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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 06:41 PM EDT |
Don't know about US but in UK a major scandal involving regular invasion of
privacy of many individuals of all social standings. The fact that some UK
'business friendly' politicians did not think anything major was wrong is very
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| Authored by: jjs on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 07:49 PM EDT |
1. Please do not bring politics here.
2. This is a case where News International violated UK law.
The question is how much the Murdocks knew. Both have touted
their hands-on management in the past. Now, all of a sudden,
they were compeletely out of the loop (according to them),
and have had no hands-on management. Which is it? And why,
when they became aware of the problem, did they not dig into
it?
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:06 PM EDT |
Thing is, News Corp has been the epitome of the Gutter Press in the UK.
Then it comes out that it appears to be corporate pressure from on high that
pushed journalists to engage in things like phone hacking, breaking into
voicemail, etc.
Plus a very cosy relationship between the Met and senior News International
staff where things had a habit of "leaking" - to the extent that
police investigations could be seriously hampered!
And every time more news came out it just got worse. Official cover-ups. The
murder case has already been mentioned where journalists hacked into the
victim's phone, and listened to and deleted messages!
It wouldn't surprise me if it was this hacking that compromised Prince Harry in
Afghanistan. How much other stuff has ended up in the papers as a result of this
invasion of privacy? And the thing is, it has NOT been politicos and their ilk
who've suffered most. It's been innocent bystanders of cataclysmic events who've
just been unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and ended
up being the subject of intense press scrutiny. Like the family of poor Millie.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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