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

News International boss Rebekah Brooks has promised the "strongest possible action" if claims that the phone of Milly Dowler was hacked are proven.
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It's ok people, nothing to see here. So what happens if its proven against her then?
 
Perhaps i've watched too many films / tv series featuring Newspapers, but isn't there a large daily editorial meeting where the big stories are discussed and prioritised for the next days front pages etc ?

How could the hacking not have come up in these meetings when the paper even mentioned the contents of voicemails and passed information back to the police ?

Does anyone really believe that Rebekah Brooks had no idea about the voicemail hacking ?
 
neil473 said:
Perhaps i've watched too many films / tv series featuring Newspapers, but isn't there a large daily editorial meeting where the big stories are discussed and prioritised for the next days front pages etc ?

How could the hacking not have come up in these meetings when the paper even mentioned the contents of voicemails and passed information back to the police ?

Does anyone really believe that Rebekah Brooks had no idea about the voicemail hacking ?
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And as I have said before, do you really think people in a meeting such as you have highlighted above even remotely talked obtaining information by illegal means?
 
Brian8bit said:
Means nothing until they withdraw any association with Rupert Murdoch. Plenty of other Murdoch owned papers and tv pieces they can advertise on.
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Like Sky's coverage of the Premier League.

Still I am sure the idiot masses will be celebrating the hollow gesture from Ford.
 
OldCoals said:
And as I have said before, do you really think people in a meeting such as you have highlighted above even remotely talked obtaining information by illegal means?
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Yes, I think that's exactly what they've done. Are you suggesting the editor would just say: "Good story" without asking where it came from? I understand the principle of Plausible Deniability, but not when the boss is so intimately involved in the final product. I'd believe that Murdoch didn't know though - or even care. But I suspect that any sacrificial victims here are mid-level and not even at editor level. Unless Brooks is pregnant, as rumours suggest. In which case she make take, er, maternity leave.


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Complaining to the advertisers is probably the best thing to do in terms of hurting the publication given the PCC is basically a toothless (useless?) organisation. It needs some proper teeth such as being able to shut down a paper for a period of time IMO, I suspect if they could do something like shut down publication of the NOTW for 6 months for grevious breaches of the PCC ethics code there might be a bit more focus on the 'responsible' aspect of 'responsible journalism'.

Nice that it's a 'slow' news period too, News Corp must be praying for a natural disaster, celebrity affair or gruesome murder to take the attention off them.
 
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I believe you need to present this at a level that will communicate to NOTW readers, something along the lines of

"FLEET STREET PRESS INTERFERED WITH PAEDO CATCHING POLICE SHOCKER! MESSAGES DELETED FROM OUR MILLY'S BRAVE PHONE BY BAD NAUGHTY JOURNALISTS THAT AN UN-NAMED SOURCE SAID WERE MUSLIMS! AND OR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! WHAT KIND OF RESPECT DOES THIS SHOW OUR BRAVE BOYS IN AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT HELICOPTERS? ALSO DIANA"
 
OldCoals said:
I honestly don't think this will be swept under the carpet, the balance has tipped in my opinion.
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Hmm, we shall see. Personally I think they'll find someone fairly senior and use them as the scapegoat.

The bigger scandal of course throughout all of this is how the police have acted. The failure of the met to properly investigate the issue in the first place, and the failure of the police to properly investigate the voicemail hacking in this instance.

I think it's also worth noting that if it wasn't for the Guardian's Nick Davies, we might have never found any of this out. He probably wasn't the most popular journalist on fleet street after his book "flat earth news" but it's taken some balls to persist with his investigation and he's demonstrated the real value of investigative journalism. Credit to the paper too, for persisting with the story whilst other news services didn't dare speak of it.
 
Groups up here are starting a flyposting campaign again NoTW and it's sister papers.

I'd be more than happy to see the circulation plummet. They have to be punished one way or another, and politicians don't seem to have the heart. Or the police, or the CPS...
 
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