Murdoch: The first conviction
Today the next phase in the ongoing UK legal cases surrounding the Murdoch organisation occurred. DCI April Casburn was found guilty of misconduct in public office.BBC News - Detective guilty of...
View ArticleMurdochgate: News Corp. Hemorrhaging 1,000's of Stores from its Supermarket...
Big h/t to ceebs for alerting me to this story.From Business Insider:Two separate statements from News Corp. appear to indicate that the company's News America Marketing — which handles its obscure but...
View ArticleMurdoch: Making up the News
Today the Sun managed to publish a dose of rabid Tory wankfantasy. An article that managed to hit just about every single point in Benefit bingo. Benefit Claimant Single Mother East European Imigrant...
View ArticleMurdochgate: More charges
The Crown Prosecution Service announced today (Tuesday) that charges are being laid against a Metropolitan Police officer and a Sun (News International/Corp) journalist:Alison Levitt QC, the principal...
View ArticleMurdoch: Casburn sentenced
This morning, the first sentencing of an individual convicted from the investigation that has come out of the phone hacking case.For several reasons this result has been particularly anticipated,...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Sun Editor and Cop to be Tried for Bribery at the Old Bailey
It was surely the anticipation of negative publicity like this that has Rupert Murdoch scurrying to split his empire in half -- an attempt to shield his lucrative entertainment divisions from the...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 100th Person Arrested
From The Telegraph:The 50-year-old serving officer was held this morning under Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to public officials. Scotland Yard confirmed that he is...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 6 News of the World Journalists ARRESTED for Phone Hacking. BRIT...
From the BBC:Six journalists from the now defunct News of the World have been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone-hacking at the newspaper. Scotland Yard said three men and three...
View ArticleMurdoch Throws his Journalists Under a Bus: the Unintended Consequence of the...
Crossposted from Motley MooseI tend to avoid cross posting material from my work at the Daily Beast, but this is an important unintended consequence of Murdoch's reaction to the Phone Hacking scandal...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert Selling Off Shares of News Corp at Frantic Pace
This week, Rupert sold off $28.9 million in News Corp. voting shares. And last Friday, he cashed in $40.1 million worth! I imagine 70 million dollars in 5 business days is near the maximum he's allowed...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert & James Facing Possible JAIL Time UPDATED x1
From an article in Independent Australia, titled, Rupert and James Murdoch to appear in court in UK phone hacking trials:AUSTRALIAN-BORN newspaper magnate Keith Rupert Murdoch and his son James may be...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 4 UK Public Officials Plead Guilty to Selling Info to Murdoch's...
From The Guardian:Two former police officers, an ex-prison officer and another public official have admitted selling information to the Sun – the first people to plead guilty in relation to the...
View ArticleMurdoch: Where is the UK now post Leveson
Now I don't know as this is really relevent to a US site, but as you have all read through discussions of evidence and reports, you may as well have what i think about the current state of things as I...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Jaw-Dropping List of Publicly Known Hack Victims
This list was compiled by the amazing Steven Nott, himself a witness at Leveson. He has given me permission to reprint the list in its entirety.
View ArticleMurdoch: Big day in Leveson
Two major events todayfirstly Four Daily Mirror Journalists arrested, first thing this morning.Operation Weeting: four arrests over alleged Sunday Mirror phone hacking | UK news | guardian.co.ukFour...
View ArticleMurdoch: 600 new hacking cases
Yesterday we had several senior members of the UK's Mirror group arrested, former editors and deputies from one of the papers, including the person who was Piers Morgans deputy. In the corner of the...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Now Sun Admits Accessing Phone Stolen from MP
In the High Court in London today the Sun "newspaper", part of Murdoch's News(sic) International, admitting accessing personal information, including messages, on a mobile (cell)phone stolen from a...
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Murdochgate: Rupert Goes Reverse Godwin, Then Does Power-Meddler Faceplant
This past Monday, on the day of the big Leveson recommendations vote in Parliament, Rupert executed this reverse Godwin (Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a...
View ArticleMurdochgate - More Jail Time
Today a policeman and prison officer have been given jail sentences of 10 months and 16 months for selling information to Murdoch's daily red top "newspaper", The Sun.Both men had admitted misconduct...
View ArticleMurdochgate: U.S. FCPA Charges Looming Against News Corp.
From Business Week:Later this year there will be criminal trials in London for some of the dozens of former News Corp. employees who have been arrested, including Brooks. In the U.S., the Department of...
View ArticleMurdoch: Court Case and Police Conspiracy?
Today was yet another case day in the ongoing civil cases. A further eight cases were brought to conclusion.http://www.guardian.co.uk/...Reality TV star Jade Goody's estate, former Conservative MP...
View ArticleMurdoch: Court cases continue
Today the Crown prosecution service announced yet another case moving to the next stage. This one covers cash alledgedly paid to staff at Sandhurst, The Officer training school for the British...
View ArticleMurdochgate: UK Judge to Reopen Case that could Implicate News Corp. in Axe...
This is big news for anyone folowing #Hackgate: A judge has decided to probe the Daniel Morgan axe-murder case.Morgan was a Glenn Mulcaire-style private detective, who was found with an axe through his...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert's Dark Arts Empire Grew From A Single Brutal Murder...
Today, British Home Secretary Theresa May announced the reopening of the famous 1987 Daniel Morgan murder case. He was a private investigator found in a car park with an axe through the head.A...
View ArticleMurdoch: The cases continue
Much happening in the ongoing Murdoch mania.Firstly, News International has de-listed itself from the London Stock Exchange, an action that may be mere housekeeping or may presage the next round of...
View ArticleMurdoch: Another court day.
After yesterdays Roundup today we had people in court. All the main people who had already been charged were now at the point in the process where they must Plead. All were there apart from a couple...
View ArticleThe twilight of the Murdoch Post
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has been the most conservative major newspaper in New York state for decades.The Murdoch Post has been a cheerleader, in its news and editorial pages, for right-wing...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Another Corrupted Policeman Jailed
A (now ex-)police sergeant has been jailed for 10 months for taking the Murdoch shilling in exchange for leaking confidential information. He had previously plead guilty to the charge of "misconduct in...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Files For Divorce
From Deadline.com:EXCLUSIVE: New Corp chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from wife Wendi Deng Murdoch, Deadline has learned. The filing was just made this morning in New York State...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert Allegedly Caught on Tape Admitting to Bribery and Cover-Up
From Private Eye:IN MARCH Rupert Murdoch met several of the Sun journalists who have been arrested over allegations of paying public officials. The way they were being treated by police, he told them...
View ArticleMurdoch: Action in the US (updated)
For over a Year now, people have been asking when civil court cases would happen in the ongoing Phone Hacking fun coming from the UK Murdoch enterprise.People have come to the assumption that if a...
View ArticleMurdoch: The Court case rumbles closer
The final pre-trial maneuverings have concluded in the News Of the World phone hacking cases. five of the defendents were arguing that if people had already listened to the voicemail messages before...
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Rupert Murdoch Had A Bad 4th of July
http://www.nytimes.com/...Rupert Murdoch is having a bad 4th of July. It seems that one of his own journalists taped a secret meeting held by Murdoch in the boardroom of his company's London...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert Ordered to Appear Before Parliament Again UPDATED x1...
From Reuters:British lawmakers said on Tuesday they would recall media mogul Rupert Murdoch to clarify evidence he gave to them last year after he was secretly recorded belittling a police inquiry into...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert Faces Possible US Charge of Lying to Law Enforcement + 5...
From The Telegraph:Rupert Murdoch could face criminal charges in America after he was secretly filmed telling journalists at his newspapers that bribing police officers for stories was “the culture of...
View ArticleMurdochgate: UK Parliament Demands Immediate Explanation From Rupert re His...
From The Daily Mail:Rupert Murdoch has been challenged by MPs to explain his secretly recorded comments criticising the ‘totally incompetent’ police inquiries into phone hacking and corrupt payments....
View ArticleRupert Murdoch "Regrets"
Those of you following the Murdoch saga will recall there was recently a "hoist with his own petard" moment when a journalist taped him addressing his News International staff in London. He appeared to...
View ArticleMURDOCHGATE - Big News
The Independent has just posted a story that makes for extremely interesting reading.Looks like Rupert might be in a tad bit of trouble.Over the orange cloud to find out...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Sen. Rockefeller Went to UK to Collect News Corp Bribery/Hacking...
h/t to AnnetteK for finding this. From The Telegraph:The Daily Telegraph can disclose that Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the influential Senate Commerce Committee, visited News Corp’s London...
View ArticleMurdoch & Fox News Engaged In Sockpuppet PR Campaign To Counter Bloggers
While this should come as no surprise it is good that this story is getting some media attention and helping focus more attention on the corporate PR/Sockpuppet campaign to discredit liberals or to...
View ArticleMurdoch: The Brooks/Coulson trial commences
In the last few minutes the Prosecution has commenced its case in the News of the World phone hacking case. Eight members of News Internationals staff are up in court 12, although one will only be...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 3 Successive Ex-News of the World Senior Editors + Mulcaire ALL...
From The Guardian:Three former News of the World employees have pleaded guilty to phone hacking charges, an Old Bailey jury was told this afternoon, as part of the opening of the trial of Rebekah...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Brooks & Coulson Affair + Mulcaire Invoice Marked 'Milly Dowler...
From Reuters:Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Our Own Brit Blazes a New Trial
as well as a New Trail.Is this a new innovation in Journalism?As most people here already know, our very own Kossack, Brit, has been giving us a brilliant perspective on the Rupert Murdoch scandal...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Brooks Knew of Over 100 Hacking Victims in 2006 UPDATED x1 Crone...
Can an entire diary be based on a single tweet? When it's from Brit, who's live-tweeting the Hackgate trial, the answer is yes:BREAKING: Crone email to Coulson says Brooks knew over 100 victims of...
View ArticlePiers Morgan Questioned by Police
Things have been very quiet on the phone hacking diary front for the last couple of months. The trials are in progress, and people on the UK side of the water are very wary of discussing things that...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Tony Blair Advised Rebekah Brooks & Rupert Murdoch re Hacking...
What the?? From The New York Times:Mr. Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, offered to act as an “unofficial adviser” to Mr. Murdoch and to Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Mr. Murdoch’s...
View ArticleMurdochgate: FBI Examining 80,000 Emails from NewsCorp NYC's Servers
From a piece in The Daily Beast, co-written by Peter Jukes, a.k.a. Brit, and titled, 'Rupert Murdoch's Trouble Has Only Just Begun':It can now be reported that the FBI has copies of at least 80,000...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Five Buggers Sentenced UPDATED: More charges on way?
Last week's acquittal of Rebekah Brooks was spun by the Murdoch press as vindicating the News of the World (NoW). The Sun, its sister weekday paper which started a Sunday edition to replace the...
View ArticleBRIT Exclusive: Murdoch Tabloid Subverted Murder Inquiry to Protect...
Peter Jukes (a.k.a. Brit) has struck gold again — his exclusive Byline interview of former News of the World Editor Greg Miskiw has blown the Daniel Morgan murder case wide open. Miskiw’s account...
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