Cameron widens media inquiry (THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LONDON (AP) - UK Prime Minister David Cameron says the newspaper inquiry will widen to take in different types of information-related crimes and other media - such as broadcasters.

He told lawmakers Wednesday it will also investigate all forms of information-related crimes, such as phone hacking and hacking into e-mail accounts.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron defended his former communications chief Andy Coulson before an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday, saying he believes that people are innocent until proven guilty.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110720/D9OJBOS02.html

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Committee members react after a protestor, left checked shirt , named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, tries to throw a paper plate covered in shaving foam over Rupert Murdoch as he gave evidence to a House of Commons Committee in London, Tuesday July 19, 2011, on the News of the World phone hacking scandal.(AP Photo/pa)

[Kolesar]

1. Didn't Murdoch's wife star in "Bad Santa"? eom

[dipsydoodle]

2. Will certainly now widen to all of our newspapers.

The Mirror, who've made the sole , currently unsubstantiated, allegation re. 9/11, has already been mentioned.

Off topic but probably of interest to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute

[Hubert Flottz]

3. "Cameron widens media inquiry"

Something they need to do to find out that Rupetile knew NOTHINK...NOTHINK and to clear the Rupetile of all charges?

"Nothink to see there!"

[dipsydoodle]

5. Main benifciary of yesterday's hearing appears to be James

James Murdoch, appointed deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. (NWSA) in March, took control at a three-hour hearing on phone-hacking in a performance that may increase his chances of running the media company.

The 38-year-old repeatedly interrupted U.K. lawmakers yesterday when they posed questions to his 80-year-old father, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch, about the company’s internal investigations and whether the executives had knowledge of phone-hacking and payments to police for information by employees at the News of the World tabloid.

“Clearly his father was delegating to him and obviously trusts him to take forward the management of the company,” said Claire Enders, founder and CEO of media researcher Enders Analysis in London, whose clients include the U.K. government.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-19/james-murdoch-boosts-chances-of-news-corp-top-job-at-phone-hack-hearing.html

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick and Rec to the top

[midnight]

6. This is what the current Prime Minister was aware of about

the media spokes person he hired.... He worked for an organization that caused great harm/pain to former P.M Brown... Read this and keep this in mind when you hear Prime Minister David Cameron say that his hiring of former Murdock thug was a mistake if he discovers he was lied to... Reguardless if Camerion discovers in hindsight he was lied to..... He knew as did all of England that Murdocks thugs were responsible for releasing this info.:


"Brown's spokeswoman said: "The family has been shocked by the level of criminality and the unethical means by which personal details have been obtained. The matter is in police hands."

When their first child, Jennifer, was born on 28 December 2001, a small group of specialist doctors and nurses was aware that she had suffered a brain haemorrhage and was dying. By some means which has not been discovered, this highly sensitive information was obtained by news organisations, who published it over the weekend before Jennifer died, on Monday 6 January 2002.

In 2003, Devon and Cornwall police discovered that one of their junior officers was providing information from the police national computer to a network of private investigators. The Guardian has established that one of these investigators, Glen Lawson of Abbey Investigations in Newcastle upon Tyne, used this contact to commission a search of police records for information about Brown on 16 November 2000. Lawson also commissioned searches related to two other Labour MPs, Nick Brown and Martin Salter."http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-international-gordon-brown

[fascisthunter]

9. yeah, but can the police be trusted?

some of them were receiving payoffs... what makes anyone think there are some still being bribed by Murdoch that no one has discovered yet?

[mopinko]

7. flooding the zone.

[sabo_tabby]

8. One can only hope...

Everything Morloch touches is corrupt, illegal and unjust. I wasn't surprised that the pig who owns the Faux-News and WSJ tried to pull this crap.

The only shame is that Morloch closed up only the <I>NOTW</I>. He should have been made to close up Faux and WSJ as well. It's like the guy at LA <I>Times</I> said - those two criminal organizations don't deserve 1A.

gvi

[Kingofalldems]

10. Makes me wonder whether Democratic headquarters were hacked

[LeftishBrit]

11. The inclusion of 'broadcasters' seems to be basically pandering to the Right's hatred of the BBC

Which they regard as left-wing (simply because it's not actively biased to the right); and also distrust because it is publicly funded.

One of the current right-wing arguments is that yes, Murdoch may have got too powerful but the BBC is even more powerful and is poisoning our country with its evil left-wing propaganda, etc.

Certainly the investigation should and will be including newspapers not part of the Murdoch empire; e.g. the Mail and the Mirror.

[LeftishBrit]

12. The inclusion of 'broadcasters' seems to be basically pandering to the Right's hatred of the BBC

Which they regard as left-wing (simply because it's not actively biased to the right); and also distrust because it is publicly funded.

One of the current right-wing arguments is that yes, Murdoch may have got too powerful but the BBC is even more powerful and is poisoning our country with its evil left-wing propaganda, etc.

Certainly the investigation should and will be including newspapers not part of the Murdoch empire; e.g. the Mail and the Mirror.