Thirteen-year-old
Milly Dowler was kidnapped and murdered on her way home from school in 2002. During the six-month hunt before her body was found, her parents gave exclusive interviews to the
News of the World, saying they believed she would be found alive.
That hope was based partly on the fact that her voicemails were still being listened to and deleted. Today, it was revealed that the deleting was
being done by the News of the World.
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posted by bonaldi
on Jul 4, 2011 -
324 comments
Last week, the New York Times magazine
published an explosive article about the phone-hacking exploits at the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid
News Of The World under the then-editorship of Andy Coulson, now the
the Government's chief of communications. Following the NYT's investigation, questions about the "unhealthy" relationship between the Metropolitan Police and the
press (particularly Murdoch's
News International, which also includes The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times), and further claims that an independent inquiry was abandoned so as
not to upset the Metropolitan Police, assistant Met Commissioner John Yates was
questioned [video; 4 mins] on Tuesday by the Home Affairs select committee. Following an
emergency debate in Parliament today, which concerned the fact that MPs of all parties may have had their phones hacked (and therefore had their
Parliamentary Privilege breached), the
Standards and Privileges Committee, the most powerful committee in Parliament, is to
open an inquiry which will be able to compel witnesses to give evidence. Meanwhile, former News of the World reporters are coming out the woodwork, claiming that hacking at the paper was
"rife", and the pressure is on Coulson to resign his £140,000 job at No. 10, with a
poll [pdf] which says 52% of the public says he should go.
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posted by Len
on Sep 9, 2010 -
46 comments
Extra! Tabloid photographs from the Los Angeles Herald Express (1936-1961), showing
celebrities,
fashion,
tragedy,
(early) CHiPs, and
babes with guns.
Via the
Virtual Gallery at the LA Public Library, which has many other fine exhibits, such as
California in the 20s, the
1932 Olympics,
celebrity golf, and a wonderful collection from the
golden age of travel posters.
posted by Gamblor
on Jul 28, 2006 -
15 comments
Who is the real Slim Shady? Does he pass on a jacuzzi full of thong-laden women for a manicure, tanning and full spa treatment?
yup.
posted by omidius
on Apr 12, 2004 -
14 comments
Eddie Clontz, longtime editor of the
Weekly World News, creator of Ed Anger, Bat Boy and other semi-real totems of society's fuzzy underbelly, is dead at 56.
The fact that I had to find this out in
The Economist, of all places, makes me madder than -- than -- than George S. Patton at a Peace Rally.
posted by chicobangs
on Feb 20, 2004 -
26 comments
Dalai Llama Misses Sex, Shoots Guns This is the finest tabloid newspaper headline
evar. Remember Peter Falk, in Tom Wolfe's
Bonfire of the Vanities, admiring the rhythmic and sadistic anticlimax of the headline: 'Scalp Grandma, then rob her' ? This is better.
Should I have worked on the school paper instead of playing bass? I could have been a contender.
via fark.
posted by crunchburger
on Aug 2, 2003 -
16 comments
Joanne's beaus one thru four revealed. Something which really exposes the underbelly of the football (soccer) world. Phone-in host and media guru
Danny Baker wrung some milleage a few years ago from a single caller over a number of months.
Joanne, a woman of generous virtue, was quietly working her way through the back four of a well known Premiereship football team, and calling Baker's saturday show both morning and evening revealing all but names in shocking yet hilarious detail.
The British tabloids and football chatrooms were ablaze with theories about who these four players were and also the two managers involved (one of which paid her £5000 to retain naked photos she had taken of him, lest a red-top get hold of them). Well now we finally know - and with all of Joannes calls collected together for the first time. [
Real Audio, streaming and download]
posted by feelinglistless
on May 18, 2001 -
8 comments
