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

Makes you wonder what kind of person would feel comfortable showing their face in public, carrying a copy of the NOTW. The latest revelations do indeed just get worse and worse. Vile newspaper.
 
It's pretty much every major story they went straight for the voicemails it seems :-/

How can that possibly have 'escaped the attention' of senior staff, if they were in fact unaware they are surely guilty of gross negligence and incompetence :p
 
oli collett said:
Hmm, we shall see. Personally I think they'll find someone fairly senior and use them as the scapegoat. ...
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There are indications that Murdoch's News Corp are already throwing Coulson out of the lifeboat.


oli collett said:
... The bigger scandal of course throughout all of this is how the police have acted. ...
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Do you not think it likely that the News of the Screws had more than enough dirt on senior Police Officers to keep them quiet?


oli collett said:
... 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.
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Absolutely; the Grauniad is perhaps the only decent, honest newspaper left in the country.
 
stockhausen said:
Absolutely; the Grauniad is perhaps the only decent, honest newspaper left in the country.
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In its reporting, the Guardian is essentially the Daily Mail of the liberal left when it comes to interpreting events on my behalf.

While it is where I get most of my news from (aside from the FT) and while it does a lot more good than the likes of the Daily Mail, its reporting is often biased selective and full of telling me what to think about a particular problem.

For straight and factual reporting, read the Financial Times. They still do a superb job of keeping reporting and commentary/opinion very distinct (in separate sections, in fact).
 
Ford, T-Mobile, Npower, Halifax, Tesco, Aldi, Currys, Dixons, First Choice, Renault, the Body Shop, Xtra-vision, Virgin Media, Easyjet, Carpetright, T-Mobile, Magners and a well known but unmentionable High Street PC retailer are all alleged to be reviewing their advertising spend with the News of the Screws . . . I wonder if W.H. Smugs or any supermarkets (e.g. Tesco) will actually choose not to sell the News of the Screws on Sunday :confused:

Perhaps they should order extra copies of The Observer instead :)

Mumsnet is reported as having canceled a contract with Sky which is an excellent sign - everything in any way associated with Merdeoch deserves to be boycotted until he takes his odious business elsewhere :mad:


News of the Screws hacking - what you can do to clean up the media.
 
In all my years I've never heard of anything so bad concerning outside involvement in a murder case. If they can record & delete Milly Dowlers voicemails they must have been doing it to everybody.
NOTW should be boycotted & those found responsible should be up in court.
 
I really, really hope people stop buying these rags. But who will the unwashed masses swap to, exactly? The Daily Fail?
 
For the people saying the editors wouldn't have known about this, well, I see that as the completely naive view point.

It has been said many times by the people in the business, it is the job of the editor to know where the sources of (especially) front page headline news comes from. There have also been ex-NOTW journo's who have said Andy Coulson explicity talked to them about phone hacking to get information.

Also, this story has been rumbling on since 2005, the first police investigation was a farce and I would reasonably guess that wasn't through incompetence. It was all being suppressed to hopefully go away, as this isn't limited to 1 private investigator or even 1 newspaper, it was endemic across the tabloids.

This is why over the last few years, you would hardly even have known such a story existed if you just read the general papers, apart from the odd flare up, this is the biggest scandal about the news media there has been, which really would reach into the dark corners of bribery, corruption and political influence.

But unless something radical happens, I guess the hanging a couple of scapegoats out to dry, with the general whitewashing of "I knew nothing, honest guv" is all we will get before it all blows over again and back to business.
 
Debate in Parliament following PMQs today

The Speaker has granted a rare emergency Commons debate on Wednesday into calls for a public inquiry into phone hacking by News International journalists, and a potential cover up by its senior executives.
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Ministers present in the Commons chamber opposed the emergency debate but, in what will be seen as another show of force by the Speaker John Bercow, he accepted arguments in favour put by Labour MP Chris Bryant.
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Labour is undecided about whether or not to put forward a substantive motion calling for a public inquiry that could be subject to a vote or amendment. Instead, they could try to flush out Conservative party support for News International by showing its MPs are objecting to the principle of setting up an inquiry after the police investigation is complete. (The Grauniad)
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Can there be anyone left who still believes that Murdoch doesn't exert excessive sway over the British Government :confused:
 
I predict News Corp will shut down the NOTW and rebrand it The Sun on Sunday. Most of the people that buy this rubbish won't know it's essentially the same and lap it up.

This whole thing is sickening and all those involved should face heavy punishment.
 
Interesting that Brooks is specifically saying that she had no knowledge of the Dowler fiasco, but no general denial going further than that. Makes you wonder if she knew of other hacking cases at the time. If there is evidence that she was aware of any other hacking then she'll be screwed. If hacking was given the nod by her even on one occasion then this would basically tell her staff that this behaviour would be tolerated.

This all makes me so angry. Had been thinking of ditching Sky Sports for some time now, this tipped me over the edge so cancelled it with Virgin last night. Previously when I've cancelled stuff with Virgin they always try to tempt you with deals so you keep services. There was none of that last night, took me 30 seconds to cancel. Wonder if they were inundated with cancellations yesterday so gave up trying to talk people out of cancelling.
 
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