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Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Sheik Yir Erse » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:36 am

Who's to blame.......?

    * News International
    * Editors of the News of the World
    * Corrupt Police officers
    * The British Public
    * Toothless Regulator
    * Succession of governments terrified of Murdoch

They say you get the government you deserve, perhaps the insatiable desire for gossip, celebrity news and tragedy means we get the press we deserve as well!

I'm amazed that EVERYONE is appalled, this would include the 2.5m people who bought the NOTW week-in, week-out :shock: Oh the irony!

For Andy Coulson to have apparently committed perjury DURING a perjury trial ... well that just defies belief! :shock: Let's just wait and see what happens to him. :x
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby four eyes » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:54 am

Does anyone really care? If all this surprises you,you need to get out more. Its a sad reflection of the world we live in im afraid.
Just thank your lucky stars you live in a town where people still care about each other and have on the whole a nice nature.I have been all over and can vouch for the peeps of Ctown as being amongst,if not the best there is.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Sheik Yir Erse » Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:09 pm

What a fantastic piece of television. I wasn't really prepared for what happens 1m 45s into the interview, and what develops after that is priceless. I've suddenly developed a new found respect for Hugh Grant :?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052690



four eyes wrote:Does anyone really care?


Yes, I think a lot of people do care about this. Certainly the parents of the bereaved and victims themselves will probably care.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby bill » Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:03 pm

Well four eyes I for one am surprised that the News Of the World would not find it morally wrong to hack the phones of the parents of the two murdered girls at Soham,the relatives of victims of the London bombings and the father of a victim of the Omagh bombing,and how many more we do not know about.
It also surprises me to hear the people of my home town being classed as"peeps".
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Govangirl » Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:35 pm

Great clip Sheik. I was at my book Club last night and when it finished, I couldn't understand why Mr Govangirl was all sexed up about Hugh Grant when normally he doesn't give a fig about him. He had been on Question Time and had been brilliant.

I know what you mean Four Eyes but where I wouldn't care about Jordan and footballers getting their phones hacked, I am disgusted at how they can hack into a dead child's phone and gave false hope to her parents. There will be more dirty revelations to come but still the hordes will continue to buy into Murdoch when the new Sun on Sunday is published. Murdoch has poisoned debate in this country for too many years now.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby donny mob » Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:55 pm

fantastic clip......was not really a Hugh fan before I saw this but my opinion has changed.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby WC1 » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:08 pm

It also surprises me to hear the people of my home town being classed as"peeps".


It's just a modern expression, short for "people", Bill.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Bobh » Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:18 pm

Thanks for the clip Ship, brilliant. I like Hugh Grant and was impressed by him on QT last night.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Govangirl » Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:27 pm

Bobh wrote:Thanks for the clip Ship.


Aha!!!! More proof for the paranoid! Is Sheik really Ship or Ship really Sheik? :lol:

And going back to your original question Sheik, Everyone on your list!!!!!

And Hughie for PM I say!!!!!!
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Bobh » Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:44 pm

Oops, sorry Sheik & Ship. :oops:
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby LANDROVER ROGER » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:16 pm

Which U.K.papers are owned by news international apart from the news of the world?
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby Sheik Yir Erse » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:30 pm

The Times / Sunday Times / The Sun
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby ionnsaigh » Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:43 pm

Good for Hugh Grant, he's not the type to get caught with his trousers down.
What amazes is the apparent insatiable appetite, for the cheap and tasteless tittle tattle espoused, in that excuse for journalism. Those totally corrupt Police Officers should be jailed, along with those politicians in the pay of News International..........And for those who bought this rag.... would you like your private lives spread, like a whores legs in the Courier ? No, then please respect the private lives of others.......... ( Boycott the Sun )
One wonders what the sales figures where in Campbeltown, or Glasgow, or for that matter Scotland.
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby LANDROVER ROGER » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:10 pm

ionnsaigh wrote:Good for Hugh Grant, he's not the type to get caught with his trousers down.
What amazes is the apparent insatiable appetite, for the cheap and tasteless tittle tattle espoused, in that excuse for journalism. Those totally corrupt Police Officers should be jailed, along with those politicians in the pay of News International..........And for those who bought this rag.... would you like your private lives spread, like a whores legs in the Courier ? No, then please respect the private lives of others.......... ( Boycott the Sun )
One wonders what the sales figures where in Campbeltown, or Glasgow, or for that matter Scotland.

Good post Ionns!The rest did you good. :wink:
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Re: Phone Hacking Scandal

Postby ionnsaigh » Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:41 pm

Thanks for the post protection Roger .....
Lets be fair, they hacked into a missing girls phone, who happened to be dead.
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