October 25, 2011
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 [...]
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August 27, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Australia, Cameron Stewart, Israel, Jews, Max Brenner, Palestinian people, Strauss (company), Strauss Group
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August 24, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, BBC, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Rupert Murdoch
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August 23, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Conservatives, David Cameron, News International, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Tory, Vladimir Putin
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August 20, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, Elle Macpherson, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Simon Hughes, Steve Coogan
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August 19, 2011
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 & [...]
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August 18, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, Les Hinton, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, September 11 attacks, White House Chief of Staff
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August 17, 2011
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 [...]
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August 17, 2011
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 [...]
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August 16, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, James Murdoch, News Corporation, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Rupert Murdoch
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August 16, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, James Murdoch, Les Hinton, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Rupert Murdoch
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August 11, 2011
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 [...]
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August 11, 2011
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 [...]
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August 10, 2011
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 [...]
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August 10, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, John Yates, News International, News of the World, Paul Stephenson (police officer), Rebekah Brooks, Scotland Yard
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August 8, 2011
“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 [...]
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August 7, 2011
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 [...]
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August 6, 2011
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 [...]
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August 4, 2011
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 [...]
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August 3, 2011
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 [...]
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August 2, 2011
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: [...]
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August 2, 2011
Stuart Kuttner (left) with Sara and Michael Payne during the Sarah’s Law campaign. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police officers to leak sensitive information. [...]
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July 31, 2011
The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program The Listening Post, chronicles how the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in the United States. AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Richard Gizbert. He is [...]
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July 30, 2011
David Cameron is facing growing pressure over his appointment of Andy Coulson. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron is facing growing pressure this weekend over his hiring of Andy Coulson after the Labour leadership demanded to know if the former News of the World editor ever saw documents inside Downing Street that should have been available [...]
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July 29, 2011
Glenn Mulcaire said he was ‘effectively employed’ by the News of the World from 2002 to 2007. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, has said that he only ever acted on instructions from his employers. The day after revelations that Sara Payne‘s [...]
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July 29, 2011
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 [...]
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July 29, 2011
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, [...]
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July 29, 2011
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 [...]
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July 29, 2011
Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting in 2000. The mobile phone details of her mother, Sara, have been found in Glenn Mulcaire‘s notes. Photograph: PA Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted [...]
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July 26, 2011
George Osborne has attended 16 meetings since the 2010 general election at which News International executives were present. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA George Osborne met Rebekah Brooks on five occasions in the year following the 2010 general election, according to figures released on Tuesday afternoon, that show how the chancellor cultivated relationships with senior figures at News [...]
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July 26, 2011
Dope dilemma: should a journalist smoke pot to get a source to open up? Washington Post humour columnist Gene Weingarten has set journalists a problem. I’ve amended it just slightly for a British audience. A reporter is sent to interview a man who can help to reveal a matter of major national importance. It would be [...]
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July 26, 2011
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
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July 26, 2011
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
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July 25, 2011
The Wall Street Journal could have done a better job in its Rupert Murdoch interview, its editorial committee has said. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features The Wall Street Journal “could have done a better job” when it published an interview with proprietor Rupert Murdoch in which he said News Corporation had made only “minor mistakes” in managing the phone-hacking [...]
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July 25, 2011
James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch appear on television during their questioning by the culture, media and sport select committee last week. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters 12.57pm: Here’s some coverage of phone-hacking elsewhere, some of it suggested by readers below the line. The Daily Telegraph has a report on Andy Hayman, one of the former senior Scotland Yard [...]
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July 24, 2011
Vince Cable also told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that big questions remained over the Murdoch empire’s suitability to run a UK broadcaster. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA No other media company should ever have the same influence in the UK as Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation, the Vince Cable has said. “There are other big media companies which could have [...]
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July 24, 2011
Rupert Murdoch was accused by the Acpo president, Sir Hugh Orde, of ‘complete denial of any responsibility of his organisation’. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers,has lambasted Rupert Murdoch, saying the chairman of News Corporation had shown a complete denial of responsibility for what had gone on in his [...]
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July 23, 2011
News International threatened to persecute the Liberal Democrats if Vince Cable did not advance its case, according to high-level sources. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Rupert Murdoch‘s News International launched a campaign of bullying against senior Liberal Democrats in an attempt to force through the company’s bid for BSkyB, high-level sources have told the Observer. Lib Dem insiders say NI [...]
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July 23, 2011
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual 21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A [...]
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July 22, 2011
James Murdoch said he answered questions from the Commons culture committee ‘truthfully’. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News Internationalexecutives accused him of misleading parliament. As David Cameron suggested that News Corp shareholders may like to review the [...]
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July 22, 2011
Former No 10 communications boss Andy Coulson was a witness in a 2010 trial involving Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AP Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s former director of communications, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street. The development renews pressure on the prime [...]
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July 22, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest, now joining us from the newsroom of The Guardian, is the reporter who has broken the media Murdoch—the Murdoch media scandal wide open. He is Nick Davies, award-winning investigative journalist at The Guardian in London. Nick Davies, welcome to Democracy Now! Well, did you ever think that the—though you’ve been covering this for quite some [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Chris Bryant, Guardian, Member of parliament, New York Times, News International, News of the World, Nick Davies, Rupert Murdoch, United States
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July 21, 2011
Rebekah Brooks‘s husband, Charlie, had his computer and iPad confiscated by police investigating the phone-hacking scandal after they were found in a carpark. Photograph: Rex Features Detectives are checking the contents of the two computers found in a carpark near the riverside home of Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive who resigned over phone [...]
Tags: Brooks's, Charlie Brooks, Chelsea Harbour, David Cameron, News International, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Rebekah Brooks
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July 21, 2011
James Murdoch told MPs he agreed to agreed to the Gordon Taylor payout in ignorance of the true facts. Photograph: Reuters Tom Crone and Colin Myler were well aware that the statement they were about to make could prove fatal to James Murdoch. When the Guardian pointed out in the wake of his parliamentary testimony that Murdoch’s [...]
Tags: Colin Myler, Gordon Taylor, James Murdoch, John Whittingdale, Neville Thurlbeck, News International, News of the World, Rebekah Brooks
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July 21, 2011
If you missed any of the display at the hearing by Murdoch and Son, don’t fret you did not miss anything of any substance whatsoever. The calculated and planned style adopted by the now seemingly humble, aging and contrite father was juxtaposed with the incoherent corporate ramblings of the ‘heir apparent’ son along with [...]
Tags: Clive Goodman, Colin Myler, Gordon Taylor, James Murdoch, Neville Thurlbeck, News Corporation, News International, News of the World phone hacking affair, Professional Footballers' Association
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July 21, 2011
The Met police has been asked to guarantee it will investigate all cases where someone suspects a tabloid tracked their whereabouts using their mobile phone signal. Photograph: Felix Clay Scotland Yard has been asked to inspect thousands of files that could reveal whether its officers unlawfully procured mobile phone-tracking data for News of the World reporters. [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Association of Chief Police Officers, Mobile phone signal, National Policing Improvement Agency, New York Times, News of the World, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Scotland Yard
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July 21, 2011
1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War — And Why We Let Them Most Americans turn a blind eye to the violent acts being carried out in their name. July 19, 2011 | An Iraqi policeman walks past destroyed cars at the site of a blast [...]
Tags: Iraq, Iraq Body Count, Iraq War, Iraqi Army, Presidency of George W. Bush, Richard Miniter, Saddam Hussein, The New York Times
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