posted January 19, 2012 10:59 AM            

not only is news corp forking over some big ones to jude law and others, but they have admitted "misusing" the illegally invasively obtained information they hacked off their phones etc...

i wonder, why is it okay for a BIG guy like rupee to rape and pillage people's private information, but when a little guy rapes and pillages info from the govt or a big company they are squashed like flies?

perhaps it is the importance of the information, i can go along with that. but it is not okay JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN for honchos like newscorp to destroy lives for their enrichment and the titillation of the smaller minds of the world.

posted February 11, 2012 04:44 PM            

i have to admit i haven't been watching too carefully...but i did see a story yesterday about how the folks at the SUN, another even more raggy rag of rupee's, are getting nervous that they may catch some of the same flak as NOTW...ie they are afraid their jobs and paper may be next..

posted February 12, 2012 11:27 PM            

in a hyperlink I found this piece:

The difficulty is that nothing, not even the arrival in Britain of Rupert Murdoch bearing reassurance, can automatically put the Sun on the survival list now. The procedures that Murdoch and his News Corporation board have sealed in place make such certainties impossible. This is an almost fatalistic process.

News Corporation in New York has its managements and standards committee operating here. That committee, led by Lord Grabiner QC, is independent of Wapping. It does not tell Dominic Mohan, the Sun editor, when some of his most senior staff are about to be arrested; it simply passes millions of emails to the police, on site, running Operation Elveden, the investigation that is hunting corrupt cops, civil servants – and journalists offering cash for information.

Elveden, as its supreme commander, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, told Lord Justice Leveson last week, is boosting its numbers from 40 to 61 in order to trawl this Sun material in detail. These inquiries are "nearer the beginning than the end".

Meanwhile Sun journalists are being arrested at a rate not far short of two a week as this investigation proceeds. At this pace, there may be nobody left to bring out the paper in 12 months – and any reassurances will be redundant. Nor is there much that Murdoch can do about it.

But then take three weighty factors into account. One is that there's all the difference in the world between arrests and charges. Scotland Yard, even today, may not want to see dozens of reporters and editors hauled into court to defend themselves, each in different circumstances, against charges of "aiding and abetting" crime. Was anyone here, waving a cheque book, pursuing a clear public interest story? Will it, some weary years on, seem sensible to adopt a blanket approach?

Another is whether reporters paying up for a story are responsible or merely following higher editorial – and thus company – demands. Where does the buck stop? At James Murdoch, at Rupert himself? No one can be sure what a jury would conclude. Journalists, under the Press Complaints Commission code, have a duty to protect their sources.

But these sources are now being shopped by the company that offered to shield them (before it changed its mind under the duress of its own disgrace). Twelve good men and true may have their own, unpredictable views on this.

And then there's the bigger picture. Take away the £650m or more in revenue that the Sun brings in every year and what's left of News International – the Times and Sunday Times – would look simply unsustainable.

They've made total losses of £175m over the last three years, paid for by Sun and News of the World profits: an implicit deal that has kept Murdoch's restless shareholders at bay. But, without his two redtops, the burden is big enough to make Russian oligarchs, let alone the News Corp board, flinch.

Would anybody want to come to the rescue in such dire circumstances? Most relevantly, what would be the future of the retail and distribution trade that depends on mass titles? There are thousands upon thousands of corner-shop and freighting jobs at risk here. No wonder Fleet Street is muttering "Be careful what you wish for" under its breath.

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The author posses a few good questions. Not the least of which "be careful what you wish for"

the fissures in the bedrock are as tentacles-- with far reaching impact.

The number of investigators used (60) is six times the number that the new "forclosure police" are using in the U.S....you know the feds who are out protecting us against bank raptors?

posted February 12, 2012 11:34 PM            

Fox News reports there were/are riots and protests in Russia over Russian election results.

Everyone knows there were no riots or protests over the recent Russian elections.

posted February 13, 2012 11:29 AM            

pics of GREEK riots are not news footage of RUSSIAN riots.

truth is truth, and embellishment is embellishment. the fact that embellishment has been the SPECIALTY of murdoch's "news" reports for decades is the point.

posted February 14, 2012 02:38 PM            

i am not discussing the form of government in russia but the fabrication of SO-CALLED news images.

posted February 14, 2012 03:46 PM            

only a matter of time, as this article suggests, until one of those thrown under the bus squawks loud and clear?

As the evidence mounts that much of Murdoch’s journalism was built on illegal invasions of privacy and corrupt relationships with police, three questions remain in urgent need of answers: Why should British authorities permit an in-house News Corporation committee, regardless of how fragrant its members may be, to serve as gatekeepers of the company’s records—especially when there is abundant evidence of efforts to destroy or delete incriminating evidence? In light of the latest arrests relating to corrupt payment to government officials, and bearing in mind actor Jude Law’s claim that his phone was hacked on his arrival at JFK airport, when will the Justice Department get serious about its own investigations? (There is also the lesser question of whether we are really to believe that methods which consistently delivered tabloid gold for editors and reporters in Britain would be too sleazy to tempt the high-minded hacks at the New York Post?)

posted February 14, 2012 06:46 PM            

The most trusted news network in America is FOX NEWS...and, the Wall Street Journal is doing just fine, thank you very much!

On the other hand, the word on the street is that The Nation has only 3 readers and 2 of them don't trust what The Nation has to say!

posted February 15, 2012 12:19 AM            

Fox News IS the most trusted news network in the United States.

I already substantiated this statement.

posted February 15, 2012 01:31 PM            

i am interested in whether the news, trusted or not, is made up of facts or fabrications.

posted February 24, 2012 05:24 PM            

Yes, I agree that Fox is a part of the mass media. It's fashionable to presnet yourself as an alternative, rogue element and most are gullible enough to buy that angle so long as they're told what they want to hear. I think those who prefer Fox exclusively aren't searching for information so much as confirmation.