Surely enough to have the paper closed down?

How cryptic, piquant and mysterious! To what, pray, is one alluding?

It is being claimed that the paper paid to hack into Milly Dowler's mobile after she went missing and that texts and messages were erased to get others. Leading police to believe she was still alive. All in order to get "a good story".

this has now dragged that company into the gutter. Very sick culture that forced journalists to abandon their principals.

Surely this is a case of interfering with a police investigation but we know that it has probably been happening in dozens of other criminal cases as well.

As veritas said..a sloooow burner.

They'll worm their way out of it,they always do

..and I hadn't even read the part that says the NoTW may have deleted some of her voice mail messages left by family- giving her parents hope that she may have been alive, quite apart from interfering with possible police investigations.

Really-News Corp has gotten so low it's difficult to comprehend the enormity of this and yet Cameron attended Murdoch's summer party and is considering giving him more power.

Will no-one stand up to this tyrant and finally declare the Emperor wears no clothes ? (apart from a few brave backbenchers ?)

Rebekah Wade, if you remember, is the person behind the News of the World infamous 'name and shame' campaign. Probably the one individual more than any other in the UK responsible for paedohysteria.

People like her are beyond evil. No punishment could be enough for her.

veritas wrote:
Very sick culture that forced journalists to abandon their principals.

Did you think they had any in the first place?

JK2006 wrote:
Surely enough to have the paper closed down?

At the very least this should end both the tabloid tyranny and the child abuse industry in this country.

It won't of course, because Britain ceased to be a civilised country a long time ago.

Advertisers consider NoftW boycott over milly dowler scandal :

www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1078510/NotW-fa...wer-mull-ad-support/

If advertisers can stop supporting a football club because they retain a teenage boy who served his sentance for talking sexily to a 13 year old girl, then I hope EVERY advertiser will boycott a newspaper that illegally hacked into the mobile of a missing 13 year old girl.

Or else the moral values of British society have truly become perveted by womyn such Rebekah Wade.

Still not a word from the NSPCC and the other child abuse industry groups, err, I mean 'child protection' charities.

Rebekah Brooks's e-mail to her staff gets dissected by David Allen Green here

Reading what Rebekah Brooks says

"Not just because I was editor of the News of the World at the time, but if the accusations are true, the devastating effect on Milly Dowler's family is unforgivable."

Now she is combining her editorial responsibility with an appeal to Milly Dowler's family's sensibilities. It is interesting that she cannot even bring herself to devote one entire sentence to her editorial responsibility without trying to deflect attention. Again, the actual "accusations" are not stated.

"It is almost too horrific to believe that a professional journalist or even a freelance inquiry agent working on behalf of a member of the News of the World staff could behave in this way."

Mulcaire was sufficiently closely employed by News of the World to sign a settlement agreement in respect of any employment claims. This is not consistent with the strained label of "freelance inquiry agent". Note the reference to "working on behalf of a member of the News of the World staff" and not "working on behalf of the News of the World".


"I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew, or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations."

This is a formulation of almost Clintonesque proportions; but it is not a denial. Also, of course, one does not "sanction" allegations: presumably she means the hacking.

Robert Preston (BBC) on Twitter:
"News Int execs tell me they fear there may have been worse examples of NOTW hacking than that of Milly Dowler's phone. The mind reels"

If this is true Rebekah Brooks must have known about this and if not, why not she was the editor of the paper?

And with murmurs now emerging about the Soham case, if they are true then this has to mean the closure of the paper.

If these allegations are true, I hope Flame Mitchel pays for it.

hey everyone, let's all make lots of money!

www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/public/nol...Sell-your-story.html

Dear News of the World; I am a phone hacker and the stories I could sell you from a Mrs Wade some years ago...

Blackit wrote:
Advertisers consider NoftW boycott over milly dowler scandal :

www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1078510/NotW-fa...wer-mull-ad-support/

If advertisers can stop supporting a football club because they retain a teenage boy who served his sentance for talking sexily to a 13 year old girl, then I hope EVERY advertiser will boycott a newspaper that illegally hacked into the mobile of a missing 13 year old girl.

Or else the moral values of British society have truly become perveted by womyn such Rebekah Wade.

Still not a word from the NSPCC and the other child abuse industry groups, err, I mean 'child protection' charities.

Riddled with inaccuracies.

I have worked in newsrooms and I am sure JK will confirm...you will never find a bigger place of gossip and chatter on this earth.

Everybody knows everything including what the editor ate for breakfast or if she/he had a poke the night before.

Otherwise Private Eye would not have survived for so long seeing it's sources are all disgruntled journos.

So for Brooks / Coulson to claim they didn't know the working of their newspapers is laughable.

I believe Murdoch didn't know but that's because he set the bar so low that he just expects the job to be done no matter how.

In the end-he is to blame.

If you look back you will see veritas always said something drastic will bring down a tabloid one day (which means I am right about everything else and never wrong..take note ITK).

It's difficult not to engage in shadenfreaude at this moment but I find the fact they hacked murdered kids phones etc beneath contempt. Heads should roll in the police force as well. It's been illegal to date..now it's stomach churning.

Note how ghastly current politicians are...Cameron now casts Brooks adrift.

angel wrote:
Blackit wrote:
Advertisers consider NoftW boycott over milly dowler scandal :

www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1078510/NotW-fa...wer-mull-ad-support/

If advertisers can stop supporting a football club because they retain a teenage boy who served his sentance for talking sexily to a 13 year old girl, then I hope EVERY advertiser will boycott a newspaper that illegally hacked into the mobile of a missing 13 year old girl.

Or else the moral values of British society have truly become perveted by womyn such Rebekah Wade.

Still not a word from the NSPCC and the other child abuse industry groups, err, I mean 'child protection' charities.

Riddled with inaccuracies.

Yes dear, calm down, we understand why turkeys don't vote for christmas, I think we've established that. You're still an angel in your own eyes even if you consider men talking to nubile young girls online a far greater threat, I mean crime, than newspapers hacking into the mobiles of murdered children in order to get a scoop and boost their circulation figures.

Now back to the topic at hand.

News International are now trying to deflect attention onto the police and Coulson/Cameron.

From the Guardian a few minutes ago:

(The Times has got the News of the World story on its front page (paywall) - but it's focusing on payments to the police, not phone hacking. The News of the World gave the Metropolitan police information some time ago about payments being made to police officers at the time when Andy Coulson was editing the paper, but this information has only just become public. On the Today programme Simon Greenberg, News International's head of corporate affairs, said the information was released because Vanity Fair were researching an article that was going to allege, wrongly, that the company had emails detailing the payments and that it hadn't handed them over to the police. But, as Nick Robinson argued on Today, focusing on payments to the police may help the company because it focuses media attention on Coulson, and therefore David Cameron's decision to hire him as his communications chief in Downing Street.)i

linky www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/ju...d-phone-hacking-live