Well will she?
No.
Wot cb said.
Well, maybe if she thought the Prime Minister would demand Murdoch sack her, and he did " just like that", and then she was able to get a fortune out of the old beggar for unfair dismissal.....perhaps she might consider it! But not out of pure integrity; oh dear me no!
But then as we know its the one who pays the piper who calls the tune, so while Ed balls was able to call for Shoesmiths sacking.......the paying and dancing roles are reversed with Cameron and Murdoch.(allegedly!)
Long Gone: Well will she?
i think and hope so.
She does not have blood on her hands, does she? She was just trying to make money out of it....
RP: She does not have blood on her hands, does she? She was just trying to make money out of it....
What if one of Milly Dowler's deleted voicemail messages had contained the vital clue that would have allowed the Police to catch Levi Bellfield before he murdered anyone else?
AJT: What if one of Milly Dowler's deleted voicemail messages had contained the vital clue that would have allowed the Police to catch Levi Bellfield before he murdered anyone else?
I was joking, not trying to make excuses for her. To be honest it appears that the messages were left by family members and friends, it is not likely that they would have contained clues but rather the concern that they may have led the Police to believe she was still alive, changing the nature of their investigation. It is true thought that one can suspect that maybe if they were looking for a victim of a murder rather than a missing girl they would have looked at an arrest earlier and prevent the guy from comitting further crimes.
Neither does Sharon Shoesmith if that is what you are implying.
And there was no criminality in the behaviour of the people who worked for Sharon Shoesmith. So Rebekah Brooks is more culpable.
It was a joke for God's sake!! Apparently she did offer her resignation, but it is irrelevant now as it turns out that she gets to stay, the newspaper gets the sack!! The crazi world we live in...
Anyone thought how much damage the Chief Exec of News International could do to Murdoch if he did sack her and she turned against him? She must know all his (alleged)dirt, and all the business twists and who in government and elsewhere is(allegedly) in his pocket and why! Even if she didn't go evidence against him to the public and media, she could (hypothetically)virtually finish him with any business rivals he is in competition with.
Do you think he is standing by her because he is a kind old philanthropist with and old fashioned sense of chivalry?( Yeah I know, he has a face that betrays his heart of gold!!)
Fictional Bobby Ewing ( Dallas; 1980's) challenged his brother JR about how he could sleep at night when he had been so cruelly ruthlessand treacherous. He replied " Well you see Bobby, once you abandon integrity everything gets a whole lot easier"
Get your subscription to the new launch"Sunday Sun" before they sell out!!
And watch for the government using the News of the World "sacrifice" as justification for approving his being awarded satellite news monopoly.( The views expressed in this posting bear no relation to any person living or dead and the author is not responsible for anything that could possibly be construed as libelous)
just a slight deviation, but be interesting to see if Ms Shoesmith's name on the list of those whose phones been hacked
Silver Sage:Do you think he is standing by her because he is a kind old philanthropist with and old fashioned sense of chivalry?
He finished a whole publication with one sweep!! Hundreds of jobs, people's livelihoods, not to mention 150 years of publicistic heritage. No, I don't think anyone would make the mistake of associating philanthropy or chivalry with this person.
Silver Sage: Anyone thought how much damage the Chief Exec of News International could do to Murdoch if he did sack her and she turned against him? She must know all his (alleged)dirt, and all the business twists and who in government and elsewhere is(allegedly) in his pocket and why! Even if she didn't go evidence against him to the public and media, she could (hypothetically)virtually finish him with any business rivals he is in competition with. Do you think he is standing by her because he is a kind old philanthropist with and old fashioned sense of chivalry?( Yeah I know, he has a face that betrays his heart of gold!!) Fictional Bobby Ewing ( Dallas; 1980's) challenged his brother JR about how he could sleep at night when he had been so cruelly ruthlessand treacherous. He replied " Well you see Bobby, once you abandon integrity everything gets a whole lot easier" Get your subscription to the new launch"Sunday Sun" before they sell out!! And watch for the government using the News of the World "sacrifice" as justification for approving his being awarded satellite news monopoly.( The views expressed in this posting bear no relation to any person living or dead and the author is not responsible for anything that could possibly be construed as libelous)
She must have something on him - sacking her would have solved everything - probably has eveidence his son is implicated and will take him down if she goes or something similar. I love a good conspiracy tho - anyone think theres a connection?l (bearing in mind it seems to be fairly well acknowledged that this happens at all tabloids)
Closure of the papaer has to rank as quality vengeance tho lol
as an aside - did anyone see that lib dem baronness (the one that stands between us and evil- or so she would have us believe) on question time very nearly admitting to bribing the police when she worked at the mirror and seeming to say that was just how it is- no need to worry!
'Will Rebekah Brooks Apply The Same Standards She Demanded Of Sharon Shoesmith To Herself?'
The only problem with the question is the proposittion that anything Ms Brooks did (or does) - re. Shoesmith or any other issue - has anything at all to do with standards. Not a factor me thinks.
These people inhabit a different universe with mores and motivations I don't even want to try analyse.
Farlit: 'Will Rebekah Brooks Apply The Same Standards She Demanded Of Sharon Shoesmith To Herself?' The only problem with the question is the proposittion that anything Ms Brooks did (or does) - re. Shoesmith or any other issue - has anything at all to do with standards. Not a factor me thinks. These people inhabit a different universe with mores and motivations I don't even want to try analyse.
I know it was a rhetorical question.
Point of information...I think it was Max Mosely, not Bernie Ecclestone who was the F1 mogul that the N.o.t.W. stung ( but perhaps, given the fetish activities[allegedly] involved, he enjoyed being "stung")
She's gone. Do we care? Plenty of other low life where she came from. Only the names will change.
She's being made a scapegoat....wait and see......
oh goody.someone woman has been arrested, how very pleasing.
Silver Sage: Point of information...I think it was Max Mosely, not Bernie Ecclestone who was the F1 mogul that the N.o.t.W. stung ( but perhaps, given the fetish activities[allegedly] involved, he enjoyed being "stung")
fair play - my bad - but either is still a very powerful billionaire with a reputation not to be messed with....
if this really was a vendetta then its been a spectacularly successful one - a paper closed, merger plans ruined , people prolly sent to jail....
Im impressed!
hotpornstar: oh goody.someone woman has been arrested, how very pleasing.
Hi Shirack,
Does F.O.T stand for Fell Off Truck ? Or something else ? Several other acronyms including being photogenic and attractive on google, but they didn't seem to apply somehow.
Hotpornstar a bit quiet today ?
Hi Mary.
*** Off Titch.
Ta just got the the T wrong !!!!
Ferdocio is getting a mauling at present, at the Inquiry at Westminister, live on News 24.
Oh and by the way Rainbowarch, when are you going to eat your words. R Brooks a scapegoat ?
Did you not see the brave Chris Bryant MP ? Brooks pilloried him and when she was married to Ross Kemp, Bryant recalls an occasion, when their paths crossed and she said to him, "Oh Chris shouldn't you be on Clapham Common tonight"?. Ross Kemp apparently said to his (then) wife, "Shut up you homophobic cow".
Am watching the Murdochs, as I post. They are now into denying Brooks. Rupert is pulling the old man and frail trick !!! The woman knew fine what she was doing and they thought they were teflon coated - and they were for years. And government and others in public office have much to answer for.
If anyone's not read 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' By Steig Larsson, it's worth reading-- in relation to how media create corrupt empires. (not actually factual- but gives an insight that speaks of experience)
Have read all three books by Stieg. With respect, this is way way way more serious.
I am in the process of reading Michael Mansfield's Memoirs. While I do not agree with all he writes, it is chilling in the way various governments work and his experiences with the Birmingham 6 etc and other various serious cases he dealt with. Power and nepotism. Masonic even ?
Apologising for Milly Dowler - yuk. James Murdoch is trying to be transparent now !!!
It seems you have no duties as Head of News Corp, so anyone could do it. You rely totally on those below you, and even responsibility for having appointed them is not yours. Where do I get an application form?
Why should i eat my words. This is much much bigger. There are people that have not been dragged out yet and links to thinks that are going to really shock people. I'm not sure we'll find out the truth until next year.
Ok Tigger
OK Tigger !
Perhaps it is a case of "absoute power" corrupting "absolutely"! Look at the influence Robert Maxwell had in politics; Also how he took over and was supposed to fund/underwrite the Commonwealth Games; how he treated the company and the pension fund as his own personal asset and "piggy bank" and how his empire crumbled about him once he started believing in his own omnipotence.
The way Rupert Murdoch states he remains " friends" with people who have been damaged by his company, reminds me of the Godfather cliche; "Its not personal, its just business"
So when business is more "important" than friends, people or even nations, can it ever be right to allow any business (banks, media, energy companies,massive social care providers) the power over all our lives?
Silver Sage: Perhaps it is a case of "absoute power" corrupting "absolutely"! Look at the influence Robert Maxwell had in politics; Also how he took over and was supposed to fund/underwrite the Commonwealth Games; how he treated the company and the pension fund as his own personal asset and "piggy bank" and how his empire crumbled about him once he started believing in his own omnipotence. The way Rupert Murdoch states he remains " friends" with people who have been damaged by his company, reminds me of the Godfather cliche; "Its not personal, its just business" So when business is more "important" than friends, people or even nations, can it ever be right to allow any business (banks, media, energy companies,massive social care providers) the power over all our lives?
completely agree - its a good reminder that actually nothings forever - not even news international and murdoch. It also cheeers me in that people arent actually as helpless in the fac of power as some would have us believe.
completely agree on the last point as well
its rather worrying that murdoch has taken so long to fall (and its purely down to the fact that he just isnt as useful to Govts as he once was thanks to the internet and a difference in the way we consume our news) as opposed to the govt taking on murdoch cos it was te "right thing" to do.
romeo2001: Silver Sage: Perhaps it is a case of "absoute power" corrupting "absolutely"! Look at the influence Robert Maxwell had in politics; Also how he took over and was supposed to fund/underwrite the Commonwealth Games; how he treated the company and the pension fund as his own personal asset and "piggy bank" and how his empire crumbled about him once he started believing in his own omnipotence. The way Rupert Murdoch states he remains " friends" with people who have been damaged by his company, reminds me of the Godfather cliche; "Its not personal, its just business" So when business is more "important" than friends, people or even nations, can it ever be right to allow any business (banks, media, energy companies,massive social care providers) the power over all our lives? completely agree - its a good reminder that actually nothings forever - not even news international and murdoch. It also cheeers me in that people arent actually as helpless in the fac of power as some would have us believe. completely agree on the last point as well its rather worrying that murdoch has taken so long to fall (and its purely down to the fact that he just isnt as useful to Govts as he once was thanks to the internet and a difference in the way we consume our news) as opposed to the govt taking on murdoch cos it was te "right thing" to do.
Murdoch grew so corrupt he grew horns (apparently)
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Stuart Sorensen: romeo2001: Silver Sage: Perhaps it is a case of "absoute power" corrupting "absolutely"! Look at the influence Robert Maxwell had in politics; Also how he took over and was supposed to fund/underwrite the Commonwealth Games; how he treated the company and the pension fund as his own personal asset and "piggy bank" and how his empire crumbled about him once he started believing in his own omnipotence. The way Rupert Murdoch states he remains " friends" with people who have been damaged by his company, reminds me of the Godfather cliche; "Its not personal, its just business" So when business is more "important" than friends, people or even nations, can it ever be right to allow any business (banks, media, energy companies,massive social care providers) the power over all our lives? completely agree - its a good reminder that actually nothings forever - not even news international and murdoch. It also cheeers me in that people arent actually as helpless in the fac of power as some would have us believe. completely agree on the last point as well its rather worrying that murdoch has taken so long to fall (and its purely down to the fact that he just isnt as useful to Govts as he once was thanks to the internet and a difference in the way we consume our news) as opposed to the govt taking on murdoch cos it was te "right thing" to do. Murdoch grew so corrupt he grew horns (apparently)
haha love that