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I'm actually kinda bummed about Murdoch.
During the past three years, his empire provided over 4.2 billion in tax revenue. That's a lot of midnight basketball and oil subsidies.
C'mon . . . he's a pirate. He looted and pillaged! Really . . . what's the big deal of tapping the VM of the deceased and celebs?
"Dead men tell no tales."
And for those of you who feel this intrusion was unethical, how do you justify Wikileaks?
Or are there only standards when you are a governmental employee? You know . . . personal opinions expressed about some of our diplomatic contacts. That's fair game?
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A former News of the World reporter who was the first named journalist to stand up and make allegations that Andy Coulson knew phone hacking was taking place at the paper was today found dead at home.
Sean Hoare was found at 10.40am at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Police were tonight probing the possibility that he had killed himself and said that his death was 'not thought to be suspicious'.
Mr Hoare blew the whistle on the phone hacking scandal during an investigation by The New York Times last September.
He then told the BBC that he was personally asked by Mr Coulson to hack into phones and branded the former editor's claim that he was unaware of the practice as 'simply a lie'.
Mr Hoare, a former showbusiness reporter at the newspaper, claimed that Mr Coulson asked him to hack into phone messages in pursuit of stories.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...html#ixzz1STrEAyrP
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Yipes.
panem et circenses
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I'm like a rabid dog when it comes to one's right to privacy.
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(07-18-2011, 01:52 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: more at link
A former News of the World reporter who was the first named journalist to stand up and make allegations that Andy Coulson knew phone hacking was taking place at the paper was today found dead at home.
Sean Hoare was found at 10.40am at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Police were tonight probing the possibility that he had killed himself and said that his death was 'not thought to be suspicious'.
Mr Hoare blew the whistle on the phone hacking scandal during an investigation by The New York Times last September.
He then told the BBC that he was personally asked by Mr Coulson to hack into phones and branded the former editor's claim that he was unaware of the practice as 'simply a lie'.
Mr Hoare, a former showbusiness reporter at the newspaper, claimed that Mr Coulson asked him to hack into phone messages in pursuit of stories.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...html#ixzz1STrEAyrP
The dominos are really starting to tumble now, this whole thing is just getting murkier and murkier.
I wonder how many more "suicides" there will be?
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.
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Hoare? Unfortunate last name.
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(07-18-2011, 01:52 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: Police were tonight probing the possibility that he had killed himself and said that his death was 'not thought to be suspicious'.
I wonder if they'll hack into his VM?
As an investigative lead . . . of course.
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