Murdoch's Scum Credentials All In Order I See

[King Emlyn]

Yes. But it's spectacularly hypocritical.

I don't know. Regardless of your take on the thing it has undoubtedly been a massive part of modern British culture. I can understand why somebody would want a copy of the final edition.

[King Emlyn]

5 million copies of a collector's item. The British public are not bright

I don't really see what the numbers have to do with it tbh. Are you thinking future value? That wasn't my point.

[PestiRed]

I don't really see what the numbers have to do with it tbh. Are you thinking future value? That wasn't my point.

 

Thought the whole collectors thing was about rarity

[King Emlyn]

Thought the whole collectors thing was about rarity

Not necessarily no.

[Captain]

Thought the whole collectors thing was about rarity

 

No, it's definately not.

[PestiRed]

Checked out collector's item on OED, Websters & MacMillans and they all define it as having rarity value.

 

To be honest, the boredom of watching women's football has driven me to this.

[Gym Beglin]

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A personal hero of mine, and an incredibly intelligent man, no doubt, but I was a bit disappointed by Coogan there.

 

That wankstain from the NOTW should have been roundly embarassed and made to look stupid by way of verbal marksmanship, but Coogan, probably too enraged to co-ordinate a proper attack, missed the chance to do so.

 

Coogan has probably been paid copious amounts of money from Murdoch for associated projects in comedy and film, but the issue isn't Murdoch right now, it's the antics of the NOTW and tabloids in general, but mainly the NOTW.

The fact that the NOTW lacky actually mentioned Murdoch and claimed Coogan to be morally bankrupt is in itself quite startling as it suggest that Murdoch was directly involved in the scandals.

Of course, he probably is, but no way you're going to prove that, so leave it alone and just concentrate on the NOTW and trying to put a few of these cunts on the dole.

 

The difference between Coogan receiving money and that cunt, is that Coogan is talented and being paid for his talent.

The editor, or anyone else at the NOTW, is being paid to either make shit up about people, or being paid to carry out criminal activities in order to find something to comment on.

 

Coogan being asked 'why he was there' was thoroughly amusing, seeing as the NOTW have lived off the lives of celebrities.

What's the most annoying, and depresssing, part of it is that you can't turn around to them and accuse them of making something that nobody is interested in.

Learned people, non fucked-up humans, DON'T need it in their lives and never will, it's absence will mean exactly nothing to us, nor the loss of jobs for these talentess parasites.

But for a few million people per week, they will miss it.

That's the battle, and it's unwinnable I'm afraid. Which makes it all the more frustrating to hear these discussion on question time, where learned people historically dwell. There's no point in discussing the morality of the tabloids in such a forum because we don't understand it and we can't change it, we can't remove the demand for the stupid to get hold of information and pictures about frustratingly unimportant things.

 

What the NOTW did was reprehensible, but I don't doubt for a second that all of the tabloids have done this, or know people who can and will do this.

[King Emlyn]

Checked out collector's item on OED, Websters & MacMillans and they all define it as having rarity value.

 

To be honest, the boredom of watching women's football has driven me to this.

Well then why do people collect football programmes every week ? What value do they have? I have kept the Millenium edition of the Daily Mirror, I'm sure it has no value. There will be literally thousand of examples of such things. You don't have to collect things for their value. Sorry, that's a nonsense.

[RoboRiise]

charltonbrooker Charlie Brooker

It's all a bit like the end of 'They Live', this.

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Oh that's brilliant.

[melons]

Check you out, Courtney Love.

 

At least i'm heading in the right age direction, the lad i pointed out as the bitches younger brother last week is only 20.

[Kopite]

Murdoch only answers to one person...

 

 

I hope he gets taken down, big time. We never elected him, yet he controls the weak and corrupt in Westminster.

[RoboRiise]

He should have done it in a Partridge voice; instant legend.

 

I think I'd actually have died laughing.

 

Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan join war over 'cheap and pathetic' red tops

Vanessa Thorpe, guardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 July 2011 20.35 BST

 

After enduring years of frenzied paparazzi coverage, British celebrities have landed what they see as a series of body blows on their enemy – our tabloid culture.

 

Comedian Steve Coogan emerged this weekend as a fiery spokesman for those entertainers who feel that their choice of a career in the public eye does not entitle the media to pay for illegal access to details of their relationships and private misdemeanours.

 

In an angry appearance on BBC2's Newsnight, Coogan, who has been the repeated target of tabloid stings about his personal life, accused Paul McMullan, a former News of the World deputy features editor, of being a "risible" and "morally bankrupt" individual who merely peddled "tittle-tattle" while hiding behind a "smokescreen" of phony support for the freedom of the press in Britain.

 

"People keep saying it is a very bad day for the press," said Coogan. "It is a wonderful day for the press: a small victory for decency and humanity." Railing against a complacent acceptance in Britain that media intrusion was simply "part of the landscape", the performer who became famous as the fictional failing media star Alan Partridge said he did not believe there were only a few rotten apples working in News International. "People talk as if they have fallen below their usual high standards. They were already in the gutter, it is just that they have sunk lower than anyone thought they could," he said.

 

The unlucky object of Coogan's derision had already been the subject of a public humiliation at the hands of another leading British star. Hugh Grant wore a hidden wire to interview McMullan for an April issue of the New Statesman magazine edited by his former girlfriend Jemima Khan.

 

Talking to the former News of the World man in his Dover pub, Grant got straight to the issue that had closed down a newspaper this weekend. Was it true, Grant asked, that the NoW had been hacking the phones of friends and family of Milly Dowler and the girls murdered at Soham? McMullan replied that he thought "it was quite routine".

 

Appearing on BBC1's Question Time on Thursday evening, the actor responded with anger to former Sun columnist Jon Gaunt's attempt to bring up the scandal of Grant's arrest for soliciting a prostitute in America in 1995.

 

"Cheap and pathetic," he told Gaunt, adding that he had always put his hands up to this transgression and understood that it would appear in the British newspapers.

 

His involvement in the anti-phone-hacking campaign came about, the actor argues, not because of sour grapes but because he had met McMullan when he broke down in his car at Christmas.

 

Joining forces with well-known names such as the actress Sienna Miller and the Formula One motor racing boss Max Mosley, who have both suffered at the hands of the tabloid press, Coogan and Grant are part of a new breed of celebrity that is prepared to take a stand, despite the risk of becoming a red-top target for the rest of their lives.

 

Coogan, underlining his view that the demise of the News of the World had nothing to do with any "soul searching on the part of David Cameron", said it was instead down to "the tenacity of the Guardian and a few individuals who had the guts to take on an intimidating organisation".

 

While there may be scant public sympathy for the unemployed reporters who worked on what Coogan describes as "a misogynistic, xenophobic, single-parent-hating, asylum-seeker-hating newspaper", celebrities also traditionally find it hard to win a sympathy vote.

 

McMullan saw the possibilities here and tried to land a punch. First, he claimed that Grant needed the publicity, as he had not made a successful film recently.

 

Then he alleged that Coogan and his publicist had spent a lot of time trying to get his name into the newspapers.

 

What was more, said McMullan, Coogan had been boasting in the Newsnight green room about the number of houses he had bought this year.

 

Coogan admitted that he dealt with Murdoch's film and television arms, but said he did not speak to the tabloid press or court their attention.

Coogan fightback

 

Excerpts from the angry exchange on the BBC's Newsnight on Friday evening between the comic actor Steve Coogan and Paul McMullan, above, the former deputy features editor of the News of The World:

 

Coogan: "I think you are a walking PR disaster for the tabloids, because you don't come across in a sympathetic way. You come across as a risible individual who is symptomatic of everything that is wrong. Because your attitude is: 'We are only trying to sell newspapers.' Or: 'We are investigative journalists.' You are not uncovering corruption, you are not bringing down institutions that are inherently corrupt. You are just trying to find out who is sleeping with who. It is about selling newspapers."

 

McMullan: "We would have no freedom of the press? Finding out what politicians are doing."

 

Coogan: "Absolute garbage… I am not a politician. Why go after me? And Milly Dowler's relatives are not politicians. Why go after them? It is morally bankrupt, and you are morally bankrupt."

 

McMullan: "But you have a publicist. You spend your whole life trying to get into the papers."

 

Coogan: "No, I don't. I don't give interviews to tabloid newspapers, because I am interested in writing and entertaining the public with the comedy that I write. I deal with Rupert Murdoch already and I deal with his organisation. I am talking about tab newspapers."

 

McMullan: "So you take a million quid a movie and then you bleat about the fact that someone listened to your phone messages."

 

Coogan: "… This guy sat outside my house."

 

McMullan: "You were in the green room talking about the number of houses that you have bought this year. Oh, we all feel terribly sorry for you… [/b ]We do these [kiss and tell] stories and five million people read the paper, and then when a good story comes along, when bad guys get exposed, five million people read it."

 

Coogan: "Oh, I didn't realise you were on a moral crusade. I am sorry."

 

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That emboldened sentence. It comes through again and again with this cunt, you read the Hugh Grant interview and he makes reference to the money these celebs have as if it's a justification for going after them. It proves conclusively that his actions (and the readers decision to buy the paper) are primarily influenced by vindictiveness and jealousy.

 

I'm definitely in a different financial strata from the likes of Coogan and Grant, I currently earn less than £20k a year and I'll wager neither of them would get out of bed for that. Ultimately though they get their money by being paid for their work just the same as I do, they just work in an industry with far higher going rates.

 

The catch-all 'celebrity' which McMullan uses gives an insight into his mindset. Hugh Grant isn't a 'celebrity' he's an actor. That's his job, it's what he does to earn a living. Steve Coogan isn't a 'celebrity' he's an actor, writer, director just the same as McMullan is (or at least pretends to be) a journalist.

 

If they're on set, at a production meeting, doing publicity events or pre-arranged interviews, at a premiere or attending an awards show I think it's reasonable to regard them as being at work and since a degree of interaction with the media is part of their jobs, it's entirely reasonable for the press to expect access to them. If they're out in a park with their kids, popping out for a meal or come to that sitting at home in their pants watching donkey porn, they're not at work and there is no reason at all to think it's appropriate to be prying into what they're doing. McMullan could spend his evenings sodomising kittens for all I know but that's between him and his God, I don't expect to be kept informed about it.

 

There's no denying the fact that a large proportion of the population have an almost morbid interest in the bedroom antics and private lives of any number of figures in the public eye but that's because they're shallow morons, almost completely lacking in intelligence or imagination and expect to have their every impulse immediately satisfied. I don't happen to believe the media's role is to spoon feed titillation to imbeciles.

[taliesin08]

I would like to know whats coming out that could be worse than what they have already done. Any one have any ideas on what it could be?

[Cardie]

Nice that the News of the World staff could all go out with back slapping and their heads held high. Not like they haven't peddled shit and misery on their watch even if they weren't involved in actual hacking.

 

cretins

[Rush 346]

Nice that the News of the World staff could all go out with back slapping and their heads held high. Not like they haven't peddled shit and misery on their watch even if they weren't involved in actual hacking.

 

cretins

 

I had to turn the coverage off this am it's like someone has died FFS

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[Anubis]

A brief extract from this article.... Rupert Murdoch voices 'total' support for Brooks as he flies in to stem threat | Media | The Observer

 

 

Rupert Murdoch has thrown his weight behind his beleaguered management team as he prepared to fly to Britain to deal with the crisis engulfing News International (NI).

 

Expressing his "total" support for NI's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, he said: "I'm not throwing innocent people under the bus." Asked about the phone-hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World, the company's biggest-selling newspaper, he added: "We've been let down by people that we trusted, with the result the paper let down its readers."

 

 

I'm sure all those staff at the NotW who weren't there before 2005 are glad to hear you've changed your mind about making them redundant, Rupert. Oh wait....

[TheBitch]

 

At least i'm heading in the right age direction, the lad i pointed out as the bitches younger brother last week is only 20.

 

Who what where?

[Sugar Ape]

I liked this quote from the Guardians newsfeed :

 

News of the World phone-hacking scandal - 9 July as it happened | Media | guardian.co.uk

 

12.54pm: Robbie Collin, film critic at the News of the World, has laid into the paper's former features executive Paul McMullan for his dubious defence of phone hacking on last night's Newsnight.

 

Collins also said: "The worst thing is, he's nothing to do with us. hasn't worked here for 11 years, apparently was a walking joke when he did.

 

"How is a crumpled idiot who makes a tit of himself on Newsnight "as much of a journalist" as I am?"

 

I hope they keep wheeling McMullan out, he is completely out of his depth.

[Paisley Red]

Just watched the shambolic fucktard McMullan on BBC Sunday Morning Live he was on with Peter Hitchens and Derek Hatton. Car crash telly as McMullan admitted to more phone hacking ("That story came from hacking as well! Oh, maybe I shouldn't be saying that on air..."), explained how the NotW paid people more money the more they embellished their stories and then admitted to being on the run from the police which is why he's had the same clothes on for five days. Says the police "asked" him to report to a police station to be arrested but he's not going to because he was only writing the truth ... "and what better way to get to the truth than listen to someone's phone messages".

 

I can hardly believe he's real.

[The Acolyte]

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Among those newspapers owned by Murdoch there was the New York Post.

Didin't they have a take in FSG?

[BatChainPuller]

A brief extract from this article.... Rupert Murdoch voices 'total' support for Brooks as he flies in to stem threat | Media | The Observer

 

Rupert Murdoch has thrown his weight behind his beleaguered management team as he prepared to fly to Britain to deal with the crisis engulfing News International (NI).

 

Expressing his "total" support for NI's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, he said: "I'm not throwing innocent people under the bus." Asked about the phone-hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World, the company's biggest-selling newspaper, he added: "We've been let down by people that we trusted, with the result the paper let down its readers."

 

 

 

I'm sure all those staff at the NotW who weren't there before 2005 are glad to hear you've changed your mind about making them redundant, Rupert. Oh wait....

 

First ever recorded use of the words 'Rebekah Brooks' and 'innocent' in the same sentence ?

[PestiRed]

Order of getting sacrificed - Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch. They know more is coming out and if Brooks goes now then mini-Murdoch faces the next onslaught. They need her in place as long as possible

[Anubis]

Just watched the shambolic fucktard McMullan on BBC Sunday Morning Live he was on with Peter Hitchens and Derek Hatton. Car crash telly as McMullan admitted to more phone hacking ("That story came from hacking as well! Oh, maybe I shouldn't be saying that on air..."), explained how the NotW paid people more money the more they embellished their stories and then admitted to being on the run from the police which is why he's had the same clothes on for five days. Says the police "asked" him to report to a police station to be arrested but he's not going to because he was only writing the truth ... "and what better way to get to the truth than listen to someone's phone messages".

 

I can hardly believe he's real.

 

Pity the police weren't watching Sunday Morning Live, as they could have sent a patrol to the studio to pick him up. He does look and sound like he's on drugs.

[Anubis]

Order of getting sacrificed - Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch. They know more is coming out and if Brooks goes now then mini-Murdoch faces the next onslaught. They need her in place as long as possible

 

Spot on. At least it looks as though Coulson's decided that if he's being put in the frame, he's dragging others in with him.