News International

Media, politics and influence in the 19th and 21st centuries

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 3, 2012, 4:49 pm

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It’s hard to talk about politics without the media encroaching on the conversation. In an after lunch session entitled Media, politics and influence three speakers presented papers that looked at a range of topics. Carole O’Reilly is a historian at University of Salford and talked about the influence (and funding) from municipal councillors that created some 19th century English local newspapers and filled them with content … and yet revelled in reporting ‘combative’ local elections, and printed strong criticism of …

“makes Murdoch look about as impressive as wrinkly little ant waving a tiny placard”

Pete Baker on July 17, 2011, 10:51 pm

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The arranged arrest of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks today, she resigned on Friday, was met with suspicion by members of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, as the BBC report notes Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders, a member of the select committee, questioned the timing of the latest arrest. “In whose interest was it for this arrest to take place before Tuesday? Because if it does impede what we can ask, that’s not going to …

News International – What happens next.

Dewi on July 7, 2011, 11:27 pm

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Watch this and laugh That’s the younger Murdoch. Worth a look, as the Police should be doing as well. DewiWelsh Nationalist. Rugby Fan. Know a bit about History and Railways…

Murdoch – enough – boycott his stuff.

Dewi on July 6, 2011, 1:53 am

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Hacking the phones of a missing schoolgirl- deleting messages giving false hope to her parents. Hacking the phones of missing girls’ parents in Soham. My personal advice is to stop subscribing to Sky or buying any News International output. Update – Paying off the Cops. from Vanity Fair. Andy Coulson, who edited Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid from 2003 to 2006, condoned payments from members of his staff at the News of the World to Scotland Yard, according …

#Hackgate: An inquiry would go to the detail no one else wants

Mick Fealty on September 6, 2010, 4:49 pm

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I honestly thought we’d seen the last of the (or as Dizzy puts it, the unhacked stupidity of individual politicians) #hackgate scandal last summer… According to a lengthy New York Times piece, apparently not. That said, apart from the onset of a judicial review, apart from evidence from ‘unnamed sources’, I cannot see what distinguishes the current situation from the way it was left last summer. The shabby dealings and evasions of News International are the same now as then… But …