"Special advice".

The clue is in the title.

Confused by the presence of this thread tbh. I thought it had been decided years ago that the only possible reason to be opposed to Murdoch in any way was jealousy.

That's only if you accept Standee or Robinson to be the only arbiters of reason

I see that new leaf the Sun turned over is pretty much the same as the other one.
New England manager and what do the Sun do?
Yep they lay into the fact he has a speech problem.
Bravo I say Bravo.

Well, I do.

Thing is, you could wonder if it was just a "mistake" to publish it, but they've been caught out so many times there must be an element of wilfulness to it, as disgraceful as it is.

"There's no such thing as bad publicity" and "it's better to be talked about, than not talked about" must be framed above the editor's desk

'Bwavo', surely?

It seems the Tories are really rather good at making stuff up. www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ma ... CMP=twt_gu

It seems the Tories are really rather good at making stuff up. www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ma ... CMP=twt_gu

More own goals than Liverpool...

News' share price up. Investors rate RM.

I wonder if that will be the case once [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/02/murdoch-phone-hacking-us-senatorThe Senate Committee on Commerce & Science[/url have finished with him?

I can imagine him in a Homer Simpson voice: "It just gets worse & worse"

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17938811Another ex-rozzer gets his collar felt[/url

And not just The Sun. I was reading an article in The Independent the other day, in which the author mocked Hodgson's speech impediment. Very poor journalism, but about what I've come to expect from the British press.

Yeah that is true but my point was that you would have thought that the Sun at least would have avoided anything that painted them in a bad light.
But I guess a leopard really doesn't ever change it spots.

It knows what its target market is and it writes its headlines for their benefit.

Next week should be fun, Coulson & Brooks are scheduled to appear before Leveson and in other news: Looks like the CMS Committee must provide details of their and their families' links to NewsCorp

Council elections over now, so Hunt to go: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... firms.html What's this about Cameron allegedly texting Brooks up to 10 times a day? No wonder the Tories lost Witney, Chipping Norton, etc.

Council elections over now, so Hunt to go: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... firms.html What's this about Cameron allegedly texting Brooks up to 10 times a day? No wonder the Tories lost Witney, Chipping Norton, etc.

I see 'the government' (read the Tory party) have suddenly asked to become a core participant which would provide them with a representative barrister, discovery of the various witness evidence etc before hearings and a chance to act for redactions of documents before they are published. Dave is obviously absolutely pooping himself at what Coulson Brooks et al will say and disclose next week. Hopefully Leveson will turn them down in the interest of an open hearing. This looks like an attempt at censorship by the back door.

Probably want to get their hands on all the evidence so they can leak information on possible Blair and Labour's closeness / dealings to deflect possible from theirs??

Probably both tbh. Hopefully Leveson will tell them to get stuffed.

Well Leveson says OK. I hope the Ministers remember they are on oath when they give evidence

They'll struggle to keep in line:

[iLord Justice Leveson said that the government ministers would have to sign confidentiality agreements, as other core participants had done, and stressed that there should be no leaking of witness statements.

"I mean absolutely no discourtesy to ministers or those who will have to assist them, but the rule must apply to everyone."[/i

Reportedly, Boris' PR man might join News Int'l. I thought we'd ended the close relationship between politics and press forever?

The Met unveils new branding:

They'll have selectively forgotten anything incriminating but will have forensic recall about anything distracting.
Like Dave forgot he'd discussed BSkyB deal whilst having a nice cosy Christmas dinner round at Rebekah's house.