The End Of Fox News?

Well, well, well, it seems that News International, the parent company of Fox News, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is caught up in a huge scandal thanks to their British tabloid, News of The World. Basically they've been running things like a 'criminal enterprise' (organised crime). Hacking into the voice mails of celebrities, politicians and victims of crime and terrorism. It also appears that they bribed police officials and totally corrupted Scotland Yard. Top officials at News International are being arrested and/or resigning, and a New York police officer said that they tried to bribe him to hack into the phones of 911 victims. How will this affect Fox News? Who knows? But it sure will be good to see ol Rupert in prison stripes.

For a good roundup:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/07/17/hacking-is-the-new-terrorism/

Some stories and excerpts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-met-polic...

Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardianduring two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser.

The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitanpolice commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant.

Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting. Coulson has also been arrested and bailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/europe/17police.html?_r=1&a...

It’s embarrassing, and it’s tragic,” said a retired Scotland Yard veteran. “This has badly damaged the reputation of a really good investigative organization. And there is a major crisis now in the leadership of the Yard.”

The testimony and evidence that emerged last week, as well as interviews with current and former officials, indicate that the police agency and News International, the British subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the publisher of The News of the World, became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the investigation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/17/rebekah-brooks-arrested...

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information.

The Metropolitan police said a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on Sunday, by appointment at a London police station.

Brooks, 43, resigned on Friday as News International's chief executive. She is a former News of the World editor and was close to Rupert Murdoch and the prime minister, David Cameron

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 17, 2011 at 12:35pm

Does it come as a surprise to anyone that Rudolph "Hitler" Murdock is morally bankrupt? I doubt if the scandal will reach Fox Noise in the US because of the different cultures of journalism in the US versus the Brits. The Brits have always had a tradition of outrageous media rags.

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Permalink Reply by Van on July 17, 2011 at 5:56pm

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 17, 2011 at 8:48pm

Let's at least hope the Ole Buzzaed loses a pile of money.

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on July 17, 2011 at 6:39pm

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 17, 2011 at 8:43pm

One thing about you Changling, you always post something thoughtful and interesting unlike a lot of the pretentious jerks on this forum.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on July 17, 2011 at 11:54pm

I post thoughtful and interesting stuff all the time. You're just not really smart enough to notice.

Edit:

This post, in particular, should be of interest to you. It explains a lot about you.

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 18, 2011 at 6:54pm

F..k you Actout - I'm not impressed. So the quote about about pretentious assholes must have struck a cord huh - look at your last post. Thus, I rest my case.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on July 18, 2011 at 8:31pm

Pancho, get serious. You've been calling me pretentious for months now. It doesn't take a leap to figure out who you meant.

No, the correct response was "Holy shit, I'm sorry. Here I am insulting you while praising a video posted by another forum member that you, yourself posted almost a year ago to start a thread that I, Pancho, even posted in but was too blinded by my own bullshit to notice. You are in fact, thoughtful and interesting because I just admitted it without realizing it in my last post".

But you can't admit that, because... well, I guess I'll just repost the quote from the link in my last post of that thread (emphasis mine):

“The general idea is that it’s absolutely threatening to admit you’re wrong,” says political scientist Brendan Nyhan, the lead researcher on the Michigan study. The phenomenon — known as “backfire” — is “a natural defense mechanism to avoid that cognitive dissonance.”

[...] Nyhan worked on one study in which he showed that people who were given a self-affirmation exercise were more likely to consider new information than people who had not. In other words, if you feel good about yourself, you’ll listen — and if you feel insecure or threatened, you won’t. This would also explain why demagogues benefit from keeping people agitated. The more threatened people feel, the less likely they are to listen to dissenting opinions, and the more easily controlled they are.

You've got low self-esteem so you can't admit you are wrong no matter how much the facts stack against you. This isn't me talking, it's science. I'm going to speak earnestly with you for a moment and give you some sincere advice: Being dumb or crazy isn't your problem. In all seriousness, your real problem is that you are unteachable. You are always going to have problems because you are too insecure to open up and learn anything. You won't let go of an idea once you make a big deal about it, no matter how ridiculous it proves to be in light of facts and reason because you are afraid of looking bad if you admit it. Ironically, this only makes you look worse and worse the longer it goes on.

I know it seems like I always give you a hard time but know it's not because I have any ill will towards you. It would be socially irresponsible of me and downright mean-spirited to entertain your self-destructive delusions as anything more than the construct of a fragile, misguided ego. It's called tough love, man. Imagine if you could level your wounded pride, forget your bullshit hang ups and look at what I'm actually trying to tell you in all of my posts. You would see I'm probably the best friend you could ever ask for in your present condition.

Are you capable of that? Can you be a real man and admit when you are dead fucking wrong? I really wonder. The only one who suffers if you can't is you. It definitely isn't making me lose any sleep. Trapped in a web of lies and self-doubt. That's no way to live, brother.

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 19, 2011 at 12:17pm

Holy Shit Actout - I am soooo sorry.

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Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on July 19, 2011 at 12:39pm

Seriously Actout - this forum could use more interdependent thinkers, otherwise it will become nothing but a chatter box for dittoheads. We could all use a little more civility in our discussions - just because you don't agree with me, Charles or Hillbilly, there is no profit in any of us resorting to personal attacks and name calling as with every aspect of life on this earth. It proves nothing, and stifles free and open discourse of the topic in question.