apparently, for some, it still isn’t. Hugely powerful institutions can no more be trusted to investigate themselves than an individual can reliably be the judge in his own case. Left to their own devices, the organization’s principals will cover up transgressions and conceal the truth. That's why a democratic society needs a genuinely free, independent, and responsible press to dig deep—and then dig even deeper.
The alternative is a culture of frivolousness, corruption, and superficiality, all the way down.
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Jul 25, 2011 1:00 AM EDT
The need for a responsible press to dig deep, and then even deeper.
Rupert Murdoch appears before a parliamentary committee in London on July 19, 2011. (Reuters TV-Landov)
Parliament’s remarkable three-hour hearing on July 19, focusing on the role of Rupert Murdoch and top News International executives in the immense phone-hacking scandal, proved an epic Westminster moment. It’s now possible to see with historic clarity how a cunning press lord and a gang of enabling thugs, under a cloak of journalistic high-mindedness, managed to capture and control the three essential institutions of contemporary British life: the political system, the media, and the police. A transfixed audience of millions learned how a bullying owner of old-fashioned printing presses and satellite television networks could break Britain’s civic compact. It was absolutely riveting—and deeply depressing.
Let’s begin by acknowledging what was painfully apparent in Westminster: that Rupert Murdoch is a figure of stature, whose acumen, appetite, and fulfillment of grandiose ambitions place him head and shoulders above the Lilliputian pols and coppers he bought with such apparent ease. He had managed repeatedly to slip in and out the back door of 10 Downing Street with no one raising a peep.
Worst of all, perhaps, Murdoch and his hack handmaidens wrought their havoc with the tacit approval of tens of millions of Britons whom he understood better than the politicians, comprehending that readers of his tabloids would revel in the amusement of trash “news” while he bought up ever-more respectable journalistic properties to consolidate his power.
Yet there he was seated before the M.P.s, fumbling and halting and forgetting, perhaps sensing that he was being hoisted on his own petard. There were moments in the hearing—and in the dizzying days leading up to it—when he looked caught in the headlights of the merciless vehicle he helped to invent and worked to empower. He was a paparazzi-pursued old buck past his prime, hounded by a thousand flashcams and a horde of hacks he inspired, reduced to mumbling “I wish they’d leave me alone” to the politicians who once courted his approval and pleaded for the endorsement of his newspapers.
That he—or the institutions he bought and built and nurtured—would eventually overreach and run afoul of the law was probably inevitable. He had taken a gutter-tabloid press and sent it drilling ever deeper into an abyss, establishing in his tabloid newsrooms a reckless disregard for the essential elements of good journalism: fairness, concern for context, and a commitment to the best obtainable version of the truth.
In the United States, things have been distressingly similar. Those in Murdoch’s thrall have included too many of the nation’s most prominent editors, publishers, and media executives. Few of them had ever condemned the kind of journalism on which he built his empire, regularly hobnobbing with him just like the British pols. Many American news executives had imported to their own enterprises the same crude practices that are the stock and trade of Murdoch’s style of journalism.
It is thus fitting, and predictable, that the scandal was brought to light by elements of what remain of genuine journalism in Britain. Nick Davies of The Guardian doggedly pursued the story for five long years, along with decisive help from The New York Times in 2010. Old-fashioned journalistic hard work has exposed how deep the corruption ran within the Murdoch enterprise.
All the more galling, then, that his younger son, James, seated by Rupert’s side before the parliamentary committee, insisted the cover-up was over. There was a problem with this, however. Within days two former executives of News International contradicted his testimony, claiming that James must have been “mistaken” in some of his assurances to the M.P.s about what he knew about hacking and payments to its victims back in 2008. Even Prime Minister David Cameron, attempting to show that he’s no longer under the Murdoch family thumb, commented on the contradiction, stating that “James Murdoch has got [more] questions to answer in Parliament, and I’m sure he will do that.”
And yet there was Rupert, announcing, risibly, to Parliament and the British people on July 19 that “frankly, I'm the best person to clean this up,” with “this” referring to his own stable and what had soiled it—just as Richard Nixon, caught in the vice of his own entrapment in April 1973, proposed to undertake his own investigation of the Watergate matter. Murdoch, you see, had merely been “misled” and let down by people he’d trusted—just as Nixon dismissed Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, insisting they were “two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know.”
The lesson should be obvious by now—but apparently, for some, it still isn’t. Hugely powerful institutions can no more be trusted to investigate themselves than an individual can reliably be the judge in his own case. Left to their own devices, the organization’s principals will cover up transgressions and conceal the truth. That's why a democratic society needs a genuinely free, independent, and responsible press to dig deep—and then dig even deeper.
The alternative is a culture of frivolousness, corruption, and superficiality, all the way down.
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
Panda Sun 26 Aug - 5:44
THE INDEPENDENT
Angry Murdoch used Harry photos to defy Leveson
The owner of 'The Sun' intervened personally to run the pictures of the naked prince
Sunday 26 August 2012
News International has refused to comment on speculation that Mr Murdoch intervened. But according to a well-placed source, Mr Murdoch told Mr Mockridge in his transatlantic phone call on Thursday: "There is a principle here. I know this is about Leveson but this is humiliating. We can't carry on like this. We should run them, do it and say to Leveson, we are doing it for press freedom."
The Sun's decision to publish the pictures sparked both criticism and praise from MPs, peers and commentators, as well as more than 850 complaints from members of the public to the PCC. St James's Palace so far has not lodged a formal complaint of breach of privacy on behalf of Prince Harry with the PCC.
It has also triggered a debate about what constitutes the public interest, given that Prince Harry, an officer in the Army, was in his hotel room, despite partying with several strangers. Lord Justice Leveson is preparing to publish his report into the practices and ethics of the press this autumn, and is expected to recommend tougher independent regulation. There are fears that The Sun's actions may force Lord Justice Leveson to come down harder on newspapers.
Neil Wallis, a former executive editor of the News of the World, said: "This was a decision taken by Rupert. Rupert cares passionately about newspapers. He thinks this stuff is important. This is the only good thing that has happened at News International for a year. Once they knew they were going to do it, there was just a magnificent morale boost. They have stood up and looked the rest of the media in the eye, Parliament in the eye, and looked Leveson in the eye. Rupert has done an enormous amount for the morale of his own newspaper. And also, I know, journalists from other companies, although they can't publicly say so."
But Max Mosley, who successfully sued the News of the World for breach of privacy, told The Independent on Sunday that publishing the Prince Harry photographs was "100 per cent not in the public interest. It is theft. It's his privacy … and they've stolen something from him. If they were an honest newspaper, they wouldn't have published them".
A spokesman for the Leveson inquiry declined to comment. A spokeswoman for News International said: "We haven't commented at all on who was involved or not involved in the decision process."
According to reports, Prince Harry, 27, the third in line to the throne, was being summoned for "crisis talks" with his father, Prince Charles. There is also pressure on St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace to review royal protection procedures.
Harriet Harman, Labour deputy leader and the shadow Culture Secretary, cast doubt yesterday on Elisabeth Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture last week in which she distanced herself from her father and brother James. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Ms Harman said: "It was exquisite torture for me that you wait 17 years for a woman to give the MacTaggart lecture and it's a Murdoch. It's a bit like waiting for a woman to be Prime Minister and finding it's Margaret Thatcher. Of course it was important for her to be saying profit should be the servant, not the master, but we didn't hear how that was going to happen."
Ms Harman criticised the "dysfunctionality" in the Murdoch empire and added: "What the Murdochs mean for many people is concentration of power or abuse of power."
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
malena stool Sun 26 Aug - 7:47
If what is reported here is true then I see no reason for our Government not to freeze Murdoch's assets here in the UK.
As for Harriet Harman to comment on the, "dysfunctional" Murdoch empire must be like an echo on what was happening in the Brown era of the last years of New Labour's scandalous term in office, and perhaps even reflections of the part she played in the events!
As for Harriet Harman to comment on the, "dysfunctional" Murdoch empire must be like an echo on what was happening in the Brown era of the last years of New Labour's scandalous term in office, and perhaps even reflections of the part she played in the events!
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
Panda Sun 26 Aug - 9:42
"The Sun's decision to publish the pictures sparked both criticism and praise from MPs, peers and commentators"
How could anybody regard this intrusion of privacy as acceptable. For so long British tabloids have had no regard for privacy and the truth, I hope Leveson puts some of them out of business.
As for Murdoch he is one step closer to having News International shut down. Under American rules any U.K. Company registered in the U.S. is subject to good governance which is much more stringent than U.K. The Royals are highly regarded by the Americans and this incident took place in a private room. I hope whoever took the photo gets caught .
How could anybody regard this intrusion of privacy as acceptable. For so long British tabloids have had no regard for privacy and the truth, I hope Leveson puts some of them out of business.
As for Murdoch he is one step closer to having News International shut down. Under American rules any U.K. Company registered in the U.S. is subject to good governance which is much more stringent than U.K. The Royals are highly regarded by the Americans and this incident took place in a private room. I hope whoever took the photo gets caught .
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Ex-Editor Charged Over Tommy Sheridan Case
A police inquiry into claims of phone hacking and other offences has led to the arrest of an ex-News Of The World Sunday editor.
3:13pm UK, Wednesday 29 August 2012
Charged: Former News Of The World Scotland editor Bob Bird
A former editor of the News Of The World Scotland has been arrested and charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of ex-MSP Tommy Sheridan's defamation action against the newspaper.
Bob Bird, 56, was detained in Glasgow on Wednesday morning by officers from Strathclyde Police.
He has since been released from custody and a report will now be prepared for prosecutors.
Speaking after his release, Mr Bird said: "I just want to say I'm really sad and disappointed that things have come to this today.
"I have always tried to do the right thing throughout my 30, 40-odd years in journalism and I will be denying the charge that has been made against me today.
"On legal advice, I can't say any more at the moment."
Tommy Sheridan, accompanied by his wife Gail
A police spokeswoman said: "Officers from Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police arrested and charged a 56-year-old man with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of the defamation action of Thomas Sheridan versus News Groups Newspapers.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow. Proceedings are now active and it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further."
Operation Rubicon is the Strathclyde Police inquiry into allegations of phone hacking, breach of data protection and perjury.
Mr Sheridan won his defamation action against the News of the World at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in 2006.
He was awarded £200,000 in damages after the tabloid printed claims about his private life. Mr Bird gave evidence at the hearing.
Mr Sheridan was jailed for three years in January 2011 after being found guilty of lying about the now-defunct tabloid's claims that he was an adulterer who visited a swingers' club.
That trial, which lasted almost 12 weeks at the High Court in Glasgow, was one of the longest of its kind in Scottish legal history.
Mr Sheridan was released from jail after serving one year of his sentence
A police inquiry into claims of phone hacking and other offences has led to the arrest of an ex-News Of The World Sunday editor.
3:13pm UK, Wednesday 29 August 2012
Charged: Former News Of The World Scotland editor Bob Bird
A former editor of the News Of The World Scotland has been arrested and charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of ex-MSP Tommy Sheridan's defamation action against the newspaper.
Bob Bird, 56, was detained in Glasgow on Wednesday morning by officers from Strathclyde Police.
He has since been released from custody and a report will now be prepared for prosecutors.
Speaking after his release, Mr Bird said: "I just want to say I'm really sad and disappointed that things have come to this today.
"I have always tried to do the right thing throughout my 30, 40-odd years in journalism and I will be denying the charge that has been made against me today.
"On legal advice, I can't say any more at the moment."
Tommy Sheridan, accompanied by his wife Gail A police spokeswoman said: "Officers from Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police arrested and charged a 56-year-old man with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of the defamation action of Thomas Sheridan versus News Groups Newspapers.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow. Proceedings are now active and it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further."
Operation Rubicon is the Strathclyde Police inquiry into allegations of phone hacking, breach of data protection and perjury.
Mr Sheridan won his defamation action against the News of the World at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in 2006.
He was awarded £200,000 in damages after the tabloid printed claims about his private life. Mr Bird gave evidence at the hearing.
Mr Sheridan was jailed for three years in January 2011 after being found guilty of lying about the now-defunct tabloid's claims that he was an adulterer who visited a swingers' club.
That trial, which lasted almost 12 weeks at the High Court in Glasgow, was one of the longest of its kind in Scottish legal history.
Mr Sheridan was released from jail after serving one year of his sentence
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Re: Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?
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(The British royal family…)
LONDON: By letting his top-selling UK tabloid run photos of a naked Prince Harry cavorting in a Las Vegas hotel room, some say media mogul Rupert Murdoch was warning Britain's establishment that he could still shake things up.
British officialdom has largely turned its back on Murdoch because of the phone-hacking scandal that has badly tainted his media empire over the past year. So even though Murdoch's The Sun newspaper framed its decision to publish the nude pictures as a defence of press freedom, some observers saw the move as a feisty message from the tycoon.
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The Freemason Leveson Farce - The Leveson Findings Are To Be Reported Back To Jeremy Hunt.
Annabel Fri 31 Aug - 10:39
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The Freemason Leveson Farce - The Leveson Findings Are To Be Reported Back To Jeremy Hunt.
Note Freemason Handshake Between Jeremy Hunt And Rupert Murdoch - The Positioning Of The Thumbs.
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Scotland Yard Operation Elveden is a grim in-joke to indicate they would make sure the accusations never went anywhere!
Operation Weeting is the investigation into the News of the World phone hacking itself. Weeting is the village at the southern end of the notorious Elveden traffic jam.” There was never going to be any form of justice for Daniel Morgan ever !
The Freemason Leveson Farce - The Leveson Findings Are To Be Reported Back To Jeremy Hunt.
Note Freemason Handshake Between Jeremy Hunt And Rupert Murdoch - The Positioning Of The Thumbs.
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Scotland Yard Operation Elveden is a grim in-joke to indicate they would make sure the accusations never went anywhere!
Operation Weeting is the investigation into the News of the World phone hacking itself. Weeting is the village at the southern end of the notorious Elveden traffic jam.” There was never going to be any form of justice for Daniel Morgan ever !
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Panda Mon 3 Sep - 19:52
Rebekah Brooks Bailed Over Phone Hacking Charges
The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted: 03/09/2012 10:18 Updated: 03/09/2012 15:27
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks appeared in court on Monday to face charges linked to alleged phone hacking.
The 44-year-old was at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused over an alleged conspiracy to illegally access voicemails.
Brooks appeared in the dock to face one general charge, which prosecutors claim could affect more than 600 victims, and two other specific charges linked to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and former union boss Andrew Gilchrist.
The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted: 03/09/2012 10:18 Updated: 03/09/2012 15:27
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks appeared in court on Monday to face charges linked to alleged phone hacking.
The 44-year-old was at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused over an alleged conspiracy to illegally access voicemails.
Brooks appeared in the dock to face one general charge, which prosecutors claim could affect more than 600 victims, and two other specific charges linked to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and former union boss Andrew Gilchrist.
Rebekah Brooks arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, to face charges linked to alleged phone hacking
She has been accused alongside six other former members of staff from the now-defunct tabloid the News of the World (NoTW) and private investigator Glen Mulcaire.
Former NoTW editor, and ex-spin doctor for David Cameron, Andy Coulson has been charged, along with ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former head of news Ian Edmondson, ex-chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and former reporter James Weatherup.
Brooks, wearing a navy blue jacket and skirt, spoke only to confirm her name, date of birth and address during the short hearing.
She was told to appear with her co-defendants at Southwark Crown Court on September 26.
Brooks, from Churchill, in Oxfordshire, was released on bail on the condition that she lives at her given address, does not contact her fellow accused and gives the police seven days' notice should she wish to travel abroad.
As part of her bail conditions, Brooks was told she could not contact former NoTW reporter Dan Evans and the paper's former executive editor Neil Wallis, who are on bail following the Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking.
Brooks, who appeared before District Judge Howard Riddle today, faces a charge of conspiring with others to intercept voicemail messages between October 3 2000 and August 9 2006.
Court artist impression of Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London
The former newspaper executive is also accused in relation to Milly Dowler between April 9 and 21 2002 and Andrew Gilchrist between December 3 2002 and January 22 2002.
Brooks is already due at Southwark Crown Court on September 26 to face three charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
This relates to the alleged removal of boxes of material from the News International archive and trying to conceal documents, computers and other material from police.
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Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Rebekah Brooks went from chief of most powerful newspaper company to facing trial for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Her appearance at Leveson also revealed a number of embarrassing correspondances between herself and senior politicians
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Rupert Murdoch: got pie on his face almost from day one. Saw his most profitable British newspaper close, leaving News International's reputation in tatters. His company News Corp now faces probes in three corners of the globe and Murdoch has revealed he won't be investing further in Britain anytime soon
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
James Murdoch hasn't had a year to remember fondly. In addition to endless hours of public grilling at Leveson, in April it was announced he was standing down as chairman of BskyB.
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Louise Mensch has been named as the "surprise star" of the phone hacking scandal after her persisitent questioning of James and Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary inquiry. The Corby MP has become known for her combative style, even rowing with Piers Morgan over the scandal live on air.
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Jeremy Hunt has been sailing into trouble over his role as Culture Secretary and links between his special advisor Adam Smith and lobbiest Frederic Michel. He was pushed into a corner during Leveson about whether or not he had been misleading about his contacts with News Corp.
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Jonnie Marbles. A one hit wonder in many ways. After slapping a pie in the face of Rupert Murdoch at the select committee hearing Mr Marbles aka Jonathan May-Bowles has been jailed and blogged for the Huffington Post UK http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tag/jonnie-marbles
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
The phone hacking enquiry has plunged Labour MP Tom Watson into the spotlight after he too dared to take on the Murdoch family, even comparing James to a a Mafia boss" for his style of leadership. The renegade blogger has also published a revelatory tome on the scandal "Dial M for Murdoch"
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
David Cameron: Set up Leveson inquiry to show public he was taking action over phone hacking. But the move has so far been a PR disaster for the PM, from revelations he texted Rebekah Brooks LOL to him riding one of her horses.
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Andy Coulson. The former spin doctor to David Cameron (and editor of NotW) has struggled to muster up a positive headline. Things took a turn for the worse in May when he was detailed and driven by police to Glasgow where he was changed with perjury in the Tommy Sheridan case.
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Lawyer Mark Lewis, who represents Milly Dowler's parents, put the pressure on some of Britain's most high profile players, including media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The last year has seen the solicitor praised for his honesty and tenacity and the subject of numerous interviews. He was paid £230,000 in damages after Scotland Yard claimed he was wrong to insist there was more than "one rogue reporter" responsible for phone hacking at NOTW. And who could forget the orange coat he wore to Leveson?
Phone Hacking Timeline: Major Players
Colin Myler was the face of the closure of NotWl who came out fighting. Since editing the final edition he's started work in New York as editor of the New York Daily News and has joined forces with Tom Crone to launch a stinging attack on James Murdoch over the phone hacking affair.
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It was noticeable that Jeremy Hunt followed Cameron who used the Ellie Simmonds tremendous acheivement by giving her a kiss on each cheek and placing the Gold Medal around her neck ....grandstanding again Cameron!!!!! Anyway, Hunt has been moved from Culture Minister to Health Minister......could it be because of his "friendship" with Murdoch?
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Rebekah Brooks is due to appear in Court on 26th September , maybe she has been using her time before judgement day
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Rebekah Brooks the movie: who will do her justice?
Rebekah Brooks is getting the Citizen Kane approach. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Move over Avengers Assemble. Out of the way Ridley Scott's Prometheus. The blockbuster the world is waiting for is an upcoming feature film charting the story of Rebekah Brooks. BiteSize Entertainment has optioned the movie rights to the Vanity Fair article Untangling Rebekah Brooks by Suzanna Andrews. Producer Gene Kirkwood, who is used to telling bruising tales having worked on Rocky, told the Hollywood Reporter that the aim is to use the film as a "porthole into Rupert Murdoch's world. I see it as a Citizen Kane approach". He describes her rise and fall as "almost like Great Expectations – with a moral". Kirkwood wants to move quickly "as soon as there as an ending", so don't hold your breath. But he is looking for "unknown, English actors" to play the former News International chief executive. So that probably rules out famous redheads Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Damian Lewis ... and Sideshow Bob.
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Rebekah Brooks the movie: who will do her justice?
Rebekah Brooks is getting the Citizen Kane approach. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Move over Avengers Assemble. Out of the way Ridley Scott's Prometheus. The blockbuster the world is waiting for is an upcoming feature film charting the story of Rebekah Brooks. BiteSize Entertainment has optioned the movie rights to the Vanity Fair article Untangling Rebekah Brooks by Suzanna Andrews. Producer Gene Kirkwood, who is used to telling bruising tales having worked on Rocky, told the Hollywood Reporter that the aim is to use the film as a "porthole into Rupert Murdoch's world. I see it as a Citizen Kane approach". He describes her rise and fall as "almost like Great Expectations – with a moral". Kirkwood wants to move quickly "as soon as there as an ending", so don't hold your breath. But he is looking for "unknown, English actors" to play the former News International chief executive. So that probably rules out famous redheads Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Damian Lewis ... and Sideshow Bob.
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News Corp. Workers Pay Price for U.K. Checkbook Reporting
By Erik Larson - Sep 11, 2012 11:45 AM GMT+0100
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling Sun tabloid in Britain are paying for a culture of bribery that may have been an industry standard until scrutiny from News Corp. (NWSA)’s phone-hacking scandal put an end to it.
Even as reporters at Murdoch’s competitors start to be arrested, the bribery case will focus on News Corp. because its internal investigators are scouring documents and turning over evidence to police, said Roy Greenslade, a newspaper columnist and journalism professor at London’s City University. That process isn’t being replicated at other British publishers, where such payments were likely typical, he said.
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News Corp. Workers Pay Price for U.K. ‘Checkbook’ Journalism
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The logos of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, published by News Corp.'s U.K. News International division, are seen in London.
The logos of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, published by News Corp.'s U.K. News International division, are seen in London. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
“The checkbook is a common way of obtaining stories across all tabloids -- it’s part of the trade, it’s part of the code,” said Greenslade, a former Daily Mirror editor who also worked at the Sun and Murdoch’s Times. “If someone asks for money, be they a prostitute or a policeman, I imagine the newspaper would pay,” he said, without referring to a specific title.
The Metropolitan Police Service has arrested 44 people in the bribery probe, known as Operation Elveden, including reporters, editors, police officers, health-care workers and a prison employee detained today. The case, triggered by evidence uncovered in the underlying phone-hacking case, is still leading to arrests of Sun journalists as News Corp. tries to move on from the scandals that have cost it at least $315 million in legal fees and other costs.
20 Journalists
About 20 Sun journalists have been arrested for bribery, including royal editor Duncan Larcombe, who writes about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge. That’s double the employees detained over phone hacking at New York-based News Corp.’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, where the scandal started.
Murdoch’s competitors were drawn into the bribery affair in July when a reporter for the Daily Star Sunday, published by Northern & Shell Plc, was arrested, followed by detainments of one current and one former journalist for Trinity Mirror Plc (TNI), publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror.
“It would have been naive to assume that some of these issues could not extend to some other newsrooms,” Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis in London, said in an e-mail about the arrests going beyond News Corp.
Trinity Mirror spokesman Rupert Smith declined to comment. He has previously said the company is cooperating with police. Sam Bowen, an outside spokesman for Northern & Shell, and News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop also declined to comment.
‘Endemic’ Criminality
Labour Party lawmaker Chris Bryant, a victim of phone hacking who reached a settlement with News Corp., said criminality at the company’s tabloids was “endemic.”
Illegal behavior was “promoted as a standard way of doing business and then covered up,” Bryant said in an e-mail.
The bribery probe was never intended to focus only on News Corp., a Metropolitan Police Service spokesman said in a phone call. “The MPS has always made it clear that officers will go where the evidence leads them,” he said.
Details of how News Corp.’s U.K. unit, News International, allegedly paid for stories emerged in a lawsuit by a former employee. Matt Nixson, an ex-features editor at the Sun who previously worked at the News of the World, sued for wrongful termination after he was fired over claims he approved a payment to a prison official for information about a murderer.
Page Lead
The News of the World usually paid 750 pounds for a “page lead” scoop and offered 1,000 pounds ($1,200) for particularly compelling tips, Nixson, who hasn’t been arrested, said in court papers. He said he didn’t realize the prison payment was wrong because the company’s code of conduct only prohibited payments to criminals and witnesses in criminal trials, and that payments to civil servants were frequent.
The Met doesn’t have a reason to demand the same kind of search for evidence from News Corp.’s competitors because doing so could amount to a “fishing expedition,” said Greenslade, who said he never approved of or witnessed such illegal payments.
After lawmakers accused News Corp. of hindering past probes that failed to uncover the extent of phone hacking, the company created an internal panel to investigate wrongdoing at its U.K. papers and cooperate with police. The panel, the Management and Standards Committee, angered journalists who said their sources were being compromised to save the company’s reputation.
Police have had an “unprecedented relationship” with the News Corp. investigators who are “prepared to disclose documents to us in a way that hadn’t been done in years gone by,” Sue Akers, the MPS officer leading the investigations, told lawmakers Sept. 4.
Protocol Cooperation
While News Corp.’s competitors aren’t dealing with the same internal and external scrutiny, Northern & Shell’s Express Newspapers unit has agreed to a “protocol” for cooperation, Akers said. Seventy officers are working on the bribery investigation, she said.
Chris Frost, chairman of the ethics council at the National Union of Journalists in Britain, said reporters didn’t use their own money for payments and executives were careful not to ask too many questions.
“Newspapers often make payments to people who give them story ideas or information,” Frost, who is also a journalism professor at Liverpool John Moores University, said in a phone interview. “The key question is less whether journalists should have paid for it, but should officials have sold it?”
While paying for stories isn’t always illegal, it amounts to bribery when a public official gives information pertaining to their jobs, Greenslade said.
Serious Offenses
The Met started the phone-hacking probe in January 2011, after earlier investigations in 2006 and 2009 failed to uncover the conspiracy. The bribery investigation was spawned when Ken Macdonald, Britain’s former top prosecutor who was hired by News Corp. to advise its board on the phone-hacking scandal, found additional evidence of what he called serious criminal offenses.
Macdonald declined to comment for this story. When he was asked about the file by lawmakers in July 2011 probing News International, he said, “I can’t imagine anyone looking at that file and not seeing crime on its face.”
Mark Lewis, one of the first lawyers representing victims of phone hacking, said bribery spread across the industry as journalists moved from title to title and took sources with them. He said News Corp. should suffer the consequences even if other publishers aren’t hit as hard.
News Corp. “is not paying the price for others,” Lewis said. “If convicted, they pay the price for what they did.”
By Erik Larson - Sep 11, 2012 11:45 AM GMT+0100
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling Sun tabloid in Britain are paying for a culture of bribery that may have been an industry standard until scrutiny from News Corp. (NWSA)’s phone-hacking scandal put an end to it.
Even as reporters at Murdoch’s competitors start to be arrested, the bribery case will focus on News Corp. because its internal investigators are scouring documents and turning over evidence to police, said Roy Greenslade, a newspaper columnist and journalism professor at London’s City University. That process isn’t being replicated at other British publishers, where such payments were likely typical, he said.
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News Corp. Workers Pay Price for U.K. ‘Checkbook’ Journalism
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The logos of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, published by News Corp.'s U.K. News International division, are seen in London.
The logos of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, published by News Corp.'s U.K. News International division, are seen in London. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
“The checkbook is a common way of obtaining stories across all tabloids -- it’s part of the trade, it’s part of the code,” said Greenslade, a former Daily Mirror editor who also worked at the Sun and Murdoch’s Times. “If someone asks for money, be they a prostitute or a policeman, I imagine the newspaper would pay,” he said, without referring to a specific title.
The Metropolitan Police Service has arrested 44 people in the bribery probe, known as Operation Elveden, including reporters, editors, police officers, health-care workers and a prison employee detained today. The case, triggered by evidence uncovered in the underlying phone-hacking case, is still leading to arrests of Sun journalists as News Corp. tries to move on from the scandals that have cost it at least $315 million in legal fees and other costs.
20 Journalists
About 20 Sun journalists have been arrested for bribery, including royal editor Duncan Larcombe, who writes about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge. That’s double the employees detained over phone hacking at New York-based News Corp.’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, where the scandal started.
Murdoch’s competitors were drawn into the bribery affair in July when a reporter for the Daily Star Sunday, published by Northern & Shell Plc, was arrested, followed by detainments of one current and one former journalist for Trinity Mirror Plc (TNI), publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror.
“It would have been naive to assume that some of these issues could not extend to some other newsrooms,” Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis in London, said in an e-mail about the arrests going beyond News Corp.
Trinity Mirror spokesman Rupert Smith declined to comment. He has previously said the company is cooperating with police. Sam Bowen, an outside spokesman for Northern & Shell, and News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop also declined to comment.
‘Endemic’ Criminality
Labour Party lawmaker Chris Bryant, a victim of phone hacking who reached a settlement with News Corp., said criminality at the company’s tabloids was “endemic.”
Illegal behavior was “promoted as a standard way of doing business and then covered up,” Bryant said in an e-mail.
The bribery probe was never intended to focus only on News Corp., a Metropolitan Police Service spokesman said in a phone call. “The MPS has always made it clear that officers will go where the evidence leads them,” he said.
Details of how News Corp.’s U.K. unit, News International, allegedly paid for stories emerged in a lawsuit by a former employee. Matt Nixson, an ex-features editor at the Sun who previously worked at the News of the World, sued for wrongful termination after he was fired over claims he approved a payment to a prison official for information about a murderer.
Page Lead
The News of the World usually paid 750 pounds for a “page lead” scoop and offered 1,000 pounds ($1,200) for particularly compelling tips, Nixson, who hasn’t been arrested, said in court papers. He said he didn’t realize the prison payment was wrong because the company’s code of conduct only prohibited payments to criminals and witnesses in criminal trials, and that payments to civil servants were frequent.
The Met doesn’t have a reason to demand the same kind of search for evidence from News Corp.’s competitors because doing so could amount to a “fishing expedition,” said Greenslade, who said he never approved of or witnessed such illegal payments.
After lawmakers accused News Corp. of hindering past probes that failed to uncover the extent of phone hacking, the company created an internal panel to investigate wrongdoing at its U.K. papers and cooperate with police. The panel, the Management and Standards Committee, angered journalists who said their sources were being compromised to save the company’s reputation.
Police have had an “unprecedented relationship” with the News Corp. investigators who are “prepared to disclose documents to us in a way that hadn’t been done in years gone by,” Sue Akers, the MPS officer leading the investigations, told lawmakers Sept. 4.
Protocol Cooperation
While News Corp.’s competitors aren’t dealing with the same internal and external scrutiny, Northern & Shell’s Express Newspapers unit has agreed to a “protocol” for cooperation, Akers said. Seventy officers are working on the bribery investigation, she said.
Chris Frost, chairman of the ethics council at the National Union of Journalists in Britain, said reporters didn’t use their own money for payments and executives were careful not to ask too many questions.
“Newspapers often make payments to people who give them story ideas or information,” Frost, who is also a journalism professor at Liverpool John Moores University, said in a phone interview. “The key question is less whether journalists should have paid for it, but should officials have sold it?”
While paying for stories isn’t always illegal, it amounts to bribery when a public official gives information pertaining to their jobs, Greenslade said.
Serious Offenses
The Met started the phone-hacking probe in January 2011, after earlier investigations in 2006 and 2009 failed to uncover the conspiracy. The bribery investigation was spawned when Ken Macdonald, Britain’s former top prosecutor who was hired by News Corp. to advise its board on the phone-hacking scandal, found additional evidence of what he called serious criminal offenses.
Macdonald declined to comment for this story. When he was asked about the file by lawmakers in July 2011 probing News International, he said, “I can’t imagine anyone looking at that file and not seeing crime on its face.”
Mark Lewis, one of the first lawyers representing victims of phone hacking, said bribery spread across the industry as journalists moved from title to title and took sources with them. He said News Corp. should suffer the consequences even if other publishers aren’t hit as hard.
News Corp. “is not paying the price for others,” Lewis said. “If convicted, they pay the price for what they did.”
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By Matt Robinson - Sep 11, 2012 8:32 PM GMT+0100
News Corp. (NWSA), the owner of the Fox television network and the Wall Street Journal, issued $1 billion of 10-year debt in its first sale of 2012.
The 3 percent notes, sold through the company’s News America unit, yield 140 basis points, or 1.4 percentage points, more than similar-maturity Treasuries, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The bonds are rated Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service, the third-lowest investment-grade level. Proceeds from the sale will be used for general corporate purposes.
The company, based in New York, last tapped the corporate bond market in July 2011, issuing $2.5 billion of debt in two parts. Its $1.5 billion of 6.15 percent bonds due in February 2041 traded at 122.2 cents on the dollar to yield 4.73 percent yesterday, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The media company, whose chairman is Rupert Murdoch, reported a $1.55 billion quarterly loss last month as shrinking advertising revenue led to a writedown of its Australian publishing business. It said in June that it would separate its publishing unit from its media and entertainment properties.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed the sale.
By Matt Robinson - Sep 11, 2012 8:32 PM GMT+0100
News Corp. (NWSA), the owner of the Fox television network and the Wall Street Journal, issued $1 billion of 10-year debt in its first sale of 2012.
The 3 percent notes, sold through the company’s News America unit, yield 140 basis points, or 1.4 percentage points, more than similar-maturity Treasuries, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The bonds are rated Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service, the third-lowest investment-grade level. Proceeds from the sale will be used for general corporate purposes.
The company, based in New York, last tapped the corporate bond market in July 2011, issuing $2.5 billion of debt in two parts. Its $1.5 billion of 6.15 percent bonds due in February 2041 traded at 122.2 cents on the dollar to yield 4.73 percent yesterday, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The media company, whose chairman is Rupert Murdoch, reported a $1.55 billion quarterly loss last month as shrinking advertising revenue led to a writedown of its Australian publishing business. It said in June that it would separate its publishing unit from its media and entertainment properties.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed the sale.
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Mark Lewis, one of the first lawyers representing victims of phone hacking, said bribery spread across the industry as journalists moved from title to title and took sources with them. He said News Corp. should suffer the consequences even if other publishers aren’t hit as hard.
News Corp. “is not paying the price for others,” Lewis said. “If convicted, they pay the price for what they did"
It appears Newscorp is to stop paying the Legal Fees for ex Senior Staff of the News of the World......would this include
Rebekah Brooks who faces 3 charges of perverting the course of justice this month?
Rupert might be helping out personally , he apparently gave her £1 million, an Office and a Car when she resigned.
News Corp. “is not paying the price for others,” Lewis said. “If convicted, they pay the price for what they did"
It appears Newscorp is to stop paying the Legal Fees for ex Senior Staff of the News of the World......would this include
Rebekah Brooks who faces 3 charges of perverting the course of justice this month?
Rupert might be helping out personally , he apparently gave her £1 million, an Office and a Car when she resigned.
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How Murdoch's papers twisted the News
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Hacking book: how Murdoch's papers twisted the news to his advantage
Apologies for the two-day postponement of my serialisation of The phone-hacking scandal: journalism on trial.* It was entirely due to the release of the Hillsborough report and, given The Sun's part in that business, this extract could not be more relevant.
It's by Nicholas Jones, a former BBC industrial and political correspondent, who chronicles the relationships between politicians and The Sun, and the police and The Sun...
From the industrial disputes of the early 1980s, on through the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, I experienced at first hand the ease with which compliant politicians and their aides assisted Rupert's Murdoch's newspapers.
In so doing they twisted the news reporting of the day to their mutual advantage, for the twin aims of party political gain and the advancement of his business interests.
Becoming cheerleader for Thatcher's offensive against the trade unions was in all probability the starting point for The Sun's assault on journalistic ethics.
Having seen how the dubious methods of the Murdoch press had helped distort the news coverage of the big industrial disputes of the 1980s, I was not at all surprised to see the same techniques being deployed by The Sun to sustain its trashing of the Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, in the run-up to the 1992 election.
After the newspaper's vilification of Kinnock throughout the campaign Labour had been left with no alternative but to come to terms with the inherent danger for any future leader of the destructive force of The Sun's political reporting.
It was a lesson that the Conservatives would come to understand once editor Kelvin MacKenzie subjected John Major to the treatment previously meted out to Kinnock.
A burgeoning trade in personal information
Extra-marital affairs involving a succession of Conservative ministers provided a rich source of exclusive stories. The Sun and the News of the World shared the spoils as the Major government floundered amid the backlash from his ill-fated "back to basics" campaign and allegations of "Tory sleaze."
As scandal followed scandal the consensus among Westminster correspondents was that no politician was safe from the burgeoning trade in saleable inside information; the cheque book reigned supreme and the going rate escalated.
In the experience of Jack Straw, the former home secretary and justice secretary, the trade in illicit information had become "a fact of life". He had always worked on the basis that in "every police station the local or national press would have a stringer, who was a police officer or member of staff, who they were paying."
On leaving The Sun, MacKenzie rarely held back when defending his 13 years in the editor's chair. He believed readers had benefited from the information which crime reporters obtained through their police contacts, even if money had changed hands.
"I would argue that if a policeman receives a tip fee for revealing a break-in that should have been reported anyway, that's fine." A decade later in his witness statement to Leveson, MacKenzie acknowledged that he did not "spend too much time pondering the ethics of how a story was gained."
Responsibility for the source of the information lay with senior journalists; he was "wholly supportive" of whistle blowing even if The Sun had to "pay money". But he personally had "virtually nothing to do with payments" as only "anything costing more than around £3,000" would have crossed his desk.
MacKenzie could hardly have been any more upfront about the cavalier culture which pervaded the newsroom from 1981 to 1994 when he had responsibility for "corporate governance" on the editorial floor.
These were undoubtedly formative years in The Sun's ascendancy, a period when politicians became increasingly fearful of confronting the newspaper's news-gathering techniques.
Questioning Kelvin MacKenzie over payments
I had expected Robert Jay [counsel to the Leveson inquiry] to inquire about the range of payments; whether some were in cash; the type of information purchased; and the people targeted.
But in the only substantive exchange, when Jay explored the circumstances in which as editor he would 'write a cheque', MacKenzie argued that police officers often passed information to journalists to secure justice and 'publicity is often justice'.
Jay repeated his question: "Were you aware of payments being made to police officers in order to obtain material from them which could form the basis for stories?" MacKenzie replied: "I wasn't but it wouldn't surprise me if they were."
Sue Akers, Scotland Yard's deputy assistant commissioner, told Leveson the Met police had discovered that The Sun had established a network of corrupted officials across public life, including those working in the police, military, health service, prison service etc.
There had been multiple payments to individuals of thousands of pounds and "in one case, over several years, in excess of £80,000, and some public officials placed on retainers."
She described how systems had been created to facilitate the payments and how the journalists must have known their action was unlawful because they paid cash in order to protect those public officials who feared that, if identified, they would lose their jobs and pensions.
She said that payments had been linked to individual reports: "The vast majority of disclosures led to stories which I would describe as salacious gossip rather than anything that could be remotely regarded as in the public interest… they often involve a breach of trust and an invasion into the privacy of the subject."
Akers's statement suggested the culture of paying for illicitly-obtained information was deeply embedded in The Sun's editorial structure. She said the delivery of "regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money" had been authorised at "a very senior level."
Her statement reaffirmed my belief that the bribing of police and other officials was so corrosive of the trust in public servants, and so detrimental to journalistic ethics, that its impact was even more pernicious than phone hacking.
Britain's tabloid newspapers had become mired in a bidding war for sensationalism and the Murdoch press, perhaps more than any other group, should take the blame for having helped to foster an expectation on the part of the public that money can be made from the sale of private information, personal records, tip-offs, snatched mobile phone pictures and the like.
Journalists of my generation, who trained on evening and weekly newspapers, were not accustomed to being asked "How much? What's it worth?" whenever they sought interviews or photographs, a routine that is now said to be a commonplace experience for local reporters today.
A daily advertisement in The Sun (and previously in the News of the World) continues to encourage readers to get "big money" for "a celebrity, a scandal, a human interest story, or any other great tip."
Reading between the lines of evidence
In Rebekah Brooks's first witness statement to the inquiry were a series of answers which, when pieced together, helped to explain how the ability of Murdoch's reporters to pay cash to their sources had morphed into the monster of phone hacking.
She set out the procedure she had known during her 10 years as a News International editor for using "external providers of information... not just private investigators but also individual sources."
Senior journalists who had their own sources had access to the payment process; the editor would only get involved when a large one-off cash payment "would break the weekly run rate" for payments which had been determined by the managing editor.
Reading between the lines of this section of Brooks's statement it is clear
there was a well-established procedure which enabled Sun and News of the World journalists to pay cash for unauthorised information.
In his closing argument to the inquiry, David Sherborne, counsel for 50 hacking victims, said the public had witnessed, the unravelling of "possibly the most outrageous and largest criminal malpractice this country's press has even known."
But there was no doubt in my mind an opportunity had been missed by the inquiry. Murdoch should have been held to account for the way his newspapers had monetised the gathering of illicitly-acquired information.
Didn't he understand that that by condoning practices which had encouraged his journalists to pay cash for unauthorised disclosures – from the alleged bribery of police officers and public officials to the interception of voicemails – he had been progressively poisoning the well of British journalism?
On Monday: Media academic Tim Crook on what Britain's "battered and proud working class" has lost by the closure of the News of the World
*The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial, second and updated edition, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair, will be published by Abramis on 17 September. Available at a special Media Guardian price of £15 from richard@arimapublishing.co.uk
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Apologies for the two-day postponement of my serialisation of The phone-hacking scandal: journalism on trial.* It was entirely due to the release of the Hillsborough report and, given The Sun's part in that business, this extract could not be more relevant.
It's by Nicholas Jones, a former BBC industrial and political correspondent, who chronicles the relationships between politicians and The Sun, and the police and The Sun...
From the industrial disputes of the early 1980s, on through the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, I experienced at first hand the ease with which compliant politicians and their aides assisted Rupert's Murdoch's newspapers.
In so doing they twisted the news reporting of the day to their mutual advantage, for the twin aims of party political gain and the advancement of his business interests.
Becoming cheerleader for Thatcher's offensive against the trade unions was in all probability the starting point for The Sun's assault on journalistic ethics.
Having seen how the dubious methods of the Murdoch press had helped distort the news coverage of the big industrial disputes of the 1980s, I was not at all surprised to see the same techniques being deployed by The Sun to sustain its trashing of the Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, in the run-up to the 1992 election.
After the newspaper's vilification of Kinnock throughout the campaign Labour had been left with no alternative but to come to terms with the inherent danger for any future leader of the destructive force of The Sun's political reporting.
It was a lesson that the Conservatives would come to understand once editor Kelvin MacKenzie subjected John Major to the treatment previously meted out to Kinnock.
A burgeoning trade in personal information
Extra-marital affairs involving a succession of Conservative ministers provided a rich source of exclusive stories. The Sun and the News of the World shared the spoils as the Major government floundered amid the backlash from his ill-fated "back to basics" campaign and allegations of "Tory sleaze."
As scandal followed scandal the consensus among Westminster correspondents was that no politician was safe from the burgeoning trade in saleable inside information; the cheque book reigned supreme and the going rate escalated.
In the experience of Jack Straw, the former home secretary and justice secretary, the trade in illicit information had become "a fact of life". He had always worked on the basis that in "every police station the local or national press would have a stringer, who was a police officer or member of staff, who they were paying."
On leaving The Sun, MacKenzie rarely held back when defending his 13 years in the editor's chair. He believed readers had benefited from the information which crime reporters obtained through their police contacts, even if money had changed hands.
"I would argue that if a policeman receives a tip fee for revealing a break-in that should have been reported anyway, that's fine." A decade later in his witness statement to Leveson, MacKenzie acknowledged that he did not "spend too much time pondering the ethics of how a story was gained."
Responsibility for the source of the information lay with senior journalists; he was "wholly supportive" of whistle blowing even if The Sun had to "pay money". But he personally had "virtually nothing to do with payments" as only "anything costing more than around £3,000" would have crossed his desk.
MacKenzie could hardly have been any more upfront about the cavalier culture which pervaded the newsroom from 1981 to 1994 when he had responsibility for "corporate governance" on the editorial floor.
These were undoubtedly formative years in The Sun's ascendancy, a period when politicians became increasingly fearful of confronting the newspaper's news-gathering techniques.
Questioning Kelvin MacKenzie over payments
I had expected Robert Jay [counsel to the Leveson inquiry] to inquire about the range of payments; whether some were in cash; the type of information purchased; and the people targeted.
But in the only substantive exchange, when Jay explored the circumstances in which as editor he would 'write a cheque', MacKenzie argued that police officers often passed information to journalists to secure justice and 'publicity is often justice'.
Jay repeated his question: "Were you aware of payments being made to police officers in order to obtain material from them which could form the basis for stories?" MacKenzie replied: "I wasn't but it wouldn't surprise me if they were."
Sue Akers, Scotland Yard's deputy assistant commissioner, told Leveson the Met police had discovered that The Sun had established a network of corrupted officials across public life, including those working in the police, military, health service, prison service etc.
There had been multiple payments to individuals of thousands of pounds and "in one case, over several years, in excess of £80,000, and some public officials placed on retainers."
She described how systems had been created to facilitate the payments and how the journalists must have known their action was unlawful because they paid cash in order to protect those public officials who feared that, if identified, they would lose their jobs and pensions.
She said that payments had been linked to individual reports: "The vast majority of disclosures led to stories which I would describe as salacious gossip rather than anything that could be remotely regarded as in the public interest… they often involve a breach of trust and an invasion into the privacy of the subject."
Akers's statement suggested the culture of paying for illicitly-obtained information was deeply embedded in The Sun's editorial structure. She said the delivery of "regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money" had been authorised at "a very senior level."
Her statement reaffirmed my belief that the bribing of police and other officials was so corrosive of the trust in public servants, and so detrimental to journalistic ethics, that its impact was even more pernicious than phone hacking.
Britain's tabloid newspapers had become mired in a bidding war for sensationalism and the Murdoch press, perhaps more than any other group, should take the blame for having helped to foster an expectation on the part of the public that money can be made from the sale of private information, personal records, tip-offs, snatched mobile phone pictures and the like.
Journalists of my generation, who trained on evening and weekly newspapers, were not accustomed to being asked "How much? What's it worth?" whenever they sought interviews or photographs, a routine that is now said to be a commonplace experience for local reporters today.
A daily advertisement in The Sun (and previously in the News of the World) continues to encourage readers to get "big money" for "a celebrity, a scandal, a human interest story, or any other great tip."
Reading between the lines of evidence
In Rebekah Brooks's first witness statement to the inquiry were a series of answers which, when pieced together, helped to explain how the ability of Murdoch's reporters to pay cash to their sources had morphed into the monster of phone hacking.
She set out the procedure she had known during her 10 years as a News International editor for using "external providers of information... not just private investigators but also individual sources."
Senior journalists who had their own sources had access to the payment process; the editor would only get involved when a large one-off cash payment "would break the weekly run rate" for payments which had been determined by the managing editor.
Reading between the lines of this section of Brooks's statement it is clear
there was a well-established procedure which enabled Sun and News of the World journalists to pay cash for unauthorised information.
In his closing argument to the inquiry, David Sherborne, counsel for 50 hacking victims, said the public had witnessed, the unravelling of "possibly the most outrageous and largest criminal malpractice this country's press has even known."
But there was no doubt in my mind an opportunity had been missed by the inquiry. Murdoch should have been held to account for the way his newspapers had monetised the gathering of illicitly-acquired information.
Didn't he understand that that by condoning practices which had encouraged his journalists to pay cash for unauthorised disclosures – from the alleged bribery of police officers and public officials to the interception of voicemails – he had been progressively poisoning the well of British journalism?
On Monday: Media academic Tim Crook on what Britain's "battered and proud working class" has lost by the closure of the News of the World
*The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial, second and updated edition, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair, will be published by Abramis on 17 September. Available at a special Media Guardian price of £15 from richard@arimapublishing.co.uk
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Though the mogul admitted that the phone-hacking scandal was a 'serious blot' on his reputation, he retains unmatched influence
Rupert Murdoch
Job: chairman and chief executive, News Corporation
Age: 81
Industry: broadcasting, publishing, digital media
2011 ranking: 6
Rupert Murdoch has already been through "the most humble day of my life". This year he admitted that the phone-hacking saga was "a serious blot on my reputation" in the second of two days giving evidence before the Leveson inquiry. For the world's most powerful media mogul, the past 12 months have seen him forced to pick up the pieces from the affair.
The 81-year-old has been forced to contemplate the division of News Corporation, with the Sun, the Times and his other newspapers to be spun off from the financial shield provided by the lucrative Fox film and TV business. More remarkably still, Murdoch has agreed to step down as chief executive of the publishing business – although he pledges to remain as chairman – whenever the divorce goes through.
In recognition of how far Murdoch's credibility has been dented, there was no summer party this year in London – it would not be worth risking snubs from politicians by holding a high profile event. He has never before in 11 years been outside the top 10 in the MediaGuardian 100 — but he is still so high because it would be unwise to write the man off, or dismiss the influence he still wields.
Seven months after shutting the News of the World, Murdoch presided over the launch of the Sun on Sunday. Unveiled at a time when the Sun newsroom was reeling from arrests of several staff for allegedly paying bribes to public officials, Murdoch said the red-top was "part of me" and his action helped reinforce the title. A kinder, gentler paper, the 50p title went straight back to number one at the weekend – but its sale of 2.13m at the last count is more than 400,000 copies less than the old News of the World.
Nor is the case that Murdoch is without influence. The Sun began to fire shots across David Cameron's bows in the spring; Murdoch openly flirted with the UK's two principal political mavericks – Boris Johnson, who invited him to the Olympics, and Alex Salmond, who he described as the "most brilliant politician" in the country.
And if there was less overt contact with the prime minister, Murdoch was quick to find another way to get his voice across. He joined Twitter at the turn of the year, has amassed 320,000 followers, and opts for a "take no prisoners" approach to his opinions. But at least that meant better news for David Cameron: no longer "ditherer-in-chief", his rightward reshuffle was "first class", Murdoch tweeted earlier this month.
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Rupert Murdoch
Job: chairman and chief executive, News Corporation
Age: 81
Industry: broadcasting, publishing, digital media
2011 ranking: 6
Rupert Murdoch has already been through "the most humble day of my life". This year he admitted that the phone-hacking saga was "a serious blot on my reputation" in the second of two days giving evidence before the Leveson inquiry. For the world's most powerful media mogul, the past 12 months have seen him forced to pick up the pieces from the affair.
The 81-year-old has been forced to contemplate the division of News Corporation, with the Sun, the Times and his other newspapers to be spun off from the financial shield provided by the lucrative Fox film and TV business. More remarkably still, Murdoch has agreed to step down as chief executive of the publishing business – although he pledges to remain as chairman – whenever the divorce goes through.
In recognition of how far Murdoch's credibility has been dented, there was no summer party this year in London – it would not be worth risking snubs from politicians by holding a high profile event. He has never before in 11 years been outside the top 10 in the MediaGuardian 100 — but he is still so high because it would be unwise to write the man off, or dismiss the influence he still wields.
Seven months after shutting the News of the World, Murdoch presided over the launch of the Sun on Sunday. Unveiled at a time when the Sun newsroom was reeling from arrests of several staff for allegedly paying bribes to public officials, Murdoch said the red-top was "part of me" and his action helped reinforce the title. A kinder, gentler paper, the 50p title went straight back to number one at the weekend – but its sale of 2.13m at the last count is more than 400,000 copies less than the old News of the World.
Nor is the case that Murdoch is without influence. The Sun began to fire shots across David Cameron's bows in the spring; Murdoch openly flirted with the UK's two principal political mavericks – Boris Johnson, who invited him to the Olympics, and Alex Salmond, who he described as the "most brilliant politician" in the country.
And if there was less overt contact with the prime minister, Murdoch was quick to find another way to get his voice across. He joined Twitter at the turn of the year, has amassed 320,000 followers, and opts for a "take no prisoners" approach to his opinions. But at least that meant better news for David Cameron: no longer "ditherer-in-chief", his rightward reshuffle was "first class", Murdoch tweeted earlier this month.
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No rest for News International. 53 new claims lodged on phone hacking on Friday including former leader of Labour party, Neil Kinnock
No rest for News International. 53 new claims lodged on phone hacking on Friday including former leader of Labour party, Neil Kinnock
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No rest for News International. 53 new claims lodged on phone hacking on Friday including former leader of Labour party, Neil Kinnock
Chrissie, the Directors of News International have said they are not paying any Legal expenses for ex Staff being charged, I presume that includes Rebekah Brooks. Newscorp recently split the organisation up , there is a possibility that the US will force Murdoch to shut down News Intl because of all this scandal, their Laws about Companies registered in the U.S. but trading elsewhere which prove disreputable are much stricter than ours.
Do me a favour if you remember, I am on holiday tomorrow intil 27th, Rebekah Brooks case is due to be heard on 26th, can you post the info here so I can catch up? Thanks.
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I'll do my best Panda. Have a good holiday!
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chrissie wrote:I'll do my best Panda. Have a good holiday!
Thanks, I'm not going abroad this time, Jersey.......only 55 minutes on the Plane. Last year I went to New Jersey in the States to spend thanksgiving with my American friends.......17 hrs including the time difference, I was shattered , told my friends it would be my last haul flight. They said, "Oh don't say that, we have bought a Condo in Florida which we will let out but keep Feb. and March for ourselves, we were going to invite you to come stay with us." I said, "well maybe I can imanage one more trip".
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Former News International chief executive Rebecca Brooks has arrived in court for a pre-trial hearing relating to phone hacking by journalists at the News Of The World (NOTW).
Brooks was charged in July with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority between October 2000 and August 2006.
Also appearing on the same charge at the Old Bailey will be David Cameron's former communications director and former NOTW editor, Andy Coulson.
Five other NOTW journalists charged with offences relating to phone hacking are also due in court.
They include the defunct paper's chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, managing editor Stuart Kuttner, news editor Ian Edmonson, assistant news editor Tim Weatherup and news editor Greg Miskiw.
All seven have vigorously denied the allegations.
Andy Coulson Andy Coulson arrives at the Old Bailey
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire will also appear in court on four charges relating to intercepting voicemail messages belonging to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Guardian journalist Andrew Gilchrist, television cook Delia Smith and former MP Charles Clarke.
Separately, Brooks is also charged with perverting the course of justice. It is alleged she made attempts to conceal evidence of phone hacking and illegal payments to public officials.
Also charged with the same offence are her husband Charles, her personal assistant Cheryl Carter, and other News International staff including head of security Mark Hannah, chauffeur Paul Edwards, and security guards Lee Sandell and Daryl Jorsling.
Brooks resigned from the NOTW in the wake of the phone-hacking revelations in 2011.
The judge has said there will be no Tweeting from inside the court at today's hearing.
Former News International chief executive Rebecca Brooks has arrived in court for a pre-trial hearing relating to phone hacking by journalists at the News Of The World (NOTW).
Brooks was charged in July with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority between October 2000 and August 2006.
Also appearing on the same charge at the Old Bailey will be David Cameron's former communications director and former NOTW editor, Andy Coulson.
Five other NOTW journalists charged with offences relating to phone hacking are also due in court.
They include the defunct paper's chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, managing editor Stuart Kuttner, news editor Ian Edmonson, assistant news editor Tim Weatherup and news editor Greg Miskiw.
All seven have vigorously denied the allegations.
Andy Coulson Andy Coulson arrives at the Old Bailey
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire will also appear in court on four charges relating to intercepting voicemail messages belonging to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Guardian journalist Andrew Gilchrist, television cook Delia Smith and former MP Charles Clarke.
Separately, Brooks is also charged with perverting the course of justice. It is alleged she made attempts to conceal evidence of phone hacking and illegal payments to public officials.
Also charged with the same offence are her husband Charles, her personal assistant Cheryl Carter, and other News International staff including head of security Mark Hannah, chauffeur Paul Edwards, and security guards Lee Sandell and Daryl Jorsling.
Brooks resigned from the NOTW in the wake of the phone-hacking revelations in 2011.
The judge has said there will be no Tweeting from inside the court at today's hearing.
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The date for the trial of Rebekah Brooks has been set for September 2013.
A whole year away!!
The date for the trial of Rebekah Brooks has been set for September 2013.
A whole year away!!
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http://crimeline.tumblr.com/post/32321953374/rebekah-brooks-and-others-what-can-be-reported
CrimeLine Blog - A look at all things criminal
Rebekah Brooks and others - what can be reported? - IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURTBETWEENREGINAVREBEKAH BROOKS… http://t.co/Q9fjNzKR@CrimeLineLaw
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Rebekah Brooks and others - what can be reported?
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PRESS REORTING OF HEARING OF 26th SEPTEMBER 2012
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The discussions and orders made during this hearing are subject to reporting restrictions but the following matters can be reported:-
At a hearing before Mr. Justice Fulford at the Central Criminal Court on 26th September 2012 the Court gave directions for the management of the two cases before it, namely Operation Sacha (perverting the course of justice) and Operation Weeting (phone hacking).
The names of the defendants, the charges they face, and the fact that those present answered to their names and said nothing else.
The names of the counsel who appeared and of the Judge.
The fact that the proposed trial date is 9th September 2013 and that the timetable for disclosure and other pre-trial steps is designed to achieve that.
The fact that a hearing has been fixed when the cases will be before the court on 12th and 13th December 2012.
The fact that all defendants were bailed.
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CrimeLine Blog - A look at all things criminal
Rebekah Brooks and others - what can be reported? - IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURTBETWEENREGINAVREBEKAH BROOKS… http://t.co/Q9fjNzKR@CrimeLineLaw
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Rebekah Brooks and others - what can be reported?
IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
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REBEKAH BROOKS AND 13 OTHER DEFENDANTS
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PRESS REORTING OF HEARING OF 26th SEPTEMBER 2012
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The discussions and orders made during this hearing are subject to reporting restrictions but the following matters can be reported:-
At a hearing before Mr. Justice Fulford at the Central Criminal Court on 26th September 2012 the Court gave directions for the management of the two cases before it, namely Operation Sacha (perverting the course of justice) and Operation Weeting (phone hacking).
The names of the defendants, the charges they face, and the fact that those present answered to their names and said nothing else.
The names of the counsel who appeared and of the Judge.
The fact that the proposed trial date is 9th September 2013 and that the timetable for disclosure and other pre-trial steps is designed to achieve that.
The fact that a hearing has been fixed when the cases will be before the court on 12th and 13th December 2012.
The fact that all defendants were bailed.
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