Les Hinton sacrificed, but the worst is yet to come for News Corp (a very, very good article :0)

[Snoutport]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/les-hinton-news-corp

"His decision to throw Les Hinton to the wolves is his most dramatic move yet. For more than 50 years, as a journalist and then an executive, Hinton loyally served the Murdoch empire from its roots in Australia to the height of its power in New York.

Now, in a desperate effort to save News Corporation's most valuable assets – its 27 US broadcast licences and the 20th Century Fox movie studio – Murdoch is prepared to sacrifice one of his closest allies.

The problem for Murdoch is that every time he ditches a key executive, the flames of scandal flick ever closer to him."

This is a must read AND it is guaranteed to get your weekend off to a great start!

I love the part that the flames are getting closer and closer to Murdoch himself.

(Oh, and here is my score card! Last week I made these statements: Hinton would quit, Brooks would quit, Charges on James Murdoch, Possible sell off of British papers, BSkyB bid would collapse and that all this would bring down Cameron. How am I doing so far? For the next week I see this: The head of FOX in the hotseat, A move to remove Murdoch from the board of News Corp, proof will be found that News Corp (Fox or the Post, most likely) hacked 9/11 phones. The next highest lawyer will leave News Corp. Brooks will be arrested.)

Regardless, as I have been saying since September...we may see a future soon without Murdoch's influence in the media and that will go a long way in helping this country heal.

When you are done with that, read this: If News Corp hacked the phones of 9/11 families, Fox News is finished http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/15/usa-rupert-murdoch

Happy weekend. (and, remember, no matter what is going on, you are probably having a better weekend than Rupert Murdoch).

[ohheckyeah]

1. I'm so hoping that this will bring down

the whole corrupt, right wing supporting Murdoch empire. Murdoch has a lot to answer for.

[Snoutport]

2. I just edited and added a link: check it out.

If News Corp hacked the phones of 9/11 families, Fox News is finished
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/15/usa-rupert-murdoch

[ohheckyeah]

3. Thanks for the link.

I seriously wonder though if the wingnuts won't find some way to justify hacking even the 9/11 families. I would hope not but yet every time I think they've reached the lowest of the low they manage to go lower.

I've been tied up with family things and didn't know this (from your link):

So with the bombshell that News of the World reporters may have sought not only to hack into their cell phone records and voice mails but to bribe a former NYPD officer to help, the US government finally got engaged in doing more than posturing.

WOW. I hope Murdoch and Fox News is going DOWN.

I sure hope this is enough to convince some of my siblings that Fox News is a tool of the corrupt right wing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Methinks fox is in trouble too

[Snoutport]

6. how can they not be? They make up facts and have no ethics already

phone hacking isn't much lower than what they already do!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. That is unethical, but not ilegal

Now hacking...that's illegal.

[Snoutport]

25. Their sense of right and wrong seems oh-so-very- wrong

But finally they overstepped and got caught.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. True, but some of it is just lack of ethics

When you do that, sooner or later you will cross that legal line.

[deacon]

15. Now known as Hax News. n/t

[pacalo]

5. The more he ditches his "closest allies", the closer we get to the truth when they start talking.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yep, omertà goes.

[formercia]

29. They were all paid(bribed) to sign an NDA

Such Choots-pah.:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. NDAs are common. This is closer

To a mafia. Watch as some of these people make deals.

[formercia]

35. Plata o Plomo.

Silver or Lead.

[deacon]

9. K + R

[mucifer]

10. I'm such a pessimist. I think if murdoch goes down the koch brothers will buy fox

and nothing will change.

[enough]

17. I agree. This idea that "FOX is going down" is premature at best. Since there is no

honor or shame in those quarters, it would depend on a functioning justice system in the US, and there's little evidence of that these days.

[Snoutport]

26. they said the same things in england...news corp was untouchable

things have changed drastically in england in a matter of days. We'll see what happens here but I think Fox is in trouble.

[Snoutport]

30. ew...that's a horrible thing to say!

[boston bean]

11. I am starting to wonder if David Kelly's name will pop up in this stuff..

[deacon]

12. Murdock is one of the worst things that have ever happened to the United States. n/t

[malaise]

13. You are doing great

and I'm lovin' it. :fistbump:

Here in another important piece of the puzzle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-met-police-guardian
<snip>
Theresa May, the home secretary, has referred Scotland Yard's hiring of Wallis to the judicial inquiry on phone hacking which will be chaired by Lord Justice Leveson.

During the meetings in December 2009 and February 2010, which also involved the assistant commissioner John Yates and the force's director of public affairs, Dick Fedorcio, the senior officers said articles written by Nick Davies about phone hacking were incorrect, inaccurate and wrongly implied the force was "party to a conspiracy".

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, has written to Fedorcio about failing to mention that the Yard was being advised by Coulson's former deputy.

In the letter Rusbridger wrote: "Paul Stephenson and you came in to meet me and Paul Johnson in my office on 10 December 2009. Among the things we discussed was the commissioner's strong feeling that Nick Davies's coverage of phone hacking was overegged and incorrect.

add

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Merry Rupiemas!

[salin]

16. snoutport... check this out:

today's guardian live feed blog's 12:12 post. In it a reference to the types of things hidden in the 300 emails originally reviewed. And remember the "millions" of erased emails from the archives that are now being investigated.

Hint: the second law firm to review the emails - indicates finding breaches of National Security and other serious crime.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I wonder if this involves Prince Harry

And the Afghanistan deployment.

[femrap]

18. K and R

Oh I absolutely love this. Murdoch having to apologize to the parents of their deceased daughter. Crocodile tears at best....he's apologizing for getting caught.

I hope they nail this son-of-a-short-dick to the wall.

And 9/11 survivors and/or deceased being tapped? Wouldn't it be great to see News Corp liquidated for pennies on the dollar?

[jumptheshadow]

19. Who wakes up in the morning and says...

I have a GREAT idea... Let's hack the Queen's phone!

Hubris.

[KurtNYC]

20. I'm thinking those who have resigned are dirty

Why else cut them loose? Might as well get their replacements in before they go to jail (and/or are tied up in court for years).

[Whisp]

21. good job, Snout. :)

bravo

[calimary]

22. From your mouth to God's ears. To Allah's ears. To Buddha's ears. To Zoroaster's ears, and Yahweh's.

To ANY deity or Great Spirit or Ultimate Power or Consciousness that may exist!

The very idea that Pox Noise might be finished is the dream of a lifetime! Granted, its evil will inevitably resurface in another form, disguised another way and it'll take awhile for everyone to catch on then, too. But if Pox Noise goes down in this, it won't just be a big story. It will be a PUBLIC SERVICE!!!! It will mean the rescue of our poor battered, disillusioned, ill-informed/dumbed-down, gullible-as-hell, and increasingly cynical nation. And granted, there's enough money and power in operation here that it may well survive, the same way so many of the bad guys are walking around free and easy and having nice cushy lives without any regard to paying for their sins and their crimes.

I hope and pray! I tell myself I know better, but still, I can certainly dream, can't I? HUGE karmic debts they've racked up, especially if they hacked the phones of 9/11 families, on top of the many others whose lives, reputations, careers, privacy, livelihoods, and families they've ruined. Hell, they've damn near ruined our whole country with the lies and poison and distortion they've spewed nonstop, around the clock, since the mid-90s.

A POX on the house of murdoch!!!

:puke:

[peace4ever]

23. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished...

"If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it."

I LOVE IT!

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

The departure of Hinton suggests that News Corporation has finally got to grips with the global significance of this story, but the worst is yet to come. The FBI has launched an investigation into accusations that News of the World journalists asked a former New York police officer for the phone records of relatives of 9/11 victims. If that toxic allegation is shown to have been true, one thing is certain: Fox News is finished, along with the rest of News Corporation as we know it.

The emotional supercharge of 9/11 in the US is many times greater than Milly Dowler in the UK – and look what happened here.

Thanks for the thread, Snoutport.:thumbsup:

[butterfly77]

34. Did the officer appear...

on fox and friends?

[Lil Missy]

32. kick for later reading

[butterfly77]

33. I hope you are talking about..

Roger Ailes in the hot seat,I also want Slannity to be tied into this mess somehow..

[madokie]

36. Fox noise has lead this country into the arms of ruin

I've been saying this to everyone I know for a decade now.

[KharmaTrain]

37. It Will Take Years To Take This Corporate Down...

In the 70s another large media corporate, RKO General, was found in violation of various laws and were forced to lose their broadcast licenses. The process took over a decade and then resulted in the principals of RKO still making a nice penny in the sale of their properties. Murdoch has an army of lawyers who will overwhelm the process and hope the short-term American memory moves onto some other bright shiny toy.

That said...we are seeing the long-deserved comeuppance of Rupert and the corrupt cabal that runs his media empire. I expect he'll bail on much of his print empire as newspapers are money losers but will fight to hold onto his electronic media holdings. The real endgame here is the News Corp. board...will the Murdochs continue to run the company in a couple months...and if so, who??

Stay tuned...