Why don't they just ban Murdoch and all his works?

stockhausen

stockhausen

stockhausen

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Four former and current Sun journalists and a police officer have been arrested by detectives investigating payments made to police by journalists.
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It has been demonstrated repeatedly that News International is unfit to have any involvement at all in the media in this country; why don't the Government simply withdraw the broadcast license for Sky, shut down all the Murdoch rags and declare Murdoch and all members of his family personae non gratae?

We can get along absolutely fine without them ;)
 
So wait? You expect the government to do something that will take money out of their back pockets? Don't be silly, how else can they get these donations that fund their £10 muffins.
 
While this won't happen, it's made the whole situation a lot more interesting, at best politicians pander to him and his empire because of the influence they can have; at worst there is a really high level of corruption tying them together. However a lot of glimpses into these relationships have been made as a result of all this furore, and it does seem a potential turning point, I just don't think it will be one.
 
Why shut it down?

Maybe shutdown the idiots that buy this junk, maybe then they might change. For whats its worth I think I've bought about 2 newspapers in the last 15 years and then it was when I was bored waiting for an airplane.
 
You cant just shut down news international, unemployment is high enough as it is. Most of the people that work for them are innocent
 
i think ian hislop said it best

Mr Hislop said he feared widespread coverage of celebrities' evidence to the inquiry could prompt the public to think newspapers were "utterly revolting" and should all be closed.

"I wanted to put in a plea for journalism and the concept of a free press, that it is important; it isn't always pretty… and I hope this inquiry doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater."
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simulatorman said:
Might as well close them all down because it’s highly likely that they've all been at it.
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Of course they have. I see no reason why people think any different.

Tapping phones, hacking emails and so on are all the modern equivalent of Eavesdropping and Tapping up Sources.....

All stuff that Journalists have been doing since they invented the Newspaper Press. It may come as a surprise to some, but invading peoples privacy is their job.
 
Castiel said:
... All stuff that Journalists have been doing since they invented the Newspaper Press. It may come as a surprise to some, but invading peoples privacy is their job.
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I simply can't imagine why the mighty News International failed to rely on you for their defence; just think how much money they could have saved.
Castiel QC: Your Honour, I maintain that my client was just doing his job and as such can be guilty of no crime.

Judge Cocklecarrot: Once again Mr Castiel the court appreciates your saving its time with your remarkable knowledge of the law. Case dismissed and costs awarded against the claimants.
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Just imagine if you had been acting for the defence at Nuremberg:
Castiel QC: My clients were just doing their jobs and as such are 100% blameless.
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stockhausen said:
I simply can't imagine why the mighty News International failed to rely on you for their defence; just think how much money they could have saved.


Just imagine if you had been acting for the defence at Nuremberg:
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I didn't mention the morality or legality of it, only the feigned surprise that everyone has. How did people think Journalists got their information exactly.

Do you ever actually listen to yourself, it is no surprise that people rarely take anything you say seriously.
 
Disaster Pool 3

The Grauniad said:
Under enormous legal and political pressure, Murdoch has ordered that the police be given everything they need. Whereas Scotland Yard began their inquiry a year ago with nothing much more than the heap of scruffy paperwork seized from the NoW's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, Murdoch's Management and Standards Committee has now handed them what may be the largest cache of evidence ever gathered by a police operation in this country, including the material that led to Saturday's arrests.

They have access to a mass of internal paperwork – invoices, reporters' expense claims, accounts, bank records, phone records. And technicians have retrieved an enormous reservoir of material from News International's central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick that breaks the media mogul's back. It is known as Data Pool 3.

It contains several hundred million emails sent and received over the years by employees of the News of the World – and of the three other Murdoch titles. Data Pool 3 is so big that the police are not even attempting to read every message. Instead, there are two teams searching it for key words: a detective sergeant with five detective constables from Scotland Yard working secretly on criminal leads; and 32 civilians working for the Management and Standards Committee, providing information for the civil actions brought by public figures and for the Leveson inquiry and passing relevant material to police.

For News International, Data Pool 3 is a nightmare. Firstly, no one know what is in there. All they can do is wait and see how bad it gets.

Second, the police clearly believe it may yield new evidence of the crimes they set out to investigate – the "blagging" of confidential data from phone companies, banks, tax offices etc; the interception of voicemails and emails; the payment of bribes to police officers.

Third – and most nightmarish – Data Pool 3 could yield evidence of attempts to destroy evidence the high court and police were seeking. Data Pool 3 itself was apparently deliberately deleted from News International's servers.
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This may not surprise those who consider corrupt activity involving Cops and Reptiles normal and acceptable but I suspect that the Dirty Digger and his chums will be VERY unhappy about the possible implications.

One can only hope that it leads to the closure of another of Murdoch's execrable rags, disappointing though it might be to Hislop and his highly entertaining Street of Shame column :)
 
I don't normally (ever!) agree with stockhausen but news international is just awful and I hope the sun goes the same way as notw.
 
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