And Ross Kemp.

And Charlie Brooks (not Janine from Eastenders)

I caught last night's That Sunday Night Show and although Adrian Childs is not my cup of java, he had that odious tw[ia[/it Paul McMullan, ex journo from NotW. Well worth watching on [url=http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=That%20Sunday%20Night%20ShowITV player[/url, he appears about 9 minutes 30 seconds in. He really is a nasty-minded creep

I thought Frank Skinner did a better job. Made him look a right tit.

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"The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 against the publishers of The People after being wrongly described as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl."

And yet they want to appeal because they think the damages awarded are 'disproportionate'. Don't want to pay out £75k? Don't accuse someone of being a paedophile without evidence.

All media organisations have made mistakes – that should be obvious. Their behaviour over this seems frankly pathetic to me. I think the judge was correct in saying what an appalling accusation it is.

But I do think that what we're finding out is that there was a culture of – not even sloppiness or lack of fact checking etc – but a culture of corruption and criminal activity that existed in at least two titles from the same stable.

And, as I have mentioned, it may well not be a coincidence that this stable was one that had barred independent trades unions and replaced them with a compliant, in-house 'staff association'.

I think as far as mistakes go, this one is inexcusable. I mean, it's not like they wrongly accused someone of shagging Jordan, or anything. If you're going to go to print with an accusation of paedophilia, you check and double check you have your facts 100% right. Unless you don't care one jot about whose life you might ruin if you get it wrong, as long as you sell papers.



I'd say it was bordering on immoral. Paying up without causing their victim any more suffering is the very least they could do, given the nature of the allegations. If anything, I thought the damages were on the low side.

Yes but the person on the receiving end here was that nasty nasty Baby P murderer, and Baby P was much loved by all the media and public who never knew him, so therefore deserves to be called a paedophile/rapist/etc etc....

That was sarcasm

It was Baby P's father, not his murderer.

Give that man a cigar.
They all wrongly thought they were untouchable.

This is what happens when folks are so used to doing and getting away with what the hell they want, They lose all sense of realism and moral's

The self-same staff who have recently been scurrying to the NUJ to help them out?

Surely not!

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So Rebekah Brooks's lawyer is claiming. After a culture of systemically subverting justice, all in the name of flogging a few more papers, it's a bit rich claiming that as a defence.

Not a bit. The true victims are not this bloke, whose life may be ruined with the false stigma of paedophilia, but people like the skint but fragrant Gordon Taylor, who they AGREED to pay £700,000 just for an agreement to keep schtumm about having his voicemails hacked. That is clearly at the very least 10 times worse than calling him a paedo, wouldn't you agree?

Oh - soz, I forgot. If you're paying the money to keep the shiit from hitting the fan, that's alright.

In fact, so arrogant are they, they probably actually believed that with a few millions they really could bury it.

The ginger one has been lifted again.

Plus hubby.

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Unconnected. The beast just want their horse back.

But properly this time – not by appointment.

I see they got the sniffer dogs out.

Given the reason: "attempting to pervert the course of justice, I wonder if it's [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8647877/Phone-Hacking-Brooks-husband-denies-cover-up-after-bag-found-near-flat.htmlanything to do with this?[/url

Yup. One of Call me Daves Eton buddies. He was a cr@p horse racing trainer as well. Took over the stables of the legend that was Fred Winters stables. Wasn't fit to lace his boots.

It's rumoured they were having sex when arrested. He's been charged with having an offensive person on his weapon.

Thanks to The Media Blog for tweeting this

"She's been arrested again" would be a great name for a Cheltenham race winner.

Not quite News International but News Corp anyway - responsible for bringing down Sky's competitor, On Digital. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112 TV hacking rather than phone hacking.

Not quite News International but News Corp anyway - responsible for bringing down Sky's competitor, On Digital. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112 TV hacking rather than phone hacking.

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And its not confined to the UK. Perhaps Rupey should have been more humble in front of the parliamentary committee