one may have sympathy for the vast number of honest News Corp employees including journos and all the other workers who get the newspaper out...down to local newsagents etc.

I reckon once the details of bribery are unleashed we will see just how corrupted police and govt officials have became over the decades.

The number of civil lawsuits that stem from that against government will be enormous..people suing govt departments for unauthorized leaking of personal details. There are going to be very complicated challenges to criminal convictions.

The ramblings from inside and outside the media either show a culture of unrestricted power out of control or just outright hypocrisy.

Even the Press Gazette is pontificating that the bribery of police should be over-looked or considered in the 'public interest'. Fat chance.

Now the hacks have turned to a union for help, the NUJ (fairly useless like all unions connected to publishing as any freelancer or 'contractor' will tell you). A majority of News Corp hacks don't belong to the media unions (although there has been a rush to join up in the past few weeks).

They are a bit like 'middle management' and regard all unions as unnecessary and bothersome, until now.( remember Wapping when the hacks sided with Murdoch against the printers etc)

karma is a bitch.

Veritas,

I see your friend and mentor Arthur Scargill is about to sue his old Union employers because they have stopped paying his bills (even though he left the Union several years ago).

It seems he negotiated a deal when he retired that he should continue to have his bills paid by the union (presumable forevermore).

So - the man who destroyed thousands of jobs and left people who couldn't pay their own bills, secured his own future quite nicely.

Would you describe that as hypocrisy, veritas ?

In The Know wrote:
Veritas,

I see your friend and mentor Arthur Scargill is about to sue his old Union employers because they have stopped paying his bills (even though he left the Union several years ago).

It seems he negotiated a deal when he retired that he should continue to have his bills paid by the union (presumable forevermore).

So - the man who destroyed thousands of jobs and left people who couldn't pay their own bills, secured his own future quite nicely.

Would you describe that as hypocrisy, veritas ?

no.

that would be a breach of contract.