Sympathy for the Hackers!
- 10 April 2011 07:59100968While I readily acknowledge that phone hacking into someones personal messages is not very nice, I cant bring myself to have much sympathy for those celebs who have been hacked. They are certainly 'hacked off' its true, but isnt it now just another BIG earner for them. People who already have stacks of money are now on a huge windfall for yet more money because some part of their dignity is affronted.
Everyone from Sienna Miller to Andy Gray stand to make stacks of money here at the expense of the News of the World, yet they live their lives pleading for newspaper coverage.
Some of us, if the truth be told, have never seen Sienna Miller in anything, but now she is a household name, you couldnt buy this kind of publicity, she is featured in every news bulletin all day long. Normally you have to pay for this kind of publicity but she is both getting the publicity and the one being paid. The boot is on the wrong foot.
I couldnt condone phone hacking or anything like that, I wouldnt like it to happen to you or me, but somehow the affronted celebrity personages whingeing on our TV screens night and day are hard to sympathise with, as they make stacks of money with often minimum talent and are where they are in most cases because of newspapers.
So I know it is probably a bit perverse to say this in the current climate but I have sympathy for Rupert and the News of the World!email: dover7@msn.com - 10 April 2011 08:42100974As a person whose office and phone were tapped by parties ' unknown' I wonder whether the old bill will follow Murdochs lead and start apologising to innocent members of the public whose privacy were also invaded by the Orwellian authorites.Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 10 April 2011 08:47100976the only reason murdoch has apologised is to get on the right side of the government while he tries to expand his empire.
- 10 April 2011 17:27101049I think there is a distinct possibility that quite a few phones are tapped around here Marek...but am saying no more!!
You could be right Howard I cant see a little phone hacking stemming his march towards megolomanic global press control. However it looks like the initial offer of compensation is being rejected as the celebs concerned need a bit more time in the sun, a bit more limelight, so court cases are sure to follow.
I believe Councils have the right to authorise phone tapping.email: dover7@msn.com - 10 April 2011 18:33101054It's a bit different now - I was tapped, so to speak, years ago when the Maze was ripe and there was a lot of Eire Og activity!! I will never understand why I was tapped other than being Irish!! It was all landlines, you could hear the clicks and almost have a chat with the tapper! It's more complex now with network accounts bleeding into each other and laying us all open to considerably more intrusion and challenge. Councils can only authourise tapping, I believe if there is significant evidence of criminal activity such as benefit fraud.