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The whole thing, gone.
All staff sacked.
People being charged and stuff.
True Story.
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I await the SunDay with interest.
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I may have to attend.
Hey, JayPee.:)
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I may have to attend.
Hey, JayPee.:)
Yo Kev.
Things going well with you, old bean.
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I await the SunDay with interest.
:drumroll:
Evening, Mr.Paul
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And evening to you too Ms Else.
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It wasn't really the News of The World anyway. It was the News of The whatever might interest an average channel 5 viewer.
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What's an average channel 5
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That was rubbish but I thought I would give it a punt.
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I may have to attend.
Hey, JayPee.:)
Yo Kev.
Things going well with you, old bean.
I am not unwell...the clan propagates - working on grand-child #6, due Christmas day, nearest we can figure.
Business-wise, things are going swimmingly, which is today's business-ese for 'treading water'.
My feet are wet, but my ears are dry.
I trust your mighty clan is a positive and prosperous enterprise?
How's Missus and the kiddies?
I often wonder, often, often.:)
You realize, of course, only the sheerest luck finds us here in the same thread.
I should ring the McWhirters to see if they'd be interested for their little annual.
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Good to hear that you and yours are doing well.
Me and mine are likewise.
I like to think of it as more Karma than luck. Or the final and absolute proof of the existence of God.
One or the other.
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Good to hear that you and yours are doing well.
Me and mine are likewise.
I like to think of it as more Karma than luck. Or the final and absolute proof of the existence of God.
One or the other.
Sold, both ways, my friend.
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:D ;) :whistling
Where do we go for the good old days?
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while you and yours are obviously a great-bunch of normal happy people - the notw arseholes are spying just for their pockets/capitalistic-enterprise and I'm glad to see it shut down so swiftly and fully
bias entering journalism is one thing (I wish their famous 'oath' had been adhered to) but spying - 'they' should've drawn the line at that as most hopefully still do
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It's really starting to kick off now.
News International being told to drop their bid to buy BSkyB outright, being reported to the monopolies chaps.
$6Bn wiped off Murdochs wealth due to share prices plummeting.
Discussions in Parliament today and Gordon Brown speaking about the background to it.
People being "invited" to parliamentary committees.
Calls for independent inquiries into New Scotland Yard involvement and lack of action / investigation.
This could easily keep growing and growing chaps.
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I would be glad to tune in here for your analysis, sir.
You're a better read.
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I would be glad to tune in here for your analysis, sir.
You're a better read.
It will be World News, mate.
Do you see what I did there.
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The News Of The World & The Sun are toilets full stop :sick:
With the News Of The World gone, let hope The Sun follows suit.:blow:
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I would be glad to tune in here for your analysis, sir.
You're a better read.
It will be World News, mate.
Do you see what I did there.
Best that you did.
I put it right in your wheelhouse, ffs.
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The FBI are now investigating News International for hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims.
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Not one to indulge in schadenfreude (much) I confess to finding it hard to feel any sympathy with Beelzebub Corp.
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The FBI are now investigating News International for hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims.
Has the hacking been proven, or?
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The FBI are now investigating News International for hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims.
Has the hacking been proven, or?
Not that I am aware of. However, as a former Glasgow Herald editor said on the TV the other night "it is ironic that the organs of the media so adept in creating moral panics and witch hunts are now the focus of a moral panic and witch hunt".
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Has the hacking been proven, or?
Not that I am aware of. However, as a former Glasgow Herald editor said on the TV the other night "it is ironic that the organs of the media so adept in creating moral panics and witch hunts are now the focus of a moral panic and witch hunt".
What goes 'round comes 'round - usually in it's original incarnation.
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An American politician, can't remember who, has asked the FBI to investigate it. I think he suggested he had intelligence to suggest it did happen but wouldn't elaborate.
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An American politician, can't remember who, has asked the FBI to investigate it. I think he suggested he had intelligence to suggest it did happen but wouldn't elaborate.
Ah, yes - Peter King (R)NY, a conservative.
Who's he trying to impress, eh?
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Hopefully he is trying to get at the truth, mate.
These people really need taken to task and punished if they are found to have done, or sanctioned, these things.
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Hopefully he is trying to get at the truth, mate.
These people really need taken to task and punished if they are found to have done, or sanctioned, these things.
Simple sarcasm, buddy.
I'm sorry, but all I have atm is another baseball device, too stale to deploy, hang on a sec...oh, fuck it, I'm damned rusty, I'll tell you.
Um, watch the attention he gets from anyone but Fox, eh?
That ought to be instructive; they're not as familiar with him as they might be.
I'll watch for him on Auntie tomorrow, if I remember.
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I am given to understand that Fox did not even mention any of this.
However they just showed a bit of "off air" material on the BBC, where the newsreaders were saying to each other "So who is going to mention it first then".
The general consensus was "Not me".
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I am given to understand that Fox did not even mention any of this.
However they just showed a bit of "off air" material on the BBC, where the newsreaders were saying to each other "So who is going to mention it first then".
The general consensus was "Not me".
Well, I normally have some sort of news on all day at work, but I have been multi-tasking like a truly superior specimen the last few days, and I can't say I've got anything substantial, yet; if I watch BBC America, it's pretty early in the am.
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I am given to understand that Fox did not even mention any of this.
I can't comment about Fox 'cuz I didn't watch, but if that's true, it's awfully suggestive, wouldn't you say.
Awfully, awfully suggestive. :whistling
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It was certainly reported that way on the BBC, though it could have changed by now obviously.
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JPaul
It was certainly reported that way on the BBC, though it could have changed by now obviously.
This had at least 24 hours on me, Jim.
I watched a bit of FoxNews this AM, and saw scatterings, twice.
There was an ownership disclaimer each time (not awfully curious - agreed?); the only news was the resignation of Rebekah Brooks.
Early days.
I'm guessing there is a shit-ton of legal money flying about just now.
What I wouldn't give to have an ear to certain walls.
At any rate, this morning I was distracted by a truck's collision with a light standard (480V single-phase) at the main entrance to one of my contracts, in a driving rain - really lucky to have caught any tube at all.
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I am given to understand that Fox did not even mention any of this.
However they just showed a bit of "off air" material on the BBC, where the newsreaders were saying to each other "So who is going to mention it first then".
The general consensus was "Not me".
Fox is saying we need to move on from the story. Nothing to see here.
As far as I can tell they are equating the pentagon and banks being victims of hacking with the News of the world perpetrating hacking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9gOSsvLIO4
The other networks seem to have had an orgasm in their pants over this, I suppose Fox would too if it was a rival conglomerate.