Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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To prove that none of this is new, there is a kids programme on CBBC called Scoop where the reporters faithful dog/sidekick is named 'Hacker'.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Keith Sansum1
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chris
i do agree but there is so much seriousness in this and needs to be reviewed and looked at
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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article from one of our euro m.p's daniel hannan in the telegraph.
See how the Internet has levelled the ground between public figures and tabloid reporters. Here is an email exchange between an investigative journalist and Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP who has been pursuing claims of phone-hacking at the Mirror:
"Dear Mrs Mensch, We are informing you that we have come into possession of the following information, about yourself, and would like to ask you for any comments, before we publish this information. Whilst working at EMI, in the 1990s, you took drugs with Nigel Kennedy at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham, including dancing on a dance floor, whilst drunk, with Mr Kennedy, in front of journalists. Photos of this exist..."
Louise replies as follows:
"Although I do not remember the specific incident, this sounds highly probable. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Nigel Kennedy, whom I remember with affection. Additionally, since I was in my twenties, I'm sure it was not the only incident of the kind; we all do idiotic things when young. I am not a very good dancer and must apologise to any and all journalists who were forced to watch me dance that night at Ronnie Scott's... Most importantly, I have not the slightest intention of being deterred from asking how far the culture of hacking and blagging extended in Fleet Street."
Before the proliferation of blogs and Twitter, an MP in this situation would have been left chewing her fingernails as she waited for the first editions at Charing Cross. Not anymore. Not only has Louise drawn the sting from any possible exposé; she has neatly turned the tables by pointing out that this sudden interest in what she did twenty years ago coincides with her investigation of illegal activities by tabloids.
As recently as five years ago, almost no politician could have hoped to get the better of a newspaper, whatever the rights and wrongs of the case. Now, all of a sudden, it's the politicians in pursuit and the tabloids looking seedy and defensive.
Louise is a mate and is simply saying like it is!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Great reply - certainly put them in their place.
Roger
Jan Higgins
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Agreed Roger and as Bern says so true, I bet that put pay to the investigative journalist's so called exposé.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It is a subject that wont go away and there will be a lot of embarrassed politicians in the future
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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from the guardian.
Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police officers to leak sensitive information.
As managing editor until his resignation in July 2009, Kuttner was in charge of finances at the now-defunct tabloid.
Kuttner, 71, was described at the time of his resignation by the last editor of the newspaper, Colin Myler, as a man whose "DNA is absolutely integrated into the newspaper which he has represented across the media with vigour".
Kuttner reportedly did not know he was going to be taken into custody when he arrived by appointment at a police station in London on Tuesday at 11am for questioning over the phone-hacking scandal.
Police from both Operation Weeting (the investigation into phone hacking) and Elveden (the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police), are understood to have arrested Kuttner, who is suffering serious health problems and recently returned from treatment in the US.
Kuttner is believed to have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and on suspicion of corruption contrary to section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.
They are the same allegations that Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and ex-News International chief executive, faces since her arrest last month.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The plot continues to thicken
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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MP`s advised last night that over 200,000 NI emails have been deleted since the outbreak of the scandal.
Deleted emails can be recovered from the hard drive but will the Police have the time? It would elongate the investigations but should be done.
MP`s are hopeing the Police will now consider NI to be an unco-operative partner!!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The whole thing has again dragged the UK down
The MP's hopeful it will go away by next election
but i don't think it will
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the latest victim is heather mills, she is considering legal action but it could be that she does not have leg to stand on if it went to court.
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Oh dear, Howard!
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The old ones are the best Howard, as they have stood the test of time. Any more jokes like that and I will post the photo I took of you in the square the other day.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you have deliberately held back peter on that one.
i suppose this is some form of water torture while i worry about how you have photoshopped it.
Brian Dixon
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howard,the question is was thay hacking it to death.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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it would be funny if it wasn't so serious
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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What is Gove up to?He is still progressing with plans for Murdoch to sponser an academy in East London.
Do we want Murdoch associated/involved in our Education programme? What planet is Gove on?
Flashman....Osbourne.................Wish you were here!!!!!!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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After the recent murdoch commons fiasco, this type of project involving them should all be put on hold.
up to now it has been indicated r murdoch is not a fit and proper person
so lets wait before making even bigger errors
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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With all this anti-Murdoch stuff you could imagine him to be an insensitive soul so I was heartened to hear that, following Amy Winehouse's death, he was said to have been genuinely overcome with emotion at the messages left on her phone!!
