If sh*t could take a crap, the product would be Rupert Murdoch

[marmar]

from the Independent UK:




Actress sienna Miller has been offered £100,000 by the News of The World to settle her phone hacking damages claim and the newspaper will seek to have her case thrown out of court if she fails to accept, lawyers for the Sunday tabloid said yesterday.

The six-figure offer is the first evidence of a News International strategy to halt further revelations against it in civil cases by offering substantial settlements. It has emerged that the actress claims her email account as well as phone messages was hacked using information obtained by the private detective Glenn Mulcaire.

In a pre-trial hearing at the High Court, it was alleged that email hacking took place in December 2008 – nearly two years after Mulcaire was jailed for phone hacking and after a pledge from the NOTW that any illegal newsgathering activity had ceased.

In a statement last week, News International admitted liability and offered an unreserved apology to Ms Miller and seven others whose voicemails were eavesdropped by Mulcaire and NOTW journalists. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/accept-163100000-or-get-nothing-murdoch-lawyers-tell-sienna-2268613.html

[Webster Green]

1. She should hold out for about 300 billion.

Fuck those dirtbags!

[CelticThunder]

2. +1

[Enthusiast]

3. The American TV consumer audience

should launch a class action suit against Murdock for misleading the viewers with a steady stream of lies.