A young Qaddafi and his later demise attracted media reporting that would shift and change depending on the writer, the organisation and the elite’s interests. A good account of the British media and the varying methods of reporting appears in the book “Flat Earth News“. Of course the best accounts of reporting usually come from those affected by [...]
BDS poses a great danger for Israel. (BDS campaign graphic) By Samah Sabawi The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated [...]
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson became David Cameron’s aide and the Tories director of communications in May 2007. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian Andy Coulson was just a little too indiscreet, telling a handful of colleagues at Conservative campaign headquarters that he was still receiving substantial severance payments from News Internationalmonths after he joined [...]
Andy Coulson was still being paid by News International while working for David Cameron, it’s been reported. Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features So now we hear that Andy Coulson was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by News International for several months when he was working for David Cameron’s Conservative party. This despite the fact that he [...]
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire has been ordered to reveal who told him to access six public figures’ voicemails. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, has been ordered by a court to reveal who instructed him to access the voicemails of model Elle [...]
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance. July 31, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Activism & [...]
Mainstream media often dismisses talk of conspiracy as silly – yet in the case of News of the World, a vast criminal conspiracy was shown to have existed [EPA] In the last month, we have seen one engrossing news event follow another in quick succession. On July 5th, The Guardian revealed that the News of the World had [...]
James Murdoch ‘misled MPs’ over how much he really knew about News of the World phone hacking Giving evidence: James Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on the NOTW in Portcullis House in central London in July By MICHAEL SEAMARK Last updated at 11:26 AM [...]
Phone hacking: all in this together Clive Goodman‘s explosive letter poses fundamental questions for the whole phone-hacking controversy Editorial guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 20.55 BST Article history On 26 January 2007, Clive Goodman, the News of the World‘s royal editor, pleaded guilty to illegal phone hacking and was jailed for four months. On the same [...]
James Murdoch giving evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee last month over the News of the World phone-hacking affair. Photograph: PA Evidence received by the Commons culture, media and sport committee contains “devastating revelations” about phone hacking at the News of the World, Labour MP Tom Watson said on Tuesday. Watson, the [...]
The News of the World‘s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims phone hacking was widely discussed at the paper. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images The News of the World’s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims [...]
Simon Hughes: hoping to ‘get to the bottom of what happened during this dark period in British journalism’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, is to sue News Internationalover phone hacking at the News of the World, he confirmed on Thursday. Hughes told the Evening Standard: “It is important now that all [...]
News International offices in Wapping. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Greg Miskiw, the former News of the World newsdesk executive arrested on Wednesday, has been released on bail. Miskiw, 61, was arrested by appointment at a central London police station as part of the Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking at the News International tabloid. The [...]
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Photograph: James Leynse/ James Leynse/CORBIS SABA At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image [...]
2:32PM BST 10 Aug 2011 Scotland Yard said the 61-year-old remained in custody after visiting a London police station by appointment at midday. Miskiw left Britain for the US after being alleged to have repeatedly authorised illegal voicemail hacking. Last month he told The Daily Telegraph outside his home in Florida that his solicitors had [...]
“Hold on, aren’t you Andy Coulson? I’m not sure you’re an appropriate choice for this role.” Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Inappropriate payments Bribes. Bribes, bribes, bribes. An inappropriate payment would be if your aunt wrote you a cheque but made it out to “Fitty McHotpants”. If you give a police officer money for confidential information, that’s [...]
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
Elisabeth Murdoch will not join the board of News Corp after suggesting the move would be ‘inappropriate’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Elisabeth Murdoch will not be joining the board of her father Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation conglomerate, despite expectations that she would do so. The company said in a statement that she had suggested [...]
Newt Gingrich is the latest politician to turn to Twitter, but a large number of his supposed 1.3m followers has turned out to be phony. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Newt Gingrich has always been odd. Even if you share his politics – slashing aid to needy children, telling the world that the seated American president [...]
Tom Watson in Westminster: ‘There’s a sense of relief’ Photograph: David Levene A month ago, Tom Watson received word that the Guardian was about to expose the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone by the News of the World. With 72 hours to go, he cleared his diary; a few days later, he was averaging three [...]
The Machigenga tribe live in the Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Glenn Shepard/Survival International A series about an Amazonian tribe that aired on the BBC has been accused of “faking” scenes and mistranslating interviews to negatively portray the tribe as “sex-obsessed, mean savages”, according to accusations made by two eminent experts. The show, called Mark & Olly: [...]
Rebekah Brooks, then the News of the World editor, with Sara Payne, mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne at a meeting to discuss Sarah’s law in 2002. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA . 5.25pm: Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the latest twist in the News of the World phone-hacking saga. As you may have [...]
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
Bill O’Reilly Bill O’Reilly is appalled by how the man who went on a vengeful killing spree in Norway is being portrayed in the liberal media (view clip). He was particularly disgusted with the headlinethe New York Times ran last Sunday which read “As Horrors Emerged Norway Charges Christian Extremist”. O’Reilly felt it was unfair to [...]
