Roy Greenslade Tells Media Matters Radio: "Every Single Member Of The Parliamentary Committee Investigating [Phone Hacking] Were Followed By Private Eyes And/Or Members Of [News of the World] Staff"
November 12, 2011 2:27 pm ET
From the November 12 edition of SiriusXM's Media Matters Radio:
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* If any phrase can sum up what is wrong with the news, it is "News Corporation". News should not be subject to the whims of corporate profits.
* If any phrase can sum up what is wrong with the news, it is "News Corporation". News should not be subject to the whims of corporate profits.
I tend to agree with you for the most part but for some different reasons as well. Mainly, scandals like this that happen to incredibly wealthy and well connected corporations and individuals who are tied to the very center of the political and financial power structure tend to meet a proverbial brick walls of lawyers, legislators, judicial allies, delays, mysterious deaths, and changes to the very laws that put them under scrutiny in the first place.
I too share your pessimism. We've been sliding toward classic fascism here and in much of the industrialized world. The biggest perks to being part of the financial ruling elite in a fascist state are being "too big to fail" and above the law.
if only he used his power for good, instead of the dark side...
I think some people just become insulated, isolated, and surrounded by sycophants and users. They grow cynical, cold, and paranoid. They use their power and money to project that animosity and disdain outward upon the world and try to prove they aren't really paranoid by becoming like a cancer to society itself. They infect and mutate hope into despair, community into selfish individualism, families into marketing demographics, and social strata into rigid class systems.
Some people are happy to play the pariah, as they have hearts full of nothing but fear and avarice.
He'll be Satan's bitch when he gets there...if you believe in all that stuff.
The LW whining gets tiresome for us normal folks - any chance you could stop all the constant whining?
Both are potentially very serious offences as they are deemed to be an attack on the very institution of the Parliament itself and thus an attack on the Sovereign Will of The People.
Still, nice smackdown, grmce. :)
So you think News Corp was going to tell the public who Parliament questioned about News Corp? You are a riot.
Why was News Corp so concerned about who Parliament was seeing or questioning about News Corp? You don't suppose News Corp and Rupert Murdoch has something they want hidden from the public, do ya?
You don't have a problem with your privacy being invaded by a News organization?
"The actions against Members of Parliament constitute an offence against the Parliament."
What actions against Parliament have been taken? You actually think the following of Members of Parliament constitutes "actions against Members of Parliament"? And curious has the stones to call ME retarded! Pathetic.
Hint Number one: matters of public records are matters of public records for anyone and everyone in England.
Point number two, ONE person (Greenslade) has asserted, "Every Single Member Of The Parliamentary Committee Investigating [Phone Hacking] Were Followed By Private Eyes And/Or Members Of [News of the World] Staff". Greenslade could be exaggerating/embellishing.
The rest of your post is pure mumble jumble.
"matters of public records are a matters of public records" Duh...Okay, Nuts.
Ild sort of flits around like a chicken with it's head cut off. chuckle chuckle
For sure he'll zero in on the "every single member". Then I will just have to point out that Murdoch did apologize to "every single member" of Parliament. hee hee
One thing "every single member" of the right has in common is never admiting they were wrong and always double or triple down on the stupid.
It's what he does. I guess it's understandable, can you imagine how bad it must suck to be ilovedoughnuts? He's been posting here for a couple of years, under at least four screen names, and I don't think he's ever made a decent point, or been right about anything.
If he were assigned a batting average based on his success rate here, it would be lucky for him that he loves doughnuts, cuz it would look like three of them.
Can't argue with that.
The News Of The World was reorganized into News International, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. During the live hearings they are referring to "News International" and "News Corp"
Donutluvver has claimed to have been a public sector employee (retired) so he was living off our dime for years, and most likely still receiving government benefits, compliments of us taxpayers.
He should be completely agreeable to having some private dick up his rear end all day, even if that means exposing his chicken coop that resembles the Penn State locker room.
It's amazing that ILD doesn't think the members of Parliament have any right to privacy.
Oh yeah, tell me Eyes out of order, baby!
Well, coming in with your zombie-like disdain for us "loons" and asking a really stupid question was very understandable. We just can't believe anyone can be this much of a partisan toady.
It's not your appallingly stupid question that confounds us, it's your cult-like reverence for anything NewsCorp that amazes and us and makes us feel a mixture of pity and contempt for you.
I agree, Con. I felt sorry for him when I first started paying any attention to his posts. I actually tried to enlighten him in a nice way. He has proved to be a vulgar, mean, dumb ass. So now I just mess with him to see what gems he will throw out there, that his Right Wing friends agree with. Well, that and someone told me I'm beautiful when I'm angry. ;>)
ilovedoughnuts is for sure woefully misinformed AND willfully ignorant.
Although I sure do like Teddy's "Love TKO" better, girlie Q
That name reminds me of a movie I saw almost 20 years ago named "Eating Raoul". Very dark comedy. I have no idea where I'm going with that! ;-) 'Ceptin' I could eat this guy with a spoon!
You are a LIAR. You have never thought in your life. You are flat out too stupid to think and you always will be. Perhaps YOU are just a brainwashed moron making excuses. Correction you are DEFINITLY a brainwashed moron perhaps you are just making excuses
Good god, is this guy for real? If he really believes this rubbish he posts he's too far gone to bother arguing with...
Obviously, you are not a golfer.
If you really don't see what the problem is, then you are clearly a brainwashed Fox news corporation zombie.
I'm sorry, you just can't sugarcoat a response to such blatant cult behavior.
Hint to doughboy: have Perry write his 3 agencies on his hand with a felt tip pen.
Note to doughboy: Keep Perry away from the hooch, until after a debate or stump speech.
Harto has had a lot of problems in recent times including the Melbourne Storm Rugby League salary cap scandal, the compromising of a joint Federal and Victoria Police raid on a suspected terrorist group by prematurely publishing details regarding the action and the increasing anger at their absurdly biased reporting regarding the Federal Government. The Sydney Daily Telegraph headline following the passing of the carbon pricing legislation last week had a front page with a full page photo of Greens Leader, Senator Brown hugging his deputy Senator Milne with the headline "HEAVEN HELP US" taking up about a third of the page (former Terrorgraph editor Col Allen, now at the New York Post left his mark there). One senior Cabinet Minister took the extraordinary step of dealing with questions from Murdoch journos by giving his answers as a general media release and others have been taking similar actions.
It has been suggested that the change at the top may be used as a chance to repair the relationship between News and the Commonwealth Government. We'll see.
What is undeniable is the fact that Uncle Rupert's playground is getting a bit messy these days and could do with a bit of a clean up. Judging by his previous effort with the Augean Stables, I reckon Hercules might be the bloke for the job!
But what a world: where the populace is undereducated to the point they are gulled by whatever the Murdoch media tells them Where war and unrest in the Middle East is their preferred status there. Where political leaders have to do what the Murdochs say and not what their own people want them to do.
How could such peabrains as the Murdochs aspire to rule the world in this manner? I guess because they are peabrains who think they're smarter than anyone else.