Today might be Rupert Murdoch's shittiest day EVER...breaking news from the UK:

[Snoutport]

The police in England have decided to open ALL past child victim cases to see if Rupert Murdoch's papers had hacked into the phones of those families as well.

This is going to blow the case wide open.... Murdoch's papers hacking murdered children's phones, rape victim's phones, missing people's phones.... I do believe these people are the scum of the earth. :0) And I am glad they are finally getting caught.

These two articles will catch you up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4907521

"Police officers investigating phone hacking by the News of the World are turning their attention to examine every high-profile case involving the murder, abduction or attack on any child since 2001 in response to the revelation that journalists from the tabloid newspaper hacked into the voicemail messages of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1420393

[DJ13]

1. I find it odd that hacking the Royal family wasnt as big of a story as this

[Snoutport]

4. The royal family likes to keep things quiet....

[Snoutport]

93. British Media Goes After Murdoch and his Empire: read this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1426139

[roguevalley]

48. apparently to get more voice mails for their stories they deleted

them from a murdered girl's phone tricking their family into believing she's alive. then they went and interviewed them and filmed them thinking she was alive. he's scum.

[JawJaw]

51. Royals

As one of the original victims of analogue phone hacking, twenty years ago; I imagine that the Royals are now very careful about voicemail PINs, and saying anything sensitive via phones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squidgygate#.22Camillagate.22

[Celebration]

59. this is more outrageous

and harmful. There is a lot more sympathy for the victim in this case than when it is a public figure..........

[PATRICK]

71. And then

the cases can proceed without the royal evidence having to be included, deals etc. Full prosecution as well as the wide net and extreme punishment.

The methodology of FOX is not traditional news but a crime ridden propaganda network, substituting crime for journalistic research and propaganda for reportage and analysis. That means criminal eavesdropping, blackmail, espionage,
obstruction of justice, and maybe much more, besides treason of course. Everyone talks, the whole org goes down, the principal, owners, planners and allies targeted, deal making reversed to protect whoever is safe(?), hidden, at the top of the food chain.

Why British justice did this maybe not as important as the inevitable juggernaut of turning this arrogant gambit back on the perps. Now it is too big too stop and Murdoch is not too big to fail. Maybe a family plane accident in his future.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicon Family Cesspool Values - Brit style

Echoing the ethics Fox 'news' crapaganda broadcasts here in the US of A.

Ptoooey.

[Snoutport]

34. BREAKING NEWS: new article from the Independent More trouble

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ford-is-first-to-pull-its-advertising-as-furious-consumers-demand-a-boycott-2307518.html

[City Lights]

3. Oh how I wish I could rec this more than once!

My fingers are crossed that this is the beginning of the end for 'ol Rupert and Fux Nooze!

[cordelia]

28. I got a rec in for you.

Ditto on the crossed fingers.

[City Lights]

85. !

:fistbump:

[aquart]

5. His shittiest day ever will be the indictment.

When will that day come?

[Snoutport]

His son will be going to jail before he does....but I figure one Murdoch jailed, one to go

[glinda]

91. Son fled back to USA at the start of this getting traction. Guilty!

[Frank Cannon]

65. Never. This will be the actions of a "few bad apples".

Murdoch will never see a moment of consequence until Satan himself is raping him with a red-hot cast-iron dildo in Hell.

[aquart]

6. Wait. So all those families can sue his greedy, meddling ass?

News Corp. is beginning to look like the Catholic Church.

[Snoutport]

18. I hope they all do!

[Yavapai]

43. Will they be soliciting donations from the faithful?

God damn I would like to meet Rupert homeless on the street!

[truebrit71]

7. I hope they string him up by his balls at Traitors Gate...

...he is the very definition of the phrase "filthy fucking scumbag"...

[Snoutport]

30. i wish that could have been my headline!

but I try to watch my mouth. :0)

[cartach]

53. Let your fingers do the talking.

[Dappleganger]

8. Let's hope these people get their justice and Murdoch gets seriously shut down.

I don't care about any punishment except what will hurt his media's influence across the world.

[Snoutport]

33. I'd like to see his little media empire broken up.

[DFW]

9. This was ALL over the British news stations today

Fox will act like it never happened within our solar system, and the rest of the US media will probably
run as fast as they can in the opposite direction, but it is EVERYWHERE in the UK. The American press
will probably pick up on it sooner or later just because the British will not let it go.

[Snoutport]

10. I haven't seen it on the news....what is the mood, angle, etc. of the story?

can you share some info?

[DFW]

17. The sound was off, as I was in a public place

So all I saw was written headlines, but they were up there for many minutes at a time,
periods usually reserved for election results or finding a cure for cancer.

But the headlines read: "Murdoch: the heat is on." That says plenty, I think. His
UK competitors don't like him any more than we do, and most of the people at Sky
are terrified at the prospect of working for him if/when he takes it over.

[JawJaw]

52. Big News in UK

This is the leading story on news bulletins, chat shows etc. People are horrified.

I don't think we'll see a murdoch behind bars, but the bad publicity will certainly scupper his plans to gain full control of SKY tv (for a few years, anyway)

[Pacifist Patriot]

68. This is fairly telling.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/

It's "top of the fold" news anywhere you turn in the U.K. You've got the PM involved demanding inquiries (and sub-text...heads to roll).

It is THE story right now. Bigger than Liverpool not bidding enough to get Downing. ;-)

[aquart]

12. Twitter it. Facebook it. Don't wait for natural process.

Retweet and get it out there. I'm @aquart here in NYC. I'll happily retweet this. Try @maddow. @lawrence.

[Snoutport]

23. LINK FOR NEWS 4....Wow...some great stuff in here. They were targeting the police as well.

http://www.channel4.com/news/news-of-the-world-targets-met-police-detective

[Snoutport]

26. check out the links to other stories...some great hacking stuff out there right now!

[Blue Owl]

11. Bust his fuckin' ass already

That piece of shit belongs behind bars.

[SidDithers]

13. Worst day so far...

I hope he has many days worse than this one in his future.

Sid

[Snoutport]

19. You and I think alike :0)

[druidity33]

21. heh, heh...

maybe in this case, but otherwise i doubt it.

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

67. Stinker.

You read my mind.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. "Worst day so far"...

my favorite line from The Simpson's movie- Homer to Bart after Bart says "This is the worst day of my life". Homer sure knows how to cheer people up :)

[Snoutport]

47. "so far"....brilliant. Yeah, worse day, so far.

[arbusto_baboso]

14. So, Assange is a "traitor" and Murdoch is just a businessman?

Who the fuck can still think that way? Only conservatives...

[Snoutport]

24. I KNOW!!! Stealing and publishing information... in one case OK, the other bad?

[lpbk2713]

15. If they can prove a wide pattern of abuse here ...

then it will show that it was not just one or two rogue reporters but a consistent and systematic policy
of unauthorized collection of personal information initiated from high up in their organization.

I think heads should roll on this and the victims and their survivors are due serious damages.

[Snoutport]

25. murdoch's son OK'd big payoffs (maybe) so it goes pretty high up!

I think Brooks will be out soon. The tops of his businesses are getting lopped off, at least.

[monmouth]

16. I wonder if Fox News will cover this....Just kidding..n/t

[Octafish]

20. Compared to NSA, Rupert's a piker.

Still, I hope the Crown gets lawyered up.

[Ohio Joe]

22. Every shitty day for Murdoch is a good day for the rest of us

Here's to many more shitty days for him :toast:

[WillyT]

27. K & R !!!

:kick:

[HughBeaumont]

29. I will kiss Karl Rove's pasty white BUTT if Rupert spends minute ONE in jail.

Bad guys just don't get their come-uppance. EVER. It's only the people that try to do good in the world that get shat on in the end.

[Bluenorthwest]

31. 6 or 7 high up employees are already in jail for this stuff

So you might want to pucker up.

[HughBeaumont]

38. The "higher up employees" are about as far as this will go.

Not. Minute. ONE. Guaranteed.

"In Chess, the pawns always go first".

[Nostradammit]

57. Eventually, however, the king gets cornered

and then it's game over.

[Snoutport]

95. I'd be happy with laws that stop media monopolies.

[HughBeaumont]

98. And isn't it funny how the media monopolies are so blatantly corporate and right-wing?

Contrary to their little "turnaround" argument that "teh meedya is LIBrul!"?

Well, it's not really "funny" as it is "painfully obvious".

[Snoutport]

96. I think you are right....but only because he will die of old age before this finishes in court

I wonder if his son will end up in jail though. He signed the payoff checks.

[Snoutport]

97. oops...OK'd the checks...I don't know who actually signed them

[malaise]

32. It's all over BBC now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14035270
<snip>
The parents of murdered Soham girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been visited by police investigating phone-hacking by journalists.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, working for the News of the World, allegedly hacked the phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler when she was missing.

News International has promised the "strongest possible action" if it is proven Milly's phone was hacked.

In a statement, Mulcaire apologised to anyone "hurt or upset" by his actions.

"Perhaps more striking, however," he adds, "is that those executives also say that there may be even more embarrassing revelations to come about the way that News of the World journalists obtained information about other individuals."

[Snoutport]

90. It's going from "drip drip drip" to someone opening the floodgates

I think we will hear some interference with the government that is really going to shake things up!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. So these guys basically bugged everyone and anyone? Royals and crime victims?

To what end - just to get more details for a story in crime stories, and to get information to use as a weapon against political "enemies"?

Jesus.

[Snoutport]

36. And more! New links

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-now-is-the-moment-to-stop-murdoch-2307410.html

[Scurrilous]

37. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ladywnch]

39. does anyone really believe that Murdoch will go down in any of this?

His minions will fall but Murdoch will remain untouched. He couldn't POSSIBLY have known such things were going on.......he doesn't have day to day operational level visibility into those level of activity......blah,blah, blah

It may cost him his current British broadcast deal and a fine but not much else.....certainly nothing to him personally.

[bowens43]

41. Not a chance..... nt

[femrap]

42. Murdoch is Lucifer himself...nt

[TxVietVet]

44. Murdoch, the prick, deserves every ounce of misery he gets.

Let the bastard suffer a loss greater than his slimy life.......... money.

[madrchsod]

45. i bet he`s doing the same thing here in the usa....

[alfredo]

46. You know they are probably doing the same here.

[pepperbear]

49. with all due respect....

I am hoping for even worse days for him in the future.

[Advisor1]

100. Reason To Hack into Messages

This is only concerning the phone hacks connected to 7/7 Tube Bombings

This may be a stretch but, individuals, or companies that were some how involved in the event, want to know their potential liability, and what the public and the tragically involved families are thinking, and what their friends were saying about who was responsible. Please stay with me a minute.

ICTS was involved in the 7/7 London Tube incident in that they were providing security and I believe the CCTV systems on all tube trains and stations. They have close ties with Murdoch, and would want the News in general and News Corp. and the subsidiaries in particular to paint them in a good light.

Its also curious that ICTS was also involved in all the airport security in the U.S. on 9/11. The links between the super-wealthy in their group, looks out for the public's perception of each other, IE., all the other members of that group.

I would therefore expect to see the same phone hacks into the families of the victims of 9/11, if for no other reason than perception management. My instinct believes there is more than just a scoop on a story involved here, at least with 7/7 victims and other stories, but not necessarily the missing children tragedies.

[pepperbear]

101. that's an interesting point of view. worthy of posting when you become eligible to start a thread.

Welcome to DU.

[AllyCat]

50. Please help my ignorance here...what is his purpose in doing this?

I've read the other links and understand this is widespread and involves a lot of people. But what was his motive for hacking this girl's phone? When he did the politicians' phones, I understood that, but a murdered teenager?

Thanks!

[14thColony]

55. To get insider information, hoping to one-up the competition?

They used information gleaned from Milly Dowler's voicemail box in at least one story while the search for her was still on, information that no other paper had at the time. Information, apparently, that made the police suspicious as hell, to the point (according to a radio report I heard driving in today) that the detectives on the case started using landline phones whenever they could, since they suspected someone was evesdropping on their mobile conversations.

I hope they fry like fritters for deleting her older voice mails alone. That's destruction of evidence in a real-time life-and-death situation.

[Pacifist Patriot]

69. Anything for the scoop.

Imagine a media environment utterly devoid of journalistic ethics and integrity. Oh wait, that doesn't require much creativity these days, does it?

Seriously, it is the thoughtless greed behind the pressure to be the sole source of a breaking story.

[Kablooie]

54. So if they do this in the UK, what are the chances it's happening here as well?

[Firebrand Gary]

56. Of course this is happening here in the US.

He's even branched out! With contributors like O'Keefe and Britebart what would one expect?

[DFW]

58. On Page One of the American paper in Europe (IHT) this morning n/t

[florida08]

60. Can't believe the UK would still ok the takeover of Sky after all this

British lawmakers will hold an emergency debate on Wednesday over a phone-hacking scandal at a top-selling newspaper that has prompted calls for the resignation of a well-connected Rupert Murdoch executive and provoked a public outcry that could damage the paper's sales...

The BBC said the material passed to police related to a trail of emails appearing to show that payments were made to police in the past for information and that were authorized by former NoW editor, Andy Coulson, later David Cameron's head of communications...

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that News of the World journalists may have attempted to access voice messages left on phones as relatives waited for information about their loved ones in the aftermath of the London bombings in 2005, when British Islamists carried out suicide bombings on the transport network, killing 52 people.

Cameron's government is weighing approval of News Corp's takeover bid for British broadcaster BSkyB. The hacking revelations are unlikely to derail that deal since approvals are focused on whether the takeover will give Murdoch too much power over the British media. The government has said it does not believe it will.

Crime pays apparently

[The Wizard]

61. Some people

just need a good beating.

[thesquanderer]

62. Advertisers getting skittish

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/07/06/business/business-us-newscorp-hacking-advertising.html

...still, the blowback appears to be primarily toward the one paper

[Lars77]

63. This makes me think of that British girl that was abducted in Portugal a few years ago

Where the media were speculating in whether the parents were guilty. The tabloids made their lives a living hell. The girl was never found as far as i know.

The bastards probably hacked them too.

[muriel_volestrangler]

70. Yes, Madeleine McCann; her name has already come up

BBC Newsnight has learned that police investigating press phone-hacking have also spoken to Jacqui Hames, a former Met officer and presenter on BBC's Crimewatch, and Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the family of missing child Madeleine McCann.

Mr Mitchell told the BBC that someone had tried to persuade his mobile phone network operator to reveal confidential information about his account.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14035270

[malaise]

74. Yep one of their representatives was on BBC

saying that they contacted their phone company and they were being hacked

[Hubert Flottz]

64. Tony and W might have had a deal with Rupert...

Zero oversight in return for catapulting Reich wing propaganda anytime anywhere.

[malaise]

66. It's the top story on BBC International

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14042764

[nxylas]

72. Murdoch won't be personally affected, I'll wager

Rebekah wossname, the paper's editor, looks like she is being set up to take the fall. Murdoch will probably end up like the capo di tutti capi in old gangster movies, who everyone knows is up to his eyeballs in it, but no-one can lay a glove on.

[Greybnk48]

73. K&R Anyone else think they're doing this here too?

I have always thought that they do this or something like it in the U.S. If they get caught here I think it would be curtains for Murdoch.

[jwirr]

75. Isn't it time that someone in authority here look into a few things regarding

murdoch's papers here?

[beac]

79. Well PAST time, I'd say.

Here's Murdoch's statement (hint: He's shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!)

"Recent allegations of phone hacking and making payments to police with respect to the News of the World are deplorable and unacceptable. I have made clear that our company must fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks' leadership. We are committed to addressing these issues fully and have taken a number of important steps to prevent them from happening again."
(from text feed on this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14042764)

[Generic Other]

76. We should be boycotting the advertisers too

Who do we need to write to in the US to demand that ads on Murdoch papers and TV be pulled?

DUers are good at organizing this sort of action. Let's do it again!

Who are the major advertisers for Wall Street Journal, Fox and other Murdoch enterprises?

[gtar100]

77. He might have to permanently move to the US so he can be protected against prosecution.

[beac]

78. Watch the hearings in Parliment live here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14042764

[avaistheone1]

80. Let's hope so.

k&r

[Doctor_J]

81. This should be made into a deterrent for Ailes & all the rest

Murdoch and every single one of his minions who were in one this should be subjected to hanging in public. When these people literally begin to fear that their crimes will be punished by death, some changes will take place.

[lark]

82. And that's just the tip of the iceberg

Hopefully this iceberg will finally sink Murdoch's ship!!!

[rdking647]

83. its on the front page at cnn and msnbc

but for some reason faux news seems to have skipped it ...........

[Kablooie]

84. NY Times front page too. Finally.

They make no mention of Fox News being part of the same company.

[drm604]

87. Delete

Ignore

[drm604]

88. Notice the CNN headline?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/06/uk.phonehacking/index.html

Murdoch calls allegations against his paper 'deplorable'

London (CNN) -- Media baron Rupert Murdoch broke his silence on a scandal swirling around his flagship British Sunday tabloid newspaper Wednesday, calling allegations that journalists illegally hacked into the voice mails of murder and terror victims "deplorable and unacceptable."

Notice that it doesn't say that the acts are deplorable. It says that the allegations are deplorable. He isn't deploring the crimes, he deploring the allegations.

Also check out MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43656716/ns/business-world_business

Murdoch backs editor caught in hacking scandal

The first time the story hits the US media in any big way and it's defense and denial, while in the UK no one is questioning whether it's been happening.

[drm604]

86. I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't be doing the same thing here in the states.

Why would they stop at the borders of GB?

I also suspect that they've been using some of the information gathered to blackmail powerful people.

[caseymoz]

89. I hope it's surpassed only by every day to follow for the rest of his life. nt

[lebkuchen]

92. Scotland Yard must be quaking in its boots

Now they'll be forced to investigate one of their good ole boys. Won't be long before we hear the word "rogue" again.

[RainDog]

94. kick n/t

[butterfly77]

99. Kicked&Recommended...