Now Two Murdoch Whistleblowers Dead
By John Romano
(YBH) – First it was Big George Webley who relayed a fear of the Murdoch machine and wound up dead. Now it’s Sean Hoare. Two British media whistleblowers. Two untimely deaths.available; foul play isn’t suspected by British authorities in either case), but something happened that put the fear of God into both men. Neither was known as a lunatic before their demise, both simply told the truth to British authorities about what they knew of Mr. Murdoch’s enterprises and died afterward at a relatively young age.
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"Big George" Webley, who has died suddenly aged 53, was a larger-than-life figure who combined the careers of talk-radio broadcaster and prolific composer and arranger of television themes, for shows such as Have I Got News for You and The Office."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/may/10/big-george-webley-obituary...........Before his death this past May, BBC radio presenter and musician Big George Webley alleged that a News Corp. entity bugged dressing rooms of celebs and politicos as far back as 1990. The allegation, if true, would show that News Corp. had a pattern of bugging/hacking over a long period of time that went far beyond a rogue editor or reporter for News of the World.
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Mr. Webley was a noted composer who arranged the theme music to the original “The Office” and wrote a host of music for British television including the theme to the long running “Have I Got News for You” on BBC One. In the mid-nineties he became a radio presenter and over time wound up hosting a very popular over night talk show on BBC London 94.9 which he continued to host until the time of his death this past spring. Earlier, in 1989, Mr. Webley landed the gig as music director of Jameson Tonight. He worked on 350 episodes of the show for the network.
It is during this period that Mr. Webley alleged that Sky bugged the dressing rooms of guests in order to get candid off-air scoops, and, in a roundabout way, led to the emotionally charged phone call I received from Mr. Webley in late April. As detailed by YBH! earlier this week, Mr. Webley was quite concerned that he would suffer retribution from Mr. Murdoch’s organization for allegedly revealing this information to the British government during the BSkyB (Sky TV’s parent company) buyout review. Also, it was never fully detailed to me how Mr. Webley found out about the bugging during his years at Sky. In no way did he allege that he was in danger for his life, as was stated in my earlier piece. Mr. Webley had a heart attack in 1996 and likely suffered a fatal one this past May. A full coroner’s report is due to be released in August detailing an official cause of death. What is known is that the whole incident did worry Mr. Webley more than a little bit.
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http://yesbuthowever.com/source-murdoch-bugged-late-night-show-green-room-5000931/http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/07/two-dead-murdoch-whistle-blowers-george-webley-and-sean-hoare/
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