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Rufus Polson
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Yeah, he became a US citizen because apparently there are foreign ownership restrictions on the media in the US. So to build his empire as big as he wanted it, he had to become a USian.
Disposable citizenship seems to be another thing our favourite media overlords have in common. |
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voice of the damned
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Location: slandered, libeled
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| Quote: | LONDON - A former editor of the News of the World received payments and benefits from the newspaper while working as an aide to Conservative leader David Cameron, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Andy Coulson resigned from the now-defunct tabloid early in 2007 after a reporter and a private investigator were jailed for hacking into the voicemails of royal staff.
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voice of the damned
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This story continues, though with subdued prominence...
| Quote: | A dominatrix’s sensational story of sex, cocaine, and tabloid wrongdoing has revived questions over the relationship between Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hungry News of the World and Britain’s Treasury chief, George Osborne.
Former escort boss Natalie Rowe says the tabloid deliberately twisted her claims that she and the Conservative Party politician used to snort cocaine together years ago so that Mr. Osborne was not tainted in the scandal.
The idea that Mr. Osborne – now one of Britain’s most powerful politicians – could have been deliberately cast in a sympathetic light by a Murdoch paper has raised new questions about whether the now-defunct tabloid was playing favourites with its political exposés.
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One thing that strikes me about this whole scandal is that, for the reputations of the people involved, the precise details about what's true and what's false really don't matter.
I mean, you've got two possible statements...
News Of The World tried to protect George Osborne from allegations that he snorted coke with a prostitute.
News Of The World did not try to protect George Osborne from allegations that he snorted coke with a prostitute.
But either way, if you're George Osborne, you're pretty much screwed. Neither statement is anything you want to be printing up and wearing on the front of a t-shirt.
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voice of the damned
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| Quote: | The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has admitted hiring a private detective to spy on two lawyers who were representing victims suing the media group over a phone-hacking scandal.
News International, the UK newspaper arm of News Corp, admitted the action, the latest in a string of embarrassing and damaging revelations about illegal eavesdropping on phone messages, was "inappropriate".
It also adds to growing pressure on Mr Murdoch's son James, the chairman of News International, who is due to face British MPs for a second time on Thursday as part of a probe to find out how much he knew about the hacking scandal.
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voice of the damned
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Hm. Score one for Murdoch(sort of).
| Quote: | An article about the investigation into the abduction and death of Milly Dowler (News of the World hacked Milly Dowler's phone during police hunt, 5 July, page 1) stated that voicemail "messages were deleted by [NoW] journalists in the first few days after Milly's disappearance in order to free up space for more messages. As a result friends and relatives of Milly concluded wrongly that she might still be alive." Since this story was published new evidence – as reported in the Guardian of 10 December – has led the Metropolitan police to believe that this was unlikely to have been correct and that while the News of the World hacked Milly Dowler's phone the newspaper is unlikely to have been responsible for the deletion of a set of voicemails from the phone that caused her parents to have false hopes that she was alive, according to a Metropolitan police statement made to the Leveson inquiry on 12 December.
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Of course, these false allegations about deleting messages while hacking phones probably wouldn't have been made if NOTW hadn't been hacking phones to begin with.
Still, though. Murdoch apologists could probably say "Look, the only reason anyone cared about this hacking is because they thought that messages were deleted, and that turned out to be false". Which would probably be an accurate statement about public sentiment.
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