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London Police Chief Resigns Over News Of The World Scandal
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by Frances Martel | 2:53 pm, July 17th, 2011
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The tabloid scandal that has struck the core of News International is continuing to claim careers. Following up on former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks’s arrest earlier today, Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Paul Stephenson has now resigned amidst speculation of widespread corruption. He is the first within the police department to do so.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8643975/Phone-hacking-Sir-Paul-Stephensons-resignation-statement-in-full.html
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Phone hacking: Sir Paul Stephenson's resignation statement in full
Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Here is the statement he read out at a press conference annnouncing the news.
Sir Paul Stephenson employed Neil Wallis as a PR consultant
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Wallis
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l John Wallis (
Wallis was born in Lincolnshire. He attended Skegness Grammar School.
Wallis is a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee at the Press Complaints Commission.[4]
It is alleged that while recovering from illness Sir Paul Stephenson, head of the Metropolitan Police, accepted a free extended stay (worth £12,000) at a Champneys health spa, a company which then employed Wallis for PR work.[9]
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=420418&SubjectId=15&DepartmentMode=true
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Wallis
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l John Wallis (
Wallis was born in Lincolnshire. He attended Skegness Grammar School.
[edit] Career
[edit] Journalism
Wallis worked for News International from 1986, rising to become Deputy Editor of The Sun from 1993. He left in 1998 and took up the editorship of The People. In 2003, he moved to become Deputy Editor of the News of the World, and in 2007 he became Executive Editor of the paper. In May 2009, he announced that he would be leaving his post later in the year.[2] He was known as "the wolf man" by fellow journalists.[3]Wallis is a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee at the Press Complaints Commission.[4]
[edit] Public relations
After leaving journalism he worked for the Outside Organisation, a company specialising in public relations,[5] becoming Managing Director in 2010.[6] Wallis' own company, Chamy Media, provided "strategic communication advice and support" to the Metropolitan Police on a part-time basis from October 2009 to September 2010 whilst the Met's Deputy Director of Public Affairs was on extended sick leave.[7][8]It is alleged that while recovering from illness Sir Paul Stephenson, head of the Metropolitan Police, accepted a free extended stay (worth £12,000) at a Champneys health spa, a company which then employed Wallis for PR work.[9]
[edit] Arrest
On 14 July 2011, Mr Wallis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal.[10] Upon the announcement of this Outside Organisation edited their website, removing his listing as MD and a part of his biography which had stated "What he [Wallis] doesn’t know about journalism and media isn’t worth knowing".[11]http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=420418&SubjectId=15&DepartmentMode=true
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MPA STATEMENT: CHAMY MEDIA CONTRACT WITH MPS
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Metropolitan Police Authority (National)
Metropolitan Police Authority
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Following their meeting this morning, Sir Paul Stephenson has written to the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority Kit Malthouse to confirm that the MPS contracted Neil Wallis, former executive editor and deputy editor of the News of the World, in September 2009 to provide professional advice on the management of media matters.
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Following their meeting this morning, Sir Paul Stephenson has written to the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority Kit Malthouse to confirm that the MPS contracted Neil Wallis, former executive editor and deputy editor of the News of the World, in September 2009 to provide professional advice on the management of media matters.
This contract terminated in September 2010.
Notes to editors
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Website: http://www.mpa.gov.uk/
Met Forward: fighting crime and reducing criminality; increasing confidence in policing; and giving us better value for money
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Out of hours duty phone: 07769 742 795
Email: firstname.secondname@mpa.gov.uk
Website: http://www.mpa.gov.uk/
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http://www.scienceofreason.org/articles/48-media-and-politics/101-is-rupert-murdochs-apparent-desire-for-complete-worldwide-domination-over-the-media-ethical
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Although Murdoch's life is fascinating in itself and well worthy of an essay, I would like to focus mainly upon the ethics behind media manipulation and ownership of a large quantity of communication industries, as well as focusing on Fox News. Whilst Fox News has been criticised by numerous commentators, and this essay will of course be no exception, my aim is also to present a ‘fair and balanced’ view upon Murdoch's empire and Fox News itself. I will therefore examine the positives and negatives of Murdoch's legacy and his vast media ownership.
While al-Assad permitted radio stations to play Western pop music, websites such as Amazon.com, Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube were blocked until 1 January 2011, when all citizens were permitted to sign up for high speed internet, and those sites were allowed.[75] However, a 2007 law requires Internet cafes to record all comments that users post on online chat forums.[76]
http://www.damascusbureau.org/?p=2252
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Analysis: New media in Syria remains in thrall to the regime
By Shahine Mroue
The apple of Syria’s private news media has not fallen very far from the state-controlled tree. A tangle of propaganda has always prevented professional media from serving the public, as well as the journalists themselves.
The best examples of this among of the excess of websites that have sprung up in the last 10 or so years since the internet was allowed in Syria are sites like Cham Press, Watan-online, Syria News, DP-news and others.
These websites even go as far as calling themselves independent.
But the truth is that most of the electronic news media in Syria is owned, directly or indirectly, by powerful officials or influential businessmen – although it’s quite hard to differentiate between the two in Syria. As sponsors, they interfere directly in the editorial policy of websites, which tend to adhere to the state-controlled line.
http://www.champress.net/index.php?q=en/Article/view/96055
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Phone: For enquiries please contact the issuing dept
ndsenquiries@coi.gsi.gov.uk
http://www.scienceofreason.org/articles/48-media-and-politics/101-is-rupert-murdochs-apparent-desire-for-complete-worldwide-domination-over-the-media-ethical
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Although Murdoch's life is fascinating in itself and well worthy of an essay, I would like to focus mainly upon the ethics behind media manipulation and ownership of a large quantity of communication industries, as well as focusing on Fox News. Whilst Fox News has been criticised by numerous commentators, and this essay will of course be no exception, my aim is also to present a ‘fair and balanced’ view upon Murdoch's empire and Fox News itself. I will therefore examine the positives and negatives of Murdoch's legacy and his vast media ownership.
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Who has been organizing those pro-war rallies? The answer, it turns out, is that they are being promoted by key players in the radio industry - with close links to the Bush administration. the CD-smashing rally was organized by KRMD, part of Cumulus Media, a radio chain that has banned the Dixie Chicks from its playlists. Most of the pro-war demonstrations around the United States have, however, been organized by stations owned by Clear Channel Communications, a behemoth based in Texas that controls more than 1,200 stations and increasingly dominates the airwaves. the company says the demonstrations, which go under the name Rally for America, reflect the initiative of individual stations. But this is unlikely: According to Eric Boehlert, who has written revelatory articles about Clear Channel in the online magazine Salon, the company is notorious - and widely hated - for its iron-fisted centralized control.
Until now, complaints about Clear Channel have focused on its business practices. Critics say it uses its power to squeeze recording companies and artists and contributes to the growing blandness of broadcast music. But now the company appears to be using its clout to help one side in a political dispute that deeply divides the United States. Why would a media company insert itself into politics this way? It could simply be a matter of personal conviction on the part of management. But there are also good reasons for Clear Channel - which became a giant only in the last few years, after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 removed many restrictions on media ownership - to curry favor with the governing party.
John Edwards takes $$$ From Roger Ailes
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Vice President Director of PTA en Español
Deborah Kohan is Vice President and Director of PTA en Español at Planned Television Arts. Since joining PTA in 1994, Deborah has coordinated publicity campaigns for various health, consumer, and publishing clients including the Cleveland Clinic Press, Castle Connolly Medical (“America’s Top Doctors” Lists), Jewish National Fund, Jack Klugman, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s), Dean Koontz (Bantam), Sophie Kinsella (Dial), General Tommy Franks (Harper Collins), Senator John Edwards (Harper Collins) and several authors from Harlequin Publishers.
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John Stossel, [12], HarperCollins, January 2004. ISBN 0060529148.
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John F. Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist. In October 2009 Stossel left his long time home on ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel, both owned and operated by
News Corp.
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John F. Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist. In October 2009 Stossel left his long time home on ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel, both owned and operated by
News Corp.
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News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NASDAQ: NWSA, ASX: NWS, ASX: NWSLV), often abbreviated to News Corp., is the world's second-largest media conglomerate (behind The Walt Disney Company) as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009,[5][6][7][8] although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster.[9][10][11] The company's Chairman & Chief Executive Officer is Rupert Murdoch.
Attacks against Hillary Clinton youtube
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Steve Watson | May 10 2006
Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton's initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fundraiser for her re-election campaign, reports the Financial Times.
Such elite back slapping and shoulder rubbing again highlights that when it comes to getting ahead it pays to be on the same page.
The notion that leading Democrats and Republicans are in opposition is ludicrous. The belief that a true left / right paradigm still exists in global politics is as antiquated as a grandfather clock in a coffin.
The Anglo-American aristocracy, big businesses and banks have long been pulling the strings behind the curtain in the theatre of politics and underlings such as the Clintons and the Bushes know what they have to do to satisfy their desire for political control.
Recently Hillary has also been spotted partying at Fox News, with Murdoch and his cronies, and buddying up with the very same Republicans who vociferously tried to get her husband impeached for having sex with another woman.
Whilst her husband has been hanging around with the Bushes, Hillary has also been living it up with the likes of Newt Gingrich, Bill Frist, John McCain and Rick Santorum. There is clearly a bipartisan move underway to shift public perception.
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Breaking the Law
In their "Ten Worst Corporations of 2003" list, Robert Weissman and Russell Mokhiber report that Clear Channel has "compiled a record of 'repeated law-breaking' ... violating the law -- including prohibitions on deceptive advertising and on broadcasting conversations without obtaining permission of the second party to the conversation -- on 36 separate occasions over the previous three years."[6]
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For her part, Clinton hasn't been to Hayman Island yet, but she did lunch with Murdoch--a man who did as much as anyone to drive the sex scandal that almost undid her husband--at his company's Midtown tower, according to one person who was at the meeting. "Senator Clinton respects [Murdoch] and thinks he is smart and effective," Reines said last summer. Personal diplomacy, however, is the true calling of the senator's husband, who has done everything from touring the Post's newsroom to recording a birthday tribute to Fox News chief Roger Ailes. He also recruited Murdoch as one of the small handful of business executives participating in his "Global Initiative," a sui generis foreign policy conference in New York in September. Seated in a set of low white armchairs, the former president interviewed Murdoch, along with Sony's Sir Howard Stringer and Time Warner's Richard Parsons, about the future of global media. After the panel ended (late, of course), Clinton and Murdoch chatted in a corner, one's hand on the other's arm, while admirers, including a largely ignored Brad Pitt, tried to get close to the two men.
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- Freedom of expression
http://www.damascusbureau.org/?p=2252
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Analysis: New media in Syria remains in thrall to the regime
By Shahine Mroue
The apple of Syria’s private news media has not fallen very far from the state-controlled tree. A tangle of propaganda has always prevented professional media from serving the public, as well as the journalists themselves.
The best examples of this among of the excess of websites that have sprung up in the last 10 or so years since the internet was allowed in Syria are sites like Cham Press, Watan-online, Syria News, DP-news and others.
These websites even go as far as calling themselves independent.
But the truth is that most of the electronic news media in Syria is owned, directly or indirectly, by powerful officials or influential businessmen – although it’s quite hard to differentiate between the two in Syria. As sponsors, they interfere directly in the editorial policy of websites, which tend to adhere to the state-controlled line.
http://www.champress.net/index.php?q=en/Article/view/96055
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Haaretz quoted senior Zionist “defense” officials as saying: “Israel has a major stake in improving relations with Turkey in light of Turkey's standing in the region, its past economic relationship with Israel and the opportunity to renew defense-related export to Turkey”.
These views didn’t represent the Israeli “Defense” Ministry’s official stance. However, “Defense” Minister stressed that the Zionist entity had an interest in ending the crisis with Turkey.
“From a strategic point of view, we have an interest in smoothing things over with Turkey," Barak said last week on the Israeli television, Channel 1.
"National pride is important [but] in the end, we have to understand that we have other interests here ... Turkey can have an important role in issues relating to Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Hamas."
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