From a source inside News Corp: "Holy ****. Oh man. Those shells are landing closer and closer. "

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Fri Jul-15-11 06:16 PM
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From a source inside News Corp: "Holy ****. Oh man. Those shells are landing closer and closer. "

Andy Coulson became the Conservative Party's director of communications from July 9, 2007 until 2010. Then he became Director of Communications for Prime Minister David Cameron from May, 2010 until he resigned under pressure on January 21, 2011. ----Link

Meanwhile, what was going on over in the US during this approximate time period?

FOX News' Tony Snow Among Possible White House Spokesman Candidates, April 19, 2006

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, Tuesday, May 16, 2006, fields questions during his first briefing after replacing Scott McClellan. White House photo by Paul Morse Link

White House photo by Eric Draper

President Bush discussed his policies with conservative radio hosts last month at the White House, including, from left, Mike Gallagher, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Michael Medved.

NYT
By JIM RUTENBERG
October 17, 2006

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — On an overcast Friday morning last month, White House aides ushered an influential group of conservative radio hosts into the Oval Office for a private audience with the president.

For an hour and a half, Mr. Bush discussed his case for the war in Iraq, his immigration proposals and even the personality of his Scottish terrier Barney, who scratched on the door during the session until the president relented and let him into the office, according to several hosts who attended.

The meeting, which was not announced on the president’s public schedule, was part of an intensive Republican Party campaign to reclaim and re-energize a crucial army of supporters.... And Mr. Bush granted an on-camera interview to Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel. The first of three parts ran Monday night.

Still, officials said, the meeting with the radio hosts gave Mr. Bush a chance to speak intimately with a group that reaches an overwhelmingly Republican audience of 30 million people per week.

.....(Old DU thread)

Now 3.25 years since the NYT exposed Pentagon's domestic TV propaganda program using retired generals

MESSAGE MACHINE; Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand, April 20, 2008

James Murdoch Faces Scrutiny From U.K. Lawmakers as Rebekah Brooks Resigns

By Robert Hutton and Thomas Penny - Jul 15, 2011 11:43 AM ET

U.K. lawmakers switched their focus to James Murdoch after Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive officer of News Corp. (NWSA)’s British publishing division amid the scandal over phone hacking at a tabloid she edited.

Since July 4, when the Guardian newspaper reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of a murdered schoolgirl and deleted messages, politicians of all sides have abandoned the practice of the past three decades and attacked Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers. Yesterday, in the face of a formal summons, Murdoch and his son were forced to back down and agree to give evidence to a Parliamentary committee on July 19.

Their decisions to close down the News of the World, drop a bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY) and now accept Brooks’s resignation have done little to satisfy opposition Labour Party lawmakers. Some want to ask James Murdoch, who is deputy chief operating officer of New York-based News Corp., about his approval of out-of-court settlements that included non-disclosure agreements.

“It’s now about the Murdochs,” said Chris Bryant, a Labour lawmaker who called the emergency debate on the News of the World held on July 6. “James Murdoch has got to answer questions about their hush money strategy. Did the board agree to it?”

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Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton quits over scandal (Wall Street Journal publisher/Dow Jones CEO)

Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:12pm EDT

(Reuters) - Les Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw News Corp's British newspapers.

"I have watched with sorrow from New York as the News of the World story has unfolded," Hinton, who also served as publisher of the Wall Street Journal, wrote in his resignation letter.
"That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp, and apologize to those hurt by the actions of the News of the World," he added.

News Corp, parent of Dow Jones, has been at the center of a storm over a voicemail hacking scandal at its tabloid News of the World.
Another top Murdoch confidante, Rebekah Brooks, who worked under Hinton when she was News of the World's editor, also resigned earlier on Friday.

Hinton, 67, has worked alongside Murdoch for more than five decades, rising through the ranks until he was tapped to run News International in 1995, and later Dow Jones after News Corp bought the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

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Sure. Mr. Hinton. You've been with Rupert Murdoch for more than 50 years, and you knew nothing about it.

Michael Wolff is the biographer of Rupert Mudoch and author of The Man Who Owns the News, written in 2008.

July 15, 2011, approximately 5:05 pm:

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