Murdochgate: News Corp. Now Toxic -- $2 BILLION in Losses for 2012 UPDATED...
Couldn't happen to a nicer organization. From the New York Business Journal:News Corp. said the publishing business that it plans to spin off next year had a $2.08 billion loss in its fiscal 2012, due...
View ArticleMurdoch: The first conviction
Today the next phase in the ongoing UK legal cases surrounding the Murdoch organisation occurred. DCI April Casburn was found guilty of misconduct in public office.BBC News - Detective guilty of...
View ArticleMurdochgate: News Corp. Hemorrhaging 1,000's of Stores from its Supermarket...
Big h/t to ceebs for alerting me to this story.From Business Insider:Two separate statements from News Corp. appear to indicate that the company's News America Marketing — which handles its obscure but...
View ArticleMurdoch: Making up the News
Today the Sun managed to publish a dose of rabid Tory wankfantasy. An article that managed to hit just about every single point in Benefit bingo. Benefit Claimant Single Mother East European Imigrant...
View ArticleMurdochgate: More charges
The Crown Prosecution Service announced today (Tuesday) that charges are being laid against a Metropolitan Police officer and a Sun (News International/Corp) journalist:Alison Levitt QC, the principal...
View ArticleMurdoch: Casburn sentenced
This morning, the first sentencing of an individual convicted from the investigation that has come out of the phone hacking case.For several reasons this result has been particularly anticipated,...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Sun Editor and Cop to be Tried for Bribery at the Old Bailey
It was surely the anticipation of negative publicity like this that has Rupert Murdoch scurrying to split his empire in half -- an attempt to shield his lucrative entertainment divisions from the...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 100th Person Arrested
From The Telegraph:The 50-year-old serving officer was held this morning under Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to public officials. Scotland Yard confirmed that he is...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 6 News of the World Journalists ARRESTED for Phone Hacking. BRIT...
From the BBC:Six journalists from the now defunct News of the World have been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone-hacking at the newspaper. Scotland Yard said three men and three...
View ArticleMurdoch Throws his Journalists Under a Bus: the Unintended Consequence of the...
Crossposted from Motley MooseI tend to avoid cross posting material from my work at the Daily Beast, but this is an important unintended consequence of Murdoch's reaction to the Phone Hacking scandal...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert Selling Off Shares of News Corp at Frantic Pace
This week, Rupert sold off $28.9 million in News Corp. voting shares. And last Friday, he cashed in $40.1 million worth! I imagine 70 million dollars in 5 business days is near the maximum he's allowed...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Rupert & James Facing Possible JAIL Time UPDATED x1
From an article in Independent Australia, titled, Rupert and James Murdoch to appear in court in UK phone hacking trials:AUSTRALIAN-BORN newspaper magnate Keith Rupert Murdoch and his son James may be...
View ArticleMurdochgate: 4 UK Public Officials Plead Guilty to Selling Info to Murdoch's...
From The Guardian:Two former police officers, an ex-prison officer and another public official have admitted selling information to the Sun – the first people to plead guilty in relation to the...
View ArticleMurdoch: Where is the UK now post Leveson
Now I don't know as this is really relevent to a US site, but as you have all read through discussions of evidence and reports, you may as well have what i think about the current state of things as I...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Jaw-Dropping List of Publicly Known Hack Victims
This list was compiled by the amazing Steven Nott, himself a witness at Leveson. He has given me permission to reprint the list in its entirety.
View ArticleMurdoch: Big day in Leveson
Two major events todayfirstly Four Daily Mirror Journalists arrested, first thing this morning.Operation Weeting: four arrests over alleged Sunday Mirror phone hacking | UK news | guardian.co.ukFour...
View ArticleMurdoch: 600 new hacking cases
Yesterday we had several senior members of the UK's Mirror group arrested, former editors and deputies from one of the papers, including the person who was Piers Morgans deputy. In the corner of the...
View ArticleMurdochgate: Now Sun Admits Accessing Phone Stolen from MP
In the High Court in London today the Sun "newspaper", part of Murdoch's News(sic) International, admitting accessing personal information, including messages, on a mobile (cell)phone stolen from a...
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Murdochgate: Rupert Goes Reverse Godwin, Then Does Power-Meddler Faceplant
This past Monday, on the day of the big Leveson recommendations vote in Parliament, Rupert executed this reverse Godwin (Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a...
View ArticleMurdochgate - More Jail Time
Today a policeman and prison officer have been given jail sentences of 10 months and 16 months for selling information to Murdoch's daily red top "newspaper", The Sun.Both men had admitted misconduct...
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