Time for the London Guardian to come clean and stop being a stooge of Big Biz MIC agenda operators
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09 April 2011.
By AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Commentary
The Guardian web site carries a piece saying that a former cabinet minister in Gordon Brown’s administration [so far refusing to be named or refusing to identify themselves in the Guardian piece published online in the past hour] is ‘revealing’ that Rupert Murdoch had tried to get Gordon Brown to ‘halt’ the various investigations into the News of the World and other Murdoch media abuses and invasions into peoples’ privacy. The Guardian is taking a typically over-the-top [almost’ morally high ground claiming almost all credit for the alleged ‘confessions’ by Murdoch so far. The GUARDIAN’s conduct as verifiable by reference to its own publishing records, however, do not support this. Why? Because the Guardian, as AADHIKAROnline has chronicled over the past many years, has been as servile to the corrupt agenda operated by MIC in the UK as any other ‘Fleet Street’ organ. Crossrail is the prime example, as we have been exposing the peddlers of it since we began our exhaustive and consistently vindicated diagnostics [which we have been publishing online since in July 2004].[To be continued]
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GUARDIAN should look at ITS own role in peddling BIG BIZ agenda. Why had the GUARDIAN been refusing to question MIC operations in ands via the UK?
Rupert Murdoch used his political influence and contacts at the highest levels to try to get Labour MPs and peers to back away from investigations into phone hacking at the News of the World, a former minister in Gordon Brown's government has told the Observer.
The ex-minister, who does not want to be named, says he is aware of evidence that Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation, relayed messages to Brown last year via a third party, urging him to help take the political heat out of the row, which he felt was in danger of damaging his company.
Brown, who stepped down as prime minister after last May's general election defeat for Labour, has refused to comment on the claim, but has not denied it. It is believed that contacts were made before he left No 10. The minister said: "What I know is that Murdoch got in touch with a good friend who then got in touch with Brown. The intention was to get him to cool things down. That is what I was told."
Brown, who became increasingly concerned at allegations of phone hacking and asked the police to investigate claims that he had been a victim of hacking when chancellor, made Murdoch's views known to a select few in the Labour party. In January, it was revealed that Brown had written at least one letter to the Metropolitan police over concerns that his phone was targeted when still at the Treasury. Suggestions that Murdoch involved Tony Blair in a chain of phone calls that led to Brown have been denied by the former prime minister. A spokesman for Blair said the claim was "categorically untrue", adding "no such calls ever took place". The news will, however, add to concerns about the level of influence Murdoch wields over key political figures at Westminster and in Downing Street.
It will also raise further questions over the decision by David Cameron to appoint Andy Coulson, a former NoW editor who resigned over phone hacking, as his director of communications. A spokesman for News International, the paper's owner, said the allegation over Murdoch's role was a matter for News Corp, its US-based parent company, which did not immediately respond to messages left for it.
Labour leader Ed Miliband raised the ante, saying it was important to establish who knew what about "criminal behaviour" – and when. "What we have seen is a serious admission of wrongdoing by News International," he said during a visit to Swindon. "We have now got to get to the bottom of any criminal behaviour, which is a matter for the police and should be thoroughly investigated.
"We need to know who knew about these actions and when. We also need to know how far across the organisation knowledge of these actions went."
On Friday, News International issued a public apology to eight victims of phone hacking, including the actress Sienna Miller. It was the first time the company had admitted the practice was common at the News of the World.
However, questions remain over whether the victims will settle. Miller's solicitor, Mark Thomson, of law firm Atkins Thomson, said: "She is awaiting information and disclosure from the News of the World which has been ordered by the court and will consider her next steps once this is provided."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said a decision on the planned takeover of BSkyB by News Corp would not be influenced by the controversy. A spokesman said: "The culture secretary has to make a quasi-judicial decision about the impact of the proposed merger on media plurality issues alone. Legally the culture secretary cannot consider other factors as part of this process and under law phone hacking is not seen as relevant to media plurality."
The scandal has focused attention on senior executives at News International, including its chief executive Rebekah Brooks, formerly Wade. Former MP George Galloway, who said he had been shown proof his phone had been hacked, claimed the NoW's apology was a "cynical attempt to protect the company's chief executive Rebekah Wade … Wade delivered the statement on Friday which sought to put an end to the controversy. However, by attempting to limit the admission of liability to the two years between 2004 and 2006 – and by so doing effectively sacrificing two senior executives and former editor Andy Coulson – she appears to be trying to exculpate herself from the scandal."
Publicist Max Clifford, who brought a private case against News of the World with a reported £1m settlement, said its hand had been forced into the apology. "It's now acknowledged this was widespread at News International."
The ex-minister, who does not want to be named, says he is aware of evidence that Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation, relayed messages to Brown last year via a third party, urging him to help take the political heat out of the row, which he felt was in danger of damaging his company.
Brown, who stepped down as prime minister after last May's general election defeat for Labour, has refused to comment on the claim, but has not denied it. It is believed that contacts were made before he left No 10. The minister said: "What I know is that Murdoch got in touch with a good friend who then got in touch with Brown. The intention was to get him to cool things down. That is what I was told."
Brown, who became increasingly concerned at allegations of phone hacking and asked the police to investigate claims that he had been a victim of hacking when chancellor, made Murdoch's views known to a select few in the Labour party. In January, it was revealed that Brown had written at least one letter to the Metropolitan police over concerns that his phone was targeted when still at the Treasury. Suggestions that Murdoch involved Tony Blair in a chain of phone calls that led to Brown have been denied by the former prime minister. A spokesman for Blair said the claim was "categorically untrue", adding "no such calls ever took place". The news will, however, add to concerns about the level of influence Murdoch wields over key political figures at Westminster and in Downing Street.
It will also raise further questions over the decision by David Cameron to appoint Andy Coulson, a former NoW editor who resigned over phone hacking, as his director of communications. A spokesman for News International, the paper's owner, said the allegation over Murdoch's role was a matter for News Corp, its US-based parent company, which did not immediately respond to messages left for it.
Labour leader Ed Miliband raised the ante, saying it was important to establish who knew what about "criminal behaviour" – and when. "What we have seen is a serious admission of wrongdoing by News International," he said during a visit to Swindon. "We have now got to get to the bottom of any criminal behaviour, which is a matter for the police and should be thoroughly investigated.
"We need to know who knew about these actions and when. We also need to know how far across the organisation knowledge of these actions went."
On Friday, News International issued a public apology to eight victims of phone hacking, including the actress Sienna Miller. It was the first time the company had admitted the practice was common at the News of the World.
However, questions remain over whether the victims will settle. Miller's solicitor, Mark Thomson, of law firm Atkins Thomson, said: "She is awaiting information and disclosure from the News of the World which has been ordered by the court and will consider her next steps once this is provided."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said a decision on the planned takeover of BSkyB by News Corp would not be influenced by the controversy. A spokesman said: "The culture secretary has to make a quasi-judicial decision about the impact of the proposed merger on media plurality issues alone. Legally the culture secretary cannot consider other factors as part of this process and under law phone hacking is not seen as relevant to media plurality."
The scandal has focused attention on senior executives at News International, including its chief executive Rebekah Brooks, formerly Wade. Former MP George Galloway, who said he had been shown proof his phone had been hacked, claimed the NoW's apology was a "cynical attempt to protect the company's chief executive Rebekah Wade … Wade delivered the statement on Friday which sought to put an end to the controversy. However, by attempting to limit the admission of liability to the two years between 2004 and 2006 – and by so doing effectively sacrificing two senior executives and former editor Andy Coulson – she appears to be trying to exculpate herself from the scandal."
Publicist Max Clifford, who brought a private case against News of the World with a reported £1m settlement, said its hand had been forced into the apology. "It's now acknowledged this was widespread at News International."
How the oversized ego of BBC Breakfast presenter Kate got in the way of viewers right to a rigourous news morning about Rupert Murdoch!
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London
Saturday
09 April 2011.
Editor
AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Commentary. Instead of being focussed on the rare admission by Rupert Murdoch made during Friday that he has been - in an universally objective and purely moral and ethical sense in context - the key corrupter of morals for decades in Britain by his acquisition and control of the SUN and the allied titles and outlets, viewers of the BBC Breakfast TV programme this morning were often distracted by the antics of Kate Silversone. Not only was she behaving in the aggressive way - at one point gesturing that looked as if she was almost touching the BBC sports presenter of the hour- reminiscent of her years of over-publicised singledom, she was also as abrasive and as ignorant as ever she had been when she was being mounted before the viewers of the Nation via Channel 5 and its ‘Wright [Wrong!] Stuff ‘slot. She thus caused the commentary to be directed instead to a diagnostic
measurement of her ego on a Saturday morning!
Almost as big as Rupert Murdoch's!
Which is a pity. It is also a telling indictment of the BBC which has failed to pursue with anything like the vigour required the literally HUNDREDS if not thousands of still valid and still active and still overdue [for investigation] allegations of corruption by Rupert Murdoch and his ***ews International.
The BBC is hampered by lack of a consistent and high and manifest moral code and it is made even more handicapped by the employment of the likes of Kate Silversone and Emily Maitlis and jane Hill, to name only three of at least one hundred ‘BBC presenters and or executives’ who have been abusing the GENDER AGENDA for self-promotion and in effect to undermine the BBC’s duty to provide the standard and the rigour of news and factual service that it is there to provide. These three are seen to muscle their way in front of the main BBC camera crew whenever there is a hot ‘breaking’ news story unfolding. In so doing - and what is worse, in being allowed to do so - they are breaking the BBC’s real foundation. [To be continued]
London
Saturday
09 April 2011.
Editor
AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Commentary. Instead of being focussed on the rare admission by Rupert Murdoch made during Friday that he has been - in an universally objective and purely moral and ethical sense in context - the key corrupter of morals for decades in Britain by his acquisition and control of the SUN and the allied titles and outlets, viewers of the BBC Breakfast TV programme this morning were often distracted by the antics of Kate Silversone. Not only was she behaving in the aggressive way - at one point gesturing that looked as if she was almost touching the BBC sports presenter of the hour- reminiscent of her years of over-publicised singledom, she was also as abrasive and as ignorant as ever she had been when she was being mounted before the viewers of the Nation via Channel 5 and its ‘Wright [Wrong!] Stuff ‘slot. She thus caused the commentary to be directed instead to a diagnostic
measurement of her ego on a Saturday morning!
Almost as big as Rupert Murdoch's!
Which is a pity. It is also a telling indictment of the BBC which has failed to pursue with anything like the vigour required the literally HUNDREDS if not thousands of still valid and still active and still overdue [for investigation] allegations of corruption by Rupert Murdoch and his ***ews International.
The BBC is hampered by lack of a consistent and high and manifest moral code and it is made even more handicapped by the employment of the likes of Kate Silversone and Emily Maitlis and jane Hill, to name only three of at least one hundred ‘BBC presenters and or executives’ who have been abusing the GENDER AGENDA for self-promotion and in effect to undermine the BBC’s duty to provide the standard and the rigour of news and factual service that it is there to provide. These three are seen to muscle their way in front of the main BBC camera crew whenever there is a hot ‘breaking’ news story unfolding. In so doing - and what is worse, in being allowed to do so - they are breaking the BBC’s real foundation. [To be continued]
One of PRIVATE EYE magazine's most enduring phrases comes true, after decades as "News of the Screws!" is screwed, albeit only partly so far-1
From uardian.co.uk web site as published on 08 April 2011:
Quote
News of the World phone hacking victims get apology from Murdoch
Admission of liability over phone hacking likely to cost News International
millions of pounds in compensation
James Robinson
The Guardian, Saturday 9 April 2011
Sienna Miller, who is suing the News of the World for hacking into her mobile phone voicemail messages, is one of 24 public figures given an 'unreserved apology' by the paper's parent company, News International.
Rupert Murdoch's News International has issued a public apology to eight victims of phone hacking, including the actor Sienna Miller and former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, and admitted for the first time that the practice was rife at the News of the World.
In a move likely to cost the company many millions of pounds, it said it would offer compensation to some of the 24 high-profile figures who have started legal proceedings against the paper in the high court for breach of privacy. It also admitted its previous investigations into hacking had not been "sufficiently robust".
The unprecedented statement of contrition is a remarkable volte face for the country's most powerful news organisation that was claiming until the start of this year, in the face of growing evidence to the contrary, that hacking was the work of a single reporter. It comes as a Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking gathers pace.
The News of the World's chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, was questioned by police on Tuesday, as was Ian Edmondson, who was sacked as associate editor (news) in January. The company said it had decided to offer an "unreserved apology" in certain cases but it would continue to fight others, including claims brought by Steve Coogan and the jockey Kieren Fallon. "Past behaviour at the News of the World in relation to voicemail interception is a matter of genuine regret," it said. "It is now apparent that our previous inquiries failed to uncover important evidence and we acknowledge our actions then were not sufficiently robust." At least one of the victims indicated privately that she was unlikely to accept News International's offer, although others – including Miller – are believed to be considering the proposal. Lord Prescott, who is suing the Metropolitan police over its handling of the original 2006 phone-hacking inquiry, said: "The NoW has now admitted mass criminality." He repeated his call for Murdoch's bid for BSkyB to be blocked until the hacking allegations have been investigated fully. The eight people to be offered compensation, likely to be an estimated £100,000 each, include Joan Hammell, one of Prescott's former advisers, and Jowell's estranged husband, David Mills. Jowell was the minister responsible for media policy at the time of the alleged hackings. The others are football agent Sky Andrew, Andy Gray, who was sacked as a Sky Sports presenter this year, publicist Nicola Phillips and Kelly Hoppen, the interior designer who is Sienna Miller's stepmother. News International insiders said more offers are certain to follow. The action is an attempt to prevent further damaging revelations about hacking at the paper emerging in the course of court hearings, the first of which is due in the autumn. Over the next few weeks, NI will be forced to hand over hundreds of internal emails sent by reporters and executives relating to Miller and Andrew in order to comply with a high court order. They could reveal how much senior executives at the paper knew about the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the NoW. Asked at a New York media conference about the damage hacking has inflicted on the company, Rupert Murdoch's son James, who was promoted last week to become the third most powerful executive in his father's media empire, said it had isolated the issue. He said: "What we were able to do is really put this problem into a box. If you get everybody sucked into something like that, then the whole business will sputter which you don't want." But Rod Dadak, of law firm Lewis Slikin, said dozens of potential victims would now scramble to launch legal claims in the expectation of receiving generous payouts. That could leave NI facing a bill of up to £40m. "The admission of liability is just the beginning," he said. "The list of people who will now claim their phone may have been hacked will grow immeasurably." Evidence seized from Mulcaire by the Met suggests that he targeted more than 3,000 people on the instructions of executives at the paper. MP Simon Hughes was one of the original hacking victims named in the indictment against Mulcaire and Clive Goodman. He said yesterday: "It was always obvious that other people must have been involved in the phone hacking and other victims must have had their privacy invaded. It is in the public interest that we get to the bottom of this." Andrew Neil, an ex-Murdoch executive who edited the Sunday Times for a decade, said: "This is one of the most embarrassing apologies I've ever seen from a major British corporation. I don't think NI had anywhere else to go. The evidence was piling up against them. It may cost them a lot more than they think. There are plenty of other people involved. They are trying to close it down with their chequebook but I don't think they're going to succeed." Charlotte Harris, of Mishcon de Reya, who represents Andrew, said: "An admission from the News of the World is something we've been working towards for years now. They persisted with their 'one rogue' defence for far too long. It was clear for a very long time that the practice of phone hacking was rife and that the News of the World should take responsibility. I hope these apologies do not come at the cost of finding out precisely what happened and who was responsible for covering it up." larger | smaller Media UK news More news More on this story News International could face prosecution Hacking admission will put pressure on Scotland Yard inquiry to pursue corporate criminal charges Phone hacking apology designed to keep cases out of court
Unquoting guardian.co.uk web site
Quote
News of the World phone hacking victims get apology from Murdoch
Admission of liability over phone hacking likely to cost News International
millions of pounds in compensation
James Robinson
The Guardian, Saturday 9 April 2011
Sienna Miller, who is suing the News of the World for hacking into her mobile phone voicemail messages, is one of 24 public figures given an 'unreserved apology' by the paper's parent company, News International.
Rupert Murdoch's News International has issued a public apology to eight victims of phone hacking, including the actor Sienna Miller and former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, and admitted for the first time that the practice was rife at the News of the World.
In a move likely to cost the company many millions of pounds, it said it would offer compensation to some of the 24 high-profile figures who have started legal proceedings against the paper in the high court for breach of privacy. It also admitted its previous investigations into hacking had not been "sufficiently robust".
The unprecedented statement of contrition is a remarkable volte face for the country's most powerful news organisation that was claiming until the start of this year, in the face of growing evidence to the contrary, that hacking was the work of a single reporter. It comes as a Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking gathers pace.
The News of the World's chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, was questioned by police on Tuesday, as was Ian Edmondson, who was sacked as associate editor (news) in January. The company said it had decided to offer an "unreserved apology" in certain cases but it would continue to fight others, including claims brought by Steve Coogan and the jockey Kieren Fallon. "Past behaviour at the News of the World in relation to voicemail interception is a matter of genuine regret," it said. "It is now apparent that our previous inquiries failed to uncover important evidence and we acknowledge our actions then were not sufficiently robust." At least one of the victims indicated privately that she was unlikely to accept News International's offer, although others – including Miller – are believed to be considering the proposal. Lord Prescott, who is suing the Metropolitan police over its handling of the original 2006 phone-hacking inquiry, said: "The NoW has now admitted mass criminality." He repeated his call for Murdoch's bid for BSkyB to be blocked until the hacking allegations have been investigated fully. The eight people to be offered compensation, likely to be an estimated £100,000 each, include Joan Hammell, one of Prescott's former advisers, and Jowell's estranged husband, David Mills. Jowell was the minister responsible for media policy at the time of the alleged hackings. The others are football agent Sky Andrew, Andy Gray, who was sacked as a Sky Sports presenter this year, publicist Nicola Phillips and Kelly Hoppen, the interior designer who is Sienna Miller's stepmother. News International insiders said more offers are certain to follow. The action is an attempt to prevent further damaging revelations about hacking at the paper emerging in the course of court hearings, the first of which is due in the autumn. Over the next few weeks, NI will be forced to hand over hundreds of internal emails sent by reporters and executives relating to Miller and Andrew in order to comply with a high court order. They could reveal how much senior executives at the paper knew about the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the NoW. Asked at a New York media conference about the damage hacking has inflicted on the company, Rupert Murdoch's son James, who was promoted last week to become the third most powerful executive in his father's media empire, said it had isolated the issue. He said: "What we were able to do is really put this problem into a box. If you get everybody sucked into something like that, then the whole business will sputter which you don't want." But Rod Dadak, of law firm Lewis Slikin, said dozens of potential victims would now scramble to launch legal claims in the expectation of receiving generous payouts. That could leave NI facing a bill of up to £40m. "The admission of liability is just the beginning," he said. "The list of people who will now claim their phone may have been hacked will grow immeasurably." Evidence seized from Mulcaire by the Met suggests that he targeted more than 3,000 people on the instructions of executives at the paper. MP Simon Hughes was one of the original hacking victims named in the indictment against Mulcaire and Clive Goodman. He said yesterday: "It was always obvious that other people must have been involved in the phone hacking and other victims must have had their privacy invaded. It is in the public interest that we get to the bottom of this." Andrew Neil, an ex-Murdoch executive who edited the Sunday Times for a decade, said: "This is one of the most embarrassing apologies I've ever seen from a major British corporation. I don't think NI had anywhere else to go. The evidence was piling up against them. It may cost them a lot more than they think. There are plenty of other people involved. They are trying to close it down with their chequebook but I don't think they're going to succeed." Charlotte Harris, of Mishcon de Reya, who represents Andrew, said: "An admission from the News of the World is something we've been working towards for years now. They persisted with their 'one rogue' defence for far too long. It was clear for a very long time that the practice of phone hacking was rife and that the News of the World should take responsibility. I hope these apologies do not come at the cost of finding out precisely what happened and who was responsible for covering it up." larger | smaller Media UK news More news More on this story News International could face prosecution Hacking admission will put pressure on Scotland Yard inquiry to pursue corporate criminal charges Phone hacking apology designed to keep cases out of court
Unquoting guardian.co.uk web site