Former NotW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck arrested on suspicion of intimidating a witness

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Daily Mail

The former chief reporter of the News of the World has been arrested on suspicion of intimidating a witness.

Neville Thurlbeck, 51, has been on police bail since April 5 last year when he was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking.

But officers from Scotland Yard's phone-hacking probe, Operation Weeting re-arrested the reporter at 4pm today over allegations of interfering with a witness and encouraging or assisting an offence.

Last week Mr Thurlbeck was accused of antagonising members of the News International's management and standards committee (MSC) which has handed millions of e-mails to police investigating the scandal.

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[Justice wanted]

1. Just arrest Murdock and his son already! They had to know EVERYTHING that was happening.

[dipsydoodle]

4. He's out on a limb with this

His issue is with Murdoch's own investigation team.

They had to know EVERYTHING that was happening ? Please provide links.

[sabrina 1]

2. Finally they do seem to be getting serious about that whole operation passing as a

'news' organization.

What I don't understand is how they, the Murdoch Tabloid Empire, managed to get so much control over the British Government. That was a shock to learn. Blair eg, seemed to be terrified of them.

I know they have influence here with the Republicans, but as far as we know, nowhere near the kind of influence they had in Britain where former employees were part of the Government, or assistants to people like Cameron. And Murdoch himself had free access to the British PM it seems.

That kind of influence by a lying, tabloid propagandist should never have happened and it would be worth a thorough investigation to find out how it did and to pass some laws if necessary to make sure it never happens again.

Of course we don't know how much influence Murdoch had/has over our Government. I do remember being shocked when he threw a party for Hillary Clinton though and that may be a clue to how much his operation has influenced our political system also.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. The British newspaper industry is more like the US TV industry

It's dominated by national players (only Scotland has significant independent newspapers, because, historically, you couldn't get papers from London there fast enough to be up-to-date for morning delivery; everywhere else was within reach of fast trains from London). So there isn't the tradition of papers centred on a city who have to appeal to a majority of the potential market, and keep a reasonable standard of accuracy and intelligence of news coverage; instead, there are several national papers, which can be profitable concentrating on certain markets.

And there's a lot of money to be made by printing a lot of show-biz news and gossip, along with a bit of 'real' news. That made the tabloids the biggest selling newspapers; and, with the equivalent of the Fairness Doctrine still firmly in place in UK broadcasting, papers are where people get partisan political commentary. Imagine that Fox News had The Simpsons and American Idol to lure people in, but then gave them the Fox News Channel bulletins and blowhards like O'Reilly - and that, since people had to paid something for each channel they ever saw, most only ever watched one channel.

This has gone on for a century - while Bennett and Hearst in the US were founding 'yellow journalism', the UK papers induced the comment from a British Prime Minister that newspapers had "power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot through the ages".

While previous Labour leaders had accepted they wouldn't get all the papers on their side, Blair, after the domination by Thatcher, convinced himself that Murdoch's Sun had to support him if he was to become PM (and that he might as well try to get the Daily Mail too). This may have been helped by Murdoch obtaining a monopoly on satellite broadcasting in the UK (thanks to Blair's predecessor Major). So he grovelled to Murdoch (and, let's face it, he was never comfortable in a party that called itself socialist in the first place), got an endorsement from The Sun - and got in. And then all politicians decided that Murdoch chose the election result (whereas he was really just following the likely result), and so did whatever they could to please him.

[sabrina 1]

18. Very interesting, thank you.

What a nightmare scenario this is:

Imagine that Fox News had The Simpsons and American Idol to lure people in, but then gave them the Fox News Channel bulletins and blowhards like O'Reilly - and that, since people had to paid something for each channel they ever saw, most only ever watched one channel.

That explains a lot about how they got so much control over the government. I remember reading about Blair grovelling to Murdoch.

I also remember Fox going after the Clintons relentlessly during that administration. Without Fox at the time, we probably would not have had 24/7 coverage of the 'affair'.

And then being shocked when Murdoch threw a party for Hillary. I guess the Clintons decided to grovel also, which could only mean that Murdoch does have a lot of control over our political system also. Not to menion how other major networks, like CNN eg, rather than cometing with Fox by providing real news, decided to imitate them, bringing the whole standard of TV/Cable news down into the gutter.

Again, thanks for a very informative post.

[Cheviteau]

19. Do you mean...

...like right-wing radio and Fox news has taken over our government? The answer is simple: we elect people with no guts to stand up to them. At least GB is trying to level the playing field by investigating the corruption in the "news" business.

[Octafish]

3. How come none of this in on my television screen?

Inquiring minds and all that wot.

[GodlessBiker]

6. Because if viewers believe that this media outlet is capable of such things, we might think that all

media outlets are. And media outlets do not want us to think that.

[Octafish]

17. Control what people know and you can limit what people do.

Corporate McPravda Represents One of Our Biggest Problems

...Especially FOX News. That outfit is run on behalf of Rupert Murdoch by one Roger Ailes, former toady to the likes of George Herbert CIA in Dallas Walker Bush, Ronald Arms to Terrorists Reagan, and Richard Nixon the Crook. They have no love for real Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, or anyone interested in peace, justice, civil rights, and making life better for everybody other than the 1-percent.



That darn media.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Well I did try to explain yesterday

this is pretty much a UK issue aside from which it only happened an hour ago.

Aside of DU I'd doubt the US public have too much interest in this saga. If you've anything to indicate otherwise then please post.

[sabrina 1]

9. When the US media wants to make a story interesting to the American people, they are very

capable of doing so. I am sure this will be reported, but barely. The public would be interested if the Media made the connection between Fox and Murdoch and asked the relevant questions, was any of this going on in the US? Were politicians' phones hacked eg, celebrities' phones (the last would generate huge interest in the US). And they are questions that should be asked here. It's hard to believe that the same organization was not engaged in similar tactics here.

[dipsydoodle]

10. What I'll do when I've got the time

is email my 90 or so banjo buddies over your side, who are a pretty mixed bunch , and ask them the simple question of what connection if any they draw between Murdoch / News Corp and Fox and whether they think the same is likely to have occured in the US as has happened here.

[Octafish]

16. Good idea.

Meanwhile, I'll continue to spread word about this:

CIA and the Media

Why that's important, re: Murdoch (and his liar-in-chief, Roger Ailes):

Control over the flow of information emanating from the political center will be our most important weapon in establishing our authority after the coup. -- Edward Luttwak, "Coup D’Etat – A Practical Hanbook," Penguin, 1968, p. 117.

[Cheviteau]

20. Love Your avatar

Forty-five years ago, when going to college on the GI bill, I could have been taken for his twin and, I was assigned the nickname "Che" by my classmates and friends . Thus, my screen name. But I added the rest to keep in touch with my French heritage. I'm a deep south Louisiana man, you see. And I have no idea why I wrote this post other than I wanted to. Seventy-two year old men do silly shit. Being a veteran of two tours of duty in Vietnam I've earned the right to be as silly as I want. And yes, should anyone ask, I'm still as much the rebel as I once was. Thank you.

Vote for the Kenyan. It's important.

[dipsydoodle]

21. Your four older than me

We're old enough to do what we please.

[tularetom]

5. He should be arrested for having a name that sounds like Monty Python made it up

[dipsydoodle]

8. They've yet to arrest

Spiney Norman.

[tularetom]

11. Hey look how long it took them to get the Piranha Brothers

and even then they couldn't make it stick.

[yellowcanine]

12. or Biggus Dickus

[dipsydoodle]

13. dont forget his wife

Incontinentia Buttocks.

[geardaddy]

14. Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him vewy wuffly!