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Pressure mounts on Murdoch over phone hacking: Advertisers flee News of the World; government launches inquiry; more allegations surface
Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi, at the e-G8 conference in Paris in May. (AP/Lionel Bonaventure)
The phone hacking scandal that has enveloped the British press for more than three years took a damaging--and expensive--turn this week for Rupert Murdoch.
The News Corp. chairman now is tasked with trying to lead the News of the World, his high-circulation Sunday tabloid, out of harm's way. The long-simmering scandal over the paper's hacking into voicemails of private citizens took a gruesome turn over the past week, when new reports indicated that staffers with the tabloid accessed the voicemail of a murdered teenage girl and families of the July 7, 2005 subway and bus bombings in London.
Several advertisers, including the Ford Motor Company, have pulled their advertising from News of the World in the wake of reports that its employees hacked more than just the phones of celebrities.
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Hacked voicemail
The Guardian reported on 4 July 2011 that Scotland Yard had discovered Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked by journalists working for the News of the World and the newspaper's private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.[43] During their ongoing investigation into that newspaper's phone hacking activities, detectives discovered that potential evidence had been deleted by those responsible for the interception in order to free up more space for new messages to monitor.[44] Dowler's parents announced via their solicitor that they would pursue a claim for damages against the News of the World.[45]
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Wade's phone messages tapped
Ms Wade's mobile phone messages were accessed by former AFC Wimbledon footballer Glenn Mulcaire.
Mr Mulcaire today admitted one charge of plotting to intercept private phone messages and five charges of unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages left by a number of people, including staff of Prince William and Prince Harry, publicist Max Clifford and model Elle Macpherson.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rebekah-wade-the-feisty-first-lady-of-wapping-514039.html
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Mr Mulcaire today admitted one charge of plotting to intercept private phone messages and five charges of unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages left by a number of people, including staff of Prince William and Prince Harry, publicist Max Clifford and model Elle Macpherson.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/rebekah-wade-the-feisty-first-lady-of-wapping-514039.html
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Newspaper editors, in general, try to lead quiet lives - or at the very least unreported ones. Andrew Neil, when he edited The Sunday Times, and Piers Morgan, when he edited the Daily Mirror, were exceptions: extroverts who delighted to appear on television and were unabashed at coverage of their adventurous social lives (Pamella Bordes for Neil, fisticuffs with Jeremy Clarkson for Morgan, for example). Most, though, follow the example of the biggest beast in the jungle, Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail. He believes his paper should speak for him and is rarely photographed or interviewed.
Wade certainly agrees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade+glenn-mulcaire
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Lawyers stifle another attempt to discover Mulcaire's legal funding Six weeks ago I asked a simple question of News International: are you paying Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees?
The company refused to say whether it is or isn't funding a private investigator who was convicted and jailed for intercepting voicemails on behalf of the News of the World.
http://www.radioclashblog.com/archives/2010/09/03/hackgate-our-watergate/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan
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Career
In newspapers
Morgan's first major position in national media was as de facto editor of The Sun's show business column, 'Bizarre', under the editorship of Kelvin MacKenzie. In 1994, aged 28, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, becoming the youngest national newspaper editor in more than half a century.[7]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade+glenn-mulcaire
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Friday 10 June 2011
Lawyers stifle another attempt to discover Mulcaire's legal funding Six weeks ago I asked a simple question of News International: are you paying Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees?
The company refused to say whether it is or isn't funding a private investigator who was convicted and jailed for intercepting voicemails on behalf of the News of the World.
http://www.radioclashblog.com/archives/2010/09/03/hackgate-our-watergate/
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Hackgate – our Watergate?
Well maybe there isn’t a more direct connection to Cameron to fully support a PM toppling move yet, but if one were to be proved…
You already have phone hacking, lies, chief spin person to David Cameron who used to be editor at a paper full of unethical journalists who say Andy Coulson knew what they were doing (really hard to believe a newspaper that wouldn’t discuss sources, especially with the boss who could take the rap or even jail for them?), the Murdoch family and their stinking pile that is called News International going after the BBC (the whole license fee and BBC Trust/6Music attacks are due to their political/media pressure and money they throw around) and ITV/Thames at varying times.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/get-prince-andrew-why-the-telegraph-has-chosen-its-new-weapon-very-very-badly/
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http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/get-prince-andrew-why-the-telegraph-has-chosen-its-new-weapon-very-very-badly/
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So I will close with these questions for the ‘news’ team at the Telegraph this afternoon:
1. Has Stephen Day ever even met Prince Andrew?
2. How did you obtain the letter?
3. What is it about Prince Andrew that you need to tarnish – and why?
Look, as I’ve made clear before – I’m no apologist for Prince Andrew. But I do know a thing or two about the Duke’s anger at having (as he sees it) his family’s phones hacked. And it really, really doesn’t do to get on the wrong side of unelected, foreign or expat moguls, now does it?
Perhaps we could send a few Foreign Office chaps to sort it out.
cc Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/getting-bigger-by-getting-rid-of-people/
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More on this later along with the Hackgate update, but the Murdoch press is having a field-day this morning with Eugenie’s necklace gift….and it seems the Andy-Fergie relationship is at last ‘tense’ – a change I for one never expected to see.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/11/daniel-morgan-axe-murder-defendants
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/10hillary.html
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Yet the developing relationship between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Murdoch — who has built an empire in part on the strength of media outlets like Fox News and The New York Post that delight in skewering the Clintons — has drawn special attention, perplexing some political analysts and infuriating some liberals already suspicious of Mrs. Clinton's centrist positioning. Although she is ostensibly raising money for her re-election to the Senate this year, she is widely considered to be laying the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2008.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_wikileaks33.htm
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by Jack Mirkinson
Assange made the revelation in a conversation with journalist John Pilger that appeared on the website of the New Statesman magazine on Wednesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucaipa_Companies
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he Yucaipa Companies, LLC is a Los Angeles-based holding company, focusing on private equity investments. The firm was founded in 1986 by its billionaire chairman, Ronald Burkle.
Yucaipa has a history of highly successful leveraged buyout investments in supermarket and grocery chains beginning with Jurgensen's markets in 1986. After several standalone investments in the late 1980s, Yucaipa went on to lead the consolidation of West Coast retail that occurred during the 1990s.
It recently acquired stakes in Colorado-based Wild Oats Markets, New Jersey-based Pathmark Stores, and Minnesota-based Supervalu, among others. Former US President Bill Clinton, a close friend of Burkle's, was an advisor to the company. Between 2003 and 2006, the Clintons' tax returns show total Yucaipa partnership income of $12.5 million. The 2007 summary provided by Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign lists $2.75 million in partnership income.[1]
http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2006-04-10-media-mix_x.htm
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That leads us to supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. He was so bothered by some of the items that Page Six published about him that he complained about it in a letter to Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the feisty tabloid.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/getting-bigger-by-getting-rid-of-people/
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More on this later along with the Hackgate update, but the Murdoch press is having a field-day this morning with Eugenie’s necklace gift….and it seems the Andy-Fergie relationship is at last ‘tense’ – a change I for one never expected to see.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/11/daniel-morgan-axe-murder-defendants
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Court artist's Elizabeth Cook's impression of (left to right) Jonathan Rees, Glen Vian, Sidney Fillery, Gary Vian and James Cook. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA
Jonathan Rees
Morgan's partner at Southern Investigations. Married to Sharon, the sister of Glenn and Garry Vian. Rees, 59, counted many police officers as friends, and according to internal Scotland Yard reports from surveillance operations, used corrupt police officers to pass him information which he sold to tabloid newspapers. In 2000 he was jailed for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice for attempting to plant drugs on an innocent woman in a child custody case. He was charged with Morgan's murder.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/10hillary.html
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Yet the developing relationship between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Murdoch — who has built an empire in part on the strength of media outlets like Fox News and The New York Post that delight in skewering the Clintons — has drawn special attention, perplexing some political analysts and infuriating some liberals already suspicious of Mrs. Clinton's centrist positioning. Although she is ostensibly raising money for her re-election to the Senate this year, she is widely considered to be laying the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2008.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_wikileaks33.htm
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by Jack Mirkinson
January 12, 2011
from TheHuffingtonPost Website
from TheHuffingtonPost Website
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange revealed that he has damaging "insurance files" on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp media empire that he will release if something happens to him or to WikiLeaks.
Assange made the revelation in a conversation with journalist John Pilger that appeared on the website of the New Statesman magazine on Wednesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucaipa_Companies
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he Yucaipa Companies, LLC is a Los Angeles-based holding company, focusing on private equity investments. The firm was founded in 1986 by its billionaire chairman, Ronald Burkle.
Yucaipa has a history of highly successful leveraged buyout investments in supermarket and grocery chains beginning with Jurgensen's markets in 1986. After several standalone investments in the late 1980s, Yucaipa went on to lead the consolidation of West Coast retail that occurred during the 1990s.
It recently acquired stakes in Colorado-based Wild Oats Markets, New Jersey-based Pathmark Stores, and Minnesota-based Supervalu, among others. Former US President Bill Clinton, a close friend of Burkle's, was an advisor to the company. Between 2003 and 2006, the Clintons' tax returns show total Yucaipa partnership income of $12.5 million. The 2007 summary provided by Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign lists $2.75 million in partnership income.[1]
http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2006-04-10-media-mix_x.htm
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That leads us to supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. He was so bothered by some of the items that Page Six published about him that he complained about it in a letter to Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the feisty tabloid.
Which leads us to frequent Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern. Burkle says that when Stern heard about Burkle's complaints, he tried to shake him down for $100,000 plus a $10,000-a-month stipend in exchange for going easy on him on Page Six.
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