Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net In all the analysis of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press ethics there has been one rather uncomfortable truth that has been ignored. The key point of the story by The Guardian that shut the News of the World was incorrect. If [...]
Sign up to the Dispatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net I don’t really want to discuss too deeply the allegations surrounding Jimmy Savile. Suffice to say that I consider them shocking and disgusting, and the potential victims worthy of respect and a proper hearing after all this time. The reaction from various [...]
It was the story that changed the phone hacking affair, and resulted in the shutting of a newspaper, and the loss of 300 journalist jobs: Except today the story bylined to phonehacking hero Nick Davies and his colleague Amelia Hill has a rather interesting footnote added to it: The Guardian got a crucial bit of [...]
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Tom Watson is once again being hailed as a hero after his performance questioning James Murdoch this morning, culminating in the Labour MP calling the News International Executive Chairman “a mafia boss”. However, Watson’s rabbit-out-the-hat moment was when he revealed that he had spoken to Neville Thurlbeck, who is the former Chief Reporter of the [...]
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has been arrested as part of the continuing phone hacking investigation. Some people in the know on twitter have though questioned the manner and timing of the arrest. A friend of ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie, and Chris Bryant MP, have asked why Brooks was given the privilege of “appointment by arrest’, while [...]
In the past week there has been a lot of online coverage surrounding revelations of phone hacking at the News of the World. A lot of the online attention has focussed on the continuing presence of former News of the World Editor Rebekah Brooks as Chief Executive at News International, and protesting against Rupert Murdoch’s [...]