Gringo

Actions speak louder than words

Excellent signing, welcome to the home of league football Shay.

Bojo was on the radio this morning and seems to have changed his tune - a while back he said the hacking was a non-event, trivial and he wouldn't be bothered suing newscorp as it happened all the time (a similar attitude to the newly retired paul stephenson who saw it all as a waste of police resources) - but now Bojo thinks this is quite serious - maybe because it's harming call me dave and boosting bojo's own chances of stepping into his shoes. He also dropped a bollock by revealing that Yates 'couldn't find my arse with both hands' of the Yard is going to be questioned by the Metropolitan Police Authority Professional Standards committee.

Of course they don't mean what they say - they're politicians. Otherwise he wouldn't have been allowed to buy channel5 or obtain a broadcasting license.

It's about time someone stood up for the flame haired medusa So is he saying it's unbelievable that she would sanction hacking - or just she wouldn't sanction hacking that caused the family grief? And then he goes on to compare hackgate with watergate lazy lazy comparison jezza. Further on in the same article Poor tessa, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, tricked by that nasty duplicitous husband but treated so kindly by the british press. And despite being on the losing side at the election nice dave kept her job on the board of the olympics. And now it's reported she was a go between for wade/murdoch and brown. Of course, her relationship with rupert goes back a long way Of course this review took place just a few months after Tessa's stepdaughter had secured a nice role as news review editor on the sunday times. How cosy.

No to vigilante justice!

rupert won't be happy at being forced into this - I can see her as the chief exec of sky news before a year has passed.

And that is what some have been saying is required for a long time. BIAD

fixed Next few years will be used securing the bskyb's position in order to relaunch the takeover bid sometime after the next general election.

Its the same defence the lying MPs used - it was just the culture of the place, the way things were done, what we were entitled to. If it's corrupt, if it's bent, if it's damgaing the greater good, then burn it down.

There is an ongoing 'fit and proper' test for broadcasting licenses. Currently the license is held by bskyb which would be hard to challenge with rupert owning only 38%, but if newscorp were sole owners then the test could be applied to them directly.

So yates of the yard, who was charged with determining if there was any evidence that the enquiry should be re-opened, asked a few mates in the plod and they said it was all kushtie, so he decided that there was no point in proceeding. Red Ken (the one before red ed) was on the radio this morning saying how scrupulous yates was and how meticulous he was as he never managed to find any evidence of cash for peerages even though the evidence was all printed in the national press. The executive, the enforcers and the media all nicely in bed together telling lies to the public. The referral of the bskyb deal means it is unlikely to proceed before february next year. Hopefully this kerfuffle will all have blown over by then, the deal will go through and rupert can carry on running the country as before.

NOTW have been hacking everyone, the times is accused of hacking bank details and now the sunday times accused of all sorts: So News Intl is widey infected, but no link to the wider news corp. Today rupert basically asked for the bskyb bid to be referred to OFCOM, and removed the offer of selling sky news. So either he thinks closing notw removes any threat to media (not news) plurality or he's willing to sell the papers and remove idea of competition consequences. Either way, the plan seems to be to direct the argument to focus on the competition issues instead of the 'fit and proper' dillema. Because if rupert isn't fit and proper, what about dirty desmond or the sullivan enshamble - or the two mad brothers acting as dictators on one of the channel islands.

In the saturday grauniad they had an example of a couple in the states jailed under the USA corruption laws and all their assets being seized.

The Fox Killer? Has hackgate just gone big stateside. Unfortunately I doubt the mirror journalists have **** all evidence which will end up damaging the case against rupert. This could be rupe's break.

In part we can actually blame murdoch's presence on Cap'n Bob. The lovely rupert like a knight on a white horse to save this great old newspaper from some grasping foreigner.

This +1 The politicians policeman has apologised for his incompetence For a policeman he seems quite unable to find wrongdoing when the evidence is all around him.

Yet Warnock was continually playing for the first few months of Houllier's reign. Kind of strange that he would just suddenly drop him if he disliked him the whole time.Not reallly. If you want to destroy an employee an often used tact is to try to give themselves the rope to hang themselves with. Warnock's performances got more random by the week. Obviously one message or other wasn't getting through.

Warnock is a good player. Obviously he had serious problems last year, both with the management and inside his own head. Tame those demons, you''ve got a good player.

Rupert is in the UK to do something, he isn't here as a faciliator. So by the end of the visit we will see a new appointment at one of three important roles: * Chief Exec NewsCorp (current holder James Murdoch) * Chief Exec NewsIntl (current holder Rebekah Brooks) * Chairman of Judicial Inquiry into Media Influence (current holder n/a)

Nah, the last few pages gave examples of posters rubbishing claims of where nulabour had tried to make out they didn't cosy up to Murdoch.

Yes both punch and judy parties have been sucking murdoch for a long time. I think that's been well established and haven't seen anyone argue different. It's only the punch and judy supporters that are keen to see this from a punch vs judy perspective.

You can't use regulation against voldemort, he's too powerful. News corp needs to be dismembered, then regulation may stand a chance.

22 years ago there was a similar cross-party consenus that the beast needed taming self regulation for the media ==> corruption self regulation for the MPs ==> corruption self regulation for the police ==> corruption self regulation for the bankers ==> corruption

Can't be true as I heard jack straw this morning saying that news corp didn't decide labour policy. Oh and he said news corp editors had their own independent opinions. So instead of sticking the boot in, punch is busy defending it's own skin.