'News of The World' scrapped - News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB

[Black Casper]

sky f*ckin pissed me off when they changed from Sky Player to sky Go

thats the only f*ckin thing I have to watch Sky, they stopped the media centre app that was the best thing ever, now its browser only

aint payin for it so I guess I cnt complain much

Cant be worse than virgin tho..lol

[Supermalt]

i wanna see murdoch before the select committee

\cant hate on his hustle. ownership>>

[Flojo]

Ben Bradshaw is smashing it.

Basically called out the Conservatives on shifting policies to remove OFCOM, reducing the BBC's programming budget by 25% and scrapping some program to have more regional news all of which Murdoch wanted.

[JOHN DOE]

personally, i think murdoch will retain his stake in bskyb dissapear for two years then come bk and try and takeover again when weve all forgotten about this

wouldnt be surprised if he sold all his newspapers as well apparently all of them are not making p's apart from the sun

and if he has no political influence now tht hes been baited then why hold onto them if they aint generating profit

[Vertigo]

Nope his pretty much done. The criminal trail will take years then we have the enquiry.

Moves are already happening to isolate him on the board. The shareholders are revolting, his f*ck*ng up some very powerful people investments. they are trying to block his daughter getting onto the board,his son is a busted flush.

This story goes deep. We've barely touched the surface of what some of his papers among others were doing. He'll be lucky to get out with his shirt and now American politicians have started making noises about an enquiry of their own. If those 9/11 allegations are proven or if they've hacked any US citizens that's when his fortune will be severely compromised. Guarantee man is sweating tonight.

He should say f*ck it i'm 80 let me just retire and just live out the rest of my days in peace. I mean this is just a small part of what his organisation was alleged to be up to. Scary sh*t.

• 
  Scotland Yard is believed to have collected hundreds of thousands of documents during a series of investigations into Rees over his links with corrupt officers, and over the 1987 murder of his former business partner, Daniel Morgan. Charges of murder against Rees were dismissed earlier this year.
  Daniel Morgan's brother, Alastair, who has been gathering information for a book, told the Guardian he was aware from his own investigations and from material revealed in court hearings that the Metropolitan police was holding "boxloads" of evidence on Rees's activities. Guardian inquiries suggest that this paperwork could include explosive new evidence of illegal news-gathering by the News of the World and other papers.
  
• According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror. One close contact, Det Sgt Sid Fillery, left the Metropolitan police to become Rees's business partner and added more officers to their network. Fillery was subsequently convicted of possession of indecent images of children.
  
• Some police contacts are said to have been blackmailed into providing confidential information. One of Rees's former associates claims that Rees had compromising photographs of serving officers, including one who was caught in a drunken coma with a couple of prostitutes and with a toilet seat around his neck. Rees claimed to be in touch with corrupt Customs officers, a corrupt VAT inspector and two corrupt bank employees.
  
• An investigator who worked for Rees claims he was commissioning burglaries of public figures to steal material for newspapers. Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats. The paperwork, which was eventually obtained by the News of the World, recorded Ashdown discussing his fears that newspapers might expose an affair with his secretary.
  
• The Guardian has confirmed that Rees also used two specialist "blaggers" who would telephone the Inland Revenue, the DVLA, banks and phone companies and trick them into handing over private data to be sold to Fleet Street.
  
• One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror. Gunning was later convicted of illegally obtaining confidential data from British Telecom. Rees also obtained details of accounts at Coutts bank belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The bank accounts of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, are also thought to have been compromised.
  
• The Guardian has been told that Rees spoke openly about obtaining confidential data belonging to senior politicians and recorded their names in his paperwork. One source close to Rees claims that apart from Tony Blair, Straw, Mandelson and Campbell, he also targeted Gaynor Regan, who became the second wife of the foreign secretary, Robin Cook, the former shadow home secretary, Gerald Kaufman; and the former Tory minister David Mellor.
  
• It is not yet known precisley what Rees was doing with these political targets, although in the case of Peter Mandelson, it appears that Rees obtained confidential details of two bank accounts which he held at Coutts, and his building society account at Britannia. Rees is also said to have targeted his brother, Miles Mandelson.
  
• Separately, for the News of the World, Glenn Mulcaire was hacking the voicemail of the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, Straw's successor as home secretary, David Blunkett, the media secretary, Tessa Jowell, and the Europe minister, Chris Bryant. Scotland Yard has repeatedly refused to reveal how many politicians were victims of phone hacking, although Simon Hughes, Boris Johnson and George Galloway have all been named.
  
• The succesful hacking of a computer belonging to the former British intelligence officer Ian Hurst was achieved in July 2006 by sending Hurst an email containing a Trojan program which copied Hurst's emails and relayed them to the hacker. This included messages he had exchanged with at least two agents who informed on the Provisional IRA – Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed Stakeknife; and a second informant known as Kevin Fulton. Both men were regarded as high-risk targets for assassination. Hurst was one of the very few people who knew their whereabouts. The hacker cannot be named for legal reasons.
  
• There would be further security concern if Rees's paperwork confirmed strong claims by those close to him that he claimed to have targeted the then Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir John Stevens, who would have had regular access to highly sensitive intelligence. Sir John's successor, Sir Ian Blair, is believed to have been targeted by Glenn Mulcaire, although it has not been confirmed that Mulcaire succeeded in listening to his voicemail. Assistant commissioner John Yates was targeted by Rees when Yates was running inquiries into police corruption in the late 1990s. It appears that Yates did not realise that he himself had been a target when he was responsible for the policing of the phone-hacking affair between July 2009 and January 2011.
  
• Targeting the Bank of England, Rees is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by penetrating the past or present mortgage accounts of the then governor, Eddie George, his deputy, Mervyn King, who is now governor, and half-a-dozen other members of the monetary policy committee.
  
• According to police information provided to the Guardian in September 2002, an internal Scotland Yard report recorded that Rees and his network were engaged in long-term penetration of police intelligence and that "their thirst for knowledge is driven by profit to be accrued from the media".
  
• Operation Weeting has been investigating phone hacking by the News of the World since January. The paper's assistant editor, Ian Edmondson, chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, and former news editor James Weatherup have been arrested and released on police bail.
  

[Supermalt]

this runs deeep

these powers..

[Mr Q]

Need to see this footage of Brown going in.

[Vertigo]

Saw some of it earlier.

This motherf*cker was like a new man.

Straight mocking the tories.

[Ulysses]

Ben Bradshaw is smashing it.

Basically called out the Conservatives on shifting policies to remove OFCOM, reducing the BBC's programming budget by 25% and scrapping some program to have more regional news all of which Murdoch wanted.

Most governmental departments are facing 25% cuts, not just the BBC. Yes Cameron made a bad decision, but I hate how this has become a "Cameron is Murdoch's lapdog" story. Labour was sucking on Murdoch's d*ck for 12 years mate, why has everyone forgotten this? If Labour still had the support of Murdoch I doubt they would have come out this strongly against him. Miliband's Spin doctor Tom Baldwin, stands accused of practicing some of the Dark Arts that have have got the NOTW in trouble. Brown knew what was going on and chose to do nothing about it, even after the alleged hacking that revealed his son's illness, he still went to Rebekah Brook's wedding. His wife even hosted a Chequers slumber party for Rebekah Wade, Elisabeth Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy. if you were that outraged would you still have extremely friendly relations with those people, not just cordial but actually close. It is reported that when The Sun chose to support the Tories in the last election, Sarah Brown saw this as a betrayal, that's how close she was to Rebekah Brooks. Its all politics, and in politics you have to take advantage of any political capital on offer. I don't blame them. Members of The Labour Party obviously have deep personal vendettas against NI for not backing them in the last election, and losing them the elction in 1992. Brown to Murdoch: "I WILL DESTROY YOU", When Murdoch switched sides to the Tories

Then you have that d*ckhead Keith Vas (wiki this guy), chairing that select committee the other day, probably the dodgiest guy in the House of Commons, sanctimoniously haranguing those coppers on counts of corruption. Pot calling the kettle black.

The Sun was the bete noir of the chattering classes. But their influence, and that of News International is/ was greatly exaggerated. The Sun talks about its dislike of Human-rights, its anti- EU, tough on crime, disdainful of the Judiciary, anti- 'elf and safety. etc etc. But they haven't been a success policy wise. Past labour governments and the current Tory party run policies contrary to the these populist sentiments. It is liberalism that runs the roost with the establishment.

The left likes to imagine that Murdoch is some evil Lord Voldermort who corrupts the masses with his right-wing lies and propaganda. But if you turn on the tv or read a newspaper, more often that not, topics like the economy, the environment, crime, immigration, welfare, the EU and the role of the state are all understood in left-wing terms. The conservative party is not even conservative anymore. Cameron truly is the heir to Blair. and if you look closely beneath all the bullshit, all the leaders of the political parties are one and the same, with very minor policy differences.

Murdoch is an opportunistic businessman, who cares little for right-wing politics or ideology, he simply backs the person who thinks will win. He is not a kingmaker.

And all this sh*t about the public standing up for something and achieving something bullshit/ malarkey. it was only because it was politically convenient for Labour and other interested parties to take this up. When something up greater importance vexes the minds of the hoi polloi, and it is not in the interest of the establishment, do you actually think they will give a f*ck what you think?

All this nonsense about plurality, what about breaking up the BBC? It is the single greatest behemoth in the media, and the most respected, but it is not impartial (although it pretends to be), it has a left-leaning slant which is admitted by its directors, it has a much greater influence in setting the news agenda than Murdoch would ever hope for and everyone has to pay 150 pounds for it whether they watch it or not.

All the political parties are just a joke to me. Cameron, Clegg, Miliband all of them.

[Kurtis]

sky f*ckin pissed me off when they changed from Sky Player to sky Go

thats the only f*ckin thing I have to watch Sky, they stopped the media centre app that was the best thing ever, now its browser only

aint payin for it so I guess I cnt complain much

Cant be worse than virgin tho..lol

lol true

gettin a syringe in your eye is better than virgin.

but the only other options are BT Vision and Talk Talk TV

wnt even mention card sharing until Iactually do it, im so long

[Lenny]

This motherf*cker was like a new man

so true

[Mr Q]

Miliband appears to be "stepping" his game up as well.

Now if only he could be as passionate and show the same leadership more often.

[JOHN DOE]

Miliband appears to be "stepping" his game up as well.

Now if only he could be as passionate and show the same leadership more often.

he could 'step his game up' to the highest flight of stairs he'll never win any election regardless

now david on the other hand...

[Mr Q]

Miliband appears to be "stepping" his game up as well.

Now if only he could be as passionate and show the same leadership more often.

he could 'step his game up' to the highest flight of stairs he'll never win any election regardless

now david on the other hand...

Haha. I agree with you. I don't think he is the person the party can rely on to get them back into power.

Which is unfortunate, as he isn't a Blair clone, where as his brother is.

[Supermalt]

yup^

[Flojo]

lol Ed is actually winning me over, his doltish appearance is his biggest hurdle imo but it's becoming less and less noticeable.

[JOHN DOE]

nt for me

and his voice screams buffoon

such small annoyances but f*ck

[Mythy Collins]

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[Guest Awesome Kong]

Ben Bradshaw is smashing it.

Basically called out the Conservatives on shifting policies to remove OFCOM, reducing the BBC's programming budget by 25% and scrapping some program to have more regional news all of which Murdoch wanted.

Most governmental departments are facing 25% cuts, not just the BBC. Yes Cameron made a bad decision, but I hate how this has become a "Cameron is Murdoch's lapdog" story. Labour was sucking on Murdoch's d*ck for 12 years mate, why has everyone forgotten this? If Labour still had the support of Murdoch I doubt they would have come out this strongly against him. Miliband's Spin doctor Tom Baldwin, stands accused of practicing some of the Dark Arts that have have got the NOTW in trouble. Brown knew what was going on and chose to do nothing about it, even after the alleged hacking that revealed his son's illness, he still went to Rebekah Brook's wedding. His wife even hosted a Chequers slumber party for Rebekah Wade, Elisabeth Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy. if you were that outraged would you still have extremely friendly relations with those people, not just cordial but actually close. It is reported that when The Sun chose to support the Tories in the last election, Sarah Brown saw this as a betrayal, that's how close she was to Rebekah Brooks. Its all politics, and in politics you have to take advantage of any political capital on offer. I don't blame them. Members of The Labour Party obviously have deep personal vendettas against NI for not backing them in the last election, and losing them the elction in 1992. Brown to Murdoch: "I WILL DESTROY YOU", When Murdoch switched sides to the Tories

Then you have that d*ckhead Keith Vas (wiki this guy), chairing that select committee the other day, probably the dodgiest guy in the House of Commons, sanctimoniously haranguing those coppers on counts of corruption. Pot calling the kettle black.

The Sun was the bete noir of the chattering classes. But their influence, and that of News International is/ was greatly exaggerated. The Sun talks about its dislike of Human-rights, its anti- EU, tough on crime, disdainful of the Judiciary, anti- 'elf and safety. etc etc. But they haven't been a success policy wise. Past labour governments and the current Tory party run policies contrary to the these populist sentiments. It is liberalism that runs the roost with the establishment.

The left likes to imagine that Murdoch is some evil Lord Voldermort who corrupts the masses with his right-wing lies and propaganda. But if you turn on the tv or read a newspaper, more often that not, topics like the economy, the environment, crime, immigration, welfare, the EU and the role of the state are all understood in left-wing terms. The conservative party is not even conservative anymore. Cameron truly is the heir to Blair. and if you look closely beneath all the bullshit, all the leaders of the political parties are one and the same, with very minor policy differences.

Murdoch is an opportunistic businessman, who cares little for right-wing politics or ideology, he simply backs the person who thinks will win. He is not a kingmaker.

And all this sh*t about the public standing up for something and achieving something bullshit/ malarkey. it was only because it was politically convenient for Labour and other interested parties to take this up. When something up greater importance vexes the minds of the hoi polloi, and it is not in the interest of the establishment, do you actually think they will give a f*ck what you think?

All this nonsense about plurality, what about breaking up the BBC? It is the single greatest behemoth in the media, and the most respected, but it is not impartial (although it pretends to be), it has a left-leaning slant which is admitted by its directors, it has a much greater influence in setting the news agenda than Murdoch would ever hope for and everyone has to pay 150 pounds for it whether they watch it or not.

All the political parties are just a joke to me. Cameron, Clegg, Miliband all of them.

Your gassed

[Kurtis]

Rees and his network were engaged in long-term penetration of police intelligence

I really need to grow up

[Ulysses]

Ben Bradshaw is smashing it.

Basically called out the Conservatives on shifting policies to remove OFCOM, reducing the BBC's programming budget by 25% and scrapping some program to have more regional news all of which Murdoch wanted.

Most governmental departments are facing 25% cuts, not just the BBC. Yes Cameron made a bad decision, but I hate how this has become a "Cameron is Murdoch's lapdog" story. Labour was sucking on Murdoch's d*ck for 12 years mate, why has everyone forgotten this? If Labour still had the support of Murdoch I doubt they would have come out this strongly against him. Miliband's Spin doctor Tom Baldwin, stands accused of practicing some of the Dark Arts that have have got the NOTW in trouble. Brown knew what was going on and chose to do nothing about it, even after the alleged hacking that revealed his son's illness, he still went to Rebekah Brook's wedding. His wife even hosted a Chequers slumber party for Rebekah Wade, Elisabeth Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy. if you were that outraged would you still have extremely friendly relations with those people, not just cordial but actually close. It is reported that when The Sun chose to support the Tories in the last election, Sarah Brown saw this as a betrayal, that's how close she was to Rebekah Brooks. Its all politics, and in politics you have to take advantage of any political capital on offer. I don't blame them. Members of The Labour Party obviously have deep personal vendettas against NI for not backing them in the last election, and losing them the elction in 1992. Brown to Murdoch: "I WILL DESTROY YOU", When Murdoch switched sides to the Tories

Then you have that d*ckhead Keith Vas (wiki this guy), chairing that select committee the other day, probably the dodgiest guy in the House of Commons, sanctimoniously haranguing those coppers on counts of corruption. Pot calling the kettle black.

The Sun was the bete noir of the chattering classes. But their influence, and that of News International is/ was greatly exaggerated. The Sun talks about its dislike of Human-rights, its anti- EU, tough on crime, disdainful of the Judiciary, anti- 'elf and safety. etc etc. But they haven't been a success policy wise. Past labour governments and the current Tory party run policies contrary to the these populist sentiments. It is liberalism that runs the roost with the establishment.

The left likes to imagine that Murdoch is some evil Lord Voldermort who corrupts the masses with his right-wing lies and propaganda. But if you turn on the tv or read a newspaper, more often that not, topics like the economy, the environment, crime, immigration, welfare, the EU and the role of the state are all understood in left-wing terms. The conservative party is not even conservative anymore. Cameron truly is the heir to Blair. and if you look closely beneath all the bullshit, all the leaders of the political parties are one and the same, with very minor policy differences.

Murdoch is an opportunistic businessman, who cares little for right-wing politics or ideology, he simply backs the person who thinks will win. He is not a kingmaker.

And all this sh*t about the public standing up for something and achieving something bullshit/ malarkey. it was only because it was politically convenient for Labour and other interested parties to take this up. When something up greater importance vexes the minds of the hoi polloi, and it is not in the interest of the establishment, do you actually think they will give a f*ck what you think?

All this nonsense about plurality, what about breaking up the BBC? It is the single greatest behemoth in the media, and the most respected, but it is not impartial (although it pretends to be), it has a left-leaning slant which is admitted by its directors, it has a much greater influence in setting the news agenda than Murdoch would ever hope for and everyone has to pay 150 pounds for it whether they watch it or not.

All the political parties are just a joke to me. Cameron, Clegg, Miliband all of them.

Your gassed

SHAAAAAATTTTTTAAAAPPPPP.

You can't refute anything so, you come up with ad hominems

[Skola]

the politics behind all this is BULLSHIT

both labour and tories pointing the finger at each other

same sh*t woulda happened if the roles were reversed

fact is the hackings are disgusting and along with the police bribes were ILLEGAL

action should be taken

typical f*ck*ng policitians using any opportunity to get one over on the opposition

[JOHN DOE]

Ben Bradshaw is smashing it.

Basically called out the Conservatives on shifting policies to remove OFCOM, reducing the BBC's programming budget by 25% and scrapping some program to have more regional news all of which Murdoch wanted.

Most governmental departments are facing 25% cuts, not just the BBC. Yes Cameron made a bad decision, but I hate how this has become a "Cameron is Murdoch's lapdog" story. Labour was sucking on Murdoch's d*ck for 12 years mate, why has everyone forgotten this? If Labour still had the support of Murdoch I doubt they would have come out this strongly against him. Miliband's Spin doctor Tom Baldwin, stands accused of practicing some of the Dark Arts that have have got the NOTW in trouble. Brown knew what was going on and chose to do nothing about it, even after the alleged hacking that revealed his son's illness, he still went to Rebekah Brook's wedding. His wife even hosted a Chequers slumber party for Rebekah Wade, Elisabeth Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy. if you were that outraged would you still have extremely friendly relations with those people, not just cordial but actually close. It is reported that when The Sun chose to support the Tories in the last election, Sarah Brown saw this as a betrayal, that's how close she was to Rebekah Brooks. Its all politics, and in politics you have to take advantage of any political capital on offer. I don't blame them. Members of The Labour Party obviously have deep personal vendettas against NI for not backing them in the last election, and losing them the elction in 1992. Brown to Murdoch: "I WILL DESTROY YOU", When Murdoch switched sides to the Tories

Then you have that d*ckhead Keith Vas (wiki this guy), chairing that select committee the other day, probably the dodgiest guy in the House of Commons, sanctimoniously haranguing those coppers on counts of corruption. Pot calling the kettle black.

The Sun was the bete noir of the chattering classes. But their influence, and that of News International is/ was greatly exaggerated. The Sun talks about its dislike of Human-rights, its anti- EU, tough on crime, disdainful of the Judiciary, anti- 'elf and safety. etc etc. But they haven't been a success policy wise. Past labour governments and the current Tory party run policies contrary to the these populist sentiments. It is liberalism that runs the roost with the establishment.

The left likes to imagine that Murdoch is some evil Lord Voldermort who corrupts the masses with his right-wing lies and propaganda. But if you turn on the tv or read a newspaper, more often that not, topics like the economy, the environment, crime, immigration, welfare, the EU and the role of the state are all understood in left-wing terms. The conservative party is not even conservative anymore. Cameron truly is the heir to Blair. and if you look closely beneath all the bullshit, all the leaders of the political parties are one and the same, with very minor policy differences.

Murdoch is an opportunistic businessman, who cares little for right-wing politics or ideology, he simply backs the person who thinks will win. He is not a kingmaker.

And all this sh*t about the public standing up for something and achieving something bullshit/ malarkey. it was only because it was politically convenient for Labour and other interested parties to take this up. When something up greater importance vexes the minds of the hoi polloi, and it is not in the interest of the establishment, do you actually think they will give a f*ck what you think?

All this nonsense about plurality, what about breaking up the BBC? It is the single greatest behemoth in the media, and the most respected, but it is not impartial (although it pretends to be), it has a left-leaning slant which is admitted by its directors, it has a much greater influence in setting the news agenda than Murdoch would ever hope for and everyone has to pay 150 pounds for it whether they watch it or not.

All the political parties are just a joke to me. Cameron, Clegg, Miliband all of them.

Your gassed

SHAAAAAATTTTTTAAAAPPPPP.

You can't refute anything so, you come up with ad hominems

oooooooooohhhhhh

i like this word

googles

[MARVELL]

ulysses comes like some guardian writer, very well intended and delivered but completely oblivious to the real truth. so Justin is right...all that u wrote was just hot air tbh........ except that i agree that the BBC is more powerful than sky, but when you have two great powers all in collusion with each other i.e. skynews and BBC are two cheeks of the same ass... i beleive in people power. so i would prefer to beleive that this whole incident was just a one up for the people, that they didnt see coming. I bet you murdoch has psoken to both cameron and miliband (at least cameron for sure) to discuss this...

[O.Man]

@Ulysses

murdoch is more then the betting man, swaying the country's top newspapers towards political parties has visible effect

BBC is public sector, which is the main reason it is not comparable to newscorp

true labour was whoring out, but as Cameron is heir to blair, blair was heir to the previously dominant tory party #changeclothes

you undermine murdochs influence pre hackgate, which he mostly harnessed to become more powerful/gain more influence