Murdoch Attached With Plate of Shaving Foam at Parliament (No, This Is Not From the Onion) (Guardian)

More: LA Times

[livejournal.com profile] suzvoy apparently saw it live. This is a day in history. I am at work and so video is denied me. Dammit.

Second: [profile] roguesgalley is looking for a summary piece on the Murdoch situation to start with; does anyone have a good link to something along those lines?

Links, Summaries, More Information, Etc

[livejournal.com profile] califmole: Phone Hacking: What's It All About? (CNN)

[livejournal.com profile] teneagles: Interactive Timeline (Guardian) - Awesome.

[livejournal.com profile] jujuberry136: Who's Who Interactive (With Relationship Mapping!) (Guardian) - has corruption ever looked so technologically disturbing in breadth and influence? With neat lines between the players!

[livejournal.com profile] jujuberry136: Jon Stewart Tackles the News of the World Scandal

[personal profile] legionseagle: has posts here, here, and here with more Murdoch information. Thank you for posting those!
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From: [personal profile] aella_irene Date: 2011-07-19 04:58 pm (UTC)
And his wife hits the idiot straight back! Wendi: you have horrific taste in men, but excellent aim. I salute you.

(That was a deeply boneheaded protest, and I am not surprised that UK Uncut, who he says he's from, are leaping to distance themselves from him. I don't care what they have done, physically attacking an 80 year old man is not on. Especially not when he is already hanging himself!)
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From: [personal profile] sami Date: 2011-07-20 01:20 am (UTC)
I saw that. Onya, Wendi. Screw you, James Murdoch, who didn't do jack and then complained at the police. Rupert should disown the little bastard. And disinherit him *and* fire him.

In a weird way, I'm disgusted at the protest partly because this whole thing is actually kind of too serious for that sort of rubbish.

That and, no, really, if you're going to do that kind of thing, your target should be James. Partly because he's not so very, very old, partly because unlike Rupert he's not particularly repentant, but mostly because it's almost certain, to my mind, that James did know about this and Rupert didn't.

Rupert Murdoch is a reasonably horrible person, but he's also an old-fashioned newsman. His soul, if he still has one, is in newspapers. This kind of thing would, I think, be unthinkable for him.

Whereas James Murdoch is... well, what you get if you start with a Rupert, and then subtract all the vague approximations of positive qualities Rupert retains.
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From: [personal profile] legionseagle Date: 2011-07-19 04:58 pm (UTC)
My three posts here, here and here have got a fair group of links and quotes, including in the comments, largely from the Guardian and Guardian-related sources.
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From: [personal profile] legionseagle Date: 2011-07-19 05:14 pm (UTC)
You may also want this
5.56pm: The BBC are just breaking the news that the Conservative party has announced that Neil Wallis, the former News of the World deputy editor, provided informal advice to the party before the general election.


The BBC is bbc.co.uk but they didn't have it last time I looked.

From: [identity profile] suzvoy.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:40 pm (UTC)

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:54 pm (UTC)
I need to rewatch Children of Dune tonight.

*purr*

From: [identity profile] suzvoy.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:58 pm (UTC)
Yes, yes you do :D

From: [identity profile] califmole.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:41 pm (UTC)
Try this for a summary http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/18/uk.phone.hacking.explainer/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/18/uk.phone.hacking.explainer/index.html).

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:53 pm (UTC)
Added! Thank you!

From: [identity profile] califmole.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 04:59 pm (UTC)
You're welcome!

From: [identity profile] prettybird.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 05:10 pm (UTC)
*makes more popcorn*

From: [identity profile] roguesgallery.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 05:23 pm (UTC)
Thanks for the shout out and links!

From: [identity profile] roguesgallery.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 05:50 pm (UTC)
The Guardian timeline is great. I definitely recommend reading it. Sounds like The Guardian is a true watchdog.

From: [identity profile] tazlet.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 05:55 pm (UTC)
"Newsweek" has a good background and summary article through this past weekend: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-news-of-the-world-executive-rebekah-brooks.html
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From: [identity profile] tieleen.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-19 07:48 pm (UTC)
The Jon Stewart clip is funny as always, but I wish they hadn't thought it was a good idea for him to react with that comedic overblown horror to a clip ending on the fact that a 13 year old girl had been murdered. It seems... incredibly off.

From: (Anonymous) Date: 2011-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)
From the BBC website, I read yesterday a few good summaries:

The main players: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12296392
(the Victims section has been expanded to s separate page just today)
Q&A: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11195407
Timeline: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14124020

The Guardian and The New York Times have several other excellent articles and summaries.

From: [identity profile] yinkawills.livejournal.com Date: 2011-07-20 01:53 am (UTC)
Has anyone checked out the #shakespeare4murdoch tag on Twitter? I finally succumbed to making a twitter account last week, and this topic made it VERY worthwhile. People are using famous quotes from Shakespeare, either in their original form, or adapted for the phone hacking/police corruption scandal, that is keeping us Brits riveted.

Classics so far have included:

'To Hack, or not to hack, that is the question'
'Is this a blagger I see before me?'
'remorse, remorse, my kingdom for remorse'
'Now, is that Hinton of ours discontent'
'Much Ado about Hacking'
'two tabloids, both alike in filth, in fair Wapping here we set our scene'
'false face must hide, what false heart doth know'
'For Murdoch, is an honourable man, as are they all- News Corp- all, honourable men'

Many quotes from the most quoted plays- Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo & Juliet...

Stuff like this was being tweeted all weekend. Hours of entertainment!

Yinka
PS God Bless the New York Times, and the Guardian for getting all this rolling again.

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