Leveson is side-tracked by the politicians but Rebekah Brooks’ day in court...
The UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, set up by PM David Cameron to take the heat off politicians for their cosy relationships with law-breaking newspaper groups, has well and truly backfired....
View ArticleRupert Murdoch moves to detoxify News Corp and buy BSkyB by splitting empire
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall...
View ArticleMurdochs nowhere to be seen, as heads begin to roll
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career...
View ArticleNews Corporation counts the $224m cost of phone hacking as it writes down...
News Corporation has announced that the costs of the phone hacking and other scandals at its UK newspapers have risen to $224m as it announces lower operating profits and a $2.8bn write-down its global...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face a long wait for phone hacking verdict
The British justice system grinds exceedingly slow and the date set for the Old Bailey trial of Rebekah Brooks (pictured with husband Charlie, also a defendant), Andy Coulson and sundry other News...
View ArticleDo the Murdoch and Autonomy scandals show that the billions spent on...
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the...
View ArticleLeveson solution does the job – but PM Cameron and the Press mafia will kick...
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief...
View ArticleThat was the week that was: Leveson, Oreo and, best of all, Norway!
*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal...
View ArticleMurdoch’s newspaper cultural revolution speeds up – now Times editor Harding...
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks pleads not guilty to five charges in never-ending phone...
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch hits back at his enemies in politics and the police in...
Even at 82 it seems that the only way to muzzle, let alone control, Rupert Murdoch is to bury a stake in his heart (and hedge your bets with copious quantities of garlic). The one-time Dirty Digger is...
View ArticleThree former NoW execs plead guilty to phone hacking as Rebekah Brooks trial...
A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone...
View ArticleBETC’s Evian ad tops YouTube poll, Puma for JWT, VCCP scoops London agency...
According to Adweek Evian’s ‘Baby & Me’ from BETC was the most-watched YouTube ad of 2013 vwith over 67m hits. Well you can’t say fairer than that and, although cute babies are not really our...
View ArticleGrey unveils lively New Year campaign for the Sun – but it’s still too bossy...
It’s going to be a big year for the Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in the UK, one of the more profitable planks of his hived-off print business News Corp. The phone and computer hacking and corrupt...
View ArticlePhone hacking spotlight falls on Trinity Mirror papers
A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution,...
View ArticleA&E + Google to boost under-fire Manchester United, dazzling digital Swedish...
Football club Manchester United is not enjoying life at the moment; seeing its results on the pitch disappoint and its stock market price fall. But it’s only a game isn’t it? But Adam&Eve/DDB,...
View ArticleAndy Coulson convicted of phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks and co found innocent
What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found...
View ArticleNow the focus is on the Murdochs as phone hacking legal investigation enters...
There may still be lots of trials to come in the never-ending phone hacking scandal even after the the conclusion of the first round of prosecutions which saw former News of the World editor Andy...
View Article“They all knew about it” says News of the World’s Thurlbeck as he speaks...
It was, indeed, “slightly sad,” as phone hacking trail judge Lord Justice Saunders remarked, that former New of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck (left, who pleaded guilty to phone hacking...
View ArticleGeorge Parker: Rebekah Brooks to return as Murdoch’s top bod? You couldn’t...
Who says there are no second acts? With the news last week that Rebekah “Medusa Hair” Brooks (left) is returning to the “Wizened of Oz’s” evil empire in a super, super senior position, it just goes to...
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