YEEHAH, the Redhead is goin' down!

[stockhausen]

It's not the Police, it's not MPs, it is the Grauniad!

... Also, call me cynical but why do I get the feeling these arrests are in part to make people forget the police were just as culpable in the phone 'hacking' scandal.

Heaven forbid that anyone should describe you as cynical

However, I suspect that if left to their own devices, the Police would leave this issue well alone. I think that most people believe that the selling of information, losing evidence and the turning of a blind eye by Police officers at all levels has been the norm for a very long time now. They will neither want this nice little earner to stop or to have it acknowledged. If George Dixon (Google him) ever existed, he is long gone.

Corrupt links between politicians and the press also have a long history, it is just that it was even more blatant with Cameron and Coulson than it was with Blair & Campbell and Cameron happened to be left standing up when the music stopped - note that the tax-dodging foreign Dirty Digger is the common theme here

This cleaning out of Murdoch's sewer is being driven primarily by just one newspaper; most of the others are trailing along behind because they believe in not rocking the boat or bickering within the cartel and in many cases because they know that they have been little better.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

You really do talk a load of tosh sometimes stockers. What a complete load of generalised and biased rubbish.

 

[deuse]

I bet she's got loads of dirt on cameron that will keep her out of jail.

 

[shoes]

stockhausen, why do you have such a hard-on for Eton and people who used to go there? There's nothing that special about it. You don't seem to prefix anyone else's name with their school, so why just Eton pupils?

Because he's jealous that his own parents are miserable failures and couldn't afford to send him to anything more than the closest comprehensive to their dive of a council estate, probably.

 

[estebanrey]

The only problem I have with Eton is it's charitable status which I don't think it should have. But when someone uses 'Etonian' as an insult, I usually stop listening as they've already proved their argument won't be based on rationalism but rather an inverted form of snobbery and jealously.

 

[stockhausen]

I bet she's got loads of dirt on cameron that will keep her out of jail.

I suspect that the Murdoch Media empire has loads of dirt on a great many people - that after all was their stock-in-trade. However, I very much doubt that they will openly want to use it except in extremis.

I suspect that they will hire the very best legal team they can - I believe that the Barrister leading News Corp's internal investigation team charges £3,000 per hour - and will claim that media exposure makes it impossible for anyone of significance to the Dirty Digger to get a fair trial.

For this reason, I think that you will find that the Grauniad and the BBC will avoid much mention of the Wicked Witch of Wapping and her gang until the trial - other media outlets will dither about as usual, hoping not to be spotted down in the sewer. The Sun and BSkyB will stand four-square behind her, insisting that she is the unacknowledged love-child of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa

 

[DAIR]

Pfffffft don't give a ****. The disgusting public are as much to blame for this as they are for funding this kind of behaviour.

LOL Ive been thinking the samething. Oh the irony.

.I didn't see or hear anyone questioning the source of stories before the whole hacking ordeal

 

[growse]

The only problem I have with Eton is it's charitable status which I don't think it should have. But when someone uses 'Etonian' as an insult, I usually stop listening as they've already proved their argument won't be based on rationalism but rather an inverted form of snobbery and jealously.

For what it's worth, many public schools achieve their charitable status by pumping millions of pounds into facilities which they then open to the public. I can't speak for Eton specifically, and you might not agree that this is enough to warrant charity status, but that's the reasoning behind it (as far as I understand).

 

[estebanrey]

For what it's worth, many public schools achieve their charitable status by pumping millions of pounds into facilities which they then open to the public. I can't speak for Eton specifically, and you might not agree that this is enough to warrant charity status, but that's the reasoning behind it (as far as I understand).

I understand the reasons why, I just disagree with them. IMO charitbale status should only be given to organisations whose sole purpose is what most people would recognise as a 'good causes' and not orgnaisations who do a bit of charity work as part of their remit.

Eton's primary function is being a public school for the richest people in society, not feeding the starving in Africa or looking into cancer reseach.

But that's off topic.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

I understand the reasons why, I just disagree with them. IMO charitbale status should only be given to organisations whose sole purpose is what most people would recognise as a 'good causes' and not orgnaisations who do a bit of charity work as part of their remit.

Eton's primary function is being a public school for the richest people in society, not feeding the starving in Africa or looking into cancer reseach.

But that's off topic.

What about their public facilities or public works?

Eton's aim is that finances will not be an obstacle to any boy who is offered a scholarship. Means-tested bursaries can augment the scholars' automatic 10% fee reduction. There are a large number of boys who are charged a very small fee; about 40 boys are educated free of charge, and in several cases the School pays for extras, including school uniform and in some cases even pocket money.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

To be honest when I read the thread title I had something else in mind entirely.

 

[shoes]

LOL Ive been thinking the samething. Oh the irony.

.I didn't see or hear anyone questioning the source of stories before the whole hacking ordeal

At a guess, the average sun / notw reader doesn't have the intellectual curiosity to question such things.

 

[shoes]

To be honest when I read the thread title I had something else in mind entirely.

Me too, and I hoped it included this:

Thread disappoints.

 

[Jokester]

I felt that it was immensely ironic that the news clip of them last night leaving the police station had a police horse box in the background.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Me too, and I hoped it included this:

Thread disappoints.

You realise 'she' is a transexual, right?

 

[estebanrey]

Me too, and I hoped it included this:

Thread disappoints.

Great, now I feel like a paedophile...thanks

 

[Christo]

She is right when she mentions witchhunt. It has indeed become a witchhunt. The problem isnt specific to her, it was the entire industry - it was/is totally rampant. The fact that she/ the Sun are the focus of this in the media is preposterous, the media like to create these 'wrong doers' and beat the hell out of them - pathetic.

 

[Christo]

I understand the reasons why, I just disagree with them. IMO charitbale status should only be given to organisations whose sole purpose is what most people would recognise as a 'good causes' and not orgnaisations who do a bit of charity work as part of their remit.

Eton's primary function is being a public school for the richest people in society, not feeding the starving in Africa or looking into cancer reseach.

But that's off topic.

?? You do realise that a large number of public schools are under threat and under financial difficulty. The vast majority of public schools arent as well of as Eton.
How can a school possibly not be considered a good cause?

If public schools close down all that will happen is other state schools will need to open, pushing up the education budget.

The only reason for this push on removal of charitable status is jealous/reverse snobbery. Seriously idiotic.

 

[No1newts]

lolstockhausen.

 

[estebanrey]

She is right when she mentions witchhunt. It has indeed become a witchhunt. The problem isnt specific to her, it was the entire industry - it was/is totally rampant. The fact that she/ the Sun are the focus of this in the media is preposterous, the media like to create these 'wrong doers' and beat the hell out of them - pathetic.

But she hasn't be arrested for being responsible for the entire phone hacking scandal, she has been arrested for trying to pervert the court of justice with regard the specific actions she took to conceal evidence.