BIG NEWS! Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp just admitted to phone hacking!!!!!! Blood is in the water now!

[Snoutport]

THIS is big news! Newscorp has come out publicly saying they had hacked phones and were setting up an account to pay off people whose lives have been damaged. Now, this might sound like they are fessing up but the fact of the matter is the blood is in the water and several new pieces of info have shown that Newscorp's top executives were in on the phone hacking. (Thank you Hugh Grant for taping that reporter!! That tape and the publicity you are bringing has forced Newscorp to admit to hacking).

BUT...I think this is a bait and switch to divert us. I think Newscorp is on the edge of totally imploding and taking a good chunk of the Murdoch controlled media papers with it.

Consider this:

They have already paid off quite a few people to keep hacking charges out of the courts. Last week the courts ordered the police to make public huge amounts of information they had been hiding. Murdoch knows that if he pays off all the new court cases he might be able to keep that information from going public. What he doesn't realize is the left is not going to settle. The government people are putting up a fight over Murdoch's hacking of their phones. Some of these rich celebrities don't need the money, and, best of all, if all 4000 people sue, it could gut the Murdoch media empire.

Murdoch just pulled his son out of England to get him the heck out of there since he is the one who wrote a lot of the checks that bought off witnesses.

The police are under investigation and can no longer protect Newscorp.

There are two tapes now of Newscorp employees admitting to hacking phones/emails and both have named top Murdoch people.

All we need now is ONE tiny little piece of evidence showing the hacking of a US phone number. Just one...and we can start looking at FOX.

[Snoutport]

1. link for apology

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/apology-over-phone-hacking-scandal-2265288.html

[Blue Owl]

2. What a fuckin' piece of shit

Murdoch deserves everything coming to him following this.

[Snoutport]

4. I'm with you on that. I read one article that they hacked a rape victim and her friend's phones

just so they could get the scoop on how the girl got raped. Pretty low. She is one of the people I do hope gets a million pound check!

[meegbear]

3. Big news elsewhere, but here ...

a paragraph here, a blurb there ... DONALD TRUMP JUST INSULTED SNOOKI AT THE BRAD PITT PREMIERE PARTY!! STACY JONES IS THERE LIVE!!

[Snoutport]

6. DId he make fun of her hair?

cause that would be pretty funny.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Yet there are no investigations by the DOJ across the pond...

interesting!

[Snoutport]

9. Scotland Yard is being investigated for covering it all up and being on Murdoch's payroll.

The officer in charge of the investigation retired and took a job as a writer for Murdoch! The police are all being investigated now.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Yet over here....crickets

A sane person would realize that Standard Operating Procedure is pretty much across the board--what they do there, they do here, etc...and start investigating their operations here.

I understand it isn't going to happen...and it is a damned shame.

[Snoutport]

22. ANONYMOUS? I wish they would look into it

[spanone]

7. they should loose all of their fcc licenses immediately

[Snoutport]

24. i dream of that!!

[malaise]

8. Kick them out of business

Fugging criminals

[blm]

11. Were they doing it in 2004?

.

[Snoutport]

16. according to some past employees, YES

[blm]

21. The names of longtime RW operatives Roger Ailes and Karl Rove come to mind.

.

[Snoutport]

23. exactly! Ailes was already telling eomployees to lie...so his ethics might be

just a bit skanky.

[emulatorloo]

12. Rec. No doubt in my mind they were doing something similar in US

EOM

[sabrina 1]

13. This kind of activity should be considered treason.

These vile criminals are evil and they conspire to interfere with the electoral process, undermining democratic systems and causing the public to be harmed.

I think they should have to pay billions but there should be criminal investigations and charges.

They bought off Scotland Yard too? Unbelievable. How can there be any faith in these governments anymore.

Did they buy off our DOJ too? Enquiring minds would like to know.

Thanks for the post, this evil man has probably done more harm to the civilized world than anyone else in recent times.

As for his son running away? Has Interpol issued an arrest warrant yet? I mean they issued a red alert or something on Julian Assange who also has not been charged with anything, just wanted for questioning??

[gratuitous]

14. Why would Fox be in trouble in the U.S.?

Even if they did engage in some legal hanky-panky, our Department of Justice isn't terribly interested in prosecuting certain people, and I should think that Rupert Murdoch and Fox would fit the template of folks who don't have to answer at the bar of federal justice.

I would dearly love to see the Attorney General and the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute corruption and misconduct, but from what I have seen, it's not up to this administration to make those decisions. The decision to prosecute is left to the political cronies of the accused, and unsurprisingly, nobody in that camp wants to see charges brought.

[glinda]

30. Crooks come to America to live and set up shop. Crooks run our Government.

[Enthusiast]

32. I agree.

I don't think it would matter what Fox News did. There would be no investigations and it wouldn't even appear on the TV news.

[Uncle Joe]

15. So is the British Government investigating how potential blackmail, coercion or inside information

obtained by this phone hacking business over the years may have contributed either politically or socially to Murdoch "getting the green light" to take over this satellite pay-TV group?

I imagine Murdoch by admitting guilt will try to buy the silence of his victims in this regard via compensation, but surely there must a be criminal investigation?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/newscorp-idUSLDE7371L120110408

The scandal dates back to 2005/6, when the News of the World's royal reporter and a private detective were arrested and later jailed for snooping on the voicemail messages of royal aides.

London's Metropolitan Police launched a new inquiry last January after being severely criticised by some politicians and celebrities who suspected they too had had their voicemail intercepted.

(snip)

Murdoch's News Corp, which also owns The Sun and The Times newspapers, was given the green light by the government to take full control of British satellite pay-TV group BSkyB last month.

Thanks for the thread, Snoutport.

[Snoutport]

25. There have been mentions of police saying "don't investigate or Newscorp will go after you"

that sort of thing. More is going to come out soon. Hugh Grant's taping is going to make it much more public.

[supernova]

17. Makes you wonder what FOX has on the Dems?

I know that we have speculated on DU before about Murdoch/RNC blackmailing Dems to make them cower to GOP desires.

Hugh Grant's work here adds a piquancy to that view.

To Hugh, Well done!!

[Snoutport]

28. it would explain a LOT

[WinkyDink]

18. Again: Let me know when Murdoch sits in jail.

[Snoutport]

29. would you settle for him having to sell of some papers to pay legal fees?

this won't put the big snake in jail but it will put some little snakes in jail. it is a start.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. So when they admit to wrongdoing, it means we have to forgive them, right?

That's how it works?

[Boojatta]

20. Courts are obsessed with the past. They should let bygones be bygones.

Of course, this applies to all crimes. That said, the past behavior of criminals in relation to their criminal activities should be a matter of genuine regret.

;)

Edited to add excerpt from the article:

The statement went on: "That said, past behaviour at the News of the World in relation to voicemail interception is a matter of genuine regret.

[chaplainM]

26. At least we know that our president would NEVER give immunity to wiretapping corporations!

Hey, waitaminute...

[glinda]

31. Murdoch and Hillary are cozy friends. Imagine they work together on information.

[fishwax]

27. wow -- more revelations to come, I'm sure

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

33. K & R!

[kickysnana]

34. In the US they would give him a bailout for it. n/t