Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the Screws

the_director said:
The real problem is the utterly powerless Press Complaints Comission and the laughable idea that self-regulation works. Those defending Murdoch because he's not being on the frontline of such journalism is to ignore the culture created by such a figurehead who judges editors by newspaper sales and political acquiescence rather than proper journalism or behaviour that meets even basic moral standards.
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It does seem that newspapers get away with far more than TV stations so, in fact OFCOM in the UK seem to dish out pretty huge fines for relatively trivial slip ups by TV stations. We seem to have pretty strict rules compared to a lot of other TV stations in Europe at least...

I also wonder weather newspapers being able to use anonymous sources is a good or bad thing, but regardless I can't really see things changing drasticly anytime soon... :(
 
Nobody is man enough to go after anyone who purchases ink by the barrel in this day and age, everyone has skeletons in their closet that they don't want coming out and I'm fairly certain the key players who went after the press, even if they were successful, would be taken down with them.
 
According to the Grauniad website, Scotland Yard are believed to have found evidence of the targeting of the Dowlers in a collection of 11,000 pages of notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire. I very much doubt that the Police only found those 11,000 pages of notes a couple of days ago; they have had them for years but found it more convenient simply to bury the evidence.

As hurfdurf suggests, Murdoch's NewsCorp has the dirt on everybody. Our fearless politicians seem more than happy to send young men out to die in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in order to introduce our wonderful values there - why don't they grow some cojones and get just a wee bit embarrassed for us at home? :mad:


John Prescott has tweeted that "The hacking of Milly Dowler's phone by Murdoch's News of the World proves once and for all he is not a fit and proper person to own BSkyB" - I think that Two Jags is too kind to Murdoch who is not a fit and proper person to be involved in any form of media at all.


I suggest that you might like to drop a quick email to your MP; see HERE.
 
stockhausen, people won't take your view seriously whilst you still rename companies and people you don't like.
 
Never thought I would say it but stockhausen is right about one thing, the police knew about this for 2 or 3 years. They knew about Milly's phone being hacked back during the original investigation into the royals phones being targeted.

Yet they did nothing :( I don't think this is due to any conspiracy, just pure incompetence once again by our police force!
 
Biohazard's attack on Dolph was truely bizzare! Just caught up with this thread and the whole-sale attack from 2-3 left wing nut jobs on a ramdom person with reasonable views just smacks of a couple of desperate idiots that didn't a leg to stand on!
 
As if any one will get done for this other than the PI. All they will do is deny any involvement or knowledge.

EDIT - Though their stance seems different for this latest episode. Normally I would expect denial of wide spread, another form of denial, a flimsy admission followed by an internal investigation and finally some form of apology.
 
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As if any one will get done for this other than the PI. All they will do is deny any involvement or knowledge.
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Do you honestly think the people who intercepted the voice mails phoned the executives at the NoTW and told them that is what they did to get the stories?
 
No but I think there *may* have been some knowledge of what these PI's did or were capable of. There have been 10s and 10s of cases and not one of the editors/execs were in the know? Perhaps not but hard to swallow.
 
Hope NOTW and the Sun get shut down. It'd be the best thing to happen to British 'journalism' in a long time.
 
What I want to know is how do they go about hacking voice mail? Is it a case of finding out a number, a provider, calling voice mail and guessing the pin? Or do you clone the phone to identify as the victim so that when you dial the voice mail it identifies as the victims phone and then you guess the password? Or if it identifies as the victims phone, do you even need the password? Or do you have to hack into the phone company and access messages stored on their systems in a run of the mill computer hack?

It's one of the things I don't understand about "phone hacking". Run of the mill hacking I get.
 
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