LONDON (Reuters) - Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.
Three sources close to the company told Reuters on Tuesday the two journalists at the Sun daily appeared to have tried to take their own lives. Investigations sparked by a phone-hacking scandal continue to expose dubious practices by present and past employees.
Eleven current and former staff of the Sun, Britain's best-selling daily tabloid, have been arrested this year on suspicion of bribing police or civil servants for tip-offs.
Their arrests have come as a result of information provided to the police by the Management and Standards Committee (MSC), a body set up by parent company News Corp to facilitate police investigations and liaise with the courts.
The work of the MSC, which was set up to be independent of the conglomerate's British newspaper arm News International, has caused bitterness among staff, many of whom feel betrayed by an employer they have loyally served.
"People think that they've been thrown under a bus," one News International employee told Reuters. "They're beyond angry - there's an utter sense of betrayal, not just with the organisation but with a general lynch-mob hysteria."
News International is facing multiple criminal investigations and civil court cases as well as a public inquiry into press standards after long-simmering criticism of its practices came to a head last July.
Politicians once close to Murdoch, including Prime Minister David Cameron, turned their backs on him and demanded answers after the Guardian newspaper revealed the News of the World had hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Police officer Sue Akers, who is heading three criminal inquiries into News International, said last week there appeared to have been "a culture of illegal payments" at the Sun.
Staff at the tabloid have been under additional pressure for the past two weeks because they have also had to produce a Sunday paper, hastily announced by Murdoch to replace the News of the World.
News International has increased the level of psychiatric help available to employees to help them cope.
(editing by Tim Pearce and Robert Woodward)
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Monday, December 05, 2011
News International Bought Off Everyone.
From
http://newsallianceuk.wordpress.com/
In the fierce heat of the Hackgate firestorm in July this year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg took to Sky News to air his views on News International.
His most damning statement was “The Leveson Inquiry should investigate senior British Intelligence officers on the payroll of News International.” It was a devastating revelation.
The Oxbridge criminals and Eton mafia who run MI5 and MI6 had not seen it coming, just like 7/7, and it blew up in their faces. Behind the scenes, MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans pulled strings to ensure Clegg did not drop the bombshell again.
The spooks were deeply rattled. Exposure means the end of milking the taxpayer dry. And the thought of a criminal investigation into their innumerable crimes, too much to contemplate.
They did not need to worry. MI5 have primacy over the police and the plods would do as ordered and turn blind eyes. Special Branch units would ensure blind obedience and any dissident would be persuaded otherwise.
The main problem was Nick Clegg. Would he keep stumb?
Since his petulant ‘outburst’ on Sky News in July in the eye of the storm, Clegg has kept his mouth shut on the foregoing. No more allegations of corruption or treason inside MI5 and MI6.
The Oxbridge crooks must have hoped no one noticed what Clegg said but I was on the matter immediately. I spread the good news through Facebook and Twitter. The damage was done.
Of course, the spooks have been trying to silence me for several years and have not succeeded just yet. Perhaps a prosecution for Income Tax evasion, their usual dirty trick, would do the job? Not convinced? I am assured it is already in the pipeline…
Which begs the question why anyone would want to pay ‘taxes’ to finance an organised criminal gang?
And Clegg of course has kept his big mouth shut since July. Having asked him to explain his statement several times, Clegg has ignored the questions and tried to pretend his ‘outburst’ never happened.
Poor Clegg must bitterly regret speaking the truth because politicians rarely do and dropping the spooks in the stinking cesspit that is Hackgate, is intolerable for the rotten Establishment.
Judge Leveson refuses to ‘investigate’ the allegation by Clegg and will not allow the issue to be dealt with even in camera. Another tame little judge…
The ‘crusading’ clowns at The Guardian, apparently a ‘moral’ newspaper, refuse to touch the matter in its entirety. As usual, the puppet media are running scared of the spooks who know all their sordid secrets.
Have the spooks got away with selling State ‘secrets’ to News International for large sums of cash? For the time being certainly but “events dear boy, events” will intervene in due course and then the whole house of cards will come crashing down.
As for Nick Clegg, he’s a spineless, self-interested MP, who jumped in at the deep end and found he couldn’t swim with the big fish.
The “senior British Intelligence officers on the payroll of News International” however, will come to regret the day they sold their souls to the Murdoch mafia.
Nick Clegg of course is busy trying to get to grips with the unwritten articles of the Omerta….
http://newsallianceuk.wordpress.com/
In the fierce heat of the Hackgate firestorm in July this year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg took to Sky News to air his views on News International.
His most damning statement was “The Leveson Inquiry should investigate senior British Intelligence officers on the payroll of News International.” It was a devastating revelation.
The Oxbridge criminals and Eton mafia who run MI5 and MI6 had not seen it coming, just like 7/7, and it blew up in their faces. Behind the scenes, MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans pulled strings to ensure Clegg did not drop the bombshell again.
The spooks were deeply rattled. Exposure means the end of milking the taxpayer dry. And the thought of a criminal investigation into their innumerable crimes, too much to contemplate.
They did not need to worry. MI5 have primacy over the police and the plods would do as ordered and turn blind eyes. Special Branch units would ensure blind obedience and any dissident would be persuaded otherwise.
The main problem was Nick Clegg. Would he keep stumb?
Since his petulant ‘outburst’ on Sky News in July in the eye of the storm, Clegg has kept his mouth shut on the foregoing. No more allegations of corruption or treason inside MI5 and MI6.
The Oxbridge crooks must have hoped no one noticed what Clegg said but I was on the matter immediately. I spread the good news through Facebook and Twitter. The damage was done.
Of course, the spooks have been trying to silence me for several years and have not succeeded just yet. Perhaps a prosecution for Income Tax evasion, their usual dirty trick, would do the job? Not convinced? I am assured it is already in the pipeline…
Which begs the question why anyone would want to pay ‘taxes’ to finance an organised criminal gang?
And Clegg of course has kept his big mouth shut since July. Having asked him to explain his statement several times, Clegg has ignored the questions and tried to pretend his ‘outburst’ never happened.
Poor Clegg must bitterly regret speaking the truth because politicians rarely do and dropping the spooks in the stinking cesspit that is Hackgate, is intolerable for the rotten Establishment.
Judge Leveson refuses to ‘investigate’ the allegation by Clegg and will not allow the issue to be dealt with even in camera. Another tame little judge…
The ‘crusading’ clowns at The Guardian, apparently a ‘moral’ newspaper, refuse to touch the matter in its entirety. As usual, the puppet media are running scared of the spooks who know all their sordid secrets.
Have the spooks got away with selling State ‘secrets’ to News International for large sums of cash? For the time being certainly but “events dear boy, events” will intervene in due course and then the whole house of cards will come crashing down.
As for Nick Clegg, he’s a spineless, self-interested MP, who jumped in at the deep end and found he couldn’t swim with the big fish.
The “senior British Intelligence officers on the payroll of News International” however, will come to regret the day they sold their souls to the Murdoch mafia.
Nick Clegg of course is busy trying to get to grips with the unwritten articles of the Omerta….
Thursday, November 10, 2011
James Murdoch Does Not Lie.
He chooses his words very carefully.
"I have no specific recollection of that."
Murdoch repeated the li(n)e several times, during the inquiry today.
Not a lie.
But, most definitely, not the truth.
"I have no specific recollection of that."
Murdoch repeated the li(n)e several times, during the inquiry today.
Not a lie.
But, most definitely, not the truth.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Police Corruption And Phone Hacking.
The sordid tale of phone hacking by Murdoch, News of the World and News International is only the tip of a very large iceberg.
Prime Ministers, High Court Judges and top ranking Policeman have all been victims of phone hacking, since the 1980's.
Huge dossiers have been compiled on the most influential people in our society, but for why ?
Information is Power !
But, what information will have been gathered on these powerful people ?
What would the information have been used for ?
And who are the information gatherers ?
Rupert Murdoch bought the News of the World in 1969.
He bought up other newspapers and businesses and his UK empire grew quickly.
As did his influence in British politics.
In the late 70's and early 80's, Murdoch engaged serving Metropolitan policemen to do his spying and dirty work for him.
The moonlighting policemen even set up a company called Southern Investigations.
The directors of the private investigation firm were Johnathon Rees and Daniel Morgan.
In 1987, Daniel Morgan began investigating rumours that Metropolitan Police officers were engaged in drug running and paedophilia.
Morgan believed that the criminality was at the very top of the Metropolitan Police force.
Morgan was found with an axe in his head outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham.
Johnathon Rees was suspected of the murder, along with other serving Met officers.
The murder was investigated by a DS Sidney Fillery, amongst others.
The case failed due to either incompetence or corruption by the Met Police.
DS Fillery, later joined Southern Investigations as a business partner !
Johnathon Rees, with Sidney Fillery, continued their spying business.
And cashing Murdoch's cheques for 'dirty deeds done not dirt cheap'.
Rees even crowed that "no-one pays like the News of the World".
Andy Coulson enjoyed the fruits of Rees work when he became editor of the News of the World.
Rees was finally jailed for fraud and planting false evidence at a crime scene.
Ex-Met, Sidney Fillery was busted for child pornography but escaped jail and put on a 3 year probation.
Prime Ministers, High Court Judges and top ranking Policeman have all been victims of phone hacking, since the 1980's.
Huge dossiers have been compiled on the most influential people in our society, but for why ?
Information is Power !
But, what information will have been gathered on these powerful people ?
What would the information have been used for ?
And who are the information gatherers ?
Rupert Murdoch bought the News of the World in 1969.
He bought up other newspapers and businesses and his UK empire grew quickly.
As did his influence in British politics.
In the late 70's and early 80's, Murdoch engaged serving Metropolitan policemen to do his spying and dirty work for him.
The moonlighting policemen even set up a company called Southern Investigations.
The directors of the private investigation firm were Johnathon Rees and Daniel Morgan.
In 1987, Daniel Morgan began investigating rumours that Metropolitan Police officers were engaged in drug running and paedophilia.
Morgan believed that the criminality was at the very top of the Metropolitan Police force.
Morgan was found with an axe in his head outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham.
Johnathon Rees was suspected of the murder, along with other serving Met officers.
The murder was investigated by a DS Sidney Fillery, amongst others.
The case failed due to either incompetence or corruption by the Met Police.
DS Fillery, later joined Southern Investigations as a business partner !
Johnathon Rees, with Sidney Fillery, continued their spying business.
And cashing Murdoch's cheques for 'dirty deeds done not dirt cheap'.
Rees even crowed that "no-one pays like the News of the World".
Andy Coulson enjoyed the fruits of Rees work when he became editor of the News of the World.
Rees was finally jailed for fraud and planting false evidence at a crime scene.
Ex-Met, Sidney Fillery was busted for child pornography but escaped jail and put on a 3 year probation.
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