James Murdoch leaves News International

[Danthus]

Quite amusing that ITV "learnt" that the Commons MP report to be published later this month will be highly critical of James Murdoch.

 

[Heliospherez]

Glad to see the smug faced *** gone to be honest.

And if people would educate themselves, and see some of the stuff he has been responsible for over the years.... even though none of it was provable or apparent to most - then most would see this as a day to celebrate.

As an example..... who do you think sat on the Board of Directors for GlaxoSmithKline when the Swine Flu scaremongering joke was getting pushed down the British publics throats via the mainstream newspapers and TV channels ? Even though he was "only " on £75,000 a year basically doing nothing.....How much do you think he made through his share allocation and his buying of the company shares ????

From the Guardian...

"Some questioned three years ago why a media man in his 30s who had spent all his working life inside the family firm should be brought on to the board of a pharmaceutical group"

Funnily enough - just in time to promote a needless mass medical hysteria across the UK.... when pharmaceuitical firms were one of the only types of corporations doing well on the major stock markets of the world.

It's just one of many

 

[Robbo]

Glad to see the smug faced ** gone to be honest.

And if people would educate themselves, and see some of the stuff he has been responsible for over the years.... even though none of it was provable or apparent to most - then most would see this as a day to celebrate.

As an example..... who do you think sat on the Board of Directors for Glaxo Smith Kline when the Swine Flu scaremongering joke was getting pushed down the British publics throats ?

It's just one of many

This is the thing though, he hasn't gone, he's just changed his job title.

 

[Heliospherez]

I'm actually surprised I remember that.....but the Swine flu debacle actually annoyed me enough for me to see his name against the reports from a few years back.

Only the UK ( and a few other countries ) could be stupid enough to believe all the hype and vaccinate perfectly healthy people needlessly ( and kill / maim some ) simply because of multinational media organisations. Thank god I managed to persuade my family not to have any of it when it was happening.

 

[Muffin`]

I hear he's on a plane back to the US, and then onto a small desert island..

 

[Hatter The Mad]

lolstockha

Wait what!?!?

HE MUST BE DEAD.

 

[hurfdurf]

It's not acceptable but it was also blown way out of proportion.

I still think the term 'hacking' is crediting it with rather too much sophisitication. Was it not simply done by using the default voicemail pin? Thats not really hacking any more than opening a safe using the manufacturers default code is 'safe cracking'.

Lying about it, Police bribery for information and Police bribery to not get investigated for it are pretty big deals though, even if the hacking was just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Heliospherez]

I enjoyed the MET's stance on "lending" the Horse to Rebekah yesterday. If ever I have seen a police force publicly worm their way out of something - that was it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/28/metropolitan-police-horse-rebekah-brooks

"Yes your honour - we gave it to her to look after (even though it still belonged to us) - then took it back"...... Probably because we made up the law that says we can.

 

[hurfdurf]

Rioting is becoming more and more justified.

 

[Meridian]

I enjoyed the MET's stance on "lending" the Horse to Rebekah yesterday. If ever I have seen a police force publicly worm their way out of something - that was it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/28/metropolitan-police-horse-rebekah-brooks

"Yes your honour - we gave it to her to look after (even though it still belonged to us) - then took it back"...... Probably because we made up the law that says we can.

What the Met did there was not wrong in any other circumstances. The problem is not what they did, but who they did it with. If they'd done exactly the same in loaning and reclaiming a horse, but to (say) a children's charity for giving rides to the disabled, would you or anyone else be complaining? Which, of course, is exactly what they should have done.


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[stockhausen]

Probably because this isn't a news website

Quite right, it's a "Spec me . . ." website

It's not acceptable but it was also blown way out of proportion.

I still think the term 'hacking' is crediting it with rather too much sophisitication. ...

What on earth has the degree of sophistication got to do with the acceptability or otherwise of what was apparently considered to be acceptable behaviour at News Corp?

Do you think that the Dowlers, McCanns, etc., etc., feel that their privacy was less invaded because it was easily done?

If it was so damned easy, why didn't the

• mobile 'phone companies alert all their users?
• Police alert mobile 'phone users?
• Sun or News of the Screws do a helpful "expose" on it?

The Murdochs should have absolutely sweet FA to do with the media in the UK - if the rest of the world want to put up with their gutter practices, that is up to them.

 

[Muffin`]

I enjoyed the MET's stance on "lending" the Horse to Rebekah yesterday. If ever I have seen a police force publicly worm their way out of something - that was it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/28/metropolitan-police-horse-rebekah-brooks

"Yes your honour - we gave it to her to look after (even though it still belonged to us) - then took it back"...... Probably because we made up the law that says we can.

As Meridian has said it's not a big deal normally, it's just raised eyebrows because of the current news stories. It'll all be above board, but some news sources seem to think it's a bigger deal than it really is.