I know that feeling, this is like being buried in a news avalanche 
Rupert, James and Rebekah are up in front of a parliamentary committee next week. Does anyone know the legal status of that ie is it under oath?
Fox rallied against Assange and Wikileaks ,suggesting a death sentence. How is this not even worse? The English Fox "reporters "tapped the phones of politicians and celebrities. They did illegal acts . It is not an oops. It is not business as usual. The American gutless press and gutless politicians should be screaming from the mountain tops about this horror.
Those who want Assange in jail are hypocrites if they don’t want these people in jail. Perhaps there is a cell next to Madoff for Rupert.
I’m quite pleased that we seem to have an MP who bears the name Mark Reckless. He doesn’t look like a super-hero or a hard-boiled private gum-shoe, but who can tell?
Anyone see the Daily Show’s take on the scandal? (Possibly NSFW)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-11-2011/have-no-fear–england-s-here
I don’t watch Fox News, how are they covering it?
Possibly NSFW. Certainly blocked for UK viewers. Bugger
Fox News may not be saying anything (I haven’t had the tube on in 2 days, it’s been kinda nice), but Jay Rockefeller is now saying the US government should also be looking at News International’s activities in the US.
Well, poop. Hopefully this link will work. Maybe NSFW because of bleeped swearing and the word “balls”, depending on how prudish your office is.
Wonderful to have the situation illuminated from outside.
Thanks, the only other link I could find was on YouTube, and it was audio only. I bow to your superior search skills. 
Don’t thank me, thank Facebook.
pretty sure that they have only been “requested” to appear. They can’t be forced, nor do I think what they say is under oath but I could be wrong on that.
In any case I don’t think the legal status matters too much, more important is the public perception of the degree of disdain from NI towards the public.
Will any NI executives turn up at all?
If so, who?
What will they say and how open will they be?
I’m thinking that there is no easy way out for them. All seem to be bad choices and with their BSB bid looking to be up the Swanee I’m not sure what their best options are.
It’ll be fascinating no matter what.
A MP at Prime Minister’s Question Time just said that the misleading or failing to turn up to a committee was contempt of parliament but the last time criminal sanctions were used for this was 1666*.
The PM said he’d have to get clarification on this point.
- I’m assuming this was probably an enquiry about The Great Fire of London
And now The Evil Empire has pulled the plug on their BSB bid. 
The Eye of [del]Mordor[/del] Murdoch is weakening.
Wow. I can’t decide whether this was a “quit before you get fired” move (considering the mood in Parliament at the moment) or further damage control done to reduce interest in further investigations into News International. I’m guessing the former with a dollop of the latter.
I really hope this doesn’t defuse the momentum and pressure on the Murdochs and Brooks.
Let’s hope it emboldens the USA to subject them to forensic examination. This is how Murdoch papers operate. They (and without doubt the NY Post) and Fox will have been doing the same type of things. It’s just the nature of the Murdoch beast.
A Slate article says Rupert’s editor was paying the police to tap phones of politicians and celebrities. So it is not just his reporters involved.
Here’s another interesting slate articleabout the possible legal repercussions of the scandal for News Corp. in the U.S.
This may be the scariest thing for the Dirty Digger. I’m personally aware of the FCPA and the implications of breaching it.
Given that the inquiry over here will have a broad scope I would be very surprised if the findings did not kick off subsequent investigations stateside. Is it likely that the standard NI journalistic practices were limited purely to the UK?..nope!
I await the outcome with a smug grin on my face and schadenfreude in my heart.