News Corp Spying Scandal

[KDR_11k]

We don't have a thread about this yet? WTF.

After News of the World was found to have broken into tons of voicemail accounts and Murdoch disbanded it to save his BSkyB deal there have been growing suspicions that other tabloids of the conglomerate have been involved in similar crimes. Now the original whistleblower has died, according to the police of a natural, non-suspicious death but there has been evidence that News Corp has been bribing the police so whether we can trust the police on that is a different matter. Top managers have resigned and are now facing prosecution. The situation is escalating.

Let's hope this causes a major blow to the world's tabloid population, an instant way to set many minds free and raise the general intelligence of the population.

[SirMaverick]

We don't have a thread about this yet? WTF.

Because FOX News isn't reporting about it. They report about more serious issues like the dept ceiling.

[KDR_11k]

That is a pretty fucking serious issue too, if it's not raised the world economy will take massive damage.

[Das Bruce]

Let's hope this causes a major blow to the world's tabloid population, an instant way to set many minds free and raise the general intelligence of the population.

I would have called them a symptom not a cause.

[AF]

They didn't just hack voicemails,

They hacked the voice mails of 9/11 victims, deleted voicemails on Milly Dowlers phone making people think she was still alive, paid Police for information with bribes, threatened politicians, hired Private Detectives to track down paedophiles, covered up evidence, lied to parliament, the list goes on....

[Hoi]

Anonymous hacked the sun (also owned by murdoch), and defaced it with this:
http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2 ... 11125252AM

They also obtained 4gb of emails from news of the world, and will release this material online soon. It's going to be very interesting to read this stuff.

[KaiserJ]

hired Private Detectives to track down paedophiles

this is a bad/illegal thing?

[FLOZi]

It is when you publish their names and addresses in the national press to incite lynchings

[smoth]

Also the guys might not have been Pedos just seem awful suspect to it

[KaiserJ]

roger, makes sense

[AF]

The furore those newspapers kicked up turned into a paranoid frenzy, some peadiatricians got attacked

[smoth]

And pediatricians have enough crap to deal with consider liitle johnny bites kicks and screams when getting a shot etc

[Panda]

I feel sorry for pediatricians who are being stereotyped as being pedophiles when they have to work with sick children or children getting their required shots so that they can go to school. As if their job isn't difficult enough.

[Hoi]

I feel sorry for pediatricians who are being stereotyped as being pedophiles when they have to work with sick children or children getting their required shots so that they can go to school. As if their job isn't difficult enough.

Agreed.