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     Murdoch Attempting to Buy the UK General Election for the Conservative Party

   
        David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch singing the the chorus of Ruperts New Hit Song... "I'm going to buy the BBC"

"I'm Rupert Murdoch just brought the Wall Street Journal, and now I'm off to London after I get David Cameron and his Tory Party into power then David will let me buy the BBC..."
The above is the chorus of Rupert Murdoch's new hit Single..."I'm going to buy the BBC".....selling very well amoundst Tory Party members
 
"he is all carvivorous, no. taste.....will eat anything in his path...who has been persoanlly respncible for the decline of quality and investigative journalism in America by turning it into cheap profitable junk news....as he now want to do with his planned take over of UK's much respected and loved  BBC if David Cameron and his Tory Party will the next 2010 UK election...
                           ......you can fight back and stop................... 
               ..............Rupert Murdoch's nextmedia take over the the BBC.. 
the last well funded and truely free speach and independent and investigative journalism organisation oin the world where it's journalists, TV and Internet presentors and editors are not told what to say, when to say it and how to say it by a private media boss who's only interest is in bigger profits, cheap and junk journalism and shaping and controlling the editorial content to support a political party that will play by his rules to further his and his powerful silent multi trillionaire backers known the Builderberger Group's business's interests...."

 




" ....At the INL News Group we offer the same service as large media firms like Rupert and James Murdoch's multi-billion all powerful News Corporation and News International Limited which pays bounds hundreds of million so dollars to politicians, police and private detectives and criminal networks and gangs ( even =MI5 and MI6 when things are really difficult)   to murder INL News Journalists who threated to expose the Murdochs, News Corporation and the high powered political friends, illegally hack phones, pay police for access to people's where abouts through their mobile phone technology (called blinging)...simply because we at INL News Group have lower overheads...because most of the IL News Team do no get paid any salary because their are just happy and exited to be of service and to be part of Mr Wijat Team working for Justice Truth and Freedom of the World....." says Mr Wijat from Mr Wijat's secret hideout in the Swiss mountains...."  I am recovering from a near miss from one of Rupert and Jame Murdoch's Hit Women that pose as friendly people happy to assist Mr Wijat...but really are trained assassins working under orders of  my major enemies Rupert and James Murdoch and their media silent partners... the Rothschilds and Rockerfella Families and their private security firms MI5 ans MI6...."

Mr Wijat goes on to say one last thing before Magic Rabbit said he d better move camp again because of the Murdoch secret agents were seen in the nearly Swiss Village this morning...." the Murdochs and their multi-trillionaire partners the Rothschilds and the Rockerfellas may own over 60% of the earth's wealth and think that they can buy anyone and anything  and that this gives them absolute power... however I and my team at the INL News Group have the average person as a friend and supporter  and that counts for about 6 billion people... they  have a small group of their key insiders that will stay loyal to them.... so inthe end we have the power of the people..
."   


"..At News of the World we offer the same service as the international media giants like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp but as you can see  our overheads are much lower..."
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"Everything is 'Freedom of the press' with you..."..says the newspapers young secretary to the elderly editor...
A Message from Wijat and His Team:                                                                                                        Mr Wijat and His Team give a warm welcome to the re-launching of News of the World after it was ruthlessly closed by Rupert James and Rebekah to hide the evidence of the Phone Hacking and Police Bribery Scandal, to destroy the books of the News of the World so it will e harder to know what happened..who did what and when..where did the money go and to whom and when,,. and in any event news of the World was competing with other weekend newspapers owned by News International and News Corp...so it made good business and legal sense to Rupert, James and Rebekah to just close News of the World  up..do not worry about the hard working and dedicated staff you really need the jobs.however what Rupert, Jame and Rebekah did not know is that News of the World was going to refuse to be murdered that easily..News of the World found it self dumped in a dark alley in London ..badly wounded and bleeding to death,, hand having trouble breathing.. Mr Wijat's good friend Magic Rabbit found News of the World lying in an alley just off Fleet Street, and ran to Tell Mr Wijat who organised His Team to take News of the World to hospital to stop the New of the World bleeding and gave News of the World a new breath of life... News of the World has then asked Mr Wijat and His Team, EFR the Worm, Al Wijat, Marvelous Marvin and Magic Rabbit (only Mr Wijat can see Magic Rabbit through Mr Wijat's Special Magic Glasses that Mr Wijat wears made for Mr Wijat by Mr Wijat's crazy ideas man, Marvelous Marvin) help News of the World re-launch after surviving a serious attempt on News of the World's life  by Rupert, James and Rebekah...
If you want the last laugh on pollies & powerbrokers..SEE YOU ALL SOON in the adventures of Mr Wijat, ERF the Worm,
Super Hero Al Wijat,Marvellous Marvin,           Magic Rabbit                                                                                  (Hi...I'm Magic Rabbit and only Mr Wijat can see me with his Special Glasses) 
and
News of the World ...                                                                         exclusive to the World's favourite and frealess newspapers 'News of the World'.However..don't forget  the rules..my friends Rupert, James and Rebekah............................................... forgot the rules and got into serious trouble....
You can play with a Wijat...
You can dance with a Wijat...
But you can't stand on a Wijat's toes...


A Message from Wijat and His Team
  

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:34 AM

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14179390

Rebekah Brook's arrest is hugh blow for Murdochs 
17th July 2011




Today's arrest of Rebekah Brooks, who was until Friday the chief executive of News International, represents perhaps the greatest failure to date in the Murdoch-controlled group's campaign for rehabilitating itself.

Because ever since News International and its parent company News Corporation were seriously damaged 13 days ago by the allegation that the phone of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked at the instigation of the News of the World, News International has been on an explicit mission to demonstrate that Mrs Brooks was innocent of all wrongdoing.

Although Mrs Brooks was editor of the News of the World at the time of the alleged hacking, she has denied all knowledge of it. And she has denied she was aware of other alleged instances of phone hacking or of bribes allegedly paid to the police.

So the thrust of News International's message to the world was that Mrs Brooks was as shocked as everyone else by disclosures that appear to show that there was a culture at the News of the World of systematically breaching proprieties in the pursuit of stories.

Lightning rod?

If she was guilty of anything, said her colleagues, it was of not knowing what her subordinates were doing.

That ignorance while in positions of authority at News International was ultimately enough to persuade her to resign from the company on Friday - many days after there had been widespread calls, including a demand from her friend, the prime minister, for her to go.

But News International was still insisting she had done nothing fundamentally wrong. She was leaving only because she had become a lightning rod for criticism of the company which made it harder for any kind of equilibrium to be restored in the business. Or so her friends insisted.

To put it another way, the company's version of what happened at the News of the World and who was to blame has been implicitly challenged in a fundamental way by the decision of the Metropolitan Police to arrest her on suspicion of alleged involvement in phone hacking and corruption.

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We just don't know what's going to happen next”

News International executive

As a company executive said to me, "we just don't know what's going to happen next".

Rupert and Rebekah

Now there are two reasons why News Corporation and News International were so keen to protect Rebekah Brooks.

First is that there is probably no one involved in the business, whose surname isn't Murdoch, who is as close to Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, as is Rebekah Brooks.

When they are together, he displays a conspicuous affection for her. "Some would say he is almost as close to Rebekah as he is to his children" said one of their colleagues.

And then there is a second reason why her arrest will be a blow both to Rupert Murdoch and to his son, James Murdoch, her immediate boss as head of News Corp's European operations.

Ignorance does not protect

Her ignorance of what happened at the News of the World reinforced their claims that they too had no knowledge of the alleged scale of abuses by the Sunday tabloid, which was closed down only a week ago.

The importance of today's events is that her claimed ignorance did not prevent her being arrested.

The other point about her arrest is that it is something of a shock to the political establishment, since she was on unusually good and friendly terms with three successive prime ministers, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the current tenant of 10 Downing Street, David Cameron.

If, as seems likely, her arrest prevents her from giving public evidence on Tuesday to MPs on the culture, media and sport Commons committee, her many friends in high places may be slightly relieved.

In the current climate of criticism of News International, there will be quite a few powerful people who would be pleased if the brightest possible media light isn't shone on their close and personal relationship with Mrs Brooks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14180043


Met Police Commissioner Sir Pauk Stephenson 

quits over Phone Hacking and Police Bribery Scandal.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned following the phone hacking scandal.

Britain's most senior police officer has faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis - who was questioned by police investigating hacking - as an adviser.

Sir Paul said his links to the journalist could hamper investigations.

He said there were lessons to be learned from the affair, but he was leaving with his integrity intact.

He also said he had no knowledge of the extent of the phone hacking.

Home Secretary Theresa May said she was "sorry" he had resigned and thanked him for all the work he had done during his time in office.

Earlier, she said she would address MPs on Monday about her "concerns" over the closeness of the relationship between News International and police.

'Great sadness'

Sir Paul said in a statement: "I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level and in particular in relation to Mr Neil Wallis."

He added: "Let me state clearly, I and the people who know me know that my integrity is completely intact.

"I may wish we had done some things differently, but I will not lose sleep over my personal integrity."

In other developments:

  • Ex-News International chief executiveRebekah Brooks is arrested by policeinvestigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World
  • Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
  • An advert placed by News International in national newspapers on Sunday describes how the company is "putting right what's gone wrong"
  • Several Sunday newspapers feature promotions in an attempt to woo former readers of the News of the World, which was the UK's best-selling newspaper
  • News International says it has set up an independent management and standards committee to see how the company can prevent similar instances happening again
  • John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons media select committee, says former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will probably be spoken to separately from Rupert and James Murdoch on Tuesday when they appear before MPs, adding that the committee should not act as a "lynch mob"

Sir Paul has also faced questions over his stay with his wife at a luxury health spa which employed Mr Wallis.

The journalist was working as a public relations consultant for Champneys spa when Sir Paul recuperated from surgery there earlier this year.

The Met acknowledged Sir Paul had stayed there for free while he recovered from a fractured leg caused by an operation to remove a pre-cancerous tumour.

Sir Paul said he had informed Buckingham Palace, Ms May and London Mayor Boris Johnson about his decision.

Mr Johnson said he accepted the resignation with "great sadness and reluctance" and he had no reason to doubt his "complete integrity".

"I believe him to be a fine, passionate and committed public servant who has done a huge amount of good for our city," he said.

'Brave decision'

The chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee - Keith Vaz - said he was "genuinely shocked" by the announcement.

"He was very keen that people realised that his integrity was intact, and I think what he basically said was, he was concerned about the leadership of the Met at this time," he said.

"It is a very brave decision, and I'm shocked by it, actually, because I don't think there's anything in the statement in particular that points to any wrongdoing or inappropriateness on the part of the commissioner."

Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis said Sir Paul had made the right decision and done the "honourable thing".

"He recognises that things have happened on his watch, which mean there will always be questions about his leadership," he said.

Sir Paul hired former News of the World deputy editor Mr Wallis as a PR consultant for the Met.

His media consultancy company - Chamy Media - was used by the force from October 2009 until September last year.

He was paid £24,000 to work as a two-day-a-month PR, until his contract was cancelled four months before the launch of the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking began in January this year.

As part of the contract, Mr Wallis advised the Commissioner's Office, and the Directorate of Public Affairs and Specialist Operations, working closely with Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who led an earlier Met inquiry into News of the World phone hacking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14175552

Ed Miliband (left) and Nick Glegg (rigjht)

Hacking: Miliband and Clegg seek media ownership limits

Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power.

He told the Observer Mr Murdoch's large market share led to "abuses of power".

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg backed new ownership rules to foster more press diversity but said an independent inquiry should be completed first.

The calls follow last week's closure of the News of the World, which Mr Murdoch owned, amid claims of phone hacking.

With that closure, the Sun, the Times, the Sunday Times and 39% of digital broadcaster BSkyB remain in the News Corporation stable.

Under pressure from the entire British political establishment, Mr Murdoch dropped plans to buy out the rest of British Sky Broadcasting.

Calling for new ownership rules, Mr Miliband said: "I think that we've got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20% of the newspaper market, the Sky platform and Sky News.

"I think it's unhealthy because that amount of power in one person's hands has clearly led to abuses of power within his organisation.

"If you want to minimise the abuses of power then that kind of concentration of power is frankly quite dangerous."

He told the Observer that current media ownership rules were outdated, describing them as "analogue rules for a digital age" that do not take into account the advent of mass digital and satellite broadcasting.

Meanwhile, the deputy prime minister echoed the calls for media ownership changes expressed by Mr Miliband.

He told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show there was a need to "look again in the round at the plurality rules to make sure there is proper plurality in the British press".

"A healthy press is a diverse one, where you've got lots of different organisations competing, and that's exactly what we need," he said.

The Liberal Democrat leader said his party had been calling for the change for years but said he was "very happy to sit down" with Mr Miliband.

"The judge-led inquiry will, of course, during the course of a year, produce some ideas about what we should do - and then I think if we can act on it on a cross-party basis. as we did last week in the House of Commons, all the better," he said.

However, Defence Secretary Liam Fox told Sky News' Murnaghan programme that "politicians would be wise at the moment not to over-react", adding that it was "time for calmness and for people to look at these issues, yes seriously, but in a proper timescale and without hysteria".

He said further regulation of the press should only happen if it was "absolutely necessary".

"I think we have to be proportionate about how we deal with any of these issues, it can't be simply about jumping on bandwagons and getting today's headlines."

In other developments:

  • Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned, having faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis as an adviser. Mr Wallis is one of 10 people arrested by police investigating phone hacking claims
  • An advert placed by News International in national newspapers on Sunday describes how the company is "putting right what's gone wrong"
  • Several Sunday newspapers feature promotions in an attempt to woo former readers of the News of the World, which was the UK's best selling newspaper
  • News International says it has set up an independent management and standards committee to see how the company can prevent similar instances happening again
  • John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons media select committee, says former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will probably be spoken to separately from Rupert and James Murdoch on Tuesday when they appear before MPs, adding that the committee should not act as a "lynch mob"
  • News International has asked law firm Olswang to carry out an investigation and a former High Court judge is overseeing the company's compensation scheme for hacking victims

Various celebrities including actress Sienna Miller and football pundit Andy Gray have accepted damages from the compensation fund, believed to be worth £20m.

The Liberal Democrats have written to media regulator Ofcom calling for it to investigate whether the owners of the BSkyB licence are "fit and proper" following the allegations around News Corp.

Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes, media spokesman Don Foster and party president Tim Farron have asked the watchdog to investigate in light of "the manifest public concern about News International's activities, the close integration of News International with its parent company News Corporation, (and) News Corp's effective control of BSkyB".

A spokeswoman for Ofcom said: "We received this letter early on Friday evening. We will be considering our response next week."

She added that the regulator was continuing to gather information and has already written "to a number of relevant authorities and can confirm that follow-up meetings will now be taking place."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14150820

What is next for News Corp

Rather, it is as a source of influence over public opinion and politics.

And from this standpoint, its value to News Corp may already have been destroyed by the phone hacking scandal.

The crisis is already threatening to spread to News International's other titles, with former prime minister Gordon Brown accusing the Sunday Times of hiring criminals to target him personally - allegations rejected by the company.

There is talk that the entire business could now be put up for sale.

But, as the BBC's business editor Robert Peston points out, the scandal has hurt the entire UK newspaper industry, making News International less attractive to potential buyers.

"The question is, who is going to pay him the price that they are worth? He will not want to sell those papers at a loss."

Ownership of BSkyB

The future of BSkyB has been thrown wide open since Mr Murdoch dropped his planned bid to take full ownership of the UK satellite broadcaster.

The firm has become a mature, cash-generating business, with profits of £917m in the 12 months to March this year.

If all goes well for the media tycoon, he might just be able to revive the bid in a year or two, though BSkyB's share price suggests markets see no immediate prospect.

"News Corp has an enormous understanding of the business," says Ms Wise. "The Murdoch family are very long-term players. They have a reputation for coming back... They are consummate deal-makers."

But things may well get worse for News Corp.

If police bring criminal charges against News Corp management in the coming months, regulator Ofcom could deem the conglomerate no longer to be a "fit and proper person" to hold a UK broadcasting licence.

In that case, Mr Murdoch's firm may be forced to give up all control over a company he co-founded and in which he retains a 39% stake.

UK investigations

News Corp now faces formal scrutiny in the UK at three levels.

A parliamentary select committee has summonsed Rebekah Brooks, as well as Rupert Murdoch himself and his son James, to give testimony under threat of perjury.

All three have now agreed to appear.

The worst News Corp can expect from the hearings is public humiliation.

A renewed police investigation into phone hacking and alleged payments to police officers, may result in criminal charges in the autumn against more employees of NoW.

More worryingly, the investigation could spread beyond NoW to other papers owned by the group.

But the biggest challenge to News Corp may come from the public inquiry headed by Lord Justice Leveson.

It could result in a major tightening up of the rules that govern the behaviour, ownership and regulation of the media in the UK.

In particular, the government may legislate to limit a company's share across all media, according to analyst Claire Enders - something that could hurt News Corp in particular.


Investigations in other countries

An even bigger threat to News Corp could be looming across the Atlantic, where the hacking scandal has become big news.

Senior US Congressmen from both parties have called for two sets of criminal inquiries:

  1. for the FBI to investigate whether US citizens were victims of phone hacking by NoW, in breach of wiretap laws
  2. for the Justice Department to decide whether alleged payments to British police could mean that News Corp itself - as a US company - broke anti-corruption laws.

The big question is whether the investigations translate into a threat to News Corp's US broadcasting licence, as it has done in the UK, according to analyst Alan Gould of US investment firm Evermore Partners.

About a third of News Corp's revenues come from US television.

"The US television business is of big and growing profitability for the company," he says, unlike its loss-making US newspapers.

Meanwhile, the Australian prime minister Julia Gillard is mulling whether to open her own inquiry into media regulation and ownership.

The boss of News Corp subsidiary News Limited, which runs more than 20 papers and websites in the country has already opened an internal investigation to uncover any misconduct.

The Management

The hacking scandal has already claimed several scalps, including that of Andy Coulson twice - first as NoW editor in 2007, then as communications director to the prime minister, David Cameron, this year.


Rupert Murdoch was accused ofaxing NoW in order to save Mrs Brooks

Also gone is Rebekah Brooks, who was NoW editor when the company allegedly hacked the voicemail of teenage murder victim Milly Dowler.

Much of Mr Murdoch's manoeuvring during the hacking scandal has been interpreted as an attempt to protect her.

Indeed, after he chose to close down the 168-year-old tabloid, staff accused him of sacrificing the red-top in order to save Mrs Brooks.

Even the position of Mr Murdoch's son and heir apparent, James, may be at risk, with calls led by shareholder advisory group PIRC, for him to be replaced as chairman of BSkyB.

"We live in a culture in which people at the top, whether guilty or not, carry the can," says Claire Enders.

Senior management could now find themselves in a double-bind, seen as either culpable for covering the scandal up, or incompetent for not tackling it much earlier.

Change at the top

Mr Murdoch is now 80 years old.

If his son James is seen as gaining control of the situation, Mr Murdoch could finally make way for him.

However, there are now moves afoot to curtail the Murdoch family's control over their firm.

A group of News Corp shareholders are suing News Corp executives, accusing them of nepotism for overpaying when they bought Shine Group, a British TV production firm, from Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth.

The American investors have expanded their lawsuit in light of the NoW scandal, to accuse News Corp's board of providing "no effective review or oversight" and permitting a "culture run amok".

According to stock analyst Alan Gould, many outside shareholders - who collectively own 62% of News Corp - would like to see more power transferred from the family to News Corp's president Chase Carey.

But unlike the ouster of Tony Hayward at BP, shareholders at News Corp do not traditionally have the final say.

"There is no precedent here," says media analyst Claire Enders. "Shareholders in the US have no clue what to do if Murdoch is seen as damaging the company."



Rebekah Brooks arrested over phone-hacking allegations

Spokesman for Rebekah Brooks says she did not know she was going to be arrested when she handed in her resignation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/17/rebekah-brooks-arrested-phone-hacking-allegations


Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Brooks has been arrested over phone-hacking allegations. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information.

The Metropolitan police said a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on Sunday, by appointment at a London police station.

Brooks, 43, resigned on Friday as News International's chief executive. She is a former News of the World editor and was close to Rupert Murdoch and the prime minister, David Cameron.

A spokesman for Brooks said she did not know she was going to be arrested when she handed in her resignation.

Brooks was taken into custody at midday on Sunday, after agreeing to attend a London police station for questioning. Her spokesman, Bell Pottinger chairman David Wilson, said she did not know she was to meet with police until late on Friday, and that she did not know the appointment would result in her arrest.

The News International chief executive announced her immediate departure from the company on Friday morning. She had agreed to give evidence this coming Tuesday to the culture select committee's inquiry into allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World.

Her lawyers are currently in discussion with the committee about whether she should attend. Wilson said: "It's left Rebekah in a very difficult position and has left the committee in a very difficult position".

An arrest by appointment on a Sunday by police is unusual.

In a statement the Met said: "The MPS [Metropolitan police service] has this afternoon, Sunday 17 July, arrested a female in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking.

"At approximately 12.00 a 43-year-old woman was arrested by appointment at a London police station by officers from Operation Weeting [phone hacking investigation] together with officers from Operation Elveden [bribing of police officers investigation]. She is currently in custody.

"She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section1(1) Criminal Law Act 1977 and on suspicion of corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

"The Operation Weeting team is conducting the new investigation into phone hacking.

"Operation Elveden is the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police. This investigation is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

"It would be inappropriate to discuss any further details regarding these cases at this time."

Ex-British Murdoch Executive Rebekah Brooks Arrested








By OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN
  

Rupert Murdoch's protégé Rebekah Brooks, who previously ran his British tabloids was arrested today in London in connection with the phone hacking scandal.Brooks' arrest comes as she "voluntarily attended a London police station to assist with their ongoing investigation," according to a statement released on her behalf, The Associated Press reported.
  Authorities are questioning Brooks on suspicion of conspiring phone hacking and on suspicion of corruption.Brooks spokesman David Wilson told the AP that Brooks' meeting with the police was arranged but "not aware she was going to be arrested."
 Brooks who had refused to resign over the scandal, stepped down from her post as head of Murdoch's British newspaper division, News International on Friday. "Obviously this complicates matter greatly," Wilson told the AP. "Her legal team will have to have discussions with the committee to see whether it would still be appropriate for her to attend."

Critical Time for Murdoch

  Brooks' arrest comes at a critical time for Murdoch.On Tuesday, British lawmakers are expected to grill the media baron when he testifies in front of Parliament.
  Each passing day has brought new revelation in this scandal, and the shockwaves are quickly spreading across Murdoch's sprawling empire, which includes television and newspaper properties spanning the globe, and a key stake in the U.S.In turn, Murdoch has had to do some unprecedented damage control.
  "I was appalled to find out what had happened and I apologized and I have nothing further to say," said Murdoch.On Friday, Murdoch apologized to the family of Milly Dowler, a teen murdered in 2002.
  Earlier this month, it was revealed the girl's voicemail had been allegedly hacked and messages deleted by a reporter from one of Murdoch's papers.After the meeting, the Dowler family emerged with their lawyer, who described Murdoch's tone as humble.
  "Yes he did apologize. He apologized many times. I don't think somebody could have held their head in their hands and said sorry so many times," said Mark Lewis, the Dowler family's lawyer.On Saturday, there were more apologies.
  "The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself. We are sorry," according to an ad signed by Murdoch.The ad appeared in every London newspaper.
 Last Sunday, Murdoch shut down his profitable tabloid, "The News of the World," mired in allegations of criminal activity.
  The scandal has even crossed the Atlantic.Les Hinton, the head of the company that operates the Wall Street Journal, resigned Friday. He was in charge in London when much of the alleged criminal activity took place.
  There is also a connection to 9/11: allegations that Murdoch's reporters tried to tap the phones of 9/11 victims in search of yet more sensational headlines."Many, many innocent men, women, and children their private tears bought and sold by News International for commercial gain," said Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister.
 This week, the government established a judicial inquiry to look at criminal activity, media ethics, and media ownership. No longer intimidated by Murdoch, British politicians are putting his empire under the microscope.

ABC News' Jeffrey Kofman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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UK Govt Defends Murdoch Ties as Scandal Spirals

Britain's Conservative-led government denied Saturday that it was too close to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit media empire, as the mogul apologized for phone hacking by one of his tabloids in full-page newspaper ads across the country.

Government records show that Prime Minister David Cameron has had scores of meetings with media executives in the past year, including 26 with Murdoch or his employees. But Foreign Secretary William Hague said Saturday he was not embarrassed "in any way" by the government's relationship with Murdoch executives. "I'm not embarrassed by it in any way, but there is something wrong here in this country and it must be put right," Hague said. "It's been acknowledged by the prime minister and I think that's the right attitude to take."

British police, too, faced growing pressure over the links between senior officers and Murdoch executives.

Rupert Murdoch's son James, his former British CEO Rebekah Brooks and ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson all stayed at the prime minister's country home, Chequers.

Coulson's stay in March came two months after he resigned as Cameron's communications chief amid the spiraling phone hacking and police bribery scandal. Critics said that invitation showed poor judgment on Cameron's part and revealed the cozy relationship between political leaders and Murdoch's powerful media empire. Coulson was arrested in the scandal last week.

"It's not surprising that in a democratic country there is some contact between leaders" and media chiefs, he told the BBC,  

Cameron acknowledged last week that the relationship between politicians, the media and the police in Britain had grown too close and must be changed.

Hague said Cameron had invited Coulson to Chequers "to thank him for his work, he's worked for him for several years, that is a normal, human thing to do."

Coulson is one of nine people arrested and questioned by police over what they knew about phone hacking at the News of the World, the 168-year-old tabloid shut down by Murdoch last week after the scale of its illegal hacking became clear. No one has been charged.

Murdoch is struggling to contain the scandal, which has scuttled his bid for lucrative TV broadcaster BSkyB and knocked billions off the value of his News Corp. empire. On Friday, the scandal claimed the jobs of Brooks and another senior Murdoch aide, Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton.

News Corp. made a public act of contrition Saturday, placing an ad in seven British national newspapers with the headline "We are sorry." Signed by Murdoch, it apologized "for the serious wrongdoing that occurred."

"We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected. We regret not acting faster to sort things out," it said.

The company plans to take out more ads in the coming days outlining its next steps — part of a new strategy by the once all-powerful mogul. A front-page headline in the Murdoch-owned The Times on Saturday read "Day of atonement."

Murdoch on Friday met with the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by the News of the World in 2002. The revelation that journalists had accessed her phone in search of scoops while police were looking for the missing 13-year-old fueled an explosion of interest in the long-simmering scandal about illegal eavesdropping.

The 80-year-old mogul said "as founder of the company I was appalled to find out what had happened and I apologized."

The phones of celebrities, royal aides, politicians and top athletes are also alleged to have been hacked, and police are investigating whether the scandal also reached to the victims of London's 2005 terrorist bombings and the families of dead British soldiers.

Hinton, 67, was the first Murdoch executive in the U.S. to be affected by the scandal. A staunch ally who has worked for Murdoch for more than half a century, Hinton announced he was stepping down immediately as publisher of the Wall Street Journal and chief executive of Dow Jones & Co.

Hinton was chairman of Murdoch's British newspaper arm during some of the years its staffers are alleged to have hacked into cell phones. Still, he had testified to a parliamentary committee in 2007 and 2009 that he had seen no evidence that abuses had spread beyond a single jailed reporter, Clive Goodman.

Hinton said Friday that "the pain caused to innocent people (by hacking) is unimaginable."

"That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant," he said.

Murdoch's British lieutenant, Rebekah Brooks, also stepped down Friday. Brooks said she was stepping aside because her status as "a focal point of the debate" was interfering with "our honest endeavors to fix the problems of the past,"

Tom Mockridge, the head of Sky Italia, was installed to replace Brooks as CEO at News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp.

The loss of two top aides ended a rough week for Murdoch, who faces more pressure Tuesday when he, his son James and Brooks all face questioning by a U.K. parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking and police bribery.

Cameron also has appointed a judge to conduct a sweeping inquiry into criminal activity at the News of the World and in the British media.

British police are also under pressure to explain why their original hacking investigation failed to find enough evidence to prosecute anyone other than Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Detectives reopened the investigation earlier this year and now say they have the names of 3,700 potential victims.

Records show that senior officers — including Paul Stephenson, the current chief of the London force — have had numerous meals and meetings with News International executives in the past few years.

The Guardian newspaper, which has covered the story extensively and broke news of the Dowler hacking, said Saturday that senior officers tried to persuade its editors in 2009 and 2010 to tone down the paper's coverage of the scandal, saying the stories were inaccurate and exaggerated the scale of phone hacking.

Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor arrested and questioned this week about phone hacking, was employed as a part-time PR consultant by the police force at the time.

The government says the judge-led inquiry will look into the police decision to hire Wallis.

Murdoch is eager to stop the crisis from spreading to the United States, where the FBI has opened an inquiry into whether 9/11 victims or their families were targeted by News Corp. papers.

Murdoch's News Corp. empire includes Fox News, the 20th Century Fox movie studio, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and three British newspapers — The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor said Friday's departures of Brooks and Hinton show Murdoch is "trying to build a firewall between the past and the future of News Corp."

It also suggests that Murdoch doesn't want the Wall Street Journal, one of the world's most respected newspapers, to get tarred in a scandal involving the tawdry behavior of journalists at a British tabloid.

Protecting the Journal's reputation has become more important to Murdoch now that his political influence in Britain has been diminished. Doctor believes it's likely News Corp. will sell all of its British newspapers.

"He has lost his power in Britain and he is never going to get it back in this lifetime, so there is no longer a reason for him to own News International," Doctor said. "The movie studio and cable TV is what's really important to protect now."

Sally Dowler, left, Gemma Dowler, centre, Bob Dowler, second right, Parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler and spokesman Mark Lewis, right, speaks to the media after they had a meeting with Rupert Murdoch in London, Friday, July 15, 2011. The lawyer for the Milly Dowler's family says Rupert Murdoch has issued a full and sincere apology to the murdered schoolgirl's family for the actions of journalists at his newspaper. Mark Lewis told reporters that the media baron called the private meeting and apologized "many times," telling the Dowlers the events that transpired at the News of the World tabloid were not in keeping with the standards set out when his own father entered the media industry.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)




Rupert Murdoch, centre, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London, Friday, July 15, 2011. The lawyer for Milly Dowler's family says Rupert Murdoch has issued a full and sincere apology to the murdered schoolgirl's family for the actions of journalists at his newspaper. Mark Lewis told reporters that the media baron called the private meeting and apologized "many times," telling the Dowlers the events that transpired at the News of the World tabloid were not in keeping with the standards set out when his own father entered the media industry. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)


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Murdoch Hack Attack: More Papers Caught in Scandal


Fresh allegations that not one but three of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have been involved in illegal activities have marred the media mogul's multi-billion dollar deal to buy full control of British Sky Broadcasting. Many analysts believe the deal may be dead in the water.

  Monday's allegations that News International's Sunday Times and Sun newspapers allegedly used deception to try to obtain former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's private financial records were the latest in an unfolding scandal that saw Murdoch's News of the World fold last Sunday.The Sunday Times allegedly had details that Brown obtained an apartment from controversial publishing magnate and former member of parliament Robert Maxwell for a "knock-down price," according to the BBC.
  Brown told the BBC that he believes the paper was "trying to prove a point," that it was "completely wrong" and wanted to bring him down in his then role as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer."I'm genuinely shocked to find that this happened because of the links with criminals, known criminals, who were undertaking this activity, hired by investigators who were working for the Sunday Times, Brown said in an interview with the BBC.
  The Sun went much further when it allegedly stole Brown's family's medical records. Though no one but his family knew in 2006 that Brown's newborn baby son, Fraser, had cystic fibrosis, the Sun splashed the exclusive across its front page in November 2006."Sarah and I were incredibly upset about it," said Brown. "We were thinking about his long-term future, we were thinking about our family," Brown told BBC News, adding that he was in tears when he was told by News International journalists that the Sun had the information about his son's condition.
  The Sun claimed that "the story was used to increase national understanding of the condition, in partnership with the Cystic Fibrosis Trust."News International was allegedly aware as far back as 2007 about questionable practices used by the News of the World to obtain the confidential information about the royals. Such a breach, if true, represents a huge lapse in security and a threat to Queen Elizabeth.
  If News Corp., the Murdoch conglomerate that includes News International, did know of News of the World's practices, it did nothing.In emails received by police last month, Clive Goodman -- the paper's recently arrested royals reporter -- requested cash from the now-deposed editor Andy Coulson to buy a top secret directory called the "Green Book," according to the BBC. The directory contained all the confidential phone numbers of the royal family and their staff.
"If, as alleged, somebody has taken money not only to disclose telephone numbers not only of the royal family but also of their staff and their friends, then it's an appalling breach of security," said Dai Davies, former head of royal protection. In the email, Goodman allegedly said that a royal protection officer had stolen a copy and wanted £1000 for it.

Murdoch's Deal: Dead in the Water?

The British government signaled Monday that it would delay -- and possibly halt -- Murdoch's $19 billion deal to purchase BSkyB as a result of the public outrage surrounding the growing scandal. The unfolding scandal couldn't come at a worst time for Murdoch, who days ago believed he would be closing one of the biggest deals of his life. The worldwide media mogul was on the verge of buying full control of British Sky Broadcasting, Britain's biggest commercial network.

Wall Street Journal Publisher, Les Hinton, Resigns



                        
In Hinton's resignation letter, obtained by the website All Things D, Hinton maintained he was unaware of the inappropriate action that occurred when he was chairman of News International.  Earlier today, Rebekah Brooks, one of Murdoch's closest confidants and chief executive of his British newspapers, resigned her post. She was editor of News of the World when the incidents of phone hacking and bribery allegedly occurred. Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton resigned today, making him the second high-ranking casualty in less than 24 hours in a journalistic scandal that has jeopardized Rupert Murdoch's multibillion-dollar empire. "I have watched with sorrow from New York as the News of the World story has unfolded," he wrote. "I have seen hundreds of news reports of both actual and alleged misconduct during the time I was executive chairman of News International and responsible for the company.  In a statement of his own, Murdoch wrote, "That this passage has come to an unexpected end, professionally, not personally, is a matter of much sadness to me.""The pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable," he added. "That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp., and apologize to those hurt by the actions of the News of the World."
  Hinton and Murdoch have worked together for more than 50 years.Both Brooks and Hinton's resignations come on a day when Murdoch was in damage control mode, trying to gain the upper-hand on a scandal that has scarred his brand.
  Today, he met with the family of Milly Dowler -- victims of his company's newsgathering transgressions -- and on Saturday Murdoch plans to run a personal apology in U.K. newspapers.Dowler went missing in 2002 and an investigator from Murdoch's now-defunct Sunday tabloid, News of the World, reportedly hacked her cell phone for a juicy story while her parents and police desperately searched for her. The hacker, hoping to get a new lead on the story, apparently deleted messages when Dowler's voicemail was full, giving the Dowlers a false hope that their daughter could still be alive. Dowler's body was found months later.
 "They can forgive, but they cannot forget," Lewis said. According to Lewis, there was absolutely no discussion of financial compensation.   Following the meeting, Murdoch said he apologized to the Dowlers. The family's lawyer, Mark Lewis, told the media that the apology was genuine and heartfelt.The Dowlers first learned their daughter's phone was hacked last week when it was reported by the Guardian newspaper. The revelation enraged the U.K. and brought other alleged incidents of hacking and bribery to light.
  This weekend, Murdoch plans to publish an apology that will be carried in all national U.K. newspapers under the headline, "We are sorry," News International announced."We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred. We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected," the text will read, according to News International. "The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself."
  Originally Murdoch had defended Brooks publicly in the wake of the scandal and previously refused to accept her resignation. But as News Corp.'s bottom line suffered, Murdoch's position changed.According to the Daily Telegraph, Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth, harshly criticized Brooks' handling of the scandal. Elisabeth Murdoch told friends privately that Brooks had "f----- the company," the Telegraph reported.
  Brooks said she resigned because her position as CEO of News International had become a distraction for the parent company, News Corp., and she said she would now focus on refuting the allegations."I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate," Brooks wrote in email to colleagues on Friday that was released by News International. "This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavors to fix the problems of the past."
 Brooks was known as tough, smart, fiercely competitive and loyal to a fault. She wasn't just another executive in the Rupert Murdoch empire, she worked with him for more than two decades. He referred to her as his daughter, was said to buy her lavish gifts and preferred a country pub dinner with her to another high-powered meeting with business leaders and politicians. Brooks, who took control of News International's four British papers in 2007, on Thursday agreed to answer questions before a U.K. parliamentary committee next week.


PHOTO: Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal publisher, left, stands with Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation, during a gala launch party, April 26, 2010, in New York.


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Accused in The Murdoch and Brooks(Wade) Phone Hacking and Police Bribery Scandal
The Accused: Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks(Wade), Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, Glenn Mulcaire, James Waethercup, Ian Edmunson, Neville Thurlbeck and many more to be named..

Alleged Victims: Heather Mills, Andy Gray, Paul Gascoigne, Sienna Miller, Wayne Rooney, Elle McPherson, Max Clifford, Prince harry, Prince William, John Prescott Steve Coogan, Chris   Tarrant, Simon Hughes, Milly Dowler, The Family of Madeline McCan, The Families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, The Families of the 7/7 Bombings, The Families of Dead UK Soldiers and many more to be named..
Susan Boyle said she is so excited that Mr Wijat and His Team have taken over the News of the World to bring her favourite, fearless and without favour news to the world.....  well as excited as Susan can every get...


Us Catholic priests just love reading News of the World.. it is one pleasure that we are allowed.. we were so sad when we heard that Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks(Wade) and their News Corp had decided to close down News of the World... then we we read on www.newsoftheworld.bz that Mr Wijat abd his Team had relaunched it online and soon again in hard copy we all celebrated with a glass of red wine and bread ... naughty we know but the news of Mr Wijat and His Team keeping the 168 year old newspaper News of the World going was such a joy...  we had to have a little nip...

The Infamous Molly Meldrum.. the Pop Interviewing Guru that virtually started the Australian Pop scene in the 1960's with his now partner Michael Gadinski.. hold the News of the World in his hand and is about to handball it to his best mate Mr Wijat... Molly is so exicited that his Aussie Battler Mate Mr Wijat who has been standing up for the underdog and the little guy against the pollies and power brokers since his uni days in the 1960's, has taken over News of the World so the newspaper can continue it's tradition of being fearlessly providing world news without fear or favour.. on a moral and ethical basis..." certain thins have to be said..when they need to be said... and Mr Wijat is one of the few guys I know that is prepared to say the truth no matter how dangerous and shocking the truth is and no matter if the truth exposes powerful people that are in a position to use their power against Mr Wijat and His Team.. to try and silence them...Mr Wijat and His Team seem to be fearless, and at the same time a great easy going group you can have fun with.. I have know Mr Wijat for over 30 years and his simply stand up for the truth regardless .. Mr Wijat is always having threats from the power brokers .. and tough guys.. who want to silence Mr Wijat... Mr Wijat says...."
 it is like water running off a ducks back... Mr Wijat says..' the bigger they are the harder they can fall.. look at what is happening to  Rupert and James Murdoch ...  I have tried to be friendly to them and give them food advice... but they would not listen.. I told them that you can Dance With A Wijat..Play With A Wijat.. But don't stand on a Wijat's Toes.. They are the rules and they can not be broken..Rupert and James Murdoch and their powerful News Corp crossed the line when they organised corrupt police, real estate agents, valuers and their own local media to destroy over $100 million in real estate assets my INL News Group in 2005 to try and stop me having the capital base to re-launch our 100 year old Western Australian Newspaper Masthead the ' Weekend News' as the 'Australian Weekend New's as an Australia Wide Weekend newspaper in competition to Rupert and James Murdoch News Corp's over £100 billion a year profit newspapers in Australia..  Rupert such behaviour will catch up to you in the end no matter how rich, powerful, well connected and protected  you think you are...you can not go around paying the police and private investigators to tap competitors phones, viol main and emails and obtain other of the record information form corrupt police about your competitors and high profile people you want to write about to sell more newspapers..one day you are going to go too far and it all will come tumbling down upon you like a ton of bricks..that is what happens to everyone who is so used to being able to break the official laws and moral codes of ethics laws and thinking they can always get away with it believing their are untouchable.." Mr Wijat said
 

Mr Wijat and Gordon Brown in the old Uni Days reading the latest News of the World and discussing the latest gossip in News of the World.. When the Gordon Brown, the ex-Labour prime minister of Britain, was asked his reaction to the closure of News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Books(Wade)...Gordon said....".. to be honest I was relieved that News of the World could not longer tap my phone, read my phone messages and bribe any more police to place bugs in my car... but I was sad that such a British Institution such as News of the world was being taken away from real owners.. 'The British Public.. and in now the world..' so when I hear that Mr Wijat and his Team has made the bold and gutsy move to re-launch News of the World under www.newsoftheworld.bz and www.notw.bz and www.newsoftheworld.co.nz to be run on a moral and ethical basis... I was so happy grabbed my wife and a few close friends and went to celebrate.."


New York based Folk Rock Singer Dar Williams praying that Mr Wijat and His Team takes over her favourite and fearless newspaper 'News of the World'... Dar.. your prays have been answered as you can see by the website www.newsoftheworld.bz  ... Mr Wiajt and His Team are in full control of News of the World and have breathed that Breath of Life into News of the World after Mr Wijat's mate Magic Rabbit found News of the World lying in an alley near Fleet Street, London  bleeding to death and unable to breath ...having been left their to die by Rupert, James and Rebekah who thought they had done thorough job of murdering our most loved friend News of the World..Well the end result is that News of the Worl  has  lived and as a result Rupert, James and Rebekah can only be charged with Attempted Murder of News of the World rather than murder of  News of the World. We are sure that if Rupert, James and Rebekah say sorry to News of the World we are sure news of the World will not press charges .... after all the amount of great stories and new articles Rupert, James ad Rebekah are creating each day News of the Worldwill have limited things to write about for the News of the World readers... Keep up the good work Rupert, James and Rebekah.... Just sign the sorry book and everything will be be OK ..we are sure.

BBC: Rebekah Brooks arrested 


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Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.

The 43-year-old was arrested by appointment at a London police station and remains in custody.

She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption.

She quit News International on Friday as pressure mounted over her role in the deepening scandal.

Mrs Brooks was editor of the paper between 2000 and 2003, during which time the phone belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was tampered with.

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston said News International was not aware that Mrs Brooks would be arrested when her resignation was being discussed at the company on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. She eventually resigned on Friday.

Mr Peston added: "It's certainly the most extraordinary development. Rebekah Brooks is incredibly close to the most powerful people in the UK - the current prime minister, the previous prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. More or less every senior person of influence within Britain."

He said it could now potentially jeopardise her appearance at the Parliamentary Select Committee on Tuesday, where she is due to answer MPs questions on the hacking scandal.

"I would assume having been arrested it's now almost impossible for her to appear. It's very difficult for MPs to ask her questions that wouldn't be seen to be impinging on the police investigation."

In other developments:

  • Home Secretary Theresa May is to tell MPs about her "concerns" overthe Metropolitan Police's hiring of ex-News of the World journalist Neil Wallis, who is currently on bail over phone hacking allegations
  • Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
  • An advert placed by News International in national newspapers on Sunday describes how the company is "putting right what's gone wrong"
  • Several Sunday newspapers feature promotions in an attempt to woo former readers of the News of the World, which was the UK's best-selling newspaper
  • News International says it has set up an independent management and standards committee to see how the company can prevent similar instances happening again
Committee appointment

Mrs Brooks's arrest is the tenth made by Operation Weeting police, who are conducting the current investigation into phone hacking.

Those arrested and bailed by police as part of the new investigationhave included ex-NoW editor Andy Coulson, ex-NoW assistant editor Ian Edmondson, ex-NoW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, senior ex-NoW journalist James Weatherup, freelance journalist Terenia Taras, Press Association journalist Laura Elston, an unnamed 63-year-old man, and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman.

Officers from Operation Elveden were also involved with this latest arrest. They are investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police, an inquiry which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

A spokesman for Mrs Brooks says the Met police notified her on Friday, after her resignation had been agreed, that she would be arrested.

He also said her arrest would make her appearance at the committee "pretty tricky" and that said she had been offering to speak to police on voluntary basis since January, so she was "very surprised" to learn she would be arrested.

Her former boss, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, and his son James Murdoch, chairman of News International, are also due to appear before MPs.

Grave situation

Media analyst Steve Hewlett says the timing of these latest events may have been an attempt to limit the damage done to News International.

"To have a very senior executive of the company arrested would have been rather worse than having a very senior former executive of the company, albeit only just," he said.

"If that's correct, then it may even be that even the latest move by News Corporation to kind of stem the tide - with the resignations of Les Hinton in America and Rebekah Brooks - even that may have been forced on them by events beyond their control.

"Which would raise yet further questions about whether News Corporation have even now really understood and accepted the gravity of the situation that they're facing."

The assistant editor of the Guardian, Michael White, believes the arrest is an attempt by police to deflect attention away from them.

"I'm wary when the police are trying to show the world they have been on the case, because for two or three years they've not been on this case properly and now they're, perhaps they're over compensating a bit to be honest," he said.


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Rebekah Brooks, the schmoozer hated by Murdoch's wife and daughter

 16th July 2011

By GEOFFREY LEVY 



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Who would have imagined when Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland in 1865 that the Cheshire village of Daresbury where he lived would one day produce its own real-life Alice?

Her name was Rebekah Wade (now Brooks) and her tugboat-man father could have had no idea when his only child was born in 1968 that she would step — or rather schmooze — into a world of princes, prime ministers and proprietors, every bit as hazardous as Alice’s.

This was the media wonderland run by Rupert Murdoch, and until yesterday he made sure that no harm would come to the girl he has virtually treated as another daughter (he has four real daughters, from three marriages).

No love lost: Elisabeth Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are not close friends and Ms Murdoch has even suggested in the wake of the scandal that she has f***** the company

No love lost: Elisabeth Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are not close friends and Ms Murdoch has even suggested in the wake of the scandal that she has f***** the company

Asked for his priority when arriving in Britain on the day he shut the News of the World to handle the phone hacking and police-bribing scandals, he gestured at the smiling, ever-attendant Rebekah standing next to him and replied: ‘This one.’ So the grief and frustration felt by the 80-year-old mogul would have been immense yesterday as his cherished Rebekah bowed to the inevitable and resigned from her role as News International’s chief executive.

How different things might have been had she stepped down at the start of the crisis. It might have stopped the News of the World closing and hundreds working there from losing their jobs.



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Elisabeth Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are not close friends and Ms Murdoch has even suggested in the wake of the scandal that she has f***** the company

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The hunter has now become the hunted. Rebekah Brooks, who must have sent wave after wave of tabloid hacks to doorstep the rich and famous while editor of the Sun and News of the World, is now getting some of her own medicine.

But as the media spotlight on her continues to burn brightly, she has finally resigned declaring she no longer wants to be the “focal point of the debate” surrounding the future of Murdoch’s much maligned media empire. Oh, how the world must be shedding a tear for her.

It is not yet clear why Brooks’ resignation was suddenly accepted by Murdoch.  The media tycoon had stood steadfastly by her despite calls from politicians and the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler for her to go.

So why has Brooks finally been allowed to fall on her own sword, a week after the innocent employees of the now defunct News of the World were given their marching orders even though they were not involved in the phone hacking crisis?

It is clear that Brook’s beeline to the exit door early today shows that Murdoch in no longer calling all the shots.

The Saudi investor that owns 7pc of News Corporation, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal al Saud, told Newsnight: “I will not accept to deal with a company that has a lady or a man that has any sliver of doubts on her integrity”.

Even Murdoch’s own daughter Elisabeth sees the writing on the wall and told friends that Brooks had “f***** the company.” But she should not be cast as some kind of a scapegoat in this ugly drama.

Murdoch’s main problem is he is out of touch and floundering to deal with the crisis because he is trying to play the new media game using old media rules.

In the heyday of the traditional press, such a crisis would have been a slow-burning affair, each installment of which would have been exposed each day to meet the cycle of daily print deadlines. Now that this 24-hour news cycle no longer exists, the 24/7 media, fuelled by the Internet and social media, hungrily mauls over the minutiae minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour.

So, dramatically grand gestures like the closing of the News of the World or the arrival of Murdoch to London to sort this mess out, no longer frame headlines that last throughout the day and set the 24-hour news agenda in stone. Now, such transparent and self-serving gestures are picked apart and often raise more questions than answers.

Murdoch’s outmoded approach is seeing the sandal unraveling like a slowly peeling onion causing plenty of tears for all concerned.

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7 July 2011

This Sunday's edition of the News of the World will be its last, News International chairman James Murdoch has said, after days of increasingly damaging allegations against the paper.

The 168-year-old tabloid is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians.

On Thursday, the Met Police said it was seeking to contact 4,000 possible targets named in seized documents.

Its editor Colin Myler said it was "the saddest day of my professional career".

He added that "nothing should diminish everything this great newspaper has achieved".

The News of the World, which sells about 2.8million copies a week, is famed for its celebrity scoops and sex scandals, earning it the nickname, the News of the Screws.

Downing Street has said it had no role or involvement in the decision to close.

Mr Murdoch said no advertisements would run in this weekend's paper - instead any advertising space would be donated to charities and good causes, and proceeds from sales would also go to good causes.

News International has refused to comment on rumours that the Sun could now become a seven-day-a-week operation.

"What happens to the Sun is a matter for the future," a spokeswoman for News International said. The Sun, another News International tabloid, is currently published from Monday to Saturday.

The spokeswoman also refused to say whether the 200 or so employees at the paper would be made redundant, saying: "They will be invited to apply for other jobs in the company."

The News of the World's political editor, David Wooding, who joined 18 months ago, said it was a fantastic paper.

"They cleared out all the bad people. They bought in a great new editor, Colin Myler, and his deputy, Victoria Newton, who had not been sullied by any of the things that had gone on in the past.

"And there's nobody there, there's hardly anybody there who was there in the old regime."

The Guardian says that Andy Coulson, formerly David Cameron's director of communications, will be arrested on Friday morning over suspicions that he knew about, or had direct involvement in, the hacking of mobile phones during his time as editor of the News of the World.

The Guardian also says that a former senior journalist at the paper will also be arrested in the next few days.

There have been repeated calls for Rebekah Brooks - the former editor, now News International's chief executive - to resign. But in an interview Mr Murdoch stood by her again, saying he was satisfied with her conduct.

'Serious regret'

In a statement made to staff, Mr Murdoch said the good things the News of the World did "have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong - indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company".

"The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself."

He went on: "In 2006, the police focused their investigations on two men. Both went to jail. But the News of the World and News International failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose.

"Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.

"As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter.

"We now have voluntarily given evidence to the police that I believe will prove that this was untrue and those who acted wrongly will have to face the consequences. This was not the only fault.

"The paper made statements to Parliament without being in the full possession of the facts. This was wrong.

"The company paid out-of-court settlements approved by me. I now know that I did not have a complete picture when I did so. This was wrong and is a matter of serious regret."

He said: "So, just as I acknowledge we have made mistakes, I hope you and everyone inside and outside the company will acknowledge that we are doing our utmost to fix them, atone for them, and make sure they never happen again.

"Having consulted senior colleagues, I have decided that we must take further decisive action with respect to the paper. This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World."

He reiterated that the company was fully co-operating with the two ongoing police investigations.

He added: "While we may never be able to make up for distress that has been caused, the right thing to do is for every penny of the circulation revenue we receive this weekend to go to organisations that improve life in Britain and are devoted to treating others with dignity."

The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, said that Rupert Murdoch has sacrificed the News of the World - or, at least, its title - instead of the chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks.

"Team Murdoch must have realised that it would be referred to again and again over the next few months in connection with the alleged phone-hacking of a murdered girl, grieving parents and war widows," he said.

"The question now is whether this will make the government's dilemma about the takeover of BSkyB easier or harder."

Mark Pritchard, secretary of the influential Conservative backbench 1922 committee and vice-chairman of the parliamentary media group, has told the BBC he wants the government to delay a decision on the BskyB takeover.

"The government should take the political and moral lead - and announce a delay to the BSkyB decision until all outstanding legal impediments have been removed," he said.

Labour MP Tom Watson told Sky News it was "a victory for decent people up and down the land, and I say good riddance to the News of the World".

But Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said: "All they're going to do is rebrand it."

And former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who alleged his phone was hacked, thought the decision was simply a gimmick.

In April, the News of the World admitted intercepting the voicemail messages of prominent people to find stories.

It came after years of rumours that the practice was widespread and amid intense pressure from those who believed they had been victims.

Royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking in January 2007 after it was found they targeted Prince William's aides.

Detectives recovered files from Mulcaire's home which referred to a long list of public figures and celebrities.

The scandal widened this week when it emerged that a phone belonging to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had also been hacked into, and some messages deleted.

Leading brands, including Sainsbury's, Ford and O2, pulled their newspaper advertising and shares in BSkyB fell on fears that the scandal could hinder parent company News Corp's bid for the broadcaster.

On Wednesday, the government promised an inquiry in the hacking allegations, but the nature of it is undecided.





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In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:40 am -0400

Una familia de mapaches se retira junto a una valla metálica después de haberse apoderado de la comida de una mascota en un porche cerca de Maysville, Kentucky el lunes 9 de junio del 2012. Una mujer en el estado de Washington dijo que fue atacada por mapaches luego que su perro persiguiese a varios de esos animales y les obligase a treparse a un árbol. (Foto AP/The Ledger Independent, Terry Prather.)Una mujer en el estado de Washington dijo que fue atacada por mapaches luego que su perro persiguiese a varios de esos animales y les obligase a treparse a un árbol.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:32 am -0400

Michaela Lee, comforts her dog, Madison, while recovering on her sofa from being attacked by five raccoons yesterday down the street from her home in Lakewood, Wash., on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Madison distracted some of the raccoons preventing her owner from getting more seriously wounded in the attack. Lee received 16 punctured wounds and with about 100 laceration wounds from the raccoon attack. Two of the punctured wounds each received 5 staples. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Lui Kit Wong)A Washington state woman says she was attacked and bitten by raccoons after her dog chased several of the animals up a tree.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:01 pm -0400
AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against a Massachusetts businessman over a $1 million phone bill he says resulted from a hacker's fraud.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:28 pm -0400
An American heiress is dead, and a man matching her British husband's description is being held on drug charges. The details are still emerging, but ABC News reports that British billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, is being held on drug charges in connection with the death of his wife, Eva Rausing. Ms. Rausing, 48, was [...]
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:38 pm -0400
If Eiliya Maida thought he hated spiders before, imagine how he must feel now. The California man accidentally set his house on fire while using a blowtorch to clear spider webs out of his backyard. The Chico Enterprise Record reports that dry plants in Maida's backyard ignited as he was attempting to burn the webs. [...]
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:02 pm -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 6 percentage points in the White House race this month as voters became slightly more optimistic about the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:27 am -0400
MADRID (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced a swathe of new taxes and spending cuts on Wednesday designed to slash 65 billion euros from the budget deficit by 2014 as recession-plagued Spain struggles to meet tough targets agreed with Europe.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:48 pm -0400
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - The U.S. futures industry reeled on Tuesday as Iowa-based broker PFGBest collapsed after regulators accused it of misappropriating customer funds for more than two years, dealing a new blow to trader trust just months after MF Global's demise.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:56 am -0400
VIENTIANE (Reuters) - The United States plans to ease sanctions this week to allow its companies to invest in and provide financial services to Myanmar but will require them to make detailed disclosures about their dealings, sources briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:55 pm -0400
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election team stepped up attacks on Mitt Romney for holding offshore assets and urged him to release more tax returns, pushing hard on an issue that could be a weak point for the Republican presidential candidate.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:12 am -0400
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man charged with plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with large, remote-controlled model airplanes packed with explosives has agreed to plead guilty, authorities said on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:57 am -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to offer health insurance to seasonal firefighters employed by the U.S. government, after an outcry over the lack of affordable coverage available to thousands of such workers.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:10 am -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A ballot measure aimed at California's infamous "three strikes" sentencing law may be an opportunity for the state to put a dent in one problem besetting prison officials across the country: the high cost of aging inmates.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:36 am -0400
(Reuters) - USA Today tapped MarketWatch's top journalist David Callaway as its editor in chief, the national newspaper said on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:08 am -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The city council of San Bernardino, California, voted on Tuesday to file for bankruptcy, marking the third time in recent weeks a city in the most populous U.S. state has opted to seek protection from its creditors.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:12 am -0400
(Reuters) - Three former associates of American cyclist Lance Armstrong were handed lifetime bans for their involvement in an alleged doping conspiracy, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:07 am -0400
STANFORD, California (Reuters) - Fatigue and a busy schedule was not going to get in the way of Serena Williams returning to the place she says launched her comeback and gave her the confidence to believe she could win another grand slam.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:37 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss was being treated for dehydration at a local hospital, a team spokesman said on Tuesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:00 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - World 100 meters record holder Usain Bolt could break the nine-second barrier if he gets a start as fast as his training partner Yohan Blake, according to the former world 200 meters record holder Tommie Smith.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:38 am -0400
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The National League erupted for five runs in the first inning and limited the American League to just six singles to win the All-Star game 8-0 on Tuesday, the first shutout in the Midsummer Classic since 1996.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:27 am -0400

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives before the 84th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Paltrow will serve as the executive producer for the live, Stand Up to Cancer telethon on Sept. 7, 2012, to raise money and awareness to fight the disease. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)A year after movie producer Laura Ziskin lost her life to cancer, the ambitious telethon she helped start to fight the disease will be back on the air.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:13 pm -0400

FILE - In this May 19, 2012 file photo, musician Courtney Love attends "An Evening With Women," in Los Angeles. Love’s former assistant sued the Hole front-woman on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, claiming the rocker owes her unpaid wages and asked her to perform unethical duties such as hiring a hacker and forge legal correspondence. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision, File)Courtney Love's former assistant is suing over unpaid wages and claims the rocker made unethical requests such as instructing her to hire a hacker and falsify legal letters.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:06 pm -0400

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012 file photo, Chris Brown accepts the award for best R&B album for "F.A.M.E." during the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday July 10, 2012 ordered an audit of Brown’s community service hours after a prosecutor said there appeared to be discrepancies in the records about how many hours and days he has performed. Brown was ordered to appear at the next hearing, scheduled for Aug. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)A judge ordered an audit of Chris Brown's community service progress Tuesday after a prosecutor handling his felony assault case cited a possible discrepancy in the amount of work he has performed.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:45 am -0400
It's a common tactic for pornography producers trying to protect their product from online piracy: They sue unknown "John Does" who illegally download movies, then go to Internet providers to learn their true identities and collect.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:08 pm -0400
While fireworks and barbecues enticed many television viewers away from their sets last week, Univision fans remained relatively loyal.
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 2:21 pm -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - Holy crash landing Batman! The crime-fighting caped crusader could fly but if he did, he would smash into the ground and probably die, a group of British physics students have calculated.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:15 pm -0400
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of liters of milk outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, creating a "milk lake" to protest against low prices.
  
 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 3:49 pm -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Firefighters will spend the next two weeks setting homes ablaze on a small island in New York Harbor for one purpose: Saving lives.
  
 
Wed Jul 04 2012 at 12:34 pm -0400
MADRID (Reuters) - A former church caretaker, his wife, son and another woman have been arrested in connection with last year's disappearance of a priceless medieval text from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in northwest Spain, police said on Wednesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 03 2012 at 7:05 pm -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey surgeons removed a rapidly growing, 51-pound (23-kg) cancerous tumor from a woman who had delayed treatment for more than a month until she became eligible for health insurance, her doctor said on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:16 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell on Wednesday after profit warnings from U.S. companies compounded fears the sluggish global economy will erode earnings, while skepticism over the euro zone's ability to tackle its debt crisis pressured other risk assets.

  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:48 pm -0400
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - The U.S. futures industry reeled on Tuesday as Iowa-based broker PFGBest collapsed after regulators accused it of misappropriating customer funds for more than two years, dealing a new blow to trader trust just months after MF Global's demise.

  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:58 pm -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell for a fourth day on Tuesday as more pessimism from companies compounded worries the sluggish world economy is taking a toll on profit growth.

  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:03 pm -0400
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp has been cutting jobs in its commercial banking unit in recent weeks even as it tries to boost the group's business, people familiar with the situation said, reflecting the bank's broader struggles to grow in a tepid economy.

  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:08 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp.

  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:04 pm -0400
With baseball on hiatus thanks to the All-Star break, the SI Fantasy Roundtable takes a look at the coming football season.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:04 pm -0400
The AFC East has been Tom Brady's division for the past decade, and it doesn't figure to change this year. Sure, all the teams in this division may trending up from a year ago, but they are all still a significant cut below the level of the NFL's elite.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:04 pm -0400
Doublemint twins. Twix candy bars. The Godfather and The Godfather II.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:04 pm -0400
The OTAs are over and training camps are a month away, so we have to get our NFL fix somehow until late July. It used to mean going out and purchasing a slew of fantasy football magazines, reading them cover to cover and then relearning everything all over again as things unfold in the preseason.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:04 pm -0400
Sometimes it's helpful to go back over the trades, transactions and injury news over the past few months, just to refresh our minds before getting ramped up for fantasy season. Try not to sing the A-B-C song as you go through this.
 
Thu Oct 27 2011 at 7:52 am EDT
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) -- The LPGA Kia Classic will return to La Costa Resort and Spa near San Diego in 2012, where the inaugural event was held in 2010.
 
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SHANGHAI (AP) -- U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the Shanghai Masters, the lucrative invitational tournament that isn't sanctioned by any of the major tours.
 
Thu Oct 27 2011 at 0:00 am EDT
SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) -- Australia's Robert Allenby shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas after the first round of the Asia Pacific Classic, the second-year event sanctioned by the PGA Tour and Asian Tour.
 
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The National League started hot. The AL barely got out of the batter's box. The NL rolled to an 8-0 win, earning its third straight All-Star victory and the Classic's first shutout since '96.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:55 am EDT
A gang of Giants fueled the NL's 8-0 rout in the 83rd All-Star Game. While Tuesday night decided homefield in the World Series, Joe Lemire says the focus should have been elsewhere.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:43 am EDT
The Knicks have been busy this offseason, adding veteran stars such as Jason Kidd and Marcus Camby. Zach Lowe wonders if New York has the makings of a legitimate contender.
 
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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:33 pm EDT
ATLANTA (AP) -- John Jenkins and his jump shot made a good first impression with the Atlanta Hawks.
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 2:31 pm EDT
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) - Isaiah Canaan is working to put himself and Murray State in position to have a better senior year than his memorable run last season
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:56 pm EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:25 pm EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa coach Fran McCaffery has signed a new seven-year deal to remain with the Hawkeyes.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 12:37 pm EDT
Murray State continues to reap the rewards of its Cinderella run, but can it succeed in 2012-13? With two offseason decisions in the Racers' favor, Dan Greene thinks it's possible.
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 7:42 pm EDT
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- The lawyer for a man who accused former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of sexual abuse says a report into the university's investigation of the claim is "a complete whitewash."
 
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Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:20 am EDT
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno didn't cover up for retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky when he was accused of molesting boys and didn't act to hinder an investigation of him, Paterno's family said Tuesday.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:04 pm EDT
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- An internal investigation into whether football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials helped cover up reports that Jerry Sandusky was molesting children in the school's locker rooms will be released Thursday, officials said Tuesday.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:53 pm EDT
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri reserve quarterback Ashton Glaser is leaving the Tigers for a shot at the starting job at Missouri State.
 
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Sam Bradford's rookie year was great. His second was a disaster. The Rams face a lot of questions, but the mental state of their QB is most important, Tom Mantzouranis writes.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:55 am EDT
The Giants' All-Stars were criticized. Then they helped the NL roll 8-0 behind MVP Melky Cabrera. It was an edition that speaks to an exhibition with an identity crisis, writes Joe Lemire.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:37 am EDT
For the third straight year the All-Star Game belongs to the National League. Pablo Sandoval hit a bases-loaded triple in a five-run first inning as the NL topped the AL 8-0 in Kansas City.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:12 pm EDT
Twenty years ago, Charles Barkley became a star at the Olympics. With his size and range, Kevin Love seems destined to make a similar impact in the London Games, says Ian Thomsen.
 
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TV Ratings: 'Bachelorette,' 'Kitchen' and 'Masterchef' are top shows
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 9:34 am +0000
TV Ratings: Fox's 'Family Guy' draws top demo score on Big Four
 
Sat Jul 07 2012 at 4:00 am +0000
TV Ratings: Auds in big markets tune in talker from N.Y. housewife
 
Tue Jul 03 2012 at 10:12 am +0000
TV Ratings: ABC show hits season high; NBC's 'Talent' tops night
 
Mon Jul 02 2012 at 9:36 am +0000
TV Ratings: NBC dominates with U.S. gymnastics, swimming trials
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:35 am -0400
China's auto sales rose 9 percent in June despite a slowing economy as buyers rushed to beat possible limits on car registrations aimed at curbing traffic.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:29 am -0400
Global stock markets mostly fell Wednesday as the global economic slowdown threatens to reduce corporate profits.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:23 am -0400
BEIJING (Reuters) - City authorities in Beijing have sold at a record high of more than 40,000 yuan ($6,300) a square meter in an auction where they capped the winning price to keep it from going too high. Tuesday's auction may fuel expectations that rising land costs will drive up home prices again, which in turn could make it harder for Chinese authorities to ease monetary policy to combat slowing economic growth. Zhonghao Group, a private developer, beat about 10 rivals and bought the land in a heated auction for 2. ...
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:21 am -0400

Traders talk as the IBEX 35 session is displayed on an electronic board at Madrid's stock exchangeLONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell on Wednesday after profit warnings from U.S. companies compounded fears the sluggish global economy will erode earnings, while skepticism over the euro zone's ability to tackle its debt crisis pressured other risk assets. The euro wallowed around two-year lows against the dollar at $1.2260 although industrial commodities and oil regained their footing after sharp falls on Tuesday. "Risk appetite remains fragile as U.S. earnings worries and various unanswered questions in Europe weigh on sentiment," analysts at Credit Agricole said in a note to clients. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:33 am -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a fourth day on Tuesday as more pessimism from U.S. companies compounded worries the sluggish world economy is taking a toll on U.S. profit growth. A sales warning from engine maker Cummins Inc came on top of earlier weak forecasts from chipmakers Applied Materials Inc and Advanced Micro Devices, causing the market to extend losses in afternoon trading. The news sent the S&P 500 down for a fourth consecutive day, the index's longest downward streak since May when it fell for six straight days. Shares of industrials fell the most at 1.6 percent. ...
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:13 am -0400
A fire official says a freight train carrying agricultural products has derailed and some cars burst into flames Columbus, Ohio, causing an explosion and injuring at least two people.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:06 am -0400

An undated image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a wanted poster for Aubrey Lee Price. Local and federal investigators are trying to determine whether Aubrey Lee Price killed himself or whether he slipped away with $17 million dollars of investors’ money. (AP Photo/FBI)After penning a rambling confession to financial regulators and writing notes to his family, a south Georgia bank director boarded a ferry in Key West, Fla., and disappeared.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:05 am -0400
Police say a 21-year old man was found dead inside the tiger den at the Copenhagen Zoo with his throat bitten.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:59 am -0400

National League's Pablo Sandoval, of the San Francisco Giants, right, celebrates with teammates after their 8-0 win over the American League in the MLB All-Star baseball game, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)One league has more money to throw around, better hitters, better pitchers, better teams and a nearly decade-long streak of dominance in interleague play.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:49 am -0400

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Mike Larson rubs the nose of one of his 2,900 dairy cows at Larson Acres Inc. in the Town of Magnolia, Wis. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is set to rule Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in a closely watched case pits Larson Acres Inc. against a small town that blames its water-pollution problems on manure generated by Larson’s 2,900 cows. The case is the first to test a 2004 state law governing the expansion of livestock farm operations. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde, File)The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to rule Wednesday in a case in which a small town with three times as many cows as people is seeking greater authority to protect its water supply.


 


     Outside High Court of         
        JusticeLondon 
      Julian Assange Extradition Appeal
 
                     12th July 2011











                                                             CIA Agent Marko watching all the proectors all day 

  Marko, a self confessed CIA agent 
   admitted to News of the World   
   reporter that the CIA were  funding the  extradition hearings of
 
              Julian Assange 
    for the Swedish Government
                                                                     Marko said 'I do not personally 
         like what the CIA are doing...'      
              but says, 

          "...I am just doing my job...."


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                 Read the full story of 
                 News of the World and
                      why it closed.. at


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The oldest Newspaper in the world Establish 1843...
          to be continued 
         under new ownership .... 
        with the original staff.. 
        why should the staff, the     
     News of the World readers 
         and general public 
         be punished for 
     the owners wrong doings?

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The Management of Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Fringe Shows Have Talent Team  are hoping to re-employ all the original straff, except those that are in jail, to help them run  News of the World to make sure it lasts another over 150 years...

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'Brown's sick babies targeted by hackers'
by John Higginson -London MetroTuesday 12th July 2011
who says:
" Journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers 'blagged' detaild of Gordon Brown's sich children, it was alleged yesterday. They obtained details from the medical files of Mr Brown's four month-old son, Fraser, showing he eas sufefreing from cystic fibrosis. They also attemoted to access the former prime minister's voice mail, his legal file and hisbank account, the latest reports show. The claims, involving, The Sun and the SundayTimes, suggested for the first time thatthe hacking scandal was spreading beyond the now-closed News Of The World. It also cast further serious doubt over Mr Murdoch's bid to obtan full control of BSkyB; yesterday the move was referred by ministrs to competition wtachdogs. Last night, Mr Brown ans h wife, Sarah, spoke of their sadness and shock at the 'level of criminality' used to prociure some of their children's most intimate details... The scandal, which erupted last week when it emerged that the News of the World had hacked the phone of murdered schollgirl Milly Dowler, took another dark twist with the latest allefations publish by the Guardian. In 2006, Sun editor Rebekah Brooks contacted the Browns to ell them they had detaild formRaser's mefical files, the paper claimed. Five years earluer, sensitive information about the couple's first child, Jennifer, who died at ten days old, also found its way to newspapers.  The Sunday Times was also linked to an actor impersonating Mr Brown trying to get access to his Abbey National account and legal file. The claims were even more devistating to Mrs Brown who considered Mrs Brooks a friend and even organised her 40th birthday party in 2008. She said yesterday: 'So sad to learn about all I have about my family's provacy. It is really sad if true,' It is being cliamed that a royal protection officer was paid to provide the News of the World with information and phone numbers of memebrs of the royal family."
' Westminster goes to
 war on Murdoch..
by Higginson, political editor of the 
London Metr0 Wednesday 13th July 2011..who says:
" RUPERT MURDUCH'S 40 year grip on Britains's political system looks certian to be broken today when MP's of all parties join forces to halt the expnansion of his empire.
The media barrob will feel the backlash from the phon ehacking scandal when Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour MP's vot against him gaining control of BSkyB.
Their vote on a Commons motion may carry little legal weight but will send out a clear signal that his days as political kingmaker are numbered.
Labour leader Ed Milband, who put forward the motion said: 'There are times when thehouse of Commons has got to rise to the occasion and speak for the public.'
David Cameron's spokesman said 'the 80-year-old tytoon, whoe papers claimed the power to sway elections, should 'heed the will of parliament.'
The vote comes in a deeply damaging week for Mr Murdoch, beginning with the revelation that his News Of The World hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
On Monday, it emerged News International national titles targeted the medical records pf Gordon Brown's children...Amid the crisis, Mr Murdoch managed to halt the slide in News Corp's share price but mounted he would sell all his Britsh newspaper titles...."

                                             

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Phone-hacking: The main players


Met chief resigns in hacking row- One of the key players

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigns as the phone hacking scandal continues to widen



More than 4,000 people have been identified as potential victims of
phone hacking at the News of the World. Claims have also been made
that the Sunday Times used "blagging" techniques to access personal
information relating to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Hacking scandal: Key figures

Key players in the phone hacking scandal



Name                                        Job/position    Connection to phone-hacking investigation
Rupert Murdoch

Rupert -Murdoch - Chief exec, News Corporation

The NoW was part of Rupert Murdoch's News International newspaper group - itself the UK arm of the media mogul's News Corporation global empire. The 80-year-old Australian-American boss flew into the UK to take charge of dealing with the phone-hacking crisis. He will appear before MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on 19 July.

Read full profile


Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) Former chief exec, News International

News International's former chief executive and former NoW editor. Mrs Brooks was the NoW editor when voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's mobile phone were allegedly intercepted. She will appear before MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on 19 July. Mrs Brooks was arrested on 17 July 2011 over phone hacking and corruption allegations.

Read full profile


James Murdoch

James Murdoch  Chairman, News International 

Rupert Murdoch's son James is News International's current chairman. He has reiterated the company is fully co-operating with police investigations and he was not, until recently, in the picture about the full extent of wrongdoing at the NoW. Announcing the closure of the Sunday tabloid, he said the allegations were "shocking and hugely regrettable". He will appear before MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on 19 July.

Read full profile

Les Hinton

Les Hinton  Former chief exec, Dow Jones

Les Hinton was chief executive of News Corp's financial news service Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. One of Rupert Murdoch's top executives, Mr Hinton had worked with him for more than five decades. Announcing he was quitting, he said he was "ignorant of what apparently happened" but felt it was proper to resign. Mr Murdoch said it brought him "great sadness".

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Andy Coulson

Andy Coulson  NoW editor 2003-07

Andy Coulson, who was NoW editor between 2003-07, resigned his position following the convictions of ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for phone hacking. He later became Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman but quit in January 2011 saying ongoing hacking claims were distracting him from his job. Mr Coulson was arrested in July 2011 and later bailed over phone hacking and corruption allegations.

Read full profile


Glenn Mulcaire

Glenn Mulcaire  Private investigator

Employed by the NoW, Glenn Mulcaire, 40, was jailed in January 2007 for phone hacking. He admitted unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages received by three royal aides. He was also convicted of hacking the phones of a number of other public figures, including publicist Max Clifford and actress Elle Macpherson. In July 2011, allegations emerged he had also hacked into murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's mobile phone and had the phone numbers of relatives of service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read full profile


Clive Goodman

Clive Goodman Ex-NoW royal editor

The former NoW royal editor was jailed for four months in 2007 for phone hacking. He admitted unlawfully intercepting hundreds of telephone voicemail messages received by three members of staff at Buckingham Palace. The investigation was sparked after Prince William became suspicious about a November 2005 NoW story about a knee injury. In July 2011, Goodman, 53, was again arrested and released on bail on suspicion of corruption.

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Other journalists

Ian Edmondson

Ian Edmondson Ex-NoW assistant editor (news) 

The former NoW assistant editor was identified in court documents as having instructed private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to access phone messages. He was sacked from the paper after an internal inquiry had found "highly damaging evidence", a source said. He was arrested in April 2011 on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting mobile phone voicemail messages, and was released on bail until September 2011.

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Neville Thurlbeck

Neville Thurlbeck Ex-NoW chief reporter

Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter at the NoW, was named by Labour MP Tom Watson in January 2011 as one of three journalists who should be investigated. In 2009, police told MPs he had not been interviewed because there was no evidence linking him to the case. He was arrested in April 2011 on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting mobile phone voicemail messages, and released on bail until September 2011.

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James Weatherup. Copyright: Press Gazette

James Weatherup  Ex-NoW reporte

The former NoW reporter and news editor was arrested on 14 April on suspicion of conspiracy to unlawfully intercept communications. He was released on bail until September 2011.

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Neil Wallis

Neil Wallis Ex-NoW executive editor

Mr Wallis was arrested by police on 14 July on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications. His media consultancy company - Chamy Media - was used by the Met Police from October 2009 until September 2010.

Read more

Sean Hoare

Sean Hoare Ex-NoW reporter

The former NoW journalist has publicly admitted his part in phone hacking told the New York Times the practice of phone hacking was far more extensive than the newspaper acknowledged when police first investigated the case. He also told the BBC's Panorama it was "endemic" at the paper. Mr Hoare also said, as editor, Andy Coulson had asked him to hack phones. Mr Coulson has denied any knowledge of hacking.

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Paul McMullan

Paul McMullan  Ex-NoW deputy features editor

The NoW deputy features editor between 1994 and 2001, Mr McMullan has spoken about the use of phone hacking on the paper, describing its investigations department as a "den of vipers".

Watch the interview

Alex Marunchak

Alex Marunchak   Ex-NoW Irish edition editor

The former NoW Irish edition editor obtained e-mails hacked into by a private detective in 2006, according to the BBC's Panorama. The messages belonged to an ex-British intelligence officer. Mr Marunchak denies receiving "any unlawfully obtained material".

Read more

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Laura Elston   Press Association news agency royal reporter

The 34-year-old royal reporter for the Press Association (PA) news agency was arrested in June as part of police investigations into hacking. She was arrested at a central London police station on suspicion of intercepting communications and later released on bail until early October. She has received the "full support" of her editors. PA editor Jonathan Grun said she was "a journalist of integrity".

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Victims and potential victims: Ordinary people

Milly Dowler

Milly Dowler   Murder victim

Milly Dowler, killed in 2002, was an alleged target of phone hacking. A lawyer for the Dowler family said the alleged hacking dated from a time when the NoW was under the editorship of Rebekah Brooks. The Dowlers have since called on Mrs Brooks to resign. Speaking through their solicitor, they said they thought she should "take responsibility and do the honourable thing".

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Clarence Mitchell

Clarence Mitchell  Spokesman for missing Madeleine McCann's family

Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for missing Madeline McCann's parents, has said he believes two attempts were made to gain information about his phone. He is among a number of suspected hacking victims contacted by police.

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Colin Stagg

Colin Stagg   Wrongly accused of murder

The lawyer acting for Colin Stagg, who won more than £700,000 in compensation after being wrongfully arrested over the Rachel Nickell murder, confirmed police had contacted him as part of the hacking investigation. Alex Tribick told the BBC police had told Mr Stagg his name had appeared in documentation associated with the police investigation.

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Graham Foulkes

Graham Foulkes   7/7 victim's father

Mr Foulkes is among the relatives of the 7 July 2005 London bombing victims warned by police their phones may have been hacked. Mr Foulkes, whose son David died in the Edgware Road blast, told the BBC his details had been found on a list.

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Sean Cassidy

Sean Cassidy    7/7 victim's father

Mr Cassidy, who lost his 22-year-old son, Ciaran, in the Russell Square bomb on 7 July 2005 , has also been contacted by police after his details were found on a list.

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Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman

Parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman  Family of Soham murder victims

The parents of murdered Soham girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are among those contacted by police investigating phone hacking. It is believed the families were warned there was evidence to suggest they were targeted by Glenn Mulcaire.

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British troops in Afghanistan

Families of service personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq   N/A

Glenn Mulcaire is also alleged to have had the phone numbers of bereaved military families in his files.

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Victims and potential victims: Celebrities and staff

Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller   Actress  

The actress formally settled for £100,000 damages and costs, after the paper admitted liability over the hacking of several of her phones. News Group formally apologised at London's High Court for what it called the "harassment and distress" it had caused.

Read more

Paul Gascoigne

Paul Gascoigne    Ex-footballer

The former England player is one of four test cases of alleged NoW hacking victims due to be heard at the High Court next year. The civil damages claims against News Group Newspapers will be assessed in January 2012. The other test cases concern actor interior designer Kelly Hoppen, sports agent Sky Andrew, actor Jude Law and MP Chris Bryant.

Read more

Jude Law

Jude Law    Actor

The actor is one of four test cases of alleged NoW hacking victims due to be heard at the High Court next year.

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Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson    Model

The supermodel was one of the celebrities named in the indictment at the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire. The court head when she suspected messages were being listened to, she had been so afraid she had had her home swept for bugs.

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Ryan Giggs

Ryan Giggs    Footballer

The Manchester United player has launched legal proceedings against the NoW and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. He is suing the paper's publisher News Group Newspapers for breach of privacy.

Read more

Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan      Actor and comedian

The Alan Partridge comedian is among those to take legal action against the NoW for breach of privacy after the Metropolitan Police confirmed his personal details had been in the possession of Glenn Mulcaire following a raid on his house. He told BBC2's Newsnight the closure of the paper was a "victory for decency and humanity".

Watch the interview

Chris Tarrant

Chris Tarrant   TV presenter

Chris Tarrant in one of a number of celebrities who have taken legal action against the NoW over phone hacking. The Metropolitan Police confirmed last year his personal details had been in the possession of Glenn Mulcaire.

Read more

Andy Gray

Andy Gray     Television presenter

The football pundit accepted £20,000 in damages from the NoW in June this year after his phone was hacked. The former Everton striker reached an agreement with News Group Newspapers for compensation, plus undisclosed costs, for voicemail interceptions.

Read more

Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman

Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman    Actress/ex-footballer

The actress and her husband launched legal action over claims Ms Ash's phone had been hacked. Police confirmed her details had been among paperwork belonging to Glenn Mulcaire.

Read more

Max Clifford

Max Clifford    Publicist

The celebrity publicist was named in the original indictment at the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire. He later sued the NoW for breach of privacy and received a settlement worth a reported £1m. Most recently, he has defended News International chief Rebekah Brooks, saying he does not believe she was involved.

Listen to Max Clifford defend Rebekah Brooks

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Nicola Phillips  Assistant to Max Clifford

The publicist issued proceedings against the NoW for breach of privacy. She rejected an early offer from the paper.

Read more

Sky Andrew

Sky Andrew    Sports agent

The sports agent's is one of four test cases of alleged NoW hacking victims due to be heard at the High Court next year.

Read more


Kelly Hoppen

Kelly Hoppen    Interior designer

Kelly Hoppen's - actress Sienna Miller's stepmother - is one of four test cases of alleged NoW hacking victims due to be heard at the High Court next year.

Read more

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney       Footballer

The England and Manchester United player was contacted in April by police investigating hacking. Mr Rooney wrote on Twitter: "Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents. Looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone."

Read more

Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant      Actor

The actor, who has been told by police his details are among those found by officers investigating hacking at the NoW, recorded a conversation between himself and Paul McMullan, the tabloid's former features editor. During the exchange - revealed by Mr Grant in the New Statesman magazine - Mr McMullan discussed hacking by the media.

Read the full New Statesman article

Victims and potential victims: Public figures and staff

Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall

Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall   Members of the Royal Family

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall may have also been targets of phone hacking conducted at the NoW, according to the Guardian newspaper. It has also been alleged police officers in the Royal Protection Squad were being paid by the NoW for private information

about the Royal Family.

Read more

John Prescott

Lord Prescott     Ex-deputy prime minister

The former deputy prime minister is one of four high-profile figures seeking judicial review over the Met Police's handling of the original hacking inquiry. Lord Prescott, Labour MP Chris Bryant, ex-Scotland Yard boss Brian Paddick and journalist Brendan Montague all claim their human rights were breached because officers failed to carry out an effective investigation.

Read more

Bryan Paddick

Brian Paddick    Ex-Met Police deputy assistant commissioner

The Scotland Yard boss is one of four high-profile figures seeking judicial review over the Met Police's handling of the original hacking inquiry.

Read more

Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant    Ex-Labour minister

The ex-Labour minister is one of four high-profile figures seeking judicial review over the Met Police's handling of the original hacking inquiry. Mr Bryant's is also one of four selected test cases of alleged NoW hacking victims due to be heard at the High Court next year.

Read more

Gordon Taylor

Gordon Taylor     Professional Football Association's chief exec

The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) chief executive brought a private case against the NoW in 2008, and received settlement worth a reported £700,000.

Read more

Kieren Fallon

Kieren Fallon    Jockey

The sportsman launched legal action against the NoW after police confirmed his personal details had been in the possession of Glenn Mulcaire.

Read more

George Galloway

George Galloway     Former MP

he former Respect MP for Bethnal Green in London has launched legal proceedings against the NoW for breach of privacy, claiming his voicemail was illegally intercepted between Feb 2005 and Aug 2006. In January he told the BBC he had been offered "substantial sums of money" by the paper. The NoW refused to comment.

Listen to George Galloway discuss the issue

Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell     Former culture secretary

The former Labour minister has said she believes her phone was hacked 28 times. The BBC understands she is one of the main claimants offered a settlement by News International.

Read more

David Mills

David Mills     Lawyer and estranged husband of Tessa Jowell

The lawyer is one of the main claimants who has been offered a settlement by News International.

Read more

Simon Hughes

Simon Hughes      Lib Dem deputy leader 

The Lib Dem deputy leader was named as a hacking victim in the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire.

Watch Mr Hughes talk about the hacking

Michael Mansfield

Michael Mansfield     Barrister    

The QC, who represented Mohamed Al Fayed at the Princess Diana inquest, has been told by police his phone may have been hacked.

Read more

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Helen Asprey     Royal aide   

The former aide to the Prince of Wales was named in the indictment at the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire. The court heard how she, along with Prince Charles's communication secretary Paddy Harverson and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, private secretary to Princes William and Harry, realised something was wrong in December 2005 when their new messages were being shown as old.

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Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton     Royal secretary

The private secretary to Princes William and Harry was named in the indictment at the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire.

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Paddy Harverson     Royal communications secretary

The Prince of Wales's communication secretary Paddy Harverson was named in the indictment at the 2007 trial of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire.

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Joan Hammell    Former aide to Lord Prescott  

The BBC understands the former aide to ex-Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott is one of the main claimants offered a settlement by News International.

Read more

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Jo Armstrong      Professional Football Association legal adviser

The legal adviser made an out-of-court settlement with News International for breach of privacy.

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Alleged 'blagging' victims

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown     Former prime minister

Mr Brown has accused The Sunday Times of gaining access to his personal bank and legal files when he was chancellor using so-called "blagging" techniques. News International is investigating. Mr Brown also said he did not know how the Sun newspaper obtained access to medical records relating to his son Fraser's cystic fibrosis in 2006. The Sun maintains the information was not obtained by illegal means.

Watch the ex-PM react to the claims

Police officers involved in hacking inquiry

Sir Paul Stephenson

Met Police Commissioner    

Britain's most senior police officer faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis - who was questioned by police investigating hacking - as a PR adviser. Sir Paul eventually said his links to the journalist could hamper investigations and resigned.

Read more



Asst Commissioner John Yates

John Yates  Met Police Assistant Commissioner

Assistant Commissioner Yates ruled out a further inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal in 2009. He has since expressed "extreme regret" for not reopening the investigation. Two MPs have called for him to resign.

Read more

Sue Akers

Sue Akers    Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner

The current police hacking investigation, called Operation Weeting, is being led by Sue Akers.

Under her lead, detectives are contacting nearly 4,000 people whose personal details were stored by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

Read more


Andy Hayman

Andy Hayman   Former Met Police Assistant Commissioner

Andy Hayman was involved in the original hacking inquiry. MPs have criticised his handling of the investigation. He denies there has been anything "improper" about his decision to write columns for News International after he retired from the Met.

Read more

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Demise of News of the World




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070862

8 July 2011

News of the World: An obituary

The closure of the News of the World brings to an end more than 160 years of history.

The Sunday tabloid was first published on 1 October 1843 in London - but this Sunday will see the last edition hit the newsstands. Its closure comes amid a major scandal over phone-hacking and alleged payments to police officers.

Owned by News Group Newspapers, part of News International, which is in turn a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the News of the World's sales currently average 2,812,005 copies per week. Its owners claim that it is read by more people than any other English-language newspaper.

James Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation, and chairman of News International, said the paper had "enjoyed support from Britain's largest advertisers" and "has a proud history of fighting crime, exposing wrong-doing and regularly setting the news agenda for the nation".

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It's the end of he biggest-selling English language newspaper in the world - the end of 170 years of history”

Paul McMullanEx-NoW deputy features editor
Private lives

But it has not been without critics throughout its history. Coverage of many sex scandals, often of the rich and famous, earned it the soubriquet of "News of the Screws" in the satirical magazine Private Eye.

And this interest in private lives goes back decades.

"It was a very important part of British newspaper history. In the 19th Century it was one of the highest circulation papers catering for the newly semi-literate population," says Chris Horrie, tabloid newspaper historian and co-author of Stick it up your Punter: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper.

"In the 20th Century - until [Rupert] Murdoch bought it - it was a strange sideshow in British life, very similar to the saucy seaside postcard. It was full of dirty vicars. There was a specific loophole in libel law that didn't allow vicars to sue."

Murdoch's purchase changed things dramatically.

"Murdoch bought it and completely transformed it. He turned it into a very modern practitioner of chequebook journalism," says Horrie.

"The news happened during the week and wasn't exclusive. But the News of the World would buy up all the stories about celebrities and politicians and pile them up on a Sunday. It was 1980s chequebook journalism."

In both prominence and circulation, the News of the World was king of the Sunday tabloids.

"The paper became completely dominant on Sundays," Horrie notes.

"The Mirror group's Sunday Mirror and People were completely destroyed. So on Sunday Murdoch had these two enormous things - the Sunday Times and the News of the World. The Mail group were the only significant competition."

One of the paper's most controversial moments came in 1966, during the Ian Brady and Myra Hindley murder trial, when it emerged in court that the key prosecution witness had been paid by the paper to give his side of the story.

David Smith accepted £1,000 and was sent on holiday to France as well.

The attorney general was asked to investigate what the judge called "a gross interference in the course of justice" but the newspaper escaped contempt charges.

In 2000, the paper began a controversial campaign to "name and shame" alleged paedophiles, following the abduction and murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne.

The paper has also campaigned for the introduction of "Sarah's Law" to allow public access to the sex offenders register.

The newspaper's report that Formula 1 chief Max Mosley had paid five women to take part in a sadomasochistic orgy prompted a major legal battle over privacy.

The High Court ruled in July 2008 that the News of the World had breached Mosley's privacy. He was awarded £60,000 in damages.

Arguably the most famous journalist on the paper in recent years was undercover specialist Mazher Mahmood.

His exposes - often carried out using his disguise as the "Fake Sheikh" - targeted everyone from the Countess of Wessex to former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. The News of the World also claims he has brought about the conviction of more than 250 criminals.

In August 2010, posing once again as the "Fake Sheikh" he exposed a group of Pakistani cricketers, accused of corruption.

Hacking accusations

But the tide began to turn against the paper in January 2007, when its royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking, after it was found they targeted Prince William's aides.

This set off a chain of events which has led to accusations of journalists hacking into the voicemails of the families of murder victims and relatives of UK soldiers killed in action.

Announcing the paper's closure, James Murdoch said the paper "is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself".

Paul McMullan is the former News of the World deputy features editor who helped blow the whistle on phone-hacking practices at the paper.

"It's the end of the biggest-selling English language newspaper in the world - the end of 170 years of history," he says.

"It was a great part of my career, but I was joyful when I heard the news.

"Ten years ago I was proud to say I worked at the News of the World. Last week I was ashamed."

Now, it seems the Sun will be published on a Sunday to fill the gap, but there will be a question mark over who will inherit the News of the World's audience.

"Newspaper readers are pretty disloyal," says Horrie.



Charities reject News of the World advertising offer


Charities reject News of the World advertising offer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14087518

A number of charities have rejected an offer to advertise free in the final edition of the News of the World.

News International is shutting the tabloid amid claims of phone-hacking and advertising space for Sunday's paper has been offered to good causes.

The Salvation Army and the RSPCA were among those to decline the offer.

But the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which launched a drought appeal for East Africa on Friday, said it would accept a free advert.

A spokeswoman said although it in no way condoned the "unconscionable" behaviour of some News of the World journalists and executives, there was a "humanitarian imperative" for it to raise the maximum income to help those affected by the drought.

On Friday, the Institute of Fundraising urged caution among its members when deciding whether to accept the offer of free advertising space from News International.

Seal of approval

"The decision as to whether a charity ought to accept a donation or not should be grounded in its mission and policy objectives," it said in a statement on its website.

"A clear policy on the acceptance or refusal of donations is important for all charitable organisations.

"Such a policy needs to be acceptable to all those associated with the charity and agreed formally by a charity's trustees."

A spokeswoman for regulatory body, the Charity Commission, said: "Ultimately it is the responsibility of a charity's trustees to ensure that any fundraising, including the acceptance of donations, is in the best interests of the charity.

"We encourage trustees to assess the advantages and disadvantages of new opportunities to fundraise, including any potential risks to the charity and its beneficiaries."

In the lead-up to the announcement of its closure, a string of businesses suspended or cancelled advertising with the NoW.

Among them were Co-operative Group, Lloyds, Halifax, Vauxhall, Virgin Holidays, Sainsbury's, O2, carmaker Ford and the government.

The Royal British Legion also cut its ties with the paper as its campaigning partner and put its advertising with News International under review.

Among the other charities to reject the free advertising offer were Care International, homelessness charity Thames Reach and Water Aid.

'Toxic brand'

"Given the nature of the controversy surrounding the News of the World, Water Aid considers it inappropriate to advertise in this newspaper," said Mike Foster, head of communications for Water Aid.

A spokesman for the RSPCA said: "We understand a round-robin e-mail was sent to all charities from the News of the World. A decision was made that the national RSPCA would not be advertising (with the NoW)."

Several charities - including Oxfam and Action Aid - said they were bound to decline the offer because they were part of umbrella organisation the DEC's East Africa appeal, which has been launched to help more than 10 million people affected by severe drought in the Horn of Africa.

A spokesman for Action Aid added: "I think the toxic brand would be a problem for our patrons."

Several charities contacted by the BBC said they had not been approached about advertising space. They included Barnado's, the Voluntary Services Organisation, the RNLI and animal welfare charity The Brooke.

The BBC tried to contact News International but it is yet to comment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2011/07/us_view_how_a_uk_scandal_affec.html

US View: How a UK phone-hacking scandal could

affect the US

Clare Spencer | Thursday, 14 July 2011

Commentators look at what the News of the World phone-hacking scandal means for the US.

In the LA Times Timothy Garton Ash givesrecap of how the scandal has spilled into the US:

"Hugh Grant appeals to Americans to wake up to Rupert Murdoch's pernicious influence on their own media. Sen John D Rockefeller IV calls for an inquiry into the activities of Murdoch's parent company, News Corp and whether Americans' phones were hacked. If it turns out that 9/11 victims were targeted, as suggested by the campaigning British MP Tom Watson, then this will no longer be just a foreign story. Only on Murdoch-owned Fox News is it as if none of this had happened. A clip from Fox News Watch, filmed during a commercial break, shows the panelists joking about the one story they are not going to discuss. News watch indeed."

In the Atlantic James Fallows compares the New York Times' website front page to Fox News' website. At the time of writing - when News Corp had withdrawn their bid for the remaining share of BSkyB - there was no mention of what he called the "Watergate-scale" Murdoch scandal. This he sees as proof that Fox News's credentials are questionable:

"Here's a challenge: For anyone who denies that Fox is a propaganda operation rather than news, run by apparatchiks rather than journalists, let's see an explanation of the difference between these pages and the story Fox pretends isn't there."

David Ignatius says in the Washington Post that Rupert Murdoch's success could have more to do with his rivals than being the voice of the people:

"In the fair-and-balanced spirit, let me grant Murdoch one important point: He wouldn't have been so successful if some of his venerable rivals hadn't, in fact, been elitist, skewed to the left and sometimes just plain boring. Murdoch's publications and television networks may have coarsened standards, but they are also entertaining. Being irreverent is not the problem. The media world could use more of that Murdochian energy, not less"

Massimo Calabresi concentrates in Time's Swampland blog on how the bad news for Murdoch spread to the US thanks to calls for an investigation into claims that 9/11 victims may have had their phones hacked - something that Calabresi says is unsubstantiated:

"The Hon Peter King wants the FBI immediately to investigate the fact that an unidentified private investigator supposedly told an unidentified source who in turn supposedly told a reporter for the Daily Mirror that the private investigator was once asked by a News of the World reporter to get call records of 9/11 victims and that the private investigator didn't do it but he presumed that the News Of The World wanted those records so that they could hack into their voicemail.
 
"Yeah, Director Mueller, get right on that. I'm not saying we won't eventually find out that some reporter paid by NewsCorp has done something unethical on this side of the Atlantic at some point in the past; maybe it will even involve 9/11 somehow. What I am saying is that as it stands the 9/11 hacking story is thinly sourced, to put it mildly."

The New York Times cast the withdrawal of the bid as a family feud between Rupert Murdoch and his son James as it claims Rupert Murdoch and his chief operating officer, Chase Carey, overruled James Murdoch "consulting him only after the decision was all but final". It goes on to describe further differences between the two:

"Though Fox News has of late become the thrust of his political power in the United States, as well as a major source of revenue, his newspapers were the seedlings of his vast media enterprise. His emotional attachment to them runs deep, and they remain influential platforms not just in this country but in Britain.
 
"James Murdoch, 38, is said to share none of his father's romantic notions about newspapers."

Former New York Post reporter Ian Spiegelman tells Howard Kurtz at the Daily Beast that for scandals at the New York Post and News of the World the rot goes back to News Corp:

"News Corp VPs are nationless. It doesn't matter where you put them - they are plugged into their own, floating nation... namely News Corp. You don't always see them, but they are always hovering between the editor-in-chief and Rupert, and their loyalties remain not with any country or system of laws. Imagine the kind of pressure such a misty, loyalty-free menace could put on a reporter who actually lives where he lives and whose life is there. You want to know if this London poison is likely to have spread to New York? Yeah. But don't blame London."




18 July 2011 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14180043

Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson quits

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned following the phone hacking scandal.

Britain's most senior police officer has faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis - who has been questioned by police investigating hacking - as an adviser.

He said there were lessons to be learned from the affair, but he was leaving with his integrity intact.

It came after discussions with his employer, London Mayor Boris Johnson.

In standing down, Sir Paul said he had no knowledge of the extent of the phone hacking.

Home Secretary Theresa May said she was "sorry" he had resigned and thanked him for all the work he had done during his time in office.

She said: "Sir Paul has led the force through difficult times and although current circumstances show that there are still serious issues to be addressed, I believe that the force is operationally stronger today now than it was when he took over."

Earlier, she said she would address MPs on Monday about her "concerns" over the closeness of the relationship between News International and police.

'Great sadness'

Sir Paul said in a statement: "I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level and in particular in relation to Mr Neil Wallis."

He added: "Let me state clearly, I and the people who know me, know that my integrity is completely intact.

"I may wish we had done some things differently, but I will not lose sleep over my personal integrity."

It is expected that Sir Paul's deputy Tim Godwin will take charge of the Met with almost immediate effect, before the process to find a new commissioner is started.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Sir Paul had enjoyed "a long and distinguished career in the police".

He added: "What matters most of all now is that the Metropolitan Police and the Metropolitan Police Authority do everything possible to ensure the investigations into phone hacking and alleged police corruption proceed with all speed, with full public confidence and with all the necessary leadership and resources to bring them to an effective conclusion."

In other developments:

  • Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested on Sunday by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World. After being held for 12 hours, Mrs Brooks was released at midnight
  • Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
  • An advert placed by News International in national newspapers on Sunday describes how the company is "putting right what's gone wrong"
  • Several Sunday newspapers feature promotions in an attempt to woo former readers of the News of the World, which was the UK's best-selling newspaper
  • News International says it has set up an independent management and standards committee to see how the company can prevent similar instances happening again
  • John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons media select committee, says former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will probably be spoken to separately from Rupert and James Murdoch on Tuesday when they appear before MPs, adding that the committee should not act as a "lynch mob"

Sir Paul has also faced questions over his stay with his wife at a luxury health spa which employed Mr Wallis.

The journalist was working as a public relations consultant for Champneys spa when Sir Paul recuperated from surgery there earlier this year.

The Met acknowledged Sir Paul had stayed there for free while he recovered from a fractured leg caused by an operation to remove a pre-cancerous tumour and said Sir Paul had been unaware that Mr Wallis had worked as Champneys' PR consultant.

It added that the free stay had been recorded in the senior officer's gifts and hospitality register, due to be published shortly, when he returned to his post.

Sir Paul said he had informed Buckingham Palace, Ms May and his employer, London Mayor Boris Johnson, about his decision to resign.

He and Mr Johnson had several discussions over the weekend, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson said.

The mayor also warned the prime minister he was considering serious action.

On Sunday, Mr Johnson said he accepted Sir Paul's resignation with "great sadness and reluctance" and he had no reason to doubt his "complete integrity".

He said: "We have got to get on with bringing crime down, and although Paul has done a fantastic job over the last three years, he felt that with the distractions of all these committee hearings, this inquiry, the judge-led inquiry, one thing and another, he was endlessly going to be focused on phone hacking when he wanted to get on with other things.

"So he felt that it would be better to let a fresh pair of hands, fresh pair of eyes, get on with that job, fighting crime, getting London ready for the Olympics rather than being distracted. In the end I agreed to that."

The chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee - Keith Vaz - said he was "genuinely shocked" by the announcement.

"He was very keen that people realised that his integrity was intact, and I think what he basically said was, he was concerned about the leadership of the Met at this time," he said.

"It is a very brave decision, and I'm shocked by it, actually, because I don't think there's anything in the statement in particular that points to any wrongdoing or inappropriateness on the part of the commissioner."

Contract cancelled

Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis said Sir Paul had made the right decision and done the "honourable thing".

"He recognises that things have happened on his watch, which mean there will always be questions about his leadership," he said.

Sir Paul hired former News of the World deputy editor Mr Wallis as a PR consultant for the Met.

His media consultancy company - Chamy Media - was used by the force from October 2009 until September last year.

He was paid £24,000 to work as a two-day-a-month PR, until his contract was cancelled four months before the launch of the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking began in January this year.

As part of the contract, Mr Wallis advised the Commissioner's Office, and the Directorate of Public Affairs and Specialist Operations, working closely with Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who led an earlier Met inquiry into News of the World phone hacking.

Analysis

Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC Radio 4

Downing Street sources have denied that Sir Paul Stephenson was forced to resign.

"He was not pushed," said a source.

The sources also rejected suggestions that Mr Cameron was furious at Sir Paul's failure to inform him of his connections with former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis.

"The PM was not in some rage. He was not furious. He was slightly surprised," a source added.

Number 10 was taken by surprise by Sir Paul's resignation and was not informed until about half an hour before his public statement.

Downing Street has also dismissed suggestions that Andy Coulson's position was in any way comparable to that of Neil Wallis - as suggested by Sir Paul.

In his resignation statement Sir Paul said:" Unlike Mr Coulson, Mr Wallis had not resigned from News of the World or, to the best of my knowledge been in any way associated with the original phone hacking investigation."

A Number 10 source said Mr Coulson resigned, not as an admission of guilt but because he was editor of the News of the World at the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051

18 July 2011

Rebekah Brooks arrested 

by hacking police

"If this is designed to take the spotlight off the police at the same time giving a shield to Rebekah Brooks, that's a very serious matter indeed.."Adrian SandersLiberal Democrat MP



Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.

The 43-year-old was arrested by appointment on Sunday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption.

Mrs Brooks, who has denied wrongdoing, was released at midnight.

She quit News International on Friday as pressure mounted over her role in the deepening hacking scandal.

Mrs Brooks was editor of the paper between 2000 and 2003, during which time the phone belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was tampered with.

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston said News International was not aware that Mrs Brooks would be arrested when her resignation was being discussed at the company on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. She eventually resigned on Friday.

Our correspondent added: "It's certainly the most extraordinary development. Rebekah Brooks is incredibly close to the most powerful people in the UK - the current prime minister, the previous prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. More or less every senior person of influence within Britain."

He said it could now potentially jeopardise her appearance at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Tuesday, where she is due to answer MPs questions on the hacking scandal.

"I would assume having been arrested it's now almost impossible for her to appear. It's very difficult for MPs to ask her questions that wouldn't be seen to be impinging on the police investigation," he added.

'Conspiracy theories'

A spokesman for Mrs Brooks says the Met police notified her on Friday, after her resignation had been agreed, of an appointment with its officers.

"She had been told as early as a week ago that she wasn't on the radar, then suddenly on Friday there was a request to meet," he said.

"She attended today and it was quite a surprise to her on her arrival to be arrested. She was going, anticipating to help with their inquiry."

He also said her arrest would make her appearance at the committee "pretty tricky".

She had been offering to speak to police on voluntary basis since January, so she was "very surprised" to learn she would be arrested, he added.

Her former boss, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, and his son James Murdoch, chairman of News International, are also due to appear before MPs.

In other developments:

Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders, a member of the select committee, questioned the timing of the latest arrest.

"In whose interest was it for this arrest to take place before Tuesday? Because if it does impede what we can ask, that's not going to go down well with my fellow committee members.

"Quite why now, just a few hours before our select committee meets, an arrangement has been made for an arrest. A lot of people are going to think this is very, very odd.

"If this is designed to take the spotlight off the police at the same time giving a shield to Rebekah Brooks, that's a very serious matter indeed. We don't know how much this is going to impede our questioning until we've been able to sit down and talk it through with the parliamentary counsel."

Another member of the select committee, Labour MP Jim Sheridan, said he hoped her arrest would not affect her appearance before MPs.

"The police will do whatever it is they feel necessary to do, and if they feel it's necessary to arrest Rebekah Brooks at this time, then so be it.

"I don't buy into the conspiracy theories that the police are doing something underhand. I think it's just that if they feel it necessary, then so be it. Their inquiry, it's far, far more important than any other inquiry."

Labour MP Chris Bryant, who believes his phone was hacked, also has concerns about the timing of the arrest.

"It may be that the police are wanting to protect evidence so that... they can lead to successful prosecutions, but there will be plenty of people who are saying, right, this is an opportunity for her to get out of saying things to the culture committee.

"In the end, of course, the police investigation is the most important part of what we've been trying to seek for a long time, so we do get to the bottom of the criminality at the News of the World."

Tenth arrest

Mrs Brooks's arrest is the 10th made by Operation Weeting police, who are conducting the current investigation into phone hacking.

She was released on bail until October.

Others arrested and bailed have included ex-NoW editor Andy Coulson, ex-NoW assistant editor Ian Edmondson, ex-NoW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, senior ex-NoW journalist James Weatherup, freelance journalist Terenia Taras, Press Association journalist Laura Elston, an unnamed 63-year-old man, and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman.

Officers from Operation Elveden were also involved with this latest arrest. They are investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police, under the supervision of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Rupert MurdochRupert Murdoch is due to appear before MPs on Tuesday to answer questions on phone hacking





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If you want to get a good grasp on what social media really is, read Social Media: What Is It?. In this article, we'll look at several different topics, including:

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Are you getting paid what you're worth? Many consultants and freelancers make less than they should because they undervalue their own worth. Here's how to correct the problem.
 
Wed Dec 08 2010 at 1:39 pm EST
Lower tax rates may not get the economy back on track again. But they may spare investors from a nasty little sell-off at the end of the month.
 
Wed Nov 24 2010 at 4:51 pm EST
If you're a CEO of a major company you probably have a lot to be thankful for on Turkey Day. The government reported Tuesday that corporate earnings hit a record in the third quarter.
 
Thu Nov 04 2010 at 10:13 am EDT
In the coming days and weeks, leading Democrats will make the case that their historic trouncing at the polls last night was the inevitable fallout of a brutal economy. There's a bit of déjà vu here: George Bush blamed his plummeting approval ratings on an unpopular war.
 
Sun Oct 31 2010 at 10:32 pm EDT
In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists, as part of research for my book, Gang of Five, chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer right. The war-room host was famed anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and with Bill Clinton on the verge of re-election, the question on the table was this: How to convince lawmakers to open impeachment proceedings against the President?
 
Tue Oct 26 2010 at 9:09 pm EDT
Psst. Did you hear about how Oracle is going to buy AMD and then Google is going to acquire Oracle, and Apple will merge with Google?
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:24 pm EDT
U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Tuesday as worries about corporate earnings falling short of expectations unnerved investors.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:21 am EDT
When Susan Carson and Laura DeLallo get interested in something, they pursue it wholeheartedly.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:10 pm EDT
Is more stimulus on the way from the Federal Reserve? Wall Street sure thinks so.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:23 pm EDT
Are pending tax hikes leading to more mergers?
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:04 pm EDT
Europe has a lot riding on its latest tool to stabilize the euro currency union, but there are now more questions than answers about the European Stability Mechanism.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:54 pm EDT
Many tax reform plans, most notably Mitt Romney's, aim to lower income tax rates and make up for the loss in revenue by reducing tax breaks.
 
Tue Jun 19 2012 at 10:41 am EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:39 pm EDT
American Olympians are just weeks away from representing their country in London, but many will return home -- medals won or lost -- to face significant financial challenges.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 12:58 pm EDT
Mitt Romney again brushed aside controversy over his offshore financial holdings on Tuesday, saying that his assets are held in a blind trust.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:33 pm EDT
Four years ago, the Federal Reserve of New York asked Barclays about how it submitted its suggested Libor rates -- and that has spurred Congress to question what U.S. regulators knew about manipulation of a key financial indicator during the financial crisis.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:07 pm EDT
Europe has a lot riding on its latest tool to stabilize the euro currency union, but there are now more questions than answers about the European Stability Mechanism.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:01 am EDT
 
Thu Jun 28 2012 at 4:47 am EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:59 am EDT
Spain is to be offered an initial 30 billion euros (US$36.9 billion) to bail out its troubled banks following an emergency meeting of Eurozone finance ministers.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:06 pm EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:37 pm EDT
Looking for a bigger home? You're not alone. A growing number of homeowners are trading up to larger homes while they can still nab big bargains.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:29 am EDT
Jo Ann and Mike Nahirny feel the classic sandwich-generation squeeze.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:59 pm EDT
A time when applications to most two-year MBA programs are down, there's renewed and growing interest in accelerated programs.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:09 pm EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:36 am EDT
I have a friend in his 20's who earns more than I do but doesn't participate in his 401(k). I've told him this is a mistake, but he won't save because he's worried that government policies will decimate the future value of any money he puts away. How can I make him realize he needs to save? -- Richard F., Alameda, Calif.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:03 am EDT
Europe has a lot riding on its latest tool to stabilize the euro currency union, but there are now more questions than answers about the European Stability Mechanism.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:39 pm EDT
U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Tuesday as worries about corporate earnings falling short of expectations unnerved investors.
 
Thu Jun 28 2012 at 4:47 am EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:24 pm EDT
So-called idiosyncratic risk -- how much an individual stock deviates from the performance of the overall stock market -- is at its lowest level since July 2011. And that makes it tough to find stocks that stand out from the crowd.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:12 pm EDT
Is more stimulus on the way from the Federal Reserve? Wall Street sure thinks so.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:15 pm EDT
Shares of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion are down 50% this year, and the company is bleeding cash. That's usually enough to make shareholders grab pitchforks, but RIM's annual meeting on Tuesday was a remarkably quiet affair.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:50 pm EDT
"Thin," "touch-enabled," "light-weight," "beautiful" and "appealing" aren't adjectives usually associated with personal computers -- but get ready. A new wave of ultrabooks and tablets coming this fall are about to change how the world perceives the PC.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:19 am EDT
Those pesky pop-up ads from the '90s are back, but this time they're holding your smartphone hostage.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:30 pm EDT
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:01 pm EDT
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has fighting words for Apple; RIM plans to sell its jet to save cash.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:40 pm EDT
The stepson of singer Usher Raymond remained in critical condition in an Atlanta hospital Tuesday, four days after he was injured while swimming in a north Georgia lake, his family said.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:46 am EDT
The paparazzi pursuit of Justin Bieber along Los Angeles freeways is a "tragedy waiting to happen," a Los Angeles city councilman warned.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:46 am EDT
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:30 am EDT
Joy Williams and John Paul White of the Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars discuss success, making music and motherhood.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:28 am EDT
It was a year ago this month that British singer Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning at 27.
    
 
Mon Jul 02 2012 at 12:26 pm EDT
Why do some people flourish, seemingly resilient to all that life throws at them, while others are vulnerable and at risk of serious problems like anxiety and depression? Turns out it's your wiring.
    
 
Wed Jul 04 2012 at 8:24 am EDT
It's your most important asset, but most people don't know how to control their own brains to their advantage.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:30 am EDT
HLN's Susan Hendricks reports on the common health claims we face every summer and whether they are true or not.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:31 am EDT
A new study finds babies born to families with pets are healthier than kids without pets.
    
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 12:58 pm EDT
Susan Hendricks tells us what to do and how to get treatment if you get bit by a dog.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:20 pm EDT
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released its June fundraising numbers Monday, reporting that it raised $71 million to Republican opponent Mitt Romney's approximately $100 million. The campaign responded with thanks to the more than 706,000 donors who got the campaign to that point but also appealed for more money.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:57 am EDT
The Washington Monument will remain closed for repairs for at least another year and possibly into 2014, National Park Service officials said Monday.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:58 am EDT
Think of President Obama's pivot from last week's anemic jobs numbers to Monday's populist call to lower taxes for the middle class as the political equivalent of shifting an awkward dinner party conversation to a rousing comment about the home team's last game.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:57 am EDT
President Obama called Monday on Congress to pass a one-year extension on the Bush tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year. A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign responded by calling Obama's proposal a "massive tax increase."
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:30 am EDT
The House Ethics committee announced Monday that it is launching a formal investigation of Nevada Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley, a seven term House member who is running for a U.S. Senate seat.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:19 pm EDT
The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:05 pm EDT
Is cash about to become a thing of the past? New technology may make it possible to say goodbye to paper money.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:19 pm EDT
The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:25 am EDT
CNN's Brooke Baldwin talks to Newsweek's Tony Dokoupil about his article on the pressure to stay connected.
    
 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 6:37 pm EDT
Amazon may be coming out with its own smartphone, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly is working with Foxconn to develop the hardware, which will likely run the Android operating system.
    
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:15 am EDT
The illness that has killed more than 60 children in Cambodia will be blamed on combination of pathogens, two doctors familiar with the WHO investigation say.
    
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:30 am EDT
Anyone who knows real estate is likely familiar with the old adage about the things that matter in property: Location. Location. Location.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:09 pm EDT
Quick thinking by a stranger helps stop a van from rolling into a busy intersection with kids inside.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:23 pm EDT
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:41 pm EDT
Lennox the dog has been sentenced to death because he looks like a pit bull. Jane digs to the bottom of the story.
    
 
Fri Jun 29 2012 at 8:09 am EDT
"Some people like cars," one plane spotter says. "But we like something that's bigger and faster, and it freaking flies." Find out why people find chasing down giant aircraft so thrilling.
    
 
Mon Jun 18 2012 at 9:23 am EDT
Social obligations are eating up vacation days and discretionary (and not-so discretionary) income, but it's often nearly impossible to say no. And there are very good, fabric-of-our-society reasons for that.
    
 
Wed Jun 13 2012 at 12:35 pm EDT
When I didn't get my cookie, I almost started crying. No, this didn't happen when I was 5, 10 or even 15 years old. It was this past Christmas, and I'm pretty sure this is the most embarrassing sentence I have ever typed.
    
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 11:13 am EDT
A massive herd of caribou grazes the Arctic tundra. Sea birds fatten up on shellfish along the Chesapeake Bay. A pod of orca glide past Pacific islands. Here are seven jaw-dropping places to spot animals large and small.
    
 
Wed Jun 20 2012 at 9:04 am EDT
Until the late 80s, Woody Allen didn't venture far from the five boroughs of New York. Since those days, Allen has expanded his geographical footprint considerably. Well, at least to Europe.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:54 pm EDT
President Barack Obama, fresh from his renewed pitch to cut taxes for the middle class, takes his message to Iowa Tuesday—a trip shadowed by Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as part of a GOP strategy of "bracketing" the president's public appearances in battleground states.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:11 pm EDT
In the nineties a certain joke became very popular in the streets and homes of Cuba. It began with Pepito -- the mischievous boy of our national humor -- and told how his teacher, brandishing a photo of the U.S. president, launches into a harsh diatribe against him.
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:40 am EDT
Sally Koslow says it's time to stop playing concierge in your kids lives; the ultimate gift is letting them develop independence and make their own way in the world
    
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:11 pm EDT
Imagine the top three things that might make you happier and more productive at the office.
    
 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 12:12 pm EDT
Jeanne Bishop and Mark Osler say the Supreme Court has forced both sides of the mandatory juvenile sentencing issue -- an emotional and painful one -- to face up to finding a humane solution
    
 
Mon Jun 25 2012 at 9:43 am EDT
Jackson Kaguri escaped poverty, earned a college degree and was living the American dream. But when he went back to his old village in Uganda, he realized he had to do something.
    
 
Thu Jan 05 2012 at 3:48 pm EST
Do you know an everyday person changing the world? It's easy to nominate them as a CNN Hero.
    
 
Fri Jun 15 2012 at 6:08 pm EDT
Five years ago, Leo McCarthy lost his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, when a drunken driver hit her and two of her friends as they walked down a sidewalk near her home. But he refused to let her tragic death become just another statistic.
    
 
Fri Jun 08 2012 at 1:53 pm EDT
A trip to the grocery store used to send James McQuoid into a panic. When the Iraq War veteran heard a child crying, he would remember kids screaming in Fallujah. But things are getting better now that he has Iggie by his side.
    
 
Mon Jun 04 2012 at 1:44 pm EDT
In the movies, it's a familiar storyline: superheroes joining forces to tackle a world crisis.
    
 
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Wed Aug 25 2010 at 2:00 pm GMT
Sportswear giant signs its biggest-ever athlete sponsorship with Jamaican sprinter.
 
Mon May 10 2010 at 11:30 am GMT
Reshma Saujani, the would-be first Indian-American woman in Congress, hones her stance on innovation and immigration reform.
 
Mon May 10 2010 at 10:30 am GMT
Micky Fung's Touchmedia serves ads to riders in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
 
Thu Apr 01 2010 at 4:30 pm GMT
Simon Cowell cuts the first of many big royalties checks for the talent-show singer.
 
Tue Mar 23 2010 at 3:25 pm GMT
Albert Gubay is pledging most of his fortune to charity, fulfilling a promise made early in his career.
 
Fri Aug 12 2005 at 4:46 pm GMT
Intel plans to release a new mobile processor that will drastically cut power consumption.
 
Fri Aug 12 2005 at 4:46 pm GMT
Dell posted lower than expected revenues in the most recent quarter, citing lower prices of its computers.
 
Thu Aug 11 2005 at 9:16 pm GMT
SEATTLE Microsoft Corp. has won a $7 million settlement from a man once billed as one of the world's most prolific spammers.
 
Thu Aug 11 2005 at 9:16 pm GMT
Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana.
 
Thu Aug 11 2005 at 9:16 pm GMT
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has unveiled a Patent Commons Project that will help developers to avoid infringing patents.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 8:00 am GMT
Relax! “I like that person; he/she looks you straight in the eye!” “I don’t like that person; he/she is shifty-eyed!” These two familiar exclamations define the opposite poles of eye contact, the most essential element in interpersonal communication. But effective eye contact has another little-known but important benefit: Calming the user. Whenever you—or any [...]
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 7:44 am GMT
Dear Remaining Members of the Barclays Board, Heard you're having some senior personnel problems.  The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, and the Chief Operating Officer have all resigned. Gee, who's next? Trust you aren't abandoning ship too.  If so, hold off till you've finished my letter. First, my sympathies.  Terrible that [...]
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 7:32 am GMT
Professional video has become dependent upon digital technology.  As a consequence we are experiencing a blossoming in the tools and sense of realism and abstraction that these tools make available to content creators.  More content is captured than ever before,  often with two or more cameras to create stereoscopic video [...]
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 7:32 am GMT
For fans of eSports, there’s a shift going on that for the most part has gone under the radar. But new data from Xfire shows that Riot Games' League of Legends is now officially the most played PC game in North America and Europe. When you add in the rise [...]
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 6:08 am GMT
Supporting earlier claims that Amazon is developing its own smartphone, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Amazon is already testing this smartphone with Asian component suppliers. According to the report, the smartphone, which will likely rival Apple's iPhone, could be in production as early as this year. This report seems [...]
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:02 pm -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 6 percentage points in the White House race this month as voters became slightly more optimistic about the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:55 pm -0400
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election team stepped up attacks on Mitt Romney for holding offshore assets and urged him to release more tax returns, pushing hard on an issue that could be a weak point for the Republican presidential candidate.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:45 pm -0400
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney acknowledged on Tuesday he is considering naming his choice to serve as vice presidential running mate earlier than usual to better compete with President Barack Obama.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:57 am -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to offer health insurance to seasonal firefighters employed by the U.S. government, after an outcry over the lack of affordable coverage available to thousands of such workers.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:19 pm -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, they have introduced by their own count 30 bills to get rid of or gut the law they call "Obamacare," bearing titles such as the "Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act," the "repeal the Job killing health care law" act and the "NObamacare Act of 2012."
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:03 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The makers of a planned film about rock icon Janis Joplin have tapped recent Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to play the part of the 1960s singer in a biographical movie directed by Sean Durkin, a spokesman for the director said on Tuesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:38 am -0400
MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hugh Laurie, Dr. John and Trombone Shorty celebrated bluesy New Orleans music in a three-part show mixing new tracks and southern classics at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:04 am -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fred Willard may be the hardest-working man in show business, truly, and at age 72, he shows no signs of slowing down. The comedic actor, whose credits include more than 200 films and TV series and range from "WALL-E" to "Modern Family" and "Best in Show," has three new projects reaching audiences.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:42 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic-Con International rolls into San Diego this week for its annual pop culture convention, and high on the list of must-see events is film footage of what actor Elijah Wood promises is a bigger "Hobbit" than fans can imagine.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:11 pm -0400
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A sharp rise in China's box office revenues last year, thanks to the moneyed middle-class willing to pay top prices for a trip to the cinema, has brought Hollywood hunting for local partners who can help them crack the booming Chinese market.
  
 
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Mon Jun 26 2006 at 8:00 pm GMT
Forty-six percent of private companies are owned by women. That's great for the economy, but it may mean trouble for corporate America.
 
Sat Jul 29 2006 at 2:24 pm GMT
Murdoch brings pols together; Burger King, Kodak and International Paper report earnings.
 
Wed Jun 28 2006 at 3:00 pm GMT
Failing to negotiate your salary could cost you more than $500,000 throughout your career.
 
Mon Jun 26 2006 at 10:00 am GMT
Adventure racers hike, bike and navigate hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain. What they can teach you about working under pressure.
 
Thu Jun 22 2006 at 2:51 pm GMT
It's a classic dilemma: To chip in or not to chip in. How to handle office donations with grace.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:00 pm -0700
T-Mobile's latest myTouch phones are inexpensive, but don't have the most cutting-edge specs.

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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:00 pm -0700
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:50 pm -0700
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S.

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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:26 pm -0700
Amazon offers the greatest number of options for accessing content; iTunes has the largest amount content but lacks streaming options, and Google Play needs to catch up on its licensing deals.

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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:46 pm -0700
The Jelly Bean update starts rolling out to all unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones today.

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Wed Jul 11 2012 at 7:44 am GMT
Dear Remaining Members of the Barclays Board,
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:37 pm GMT
This summer, you have one of the best opportunities to fine-tune your portfolio. In fact, you could potentially add tens of thousands of dollars to your 401(k) and IRA balances come retirement time.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:53 pm GMT
Inflation has been fairly moderate in recent years. But in an era of low savings account rates and low wage increases, even a little inflation is enough to make the difference between getting a little ahead and falling a little behind.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:40 pm GMT
Optimism over the German court hearing on the euro bailout was overshadowed by a disappointing outlook from the US technology sector, as the markets added to their losses in the afternoon.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:36 pm GMT
AptarGroup (ATR) was downgraded by Keybank (KEY) to hold from buy, as guidance by the company was cut due to weakness in Europe.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:02 pm -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to unveil funding a sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the developing world.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:57 am -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to offer health insurance to seasonal firefighters employed by the U.S. government, after an outcry over the lack of affordable coverage available to thousands of such workers.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:37 am -0400
BERLIN (Reuters) - German pharmaceuticals group Bayer keeps benefiting from the weak euro, though the region's deepening debt crisis is beginning to weigh on orders in some sectors, a Swiss newspaper reported, citing the group's chief financial officer.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:54 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - Culls of hundreds of thousands of chickens, turkeys and ducks to stem bird flu outbreaks rarely make international headlines these days, but they are a worryingly common event as the deadly virus continues its march across the globe.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:10 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental once-daily AIDS drug from GlaxoSmithKline and its Japanese partner Shionogi has proved better than Gilead's market-leading Atripla in a late-stage clinical trial, increasing hopes for the product.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:14 am -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American chef Jenn Louis' culinary career is moving full steam ahead after several detours, including one where she was considering doing social work.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 12:10 pm -0400
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Engines may rev a bit quieter if EU lawmakers have their say about it.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:33 pm -0400
(Reuters) - A turquoise ring once belonging to British classics author Jane Austen sold at auction for 152,450 pounds ($236,557) this week, more than five times its pre-sale estimate, Sotheby's said...
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:17 pm -0400
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Episcopal Church on Tuesday approved a liturgy for clergy to use in blessing same-sex unions, including gay marriages in states where they are legal, becoming the...
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:51 am -0400
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - They may inhabit parallel universes, but most ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and Israeli Arabs share the same instinctive aversion of the idea they should be forced into military...
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:12 am -0400
(Reuters) - Three former associates of American cyclist Lance Armstrong were handed lifetime bans for their involvement in an alleged doping conspiracy, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Tuesday.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:07 am -0400
STANFORD, California (Reuters) - Fatigue and a busy schedule was not going to get in the way of Serena Williams returning to the place she says launched her comeback and gave her the confidence to believe she could win another grand slam.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:37 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss was being treated for dehydration at a local hospital, a team spokesman said on Tuesday.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:00 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - World 100 meters record holder Usain Bolt could break the nine-second barrier if he gets a start as fast as his training partner Yohan Blake, according to the former world 200 meters record holder Tommie Smith.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:38 am -0400
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The National League erupted for five runs in the first inning and limited the American League to just six singles to win the All-Star game 8-0 on Tuesday, the first shutout in the Midsummer Classic since 1996.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:48 am -0400
(Reuters) - Hopes are evaporating that leading technology companies will offer a safe harbor this year from the economic storms swirling across Europe, Asia and the United States.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:10 pm -0400
WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd's new CEO vowed on Tuesday to turn around the embattled company with the new generation of BlackBerry devices coming next year, saying he would transform RIM into a "lean, mean, hunting machine."
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:10 pm -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday he remains wary of investing as heavily in mobile games as he has in proven Web-based titles like FarmVille despite an industrywide push toward catering to mobile devices.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:15 pm -0400
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Kim Dotcom, the Internet tycoon at the centre of a U.S. investigation into online piracy and fraud, said on Wednesday he was willing to go to the United States to clear his name, offering to forego a pending extradition hearing in New Zealand.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:59 pm -0400
(Reuters) - Google Inc is close to settling charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:14 pm -0400
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who have biological species named in their honor.
  
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:19 am -0400
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Scientists are using the world's biggest telescope, buried deep under the South Pole, to try to unravel the mysteries of tiny particles known as neutrinos, hoping to shed light on how the universe was made.
  
 
Wed Jul 04 2012 at 5:34 pm -0400
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.
  
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 9:04 am -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. scientist who won a $100 wager with Stephen Hawking over whether the Higgs boson would ever be found said on Friday winning was the icing on the cake of a major scientific discovery.
  
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 4:08 pm -0400
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - South Korea's proposal to resume whaling for scientific research has angered other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting.
  
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:21 am -0400

Traders talk as the IBEX 35 session is displayed on an electronic board at Madrid's stock exchangeLONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell on Wednesday after profit warnings from U.S. companies compounded fears the sluggish global economy will erode earnings, while skepticism over the euro zone's ability to tackle its debt crisis pressured other risk assets. The euro wallowed around two-year lows against the dollar at $1.2260 although industrial commodities and oil regained their footing after sharp falls on Tuesday. "Risk appetite remains fragile as U.S. earnings worries and various unanswered questions in Europe weigh on sentiment," analysts at Credit Agricole said in a note to clients. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:48 pm -0400
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - The U.S. futures industry reeled on Tuesday as Iowa-based broker PFGBest collapsed after regulators accused it of misappropriating customer funds for more than two years, dealing a new blow to trader trust just months after MF Global's demise. ...
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:17 pm -0400

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell for a fourth day on Tuesday as more pessimism from companies compounded worries the sluggish world economy is taking a toll on profit growth. A sales warning from engine maker Cummins Inc came on top of earlier weak forecasts from chipmakers Applied Materials Inc and Advanced Micro Devices , causing the market to extend losses in afternoon trading. The news sent the S&P 500 down for a fourth consecutive day, the index's longest downward streak since May when it fell for six straight days. Shares of industrials fell the most at 1.6 percent. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:03 pm -0400

A Bank of America logo can be seen in a bank branch in New York(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp has been cutting jobs in its commercial banking unit in recent weeks even as it tries to boost the group's business, people familiar with the situation said, reflecting the bank's broader struggles to grow in a tepid economy. The job cuts are the latest round in the bank's cost-cutting program, known as Project New BAC, and focus on the unit that makes loans to mid-sized companies around the country. Analysts expect Bank of America to disclose more about the current round of New BAC when it posts earnings on July 18. The second largest U.S. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:21 am -0400

Traders talk as the IBEX 35 session is displayed on an electronic board at Madrid's stock exchangeLONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell on Wednesday after profit warnings from U.S. companies compounded fears the sluggish global economy will erode earnings, while skepticism over the euro zone's ability to tackle its debt crisis pressured other risk assets. The euro wallowed around two-year lows against the dollar at $1.2260 although industrial commodities and oil regained their footing after sharp falls on Tuesday. "Risk appetite remains fragile as U.S. earnings worries and various unanswered questions in Europe weigh on sentiment," analysts at Credit Agricole said in a note to clients. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:48 pm -0400
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - The U.S. futures industry reeled on Tuesday as Iowa-based broker PFGBest collapsed after regulators accused it of misappropriating customer funds for more than two years, dealing a new blow to trader trust just months after MF Global's demise. ...
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:17 pm -0400

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell for a fourth day on Tuesday as more pessimism from companies compounded worries the sluggish world economy is taking a toll on profit growth. A sales warning from engine maker Cummins Inc came on top of earlier weak forecasts from chipmakers Applied Materials Inc and Advanced Micro Devices , causing the market to extend losses in afternoon trading. The news sent the S&P 500 down for a fourth consecutive day, the index's longest downward streak since May when it fell for six straight days. Shares of industrials fell the most at 1.6 percent. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:03 pm -0400

A Bank of America logo can be seen in a bank branch in New York(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp has been cutting jobs in its commercial banking unit in recent weeks even as it tries to boost the group's business, people familiar with the situation said, reflecting the bank's broader struggles to grow in a tepid economy. The job cuts are the latest round in the bank's cost-cutting program, known as Project New BAC, and focus on the unit that makes loans to mid-sized companies around the country. Analysts expect Bank of America to disclose more about the current round of New BAC when it posts earnings on July 18. The second largest U.S. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 10:01 am -0400
An Italian opera composer who was a budding genius at age 19 and a Polish contralto who remains a vocal phenomenon at age 60 teamed up for an intriguing musical excavation at the Caramoor Music Festival.
 
Sat Jul 07 2012 at 12:41 pm -0400
Like a rolling stone, a traveling guitar museum is searching for a home.
 
Sat Jul 07 2012 at 8:41 am -0400

In this photo released by the Spanish Police a police officer holds a forged Pablo Picasso oil painting in Sevilla, Spain, Saturday, July 7, 2012. The Interior Ministry says National Police have arrested four people for trying to sell a forged Pablo Picasso oil painting for up to 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million). The canvas, a counterfeit version of a 1964 work called “The bust of Jeune Garcon” was accompanied by false authenticity documents bearing the signatures of Paloma, one of the Spanish painter’s daughters, and a renowned French art expert. (AP Photo/Spanish Police)The Interior Ministry says police have arrested four people for trying to sell a forged Pablo Picasso oil painting for up to €1.2 million ($1.5 million).


 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 5:53 pm -0400
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled a memorial honoring a late Cleveland newspaper reporter known for covering the institution, rock music and the industry.
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 1:56 pm -0400
Female artists who captured the sweeping vistas of New Hampshire's White Mountains will get some long overdue recognition when their paintings are displayed in a museum now under construction at Plymouth State University.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:42 am -0400

A UK study has revealed the average woman wears 28 different outfits during a weeklong holidayA UK study has revealed the average woman wears 28 different outfits during a weeklong holiday, with one in 20 admitting they often change attire several times a day just to get through all the garments in their suitcase.


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 12:06 pm -0400

Livia Firth models a dress from her Livia Firth Designs collection.Best known for co-founding the Green Carpet Challenge that has taken the fashion world by storm, Livia Firth has now designed her own pieces for new ethical fashion line Livia Firth Designs.


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 8:23 am -0400

A screenshot of Nicole Richie's hand-picked items for Polyvore's new seriesNicole Richie has launched a new guest editor series on fashion website Polyvore, which will see an array of style icons offering advice, inspiration and their personal clothing and accessories picks.


 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 9:15 am -0400
BERLIN (Reuters) - Riders of the Berlin subway have been taking trips this week that go far beyond the hip German capital's already outlandish standards, as models in latex wear, fetish gear and "spirit hoods" staged a fashion show on a train. Girls wearing all-leather sado-masochist bodysuits tottered through the train car, followed by male models wearing nothing but ornamental metallic sculptures around their groin. Models in neon tulle dangled from the subway poles. ...
 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 7:01 am -0400

Marie-Christiane Marek, founder of Paris Modes TVWith Paris Haute Couture fashion week wrapping up Thursday, Paris Modes TV founder and Relaxnews senior advisor Marie-Christiane Marek gives us her impressions. Fabrics, colors, iconic pieces: here is her roundup of the top Fall/Winter 2012-2013 couture trends.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:02 pm -0400

Actress Arianda poses with her award for Best Performance By An Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in 'Venus in Fur' during the American Theatre Wing's 66th annual Tony Awards in New YorkLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The makers of a planned film about rock icon Janis Joplin have tapped recent Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to play the part of the 1960s singer in a biographical movie directed by Sean Durkin, a spokesman for the director said on Tuesday. The independently-produced film, titled "Joplin," looks at the last six months in the life of the raspy-voiced singer who died in 1970 of a drug overdose following chart success with classic rock hits such as "Down on Me" and "Piece of My Heart. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:40 pm -0400

Elijah Wood at the FX Network series premiere of 'Wilfred' and season two launch of 'Louie' in HollywoodLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic-Con International rolls into San Diego this week for its annual pop culture convention, and high on the list of must-see events is film footage of what actor Elijah Wood promises is a bigger "Hobbit" than fans can imagine. Comic-Con, which kicks off on Thursday and is expected to attract more than 125,000 people, is the biggest event of the year for many fans of comic book superheroes and science-fiction lovers. And TV networks and Hollywood's major studios stage elaborate promotions to showcase upcoming films and programs. ...


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 8:23 pm -0400

Actress Katie Holmes leaves the Children's Museum of the Arts in the SoHo neighborhood of New YorkLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes settled their divorce on Monday, taking less than two weeks to end a nearly six-year marriage that captivated the world and prompted questions about raising their daughter in the Church of Scientology. "Mission: Impossible" star Cruise, 50, married Holmes, 33, who first gained fame on television drama "Dawson's Creek," in a glamorous wedding in an Italian castle in November 2006. Suri was born about six months earlier. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:25 pm -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - Together they foiled the villainous plot of a diamond-thieving penguin and saved a village from an enormous mutant rabbit, but the faithful canine star of Oscar-winning plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit was originally a cat, their creator has revealed. British animator Nick Park said he had originally sketched out Gromit the cat as a feline foil for the eccentric, cheese-loving inventor Wallace. "But when I came to model the cat out of clay, I just found a dog easier to make. ...
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 2:21 pm -0400

Publicity photo of actor Christian Bale in scene from "The Dark Knight Rises"LONDON (Reuters) - Holy crash landing Batman! The crime-fighting caped crusader could fly but if he did, he would smash into the ground and probably die, a group of British physics students have calculated. Dashing the dreams of comic fans across the world, four students from the University of Leicester said that while Batman could glide using his cape as he does in the 2005 film "Batman Begins", his landing would almost certainly prove fatal. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:04 pm -0400

Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil performs during the 46th Montreux Jazz FestivalMONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Brazil's Gilberto Gil showcased joyful African-inspired music despite being tinged with themes of poverty, slavery and painful reconciliation at the Montreux Jazz Festival on Tuesday night. Teaming up with South African folk star Vusi Mahlasela also on guitar, Gil's "Viramundo" concert offered a sneak preview of an upcoming documentary on his road trip rich in cross-cultural collaboration. ...


 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 7:15 pm -0400

Rihanna goes into the crowd during a performance at the Hackney Weekend festival at Hackney Marshes in east LondonNEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop star Rihanna has sued her former accountants for mismanaging the singer's finances, including claiming they earned huge commissions from concert tours that resulted in her losing millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that surfaced on Thursday, the 24-year-old singer and her tour company, Tourihanna, is seeking an unspecified amount of compensatory damages and loss of earnings from accountancy firm Berdon LLP and former employees Michael Mitnick and Peter Gounis. The suit, first filed late in Tuesday ahead of the July 4 U.S. ...


 
Sun Jul 08 2012 at 2:28 pm -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - R&B singer and rapper Chris Brown scored his first British number one album on Sunday as his new release "Fortune" span to the top of the charts in its first week on sale, the Official Charts Company said. Fans of the 23-year-old U.S. artist ignored poor critical reviews and snapped up his fifth studio album, pushing to number three last week's top seller, "Living Things" from American rock band Linkin Park. U.S. ...
 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 5:20 pm -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A singer who competed on the second season of "American Idol," filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against MTV Networks for more than $40 million, claiming he was unfairly ridiculed by one of its news reporters. The lawsuit claims that after Corey Clark was disqualified from "American Idol," having reached its "Top 10" finalists, MTV News correspondent Jim Cantiello falsely attacked Clark as a liar and called for a boycott of his music. ...
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 5:46 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning pop singer Pink will release her sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love," on September 18, ending a roughly four-year record drought for her fans. Her label, RCA Records, described "The Truth About Love" as the singer's "unique take on the different shades of love - the dark, the light, the happy and the sad." Pink, 32, is working on the album with producer Greg Kurstin, the man behind the likes of Foster The People and The Shins. ...
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 4:37 pm -0400

Cast member Blake Lively arrives at the premiere of the film "Savages" in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's not that I couldn't believe a ménage-à-trois between a botanist-entrepreneur-philanthropist, a bubble-headed Southern California princess, and a haunted and hard-bitten veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I just don't believe the one that's at the center of Oliver Stone's latest, "Savages. ...


 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 7:19 pm -0400
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - When I was a kid and would fight with one of my five siblings and then go crying to my mother, she would tell me to get over it and make up with them. "She's your sister and she's going to be your sister for the rest of your life, so you had better learn to live with her," Mom always said (or, alternatively, "He's your brother and …"). ...
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 12:55 pm -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Gone Girl" shot to the top of Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday, bumping "Wicked Business" out of the No. 1 spot. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown, $25.00) 2 2. "Wicked Business" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam $28) 1 3. "Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel" by James Rollins (William Morrow, 27.99) - 4. "Summerland" by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur, $26.99) - 5. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham (Doubleday, ...
 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 2:04 am -0400
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A television reporter walks out of the newsroom after a spat with her boss, setting out on an impulsive road trip that eventually puts her life back on track. Urvashi Gulia's debut novel "My Way Is the Highway" is in many ways a memoir, with traits for her characters drawn from the author's real-life observations of India's ratings-hungry television industry. Manki, the book's main character, leaves Delhi for the Himalayan mountains hundreds of miles away with only her trusty jeep Iqbal Mastani for company, learning to fish, unwind and even fall in love along the way. ...
 
Tue Jul 03 2012 at 1:34 pm -0400
LONDON (Reuters) - The cover of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's first foray into adult fiction features a large black "X" in what appears to be a box on a ballot paper set against a bright yellow and red background, her publishers revealed on Tuesday. "The Casual Vacancy" hits shelves on September 27 and has been described in a brief synopsis by publishers Little, Brown as "a big novel about a small town". ...
 
Mon Jul 02 2012 at 11:30 am -0400
After years of speculation about his sexuality, Anderson Cooper has revealed that he’s gay. The 45-year-old CNN anchor came out in an email to the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan that was published on Sullivan’s blog this morning. Cooper was responding to an Entertainment Weekly article about how...
 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 6:54 pm -0400

Television personalities sisters Kourtney and Kim Kardashian arrive at the 20th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, CaliforniaLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star Kourtney Kardashian, sister of Kim and Khloe, gave birth to a daughter over the weekend, adding to the reality TV family's growing brood. "Welcome to the world, Penelope Scotland Disick! Kourtney gave birth to a beautiful baby daughter on Sunday, and the whole family is so thrilled to finally meet her! She is absolutely perfect!" Kim Kardashian posted on her official website on Sunday. This is the second child for Kourtney Kardashian, 33, and fiance Scott Disick, 29, who have a two-year-old son, Mason. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 12:42 pm -0400

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New York(Reuters) - Cable operator Comcast Corp said its NBC Universal unit will sell its 15.8 percent stake in History Channel owner A&E Television Networks LLC to the other partners in the venture for $3.02 billion in cash. Comcast sold its stake in A&E for $1 billion more than it said it was worth only a few months ago. The stake sale comes two months after Comcast said it would exercise an option to sell "a substantial portion" of its holding to its joint-venture partners Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corp. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:29 am -0400

Michael White, CEO of DirecTV, speaks during the Reuters Media and Technology Summit in New York(Reuters) - DirecTV customers may not see SpongeBob, Snooki or Jon Stewart after midnight on Tuesday because of a heated impasse taking place between the largest U.S. satellite TV provider and Viacom Inc, the company behind the popular cartoon, reality series and political talk show. In a blog post on Viacom's website, spokesman Mark Jafar wrote that despite Viacom's "best efforts" DirecTV rejected proposals to renew their contract. Nearly 20 million DirecTV customers will not have access to 26 Viacom channels including MTV and Nickelodeon if a new deal isn't struck by midnight Tuesday. ...


 
Thu Jul 05 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

A wreath of flowers is pictured on the star of actor Andy Griffith on the Walk of Fame in HollywoodWINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Actor Andy Griffith, beloved as a small-town sheriff on the popular television program "The Andy Griffith Show," died of a heart attack, according to his death certificate. Griffith, 86, died on Tuesday at his home in coastal Manteo, North Carolina. According to his death certificate, he was buried in a family cemetery, an employee at the Dare County Register of Deeds Office said on Thursday. The certificate noted that Griffith had suffered for years from coronary artery disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, a condition related to high cholesterol. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:45 pm -0400

The bird flu outbreak was first detected on June 20 in Jalisco stateOfficials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:04 pm -0400

Quitting smoking leads to an average weight gain of four to five kilogrammes in the first yearQuitting smoking leads to an average weight gain of four to five kilogrammes (nine to 11 pounds) in the first year -- "significantly" more than previously thought, a study said Wednesday.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:54 am -0400

Democrats have slammed the effort as a brash political showUS lawmakers will vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, as Republicans unleash a barrage of attacks aimed at inspiring support for wiping out the landmark reforms.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:41 pm -0400

FILE - In this July 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's health care law says almost all Americans should get insurance coverage by 2014. What about uninsured young people who feel healthy and don't have money to spare? Some will probably skip coverage and pay financial penalties that will be much cheaper than insurance premiums. But health care advocates urge caution. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File )They're young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars' worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysomethings do?


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 9:36 am -0400

In this June 19, 2012, photo provided by the Colorado Army National Guard, firefighters from Coeur D'alene, Idaho march to dinner at sunset in the base camp for the High Park wildfire in Fort Collins, Colo. Thousands of wildland firefighters aren’t eligible for federal health insurance so they have launched an online petition to change that_ drawing more than 90,000 signatures in a matter of days. (AP Photo/Colorado Army National Guard, John Rohrer)They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:13 am -0400
A fire official says a freight train carrying agricultural products has derailed and some cars burst into flames Columbus, Ohio, causing an explosion and injuring at least two people.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:06 am -0400

An undated image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a wanted poster for Aubrey Lee Price. Local and federal investigators are trying to determine whether Aubrey Lee Price killed himself or whether he slipped away with $17 million dollars of investors’ money. (AP Photo/FBI)After penning a rambling confession to financial regulators and writing notes to his family, a south Georgia bank director boarded a ferry in Key West, Fla., and disappeared.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 5:05 am -0400
Police say a 21-year old man was found dead inside the tiger den at the Copenhagen Zoo with his throat bitten.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:59 am -0400

National League's Pablo Sandoval, of the San Francisco Giants, right, celebrates with teammates after their 8-0 win over the American League in the MLB All-Star baseball game, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)One league has more money to throw around, better hitters, better pitchers, better teams and a nearly decade-long streak of dominance in interleague play.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:49 am -0400

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Mike Larson rubs the nose of one of his 2,900 dairy cows at Larson Acres Inc. in the Town of Magnolia, Wis. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is set to rule Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in a closely watched case pits Larson Acres Inc. against a small town that blames its water-pollution problems on manure generated by Larson’s 2,900 cows. The case is the first to test a 2004 state law governing the expansion of livestock farm operations. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde, File)The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to rule Wednesday in a case in which a small town with three times as many cows as people is seeking greater authority to protect its water supply.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:45 pm -0400
Google is poised to pay a $22.5 million fine to resolve allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of Web surfers who rely on Apple's Safari browser, according to a person familiar with settlement.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:48 am -0400
China's broadcasting and Internet regulators have told Internet video providers that they must prescreen all programs before making them available, tightening state censorship of increasingly popular online drama series and mini-movies.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 4:36 pm -0400

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), speaks at the company's Annual General Meeting, less than two weeks after announcing disappointing financial results, deep job cuts and the latest delay in its BlackBerry 10 software, in Waterloo, Ontario, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Analysts believe RIM is running out of time to turn itself around. Sales of the once-pioneering BlackBerry phones fell 41 percent in the latest quarter and likely won't pick up again until new phones come out next year. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Dave Chidley)The CEO of embattled BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. asked disgruntled investors for patience Tuesday as the company develops new devices to rival the iPhone and Android smartphones.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:15 am -0400
If you've been finding the search for the right online storage option a little daunting, Dropbox is hoping to make things easier with an announcement it made today. The popular cloud service is doubling the amount of storage offered on … Continue reading →
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 0:10 am -0400
If you think 3D movies are gimmicky, wait 'til you hear what this South Korean company has in store for you. According to Los Angeles Times, South Korea's CJ Group is bringing the 4D movie experience to the United States, … Continue reading →
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:23 am -0400

National League's Melky Cabrera, of the San Francisco Giants, shows off his MVP trophy after the MLB All-Star baseball game Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. The National League defeated the American League 8-0. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Melky Cabrera, Pablo Sandoval and Matt Cain helped the National League to a Giant blowout in the All-Star game.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 5:54 pm -0400

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2011, file photo, former cycling champion Lance Armstrong smiles during a news conference at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Armstrong is asking a federal court to block the latest doping charges against him. The seven-time Tour de France winner filed a lawsuit in Austin, Texas, on Monday, July 9, 2012. Through his attorneys, he argues the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency violates the constitutional rights of athletes when it brings charges against them, and that USADA should not be allowed to pursue charges Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs during his career. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)With Lance Armstrong digging in for a legal fight, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued lifetime sports bans Tuesday to three former staff members and consultants on the cyclist's winning Tour de France teams for drug violations.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:31 pm -0400
The longtime problem of doping hit the Tour de France head on Tuesday when a French rider was arrested at his team hotel and suspended by his team.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:33 am -0400
Deron Williams hit the jackpot in Las Vegas, and Blake Griffin signed on for a few more years in Los Angeles.
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:08 am -0400
The Los Angeles Clippers have signed All-Star forward Blake Griffin to a five-year contract extension that could be worth up to $95 million.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 6:12 pm -0400

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. A combination of the long periods of 100-plus degree days and the lack of rain in the drought-stricken region has dried up the lake that once spanned over 5400 acres. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that? Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, according to new analyses released Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Researchers calculated that global warming has made such a Texas heat wave about 20 times more likely to happen during a La Nina year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Last year brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that?


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 1:23 pm -0400

A portrait of Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, is displayed at the Bangiya Vigyan Parishad or the Bengal Science Society founded by Bose in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week's breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists. Media covering the story gave lots of credit to British physicist Peter Higgs for theorizing the elusive subatomic "God particle," but little was said about Satyendranath Bose, the Indian after whom the boson is named. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week's breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 2:16 pm -0400
So far, the scorecard for missions to Mars reads attempts 40, successes 14.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:11 pm -0400

FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, Frank Kameny is seen in his home in Washington. A Canadian amateur astronomer who discovered several asteroids has named one after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny who died last year in Washington. Kameny, who earned a doctorate in astronomy at Harvard University, was an astronomer with the U.S. Army Map Service in the 1950s but was fired from his job for being gay. He contested the firing all the way to the Supreme Court and later organized the first gay rights protests outside the White House, the Pentagon and in Philadelphia in the 1960s. Kameny died last year at age 86. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)A Canadian amateur astronomer has named an asteroid he discovered after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who died last year in Washington.


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 7:12 pm -0400

FILE - This July 4, 2012, file photo, shows Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feeding a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. The baby beluga whale that was believed to be just two days old when it was found stranded after a storm near Naknek, Alaska, has died. A team of marine mammal experts provided the young whale with around-the-clock care at the Alaska SeaLife Center. But the center says that despite its best efforts, the whale died early Monday morning, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)A baby beluga whale that was believed to be just 2 days old when it was found stranded after a storm in Alaska's Bristol Bay has died at a research aquarium where it received round-the-clock care by a team of marine mammal experts.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:53 am -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during remarks to volunteers working at the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado to distribute food to those affected by the wild fire at the on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Mitt Romney isn't going to win the black vote. But he's making a pitch to African-Americans at the NAACP's annual meeting, giving a major speech that's also aimed at showing independent and swing voters that he's willing to reach out to diverse audiences — and demonstrating that his campaign and the Republican Party he leads are inclusive.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 2:55 am -0400

House Ways and Means Committees Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., leads a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. at right is the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans, stung by the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, are seizing on one wrinkle to bolster their election-year case for repeal — the court's judgment that the penalty for failing to get insurance is a tax.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:09 am -0400

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. talks to reporters about the fight over extending tax cuts following a political strategy session, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The Congress is in, but it's far from lawmaking.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:51 am -0400
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - They may inhabit parallel universes, but most ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and Israeli Arabs share the same instinctive aversion of the idea they should be forced into military service. A court decision earlier this year to annul a draft law has forced the government to review rules surrounding military and civilian conscription of young men, with growing calls for all members of Israel's disparate society to share the burden. ...
 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 4:34 am -0400
Spain has announced a €65 billion ($79.85 billion) austerity package that includes tax hikes and spending cuts a day after it won approval from its euro partners for a huge bailout of the country's stricken banks.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:40 am -0400

Una familia de mapaches se retira junto a una valla metálica después de haberse apoderado de la comida de una mascota en un porche cerca de Maysville, Kentucky el lunes 9 de junio del 2012. Una mujer en el estado de Washington dijo que fue atacada por mapaches luego que su perro persiguiese a varios de esos animales y les obligase a treparse a un árbol. (Foto AP/The Ledger Independent, Terry Prather.)Una mujer en el estado de Washington dijo que fue atacada por mapaches luego que su perro persiguiese a varios de esos animales y les obligase a treparse a un árbol.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:32 am -0400

Michaela Lee, comforts her dog, Madison, while recovering on her sofa from being attacked by five raccoons yesterday down the street from her home in Lakewood, Wash., on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Madison distracted some of the raccoons preventing her owner from getting more seriously wounded in the attack. Lee received 16 punctured wounds and with about 100 laceration wounds from the raccoon attack. Two of the punctured wounds each received 5 staples. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Lui Kit Wong)A Washington state woman says she was attacked and bitten by raccoons after her dog chased several of the animals up a tree.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 11:01 pm -0400
AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against a Massachusetts businessman over a $1 million phone bill he says resulted from a hacker's fraud.
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:28 pm -0400
An American heiress is dead, and a man matching her British husband's description is being held on drug charges. The details are still emerging, but ABC News reports that British billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, is being held on drug charges in connection with the death of his wife, Eva Rausing. Ms. Rausing, 48, was [...]
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:38 pm -0400
If Eiliya Maida thought he hated spiders before, imagine how he must feel now. The California man accidentally set his house on fire while using a blowtorch to clear spider webs out of his backyard. The Chico Enterprise Record reports that dry plants in Maida's backyard ignited as he was attempting to burn the webs. [...]
 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
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Mon Jul 09 2012 at 3:49 pm -0400

Norton's Internet Security 2012 software for computer security on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, July 6, 2012. Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)On Monday, the FBI turned off servers that had allowed thousands of malware-stricken computers to continue using the Internet. The personal computers — both Windows PCs and Macs — are corrupted by a virus known as DNSChanger. Without the servers, the machines wouldn't know how to locate websites and send email.


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 2:13 pm -0400

To match feature PRIVACY-CHINABOSTON (Reuters) - Fears that a computer virus might cut Internet access around the world appeared to be overblown on Monday after U.S. authorities removed a safety net that had protected infected machines for months. Shortly after midnight EDT, the authorities cut off computer servers in New York City that had been put in place to direct traffic for infected computers, which would have been unable to access the Internet without their help. ...


 
Mon Jul 09 2012 at 1:03 pm -0400

Malware Shuts Down Internet for Many, But Was It Overhyped?Although a nasty piece of malware called DNSChanger was set to kick thousands of Mac and PC users off the Internet on Monday, no major companies experienced issues related to the so-called "Doomsday Virus."


 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 8:12 am -0400

DNS Malware: Check If Your Internet Won't Work MondayA nasty piece of malware called DNSChanger will kick thousands of Mac and PC users off the Internet on Monday, and there's a chance you could be one of them.


 
Fri Jul 06 2012 at 3:04 am -0400

'DNS Changer' virus was discovered in 2007Tens of thousands of computer users around the world infected with malware last year may lose their Internet access on Monday with the expiration of a fix by US authorities, security experts say.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:32 pm -0400

An Investigation Inside the 'Arrested Development' Writer's RoomRon Howard is a wonderful, charitable man for tweeting this picture from the Arrested Development writer's room. So what can we learn from this picture? This is our forensic investigation of the Arrested Development writer's room based on one cell phone picture:


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 8:09 pm -0400

RIM President and CEO Heins speaks during the annual general meeting of shareholders in WaterlooWATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd's new CEO vowed on Tuesday to turn around the embattled company with the new generation of BlackBerry devices coming next year, saying he would transform RIM into a "lean, mean, hunting machine." But Thorsten Heins, presiding over his first annual meeting since taking the helm, offered little to disgruntled shareholders beyond his faith in the power of the BlackBerry 10 line to reverse RIM's fortunes. Its battered stock fell another 5 percent after he spoke. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:35 pm -0400

Android Fans Rejoice: Jelly Bean Rollout Is UnderwayCan't wait to get your hands on Jelly Bean, the newest version of ? You won't have to hold your breath much longer.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:21 pm -0400

Checking Your Phone During Yoga: 'More Than a Little Arrogant'A number of commenters were miffed by the news that a yoga instructor was recently fired for her no-phones policy. It's not only inconsiderate to check your cell phone during yoga class, our commenters argued, it also defeats the whole purpose. How do you expect to clear your mind and cleanse your body while manically checking your inbox? Yoga instructor Alice Van Ness was dismissed from instructing employees at Facebook's Menlo Park campus due to her "pattern of strict behavior. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 7:05 pm -0400

AT&T Galaxy Note, Galaxy S II Skyrocket finally get Ice Cream Sandwich updateAT&T’s magnificently monstrous “phablet” can finally be counted among the select few smartphones with access to Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. As had been previously reported, Galaxy Note users on AT&T now have access to the latest and greatest Google has to offer — well, almost — and Samsung’s tweaked ICS build for the Note also includes a “Premium Suite” of stylus-optimized apps. Separately, AT&T also announced on Tuesday that Galaxy S II Skyrocket users can now update their devices to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well. Samsung’s Galaxy Note press release follows below. Samsung Galaxy Note with AT&T Receives Powerful New Functionality With Premium Suite, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Upgrade  Premium Suite enhances productivity and


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:59 pm -0400

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate in the "Affordable Care Act" is constitutional, particularly as it relates to Congress' authority to lay and collect new taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 1:52 am -0400

A man walks past the Bank of England LondonLONDON (Reuters) - If it feels as though efforts to revive the world economy are continually running into the mire, that's partly because policymakers are still trying to map the extent of the credit swamp. Five years to the month since the credit bubble popped, one of the striking aspects of the recurrent gloom invading households, businesses and investors is how the horizon for sustainable recovery is being pushed years into the distance. ...


 
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Tue Jul 10 2012 at 10:57 pm -0400

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Central High School, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Obama election campaign has a politically loaded question it wants voters to think about: What is Mitt Romney hiding?


 
Wed Jul 11 2012 at 3:43 am -0400

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Clinton is making a historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than five decades. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.


 
Tue Jul 10 2012 at 3:56 pm -0400

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In this photo taken June 29, 2012, Geoffrey Tanner, 19, of Herndon, Va., center, and other volunteers make phone calls at the Romney Victory Office in Fairfax, Va. Call them passionate, idealistic, earnest, even a tad naive: The volunteers helping to power the Obama and Romney campaigns are outliers at a time when polls show record low public satisfaction with government and a growing belief that Washington isn’t on their side. While motivated by opposing goals, the Obama and Romney volunteers share at least one key trait: an abiding faith in the political process and a belief that it still matters who occupies the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Four years after Barack Obama won the support of 66 percent of voters aged 18 to 29, Republicans are working on a fresh approach to bring younger voters and candidates into the fold, using a coalition of traditional campaign organizations, super PACs, nonprofit advocacy groups and policy-based think tanks. And even Republicans organizing these efforts [...]


 
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Murdoch Attempting to Buy the UK General Election for the Conservative Party

Published 11/14/2009 by The Market Oracle

"It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it"
Murdoch Attempting to Buy the UK General Election for the Conservative Party [The Market Oracle - 11/14/2009]
"The BBC is dominant, Other organisations might rise and fall but the BBC's income is guaranteed and growing."

Murdoch Attempting to Buy the UK General Election for the Conservative Party [The Market Oracle - 11/14/2009]


The Murdoch News International press is openly engaged in a campaign to bring about a Conservative Government in lieu of Tory promises for News International favourable government policies.

 

The Murdoch News International press is openly engaged in a campaign to bring about a Conservative Government in lieu of Tory promises for News International favourable government policies. This week we saw the Sun sparked story concerning Gordon Brown's ... [The Market Oracle - 11/14/2009]

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we saw the Sun sparked story concerningGordon Brown's hand written condolences letter to the mother of...

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Murdoch Attempting to Buy the UK General Election for the Conservative Party

 

 

 

 

 

Politics / UK General Election Nov 14, 2009 By: Nadeem_Walayat

 

The Murdoch News International press is openly engaged in a campaign to bring about a Conservative Government in lieu of Tory promises for News International favourable government policies.

This week we saw the Sun sparked story concerning Gordon Brown's hand written condolence letter to the mother of a solider killed in Afghanistan that contained spelling mistakes. The Sun instigated a viscous attack on the Prime Minster and used the bereaved Mother to attempt to damage Gordon Brown which was implemented in a coordinated manner by the relentless reporting of by Murdoch's Sky News channel. The BBC responded to this and other newspaper coverage to continue the story into the end of the week. However the whole story has backfired on the Murdoch press as the electorate clearly sided more with the Prime Minister than the biased propaganda emanating out of the Sun.

The Murdoch's press strategy is clearly motivated by self interest as I pointed out in August (News Corporation's Murdoch Blames BBC For Driving Independent Journalism Out of Business), that the Murdoch press is making huge losses in an media market place that is being decimated by the internet and the state run BBC broadcaster against which the Murdoch press for obvious reasons cannot compete.

James Murdoch stated:

"The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision,"

"The BBC is dominant, Other organisations might rise and fall but the BBC's income is guaranteed and growing."

"It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,"

The answer to the problem of the internet and the BBC is clearly for the Murdoch press to seek favour from a new government policy in reward for electioneering support that will result in a government that is willing to implement policies to diminish the competition poised by both the BBC and the internet.

At the beginning of October the Murdoch press accelerated its objective of winning favour amongst the tory party leadership by the Sun publically declaring its backing for the Conservative party some 6 months ahead of the next General Election.

This has been subsequently been followed by favourable policy proposals out of the Conservative party in the commercial interests of News International such as reported in the Independent in response to Peter Mandelson's allegations of the Tory leaders being suspected of having done a deal with Murdoch.

Examples of the apparent tie-in between what News International's boss, James Murdoch, wants, and what David Cameron is ready to promise include the recent decision by the Conservatives to abandon the idea of "top slicing" the BBC licence fee. It had been proposed that part of the money paid to the BBC would be siphoned off to help regional television companies meet the threat from the internet. But this would also have helped them compete more effectively against Sky News, which is part of the Murdoch media empire.

When the policy was abandoned in September, Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Culture Secretary, said that it was because enacting it might make the commercial television companies "focus not on attracting viewers but on attracting subsidies". There was no gain for the BBC in the climb down, because David Cameron had already said that the Tories will freeze the licence fee. What it will mean is that the BBC's income will be capped, without the regional television companies seeing any government help, which will strengthen the market position of Britain's only satellite television company, Sky. "This was done for News International," a Tory insider said yesterday. "Murdoch wants Sky to go head to head with the BBC. He doesn't want the independent companies strengthened."

In April 2008, James Murdoch complained bitterly about the media regulator Ofcom in his first major speech after taking over as chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and Asia. The following year, David Cameron announced that a Conservative government would cut Ofcom down to size.

The rest of the mainstream press in their self interest is secretly supportive of these measures of restriction's on the BBC and the internet competition and therefore unlikely to report on this subject to any significant length.

The campaign in favour of a Conservative party by a tory friendly Murdoch press dates back much earlier than the Sun's September announcement of support, as illustrated by the June 09 Sun newspaper article that forecast a Conservative landslide victory of 414 seats, against my own projection of 343 seats which is suggestive of biased propaganda rather than real journalism.

Therefore readers of the Murdoch Press including the Sun and Sky News viewers, should take much of the coverage of the General Election campaign with a big pinch of salt as it is biase

d propaganda in favour of an outcome that will reward News International in monetary terms, i.e. we are back to an age of press barons such as Rupert Murdoch attempting to buy the next general election for the Conservative Party for influence.

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No. 7 Most Powerful person in the World ......Rupert Murdoch Chairman News Corp. U.S. Age: 78




AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
"The leading British (the Times), Australian (The Australian), American (The Wall Street Journal) newspapers, in addition to tabloids like the New York Post and The Sun (U.K.). Also movies (20th Century Fox), books (HarperCollins), television (Fox, BSkyB he man who owns the news" still believes in print, not afraid to use vast media holdings to further personal political views. Media empire includes), online (MySpace). Weak ad-marketing hurting his News Corp.: net loss of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2009, stock off March lows,

but still well below 2007 levels, when he made a $5.6 billion gamble on Dow Jones. Accused Google of stealing content; threatened to block search engine from indexing his Web sites. "Quality journalism isn't cheap. "
As insider in Rupert Murdochs multi Billion News Limited Media Group reveals plans for take over BBC in return for backing 

David Cameron's Tory Party in the United Kingdom with favourable news stories for the Tories and attacking 


Gordon's Brown and his  Labour Party in his Sun Newspaper and other powerful hard copy and Internet media outlets in the UK.

The biggest and most important and serious political issue for Labour and the people of the UK in the upcoming 2010 United Kingdom Elections is to stop the BBC from being taken 

over by the Rupert Murdoch's powerful media Group, described by the Bill Moyer Journal and  Free PressFounder, Robert McChessney the founder of 

FreePress.net ( www.freepress.net )  as "All Carnivorous, no taste.... who will eat anything in his path" 

As insider in Rupert Murdochs multi Billion News Limited Media Group reveals plans for take over BBC in return for backing David Cameron's Tory Party in the United Kingdom with favourable news stories for the Tories and attacking Gordon's Brown and his  Labour Party in his Sun Newspaper and other powerful hard copy and Internet media outlets in the UK.

An insider in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has informed the USA Weekly News that David Cameron and his Tory Party, has promised to privatise the BBC and

sell the BBC off to Rupert Murdoch's powerful News Corp media group if Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is successful in

helping David Cameron and his Tory Party to win the next 2010 UK election

 
History and the growth from 50% of a small newspaper in Australia to complete control of the world's media by Rupert Murdoch and his all powerful, carnivorous News Corp.


 

Keith Olberman on the history Rupert Murdoch and planned ownership and control of the world's media...Part One

 

Keith Olberman on the history Rupert Murdoch and planned ownership and control of the world's media...Part Two

 

OutFoxed Part One


 
OutFoxed Part  Two

 
Rupert Murdoch just brought the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch's off to Britain the buy the BBC, 
"he is all carvivorous, no. taste.....will eat anything in his path...who has been persoanlly respncible for the decline of quality and investigative journalism in America by turning it into cheap profitable junk news....as he now want to do with his planned take over of UK's much respected and loved  BBC if David Cameron and his Tory Party will the next 2010 UK election...
                           ......you can fight back and stop................... 
               ..............Rupert Murdoch's nextmedia take over the the BBC.. 
the last well funded and truely free speach and independent and investigative journalism organisation oin the world where it's journalists, TV and Internet presentors and editors are not told what to say, when to say it and how to say it by a private media boss who's only interest is in bigger profits, cheap and junk journalism and shaping and controlling the editorial content to support a political party that will play by his rules to further his and his powerful silent multi trillionaire backers known the Builderberger Group's business's interests...."

  

Rupert Murdoch just brought the Wall Street Journal, and now Rupert is off to Britain after he gets David Cameron and his Tory Party into power to buy the BBC 
"he is all carvivorous, no. taste.....will eat anything in his path...who has been persoanlly respncible for the decline of quality and investigative journalism in America by turning it into cheap profitable junk news....as he now want to do with his planned take over of UK's much respected and loved  BBC if David Cameron and his Tory Party will the next 2010 UK election...
                           ......you can fight back and stop................... 
               ..............Rupert Murdoch's nextmedia take over the the BBC.. 
the last well funded and truely free speach and independent and investigative journalism organisation oin the world where it's journalists, TV and Internet presentors and editors are not told what to say, when to say it and how to say it by a private media boss who's only interest is in bigger profits, cheap and junk journalism and shaping and controlling the editorial content to support a political party that will play by his rules to further his and his powerful silent multi trillionaire backers known the Builderberger Group's business's interests...."

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Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 02:04 GMT 03:04 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/2162658.stm
Rupert Murdoch: Bigger than Kane
By Andrew Walker 
BBC News profiles unit

To some he is little less than the devil incarnate, to others, the most progressive mover-and-shaker in the media business. Whatever the case, as head of a global broadcasting empire worth £30bn, Rupert Murdoch continues to provoke strong emotions. No-one who saw Melvyn Bragg's dramatic interview with Dennis Potter in 1994 will ever forget it. Potter, who was terminally ill with cancer, yet had lost none of his waspish wit, mused on his life, his work...and his illness. "I call my cancer Rupert," he told Bragg. "Because that man Murdoch is the one who, if I had the time (I've got too much writing to do)... I would shoot the bugger if I could. "There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press." The focus of Potter's hatred - Rupert Murdoch - is now 71, with a new baby daughter by a new wife. He is as ambitious as ever, still planning to expand his business, News Corporation (News Corp), and intent on establishing his children as worthy successors to their old man. From Page Three through the Simpsons and BSkyB to Twentieth Century Fox and digital television, Murdoch has created a personal media empire before which even Citizen Kane would tremble. But, his many detractors would say, Murdoch's success has resulted in the dumbing-down of the media, with quality entertainment and journalism replaced by mindless vulgarity.
'Wheeler-dealer'
Beyond this, they mutter darkly about his emergence as a voracious political wheeler-dealer. Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia in 1931. His father, Sir Keith, was a regional newspaper magnate, based in Melbourne, and the family enjoyed considerable wealth. Even as a child, Murdoch knew his own mind. He was, his mother recalls,

 "not the sort of person who liked playing in a team". " I'm rather sick of snobs who tell us they're bad papers. "

Murdoch lambasts his critics

Groomed by his father, young Rupert was educated at Oxford, where he supported the Labour Party. But, aged just 22, Sir Keith died and Murdoch returned to Australia to take charge of the family business. "My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different," Murdoch recently told one interviewer. Taking charge, not of his father's more prestigious titles, but of the Adelaide News, a loss making newspaper based in the provinces, Rupert Murdoch began his spectacular rise.
'Sleaze'
Soon he had expanded his legacy into a nation-wide business, encompassing newspapers, magazines and television stations. He also found time to found Australia's first national newspaper, the Australian. Even then, he was accused of peddling sleaze. He responded with typical directness. "I'm rather sick of snobs who tell us they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no-one else wants," he said

" Probably the bravest deal-maker the world has ever known. "
Andrew Neil

1968 brought a major breakthrough, when Murdoch beat Robert Maxwell to buy London's News of the World. He later incorporated the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times into his News International group. It was the Sun which introduced bare breasts to the breakfast table and which, during the 1982 Falklands conflict, provided history's most infamous headline. GOTCHA!, screamed the paper's front page after the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser, General Belgrano, to huge outrage. As Charles Foster Kane once put it: "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough". Murdoch went from strength to strength. Moving to New York in the '70s, he snapped up, and revitalised, both the New York Post and New York magazine. But it was the 1980s which, in many people's minds, defined Murdoch. Leaving Fleet Street for good, he re-located to Wapping in London's East End, refused to recognise unions and sacked 5000 workers. Vowing to "shock people into a new attitude", Murdoch fought a year-long battle which, though eventually victorious, made him into a bogey-man for many on the left. But Andrew Neil, his former right-hand man at the Sunday Times and Sky Television, called Murdoch "probably the most inventive, the bravest deal-maker the world has ever known". Profits from Murdoch's lower-cost newspaper empire offset the losses he accrued at Sky Television, allowing him to buy the rights to Premiership football and revolutionise the sport, to many people's disgust.
Global reach
But it is the United States which has proved Murdoch's happiest hunting ground. He even became a US citizen in 1985 to comply with the country's media ownership laws. As owner of Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox television network, he has been responsible for both the Simpsons and the feature film, Titanic. The Dirty Digger of popular repute now enjoys a global reach, using a sophisticated system of communications satellites to reach his audience, whether in Baltimore, Basingstoke or Beijing. Domestically, though, Murdoch's life has been complicated, to say the least. After a short-lived early marriage, he and his second wife, Anna, divorced in 1999, after 31 years. Three weeks later, he married Wendi Deng, a Chinese-born News Corp executive. He was 68, she 32. Their child, Grace, was born in November 2001. Strangely for a man who despises the aristocracy and praises meritocracy, Murdoch has shamelessly promoted three of his four grown-up children to run his companies. Though his daughter, Elizabeth, left Sky Television to pursue her own dreams, sons James and Lachlan remain poised to take over from their father, whose recent brush with prostate cancer caused tremors in financial markets. Whether pronouncing on New Labour (he is broadly in favour) or on the Euro (he is firmly against British participation), Rupert Murdoch continues to live up to his billing as a press baron. An early apostle of digital broadcasting, Murdoch entered the internet business just as the smart money left town. It is clear that he still sees plenty of dragons ripe for slaying. With no intention of retiring, Rupert Murdoch's many fans and enemies may well have to put up with the Digger for some time yet.

Hi I'm Mr Wijat, my Team and  I have followed Rupert Murdoch from Australia to keep an eye on his and help provide alterative news, information, music, entertainment  to the profitable junk news Rupert and his gang at News Cort provide..... and it is all for free.....no news toll boths for me...or you.....
To much annoyance to my old Australian friend and media foe, Rupert Murdoch, I own the Australian Weekend News newspaper masthead in Australia, and when I asked Rupert ten years ago if he was to come into partnership with me in a real fair dimkin Aussie Newspaper, the Australian Weekend News, that stands up for the agerage digger and  is not afraid to print the truth...no matter how it upsest the pollies and powerbrokers.....Rupert's answer was to threaten to sue me and  my Team with supreme and Federal Court writs, because he said he owned the word Australian, as he has the Australian Newspaper and I was not allowed according to Rupert to have a newspaper with the word Australian in it without Rupert's permission.  I sent a fax to Rupert that night with a copy of a draft front page article to be printed on the front page of my Australian Weekend News, newspaper the next weekend, which had the headline, 

         Rupert Murdoch sues Mr Wijat over using the word Australian as the title of his newspaper the Australian Weekend News
The article went on to say that Rupert Murdoch was demanding that Mr Wijat immediately remove the word Australian from the beginning of Mr Wijat's newspaper the Australian Weekend News...because Rupert Murdoch says he owns the wird Australian, even though he has become an American and dumped his Australian citizenship to take over the USA media world and finance this ambition with the $500 billion a year profits Rupert makes from his Australian newspapers, instead of spending this profits back in Australia, improve the well being of the hard working Australian people from whom he makes this money each year..Rupert' murduch was also trold to use some of his billions to pay his lawyers at the time Balke and Waldron to prepare all the legal actions claiming the word Australian belongs to Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp Media Group, and Mr Wijat would be around in the morning to personally collect his copies of the writs so he could then use them as a basis for this planned article in the next weekend's edition of Mr Wijat's Australian Weeklend News... the writs as promised by Rupert Murdoch never were prepared and Mr Wijat has not heard any complaints form Rupert Murduch or his big time solicitors since about Mr Wijat's use of the word Australian in his Aussie newspaper masthead, The Australian Weekend News...
However, in 2005 when Mr Wijat and his team were ready with  the capital to re-launch the Australian Weekend News Australia wide in evert town and cits in Australia based on the $100 million sale of the Mr Wijat's  seven luxury homes in one street on 200 acres of exclusive development land in the hills of Tallai, known as the Hollywood Hills of the Gold Coast, Queensland, whicch on one side of the street overlooks the beautiful Hinze Dam and on the other side of the street overlooks the city of the Gold Coast which is build right on he Pacific Ocean and the city ....one of Rupert Murduch reporters, Valerie and her husband Mather Jones. who also owned a house in the same street, worked with under instructions from Rupert Murdoch and his all powerful News Corp to corrupt estate agents, corrupt business people, corrupt valuers and corrupt police, even heavies to scare Mr Wijat, his family and his freinds, to destroy Mr Wijat's $100 million equity in his properies to make and to make sure the $100 million sale of the properties did not complete. Rupert Murdoch and his all powerful News Corp  had $500 billion in media assets to protect and could not afford Mr Wijat to re-launch the Australian Weekend News Australia wide using the expected $100 million from the sale of his properties to finance the newspaper re-launch and the finalisation of the take over of a publicly listed  company  listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, as a vehicle to run the Australian Weekend News and finance it's future operations and development into a more honestly and fairly run  world wide media group under the name International News Limited, a company Mr Wijat owned in Australia. So Mr Wijat has now followed Rupert Murdoch gtot he USA and now has a company regsitered in the same USA state as News Corp is registered in called International News Limited. Mr Wijat is had made available at the ocst of $10 a year for anyone to reguster their own website, and as well get free easy to use webdesign softare so that even dummies like Mr Wijat can build a website, and also have five free pages hosting on the Web...all for $10....that way anyone can build and host their own website about their pet subject, news, hobby or business, or social networking web sites, they can even build their own news website which mr Wijat will help them promote and their partner with google to provide the adds to put on their website and that way make a permanent income for themsleves..all starting with $10...


Mr Wijat is the only guy in the world prpeared ot stand upto Rupert Murdoch.,
who according to Forbes, is the seventh most powerful perosn in the world,
however in reality if Rupert Murdoch gets control of the Britains BBC, which Rupert will do if David Cameron and his Tory Party
get into power at the 2010 UK elections, t
here is no doubt that will make Rupert Murdoch the most powerful man in the world...
no one will stop Rupert then.. except Mr Wijati and His Team.....

Mr Wijat is never afraid to take on the most powerful pollies, powerbtokers, business people, police, judges, magistrates...etc on fact anyone in power that is not using that power of the right, honest , moral and reasonable way........

In fact the  most powerful, the more rich and well connnecte dthey are the more Mr Wijat likes taking them on......Mr Wijat likes the challenge...

Mr Wijat  is just there for the ordinary person that needs support when they are being pushed around by powerful people....in a wrongful way..

if anyone wants to write to Mr Wijat about any subject whatsoever,
even Rupert you can write to Mr Wijat and put your point of view as to what has been said above about you and your powerful media group News Corp..

Mr Wijat's  favourite email address is his Google Mail one,
because it has all the best email features int the world with uo to 20 megabites of attachment space and
a great editing and speel check facility as Mr Wijat is not the best speller in the world...  

Email: mrwijat@gmail.com

 

 


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The Labour party are alleging that David Cameron has come to a deal with Rupert Murdoch to ensure support for the Tories; and that, in return, Cameron is offering to tailor Tory policies on media regulation and the BBC to suit the commercial interests of News International.

Examples of the apparent tie-in 

It is also being reported that Cameron had personally consulted the editor of The Sun, Dominic Mohan, three times before abandoning his "cast iron" promise that the Tories would hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

I find none of this remotely surprising. I have been trying for months now to work out just what exactly it is that David Cameron believes in, and I find him almost impenetrable. He will, literally, say anything - the vaguer the better - to ensure his own advancement.

Cameron and his bunch of Etonian cronies are creeping towards power - promising referendums to those who want them and attacks on BBC regional funding to those who would like to see that - but, as his recent climbdown regarding the Lisbon treaty shows, there is no guarantee that he will, in the end, deliver.

He's an empty suit, saying anything to get into office. Once he's there, he will simply make it up as he goes along. This is not a serious figure with a serious political message. If he had a political message, he would have given it to us by now. But, at the moment, he simply doesn't have one.

Don't get me wrong, he might acquire one once he gets into office, but for now, that ambition alone - getting into Number 10 - is far more important to him than what he will do once he gets there.

Examples of the apparent tie-in 


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Back during the GOP's Contract With America days, Republicans in congress were voting to slash moneys (cutting something like 200 million plus) given to our public broadcasting network at the same time that they were giving the FOX network a tax break in excess of 600 million. You can see where that led. PBS has yet to recover from that blow. My local National Public radio station spends two weeks out of every three months doing fund-raising.

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Cameron will do the same here. He'll sell out the BBC if he thinks Murdoch will help to get him elected
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For all its faults, the BBC is neither anything like an old guard American network (totally commercial, totally liberal – privatisers, take note) nor anything like FoxNews. While it is there, ITN cannot become the former, nor Sky News the latter. Long may it remain. David Lindsay on Aug 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

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Johan de Meulemeester’s comment (29 August 4.54 pm) puts the matter in perspective. Surely even those who have reservations about the BBC would not wish to give the Murdoch empire more commercial power over news dissemination? Pragmatist on Aug 30th, 200

Notwithstanding anything which may be said about the BBC’s left-liberal or anti-Christian bias in news, current affairs and drama commissioning, all of which in great part I agree with, and given that caveat, their multivarious website content is a superb resource and as a television licence fee payer I do not mind in the least that this resource is supplied free to countless people throughout the world. To those who snicker about the licence fee, remember that every time you buy anything in a shop or supermarket you are actually paying a proportion to the commercial organisations who fund the advertising-funded other “free” television resources, which you also don’t watch. I am weary of complex problems being trivialised. Does anyone seriously wish for a media landscape without the BBC, for all its faults? A landscape dominated by Murdoch, Turner, et al? The left-liberal BBC stance is very much beholden to the current political and intellectual establishment consensus, and if we, or the episcopate, do not have the spine and/or the intellectual wherewithal to challenge or inform that consensus, we only have ourselves to blame. Ranting is so much easier than slow hard work. Londiniensis on Aug 29th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Londiniensis That was probably the most intelligent and considered comment I have read on the Telegraph website, by professional and amateur contributor alike. I fear it will be wasted on its regular denizens, however beaton on Aug 29th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Murdoch’s Pentagon propaganda empire should be dismantled: checkout below the news assets this dangerous man controls. Murdoch has appointed every single prime minister to the British people for the last 30 years by brainwashing the sheeple with his propaganda empire:

Johan de Meulemeester on Aug 29th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

RUPERT MURDOCH’s NEWSCORP

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WNYW – New York City. WWOR – New York City, KTTV – Los Angeles,  KCOP – Los Angeles,  WFLD – Chicago, WPWR – Chicago, KMSP – Minneapolis, WFTC – Minneapolis, WTXF – Philadelphia, WFXT – Boston
WTTG – Washington D.C., WDCA – Washington D.C., KDFW – Dallas, KDFI – Dallas, WJBK – Detroit, KUTP – Phoenix, KSAZ – Phoenix, WUTB – Baltimore, WRBW – Orlando, WOFL – Orlando, WOGX  Ocala, WAGA – Atlanta
KRIV – Houston, KTXH – Houston, WTVT – Tampa, WHBQ – Memphis, KTBC – Austin, DBS & Cable, FOXTEL, BSkyB, Sky Italia, Fox News Channel, Fox Movie Channel, FX, FUEL, National Geographic Channel
SPEED Channel, Fox Sports Net
, FSN New England (50%). FSN Ohio, FSN Florida, National Advertising Partners, Fox College Sports, Fox Soccer Channel, Stats, Inc., Film20th Century Fox Español, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International, 20th Century Fox Television,  Fox Studios Australia, Fox Studios 
Baja, Fox Studios LA, 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Television Studios, Blue Sky Studios
Newspapers
United States, New York Post, The Wall St. Journal, Dow Jones United Kingdom
News International, News of the World, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Times, Times Literary Supplement, Australasia, Daily Telegraph, Fiji Times, Gold Coast Bulletin, Herald Sun
, Newsphotos, Newspix, Newstext, NT News, Post-Courier, Sunday Herald Sun, Sunday Mail, Sunday Tasmanian, Sunday Territorian
Sunday Times. The Advertiser, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Mercury, The Sunday Telegraph, Weekly Times, Magazines
, InsideOut, donna hay, SmartSource, The Weekly Standard, Big League, ALPHA
Books

HarperMorrow Publishers, HarperMorrow. General Books Group, Amistad, Caedmon, Avon, Avon A, Avon Inspire, Avon Red, Collins, Collins Design, Ecco
Eos, Fourth Estate, Harper Mass Market, Harper Pakerbacks, HarperAudio, HarperBusiness, HarperCollins, Perennial, Perennial Modern Classics, HarperCollins e-Books, HarperLuxe, Rayo, William Morrow
William Morrow Cookbooks, Children’s Books Group
, Amistad, Greenwillow Books, Joanna Cotler Books, Eos, Laura Geringer Books, HarperAudio, HarperCollins Children’s Books, HarperFestival, HarperTeen
Katherine 
Tegen Books, Julie Andrews Books, Rayo, Trophy, HarperCollins International, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins India, HarperCollins New Zealand, Zondervan
Other,

Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 40% option), Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 9.8% option), Staples Center (40% owned by Fox/Liberty)
News Interactive
Fox Sports Radio Network
, Broadsystem, Classic FM, Festival Records, Fox Interactive, IGN Entertainment, Mushroom Records, MySpace.com, National Rugby League, NDS, News Outdoor, Scout Media, Rotten Tomatoes, AskMen, FoxSports.net, WhatIfSports, kSolo. Fox.com, AmericanIdol.com, Spring Widgets, News Digital Media
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Careerone.com.au
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The problem with the BBC’s web sites is that it is funded by the licence fee but not subject to the impartiality rules.
There is a duopoly – Murdoch and BBC. Murdoch should be compelled to choose between Press and TV, and divest all print media ownership.
The License fee should be abolished and the BBC forced to survive on ads and subs. One would see the lefty bias and PC nonsense disappear overnight, and not just from the 
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http://www.slate.com/id/2167031/

Murdoch Lies to the Financial Times Do we really want this guy owning the Wall Street JournalBy Jack Shafer Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007,

Rupert Murdoch has grown so desperate in his attempt to buy Dow Jones and its Wall Street Journal that he'll tell any lie he thinks will help. Murdoch pillories the truth on Page One of today's Financial Times. "Murdoch denies Beijing kowtow as Dow Jones rhetoric hots up" gives the News Corp. mogul a forum to rebut allegations that he would be a poor steward for the Dow Jones-owned Wall Street Journal because of his history of licking Chinese boots. Anti-Murdoch critics always cite his 1994 decision to pull BBC News from his Star TV satellite channel in China. They say the move was designed to placate the Chinese, who disliked the BBC's critical news and documentary broadcasts. 
Murdoch maintains in today's Financial Times that ditching the BBC was just a business decision, saying:
Star was losing $100m per year; we had to pay $10m per year to the BBC. I said "Let them pay it themselves", and they did. We also cancelled two other third-party channels—MTV and Prime Sports. At that stage we never ever had any request from anybody in China. Indeed, there was no discourse at all.
But that wasn't Murdoch's position 13 years ago. A few months after the channel was axed and after much hemming and hawing by his company, Murdoch finally confessed in an interview with his biographer, journalist William Shawcross. The June 14, 1994,Financial Times cited the interview in an article titled "Murdoch cut BBC to please China." Its lede reads:
Mr Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, has finally admitted that he kicked BBC World Service Television off his Star TV system in Asia to please the Chinese government and help establish the satellite service there. Murdoch defended pulling the BBC plug, telling Shawcross that the Chinese leaders "hate the BBC." Speaking of his critics, Murdoch continued, "They say it's a cowardly way, but we said in order to get in there and get accepted, we'll cut the BBC out." 
Murdoch critics also love to bash the rotten old bastard for spiking a book by Chris Patten, Britain's last governor of Hong Kong. Here's the story: In 1997, the U.K. division of Murdoch's HarperCollins publishing house gave Patten a reported $200,000 advance for a book about the region. Then in February 1998, when East and West was in hand, HarperCollins dropped it.
In today's Financial Times, Murdoch asserts:
I had told the HarperCollins editors not to publish the Patten book because I did not think it would sell, but then they went ahead anyway. … When I then found out they were publishing it, I told them anyone else could publish it, just not them. In retrospect, it would have been better just to publish it.
Murdoch's ragged recollection doesn't match the clips on Nexis. Patten's editor loved East and West, but company executives decided to cancel it because it was critical of China. In a memo to his corporate boss, HarperCollins U.K. Chairman Eddie Bell concluded that the firm would have to choose between bad PR for killing the book or Chinese ill will for publishing it. "KRM [Rupert Murdoch] has outlined to me the negative aspects of publication," Bell wrote.
Absent from Bell's memo is any discussion of the book's low commercial potential, which Murdoch now proposes as the true reason he wanted to jettison it.
According to Patten's literary agent, Michael Sissions, HarperCollins executive Adrian Bourne told him the house didn't want the book because it "did not accord with the synopsis and was below standard." But that wasn't all. "He blurted out that Chris Patten did not seem to have anything good to say about Asia," says Sissions.
According to Patten's literary agent, Michael Sissions, HarperCollins executive Adrian Bourne told him the house didn't want the book because it "did not accord with the synopsis and was below standard." But that wasn't all. "He blurted out that Chris Patten did not seem to have anything good to say about Asia," says Sissions.
Patten's editor, Stuart Proffitt, told the press that his bosses instructed him to say the book had been turned down because it wasn't worth the money, but he refused, calling it a lie. The book found a new U.K. publisher at Macmillan, and HarperCollins, facing a lawsuit from Patten, quickly apologized for calling the book substandard and "too boring."East and West got good reviews and became a New York Times "Notable Book of 1998."
Murdoch also uses the Financial Times to deny allegations that News Corp.'s Basic Books imprint paid $1 million to the politically connected daughter of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping for her book about him. The price was a mere $20,000, Murdoch tells theFinancial Times. I leave it to you to decide whether Murdoch is telling the truth on this one.
How good a book was My Father Deng Xiaoping? Murdoch thought it worthy of a dinner party in honor of the author at Le Cirque, where 50 New York City notables from business, politics, and society attended, according to a 1995 Washington Post piece. TheNew York Times also reported that the author's "tour was personally attended to by Rupert Murdoch.
The New Yorker's Ian Buruma thought much less of the book, calling it a "turgid, barely literate piece of propaganda."
What's the matter with the Financial Times? Don't they have access to their own archives? The FT also neglects to ask Murdoch about China kowtowing by his son James, Rupert's heir apparent. Send your questions for Rupert Murdoch to slate.pressbox@gmail.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)

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Mark Thompson took over from Greg Dyke as BBC director general in 2004

James Murdoch in Edinburgh

BBC Boss: James Murdoch Is 'Out Of Touch' UK, Thursday September 10, 2009 The BBC has called James Murdoch "desperately out of touch" after the News Corp chief labelled the corporation's news and internet ambitions as "chilling".

Director general Mark Thompson wrote an email to all staff declaring that UK audiences were behind the BBC.

His comments were prompted by a recent speech Mr Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp Europe and Asia, made to the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

The most important thing to say about that lecture and about many of the recent attacks on the BBC is that they are desperately out of touch with what the audience themselves are telling us.  Mark Thompson, BBC director-general

He raised BBC hackles by asserting that the corporation had become too big and was a "serious and imminent" threat to news provision. "Dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult for journalism to flourish on the internet," Mr Murdoch said. "It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news." But Mr Thompson has now told his staff to ignore any recent criticism. "We've seen a pretty relentless onslaught from the press over the summer, culminating in James Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture," he wrote in the email. "The most important thing to say about that lecture and about many of the recent attacks on the BBC is that they are desperately out of touch with what the audience themselves are telling us." The email emerged as the chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, acknowledged the BBC may have to "become smaller". In an unprecedented open letter to licence-fee payers, he said the BBC "cannot be allowed to use its strength and public funding to compete unfairly or to squeeze out new or weakened competitors". He added that the BBC was "not frightened of change" but the that change "must be driven by what the public wants and not by commercial or political pressures".

:: News Corporation is a minority shareholder in BSkyB.

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The Osterley Times"THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD IS LED TO WAR: POLITICIANS LIE TO JOURNALISTS, AND BELIEVE THOSE LIES WHEN THEY SEE THEM IN PRINT."

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?
The Labour party are alleging that David Cameron has come to a deal with Rupert Murdoch to ensure support for the Tories; and that, in return, Cameron is offering to tailor Tory policies on media regulation and the BBC to suit the commercial interests of News International.
Examples of the apparent tie-in between what News International's boss, James Murdoch, wants, and what David Cameron is ready to promise include the recent decision by the Conservatives to abandon the idea of "top slicing" the BBC licence fee. It had been proposed that part of the money paid to the BBC would be siphoned off to help regional television companies meet the threat from the internet. But this would also have helped them compete more effectively against Sky News, which is part of the Murdoch media empire.When the policy was abandoned in September, Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Culture Secretary, said that it was because enacting it might make the commercial television companies "focus not on attracting viewers but on attracting subsidies". There was no gain for the BBC in the climbdown, because David Cameron had already said that the Tories will freeze the licence fee. What it will mean is that the BBC's income will be capped, without the regional television companies seeing any government help, which will strengthen the market position of Britain's only satellite television company, Sky. "This was done for News International," a Tory insider said yesterday. "Murdoch wants Sky to go head to head with the BBC. He doesn't want the independent companies strengthened."In April 2008, James Murdoch complained bitterly about the media regulatorOfcom in his first major speech after taking over as chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and Asia. The following year, David Cameron announced that a Conservative government would cut Ofcom down to size.Last summer James Murdoch attacked the "abysmal record" of the BBC Trust – the body created by Labour to over see the BBC – in a lecture he gave at the Edinburgh Festival, singling out its "total failure" to stop the BBC buying the Lonely Planet travel guides, a takeover that Murdoch denounced as an "egregious" invasion of private enterprise by the state. Less than two months later, Jeremy Hunt promised that the Tories would abolish the Trust.In the same lecture, Murdoch complained that BBC performers like Jonathan Ross are being paid salaries that "no commercial competitor can afford". He had barely uttered the words before Ed Vaizey, a shadow media minister, promised that a Tory government would compel the BBC to publish the salaries of its top performers.I know that Cameron would do simply anything to become the PM, but the links between what News International want, and how quickly the Tories jump every time News International make their views known, is pretty hard to ignore.
Cameron would do whatever Murdoch asked of him. And that point is now being made by very senior Labour figures.Lord Mandelson alleged yesterday that the Conservatives and News International had "effectively formed a contract, over the head, incidentally, of the newspaper's editor and their readers, in which they are sort of bound to one another". peaking to the BBC's Today programme, he added: "What The Sun can do for the Conservatives during the election is one part of the contract and, presumably, what the Conservatives can do for News International if they are elected is the other side of the bargain. But there is a wider question. When The Sun creates the news in this way, this is then followed up by Sky News, which then puts pressure on the BBC to follow suit." his is all coming out because of The Sun's recent attack on Gordon Brown over a letter which he sent to the mother of a soldier who died in Afghanistan last month in which Brown got the family name wrong. The intensity of the attack, and the inference that Brown was callous and caused great offence, has not been received by the public in the way which The Sun surely wanted. ut there were signs yesterday that the attack may have rebounded on The Sun. Mr Brown, who is blind in one eye, has admitted that his handwriting is bad and has apologised to Mrs Janes, whose 20-year-old son, Jamie, was killed by a makeshift bomb in Afghanistan last month. poll yesterday for the website PoliticsHome, whose main shareholder is the Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, found that 65 per cent of those polled thought that The Sun's attack was "inappropriate" compared with 23 per cent who thought it was "legitimate". t is also being reported that Cameron had personally consulted the editor of The Sun, Dominic Mohan, three times before abandoning his "cast iron" promise that the Tories would hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
  find none of this remotely surprising. I have been trying for months now to work out just what exactly it is that David Cameron believes in, and I find him almost impenetrable. He will, literally, say anything - the vaguer the better - to ensure his own advancement.
 ameron and his bunch of Etonian cronies are creeping towards power - promising referendums to those who want them and attacks on BBC regional funding to those who would like to see that - but, as his recent climbdown regarding the Lisbon treaty shows, there is no guarantee that he will, in the end, deliver.
He's an empty suit, saying anything to get into office. Once he's there, he will simply make it up as he goes along. This is not a serious figure with a serious political message. If he had a political message, he would have given it to us by now. But, at the moment, he simply doesn't have one.
 on't get me wrong, he might acquire one once he gets into office, but for now, that ambition alone - getting into Number 10 - is far more important to him than what he will do once he gets there.

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DAVEAWAYFROMHOME SAID... ACK DURING THE GOP'S CONTRACT WITH AMERICA DAYS, REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS WERE VOTING TO SLASH MONEYS (CUTTING SOMETHING LIKE 200 MILLION PLUS) GIVEN TO OUR PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY WERE GIVING THE FOX NETWORK A TAX BREAK IN EXCESS OF 600 MILLION. YOU CAN SEE WHERE THAT LED. PBS HAS YET TO RECOVER FROM THAT BLOW. MY LOCAL NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO STATION SPENDS TWO WEEKS OUT OF EVERY THREE MONTHS DOING FUND-RAISING.

KEL SAID...
ameron will do the same here. He'll sell out the BBC if he thinks Murdoch will help to get him electe
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HAS CAMERON DONE A DEAL WITH MURDOCH? ORD MANDELSON'S ATTACK SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON TORY LEADER'S LINKS WITH MEDIA MOGUL  


EXAMPLES OF THE APPARENT TIE-IN BETWEEN WHAT NEWS INTERNATIONAL'S BOSS, JAMES MURDOCH, WANTS, AND WHAT DAVID CAMERON IS READY TO PROMISE INCLUDE THE RECENT DECISION BY THE CONSERVATIVES TO ABANDON THE IDEA OF "TOP SLICING" THE BBC LICENCE FEE. IT HAD BEEN PROPOSED THAT PART OF THE MONEY PAID TO THE BBC WOULD BE SIPHONED OFF TO HELP REGIONAL TELEVISION COMPANIES MEET THE THREAT FROM THE INTERNET. BUT THIS WOULD ALSO HAVE HELPED THEM COMPETE MORE EFFECTIVELY AGAINST SKY NEWS, WHICH IS PART OF THE MURDOCH MEDIA EMPIRE.

WHEN THE POLICY WAS ABANDONED IN SEPTEMBER, JEREMY HUNT, THE SHADOW CULTURE SECRETARY, SAID THAT IT WAS BECAUSE NACTING IT MIGHT MAKE THE COMMERCIAL TELEVISION COMPANIES "FOCUS NOT ON ATTRACTING VIEWERS BUT ON ATTRACTING SUBSIDIES". THERE WAS NO GAIN FOR THE BBC IN THE CLIMBDOWN, BECAUSE DAVID CAMERON HAD ALREADY SAID THAT THE TORIES WILL FREEZE THE LICENCE FEE. WHAT IT WILL MEAN IS THAT THE BBC'S INCOME WILL BE CAPPED, WITHOUT THE REGIONAL TELEVISION COMPANIES SEEING ANY GOVERNMENT HELP, WHICH WILL STRENGTHEN THE MARKET POSITION OF BRITAIN'S ONLY SATELLITE TELEVISION COMPANY, SKY. "THIS WAS DONE FOR NEWS INTERNATIONAL," A TORY INSIDER SAID YESTERDAY. "MURDOCH WANTS SKY TO GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE BBC. HE DOESN'T WANT THE INDEPENDENT COMPANIES STRENGTHENED." N APRIL 2008, JAMES MURDOCH COMPLAINED BITTERLY ABOUT THE MEDIA REGULATOR OFCOM IN HIS FIRST MAJOR SPEECH AFTER TAKING OVER AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF NEWS CORPORATION IN EUROPE AND ASIA. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, DAVID CAMERON ANNOUNCED THAT A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT WOULD CUT OFCOM DOWN TO SIZE. AST SUMMER JAMES MURDOCH ATTACKED THE "ABYSMAL RECORD" OF THE BBC TRUST – THE BODY CREATED BY LABOUR TO OVER SEE THE BBC – IN A LECTURE HE GAVE AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, SINGLING OUT ITS "TOTAL FAILURE" TO STOP THE BBC BUYING THE LONELY PLANET TRAVEL GUIDES, A TAKEOVER THAT MURDOCH DENOUNCED AS AN "EGREGIOUS" INVASION OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BY THE STATE. LESS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, JEREMY HUNT PROMISED THAT THE TORIES WOULD ABOLISH THE TRUST. I THE SAME LECTURE, MURDOCH COMPLAINED THAT BBC PERFORMERS LIKE JONATHAN ROSS ARE BEING PAID SALARIES THAT "NO COMMERCIAL COMPETITOR CAN AFFORD". HE HAD BARELY UTTERED THE WORDS BEFORE ED VAIZEY, A SHADOW MEDIA MINISTER, PROMISED THAT A TORY GOVERNMENT WOULD COMPEL THE BBC TO PUBLISH THE SALARIES OF ITS TOP PERFORMERS.

LORD MANDELSON ALLEGED YESTERDAY THAT THE CONSERVATIVES AND NEWS INTERNATIONAL HAD "EFFECTIVELY FORMED A CONTRACT, OVER THE HEAD, INCIDENTALLY, OF THE NEWSPAPER'S EDITOR AND THEIR READERS, IN WHICH THEY ARE SORT OF BOUND TO ONE ANOTHER".

SPEAKING TO THE BBC'S TODAY PROGRAMME, HE ADDED: "WHAT THE SUN CAN DO FOR THE CONSERVATIVES DURING THE ELECTION IS ONE PART OF THE CONTRACT AND, PRESUMABLY, WHAT THE CONSERVATIVES CAN DO FOR NEWS INTERNATIONAL IF THEY ARE ELECTED IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BARGAIN. BUT THERE IS A WIDER QUESTION. WHEN THE SUN CREATES THE NEWS IN THIS WAY, THIS IS THEN FOLLOWED UP BY SKY NEWS, WHICH THEN PUTS PRESSURE ON THE BBC TO FOLLOW SUIT."

THIS WAS "ABSOLUTELY, CATEGORICALLY" DENIED YESTERDAY BY THE SUN'S POLITICAL EDITOR, TOM NEWTON DUNN, WHO ACCUSED LORD MANDELSON OF TALKING "PREPOSTEROUS NONSENSE".

THE SUN, WHICH SUPPORTED LABOUR THROUGH THREE GENERAL ELECTIONS UNDER TONY BLAIR'S LEADERSHIP, ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS JUMPING SHIP ON THE DAY THAT GORDON BROWN DELIVERED HIS ANNUAL SPEECH TO THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER.

ITS ONSLAUGHT ON GORDON BROWN FOR THE MISTAKES MADE IN A HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO JACQUI JANES IS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE ATTACK THAT THE NEWSPAPER HAS DIRECTED AT ANY LABOUR PARTY LEADER SINCE NEIL KINNOCK STOOD DOWN AFTER LOSING THE 1992 GENERAL ELECTION, A DEFEAT FOR WHICH THE SUN CLAIMED VICTORY WITH THE SLOGAN "IT WAS THE SUN WOT WON IT".

BUT THERE WERE SIGNS YESTERDAY THAT THE ATTACK MAY HAVE REBOUNDED ON THE SUN. MR BROWN, WHO IS BLIND IN ONE EYE, HAS ADMITTED THAT HIS HANDWRITING IS BAD AND HAS APOLOGISED TO MRS JANES, WHOSE 20-YEAR-OLD SON, JAMIE, WAS KILLED BY A MAKESHIFT BOMB IN AFGHANISTAN LAST MONTH.

A POLL YESTERDAY FOR THE WEBSITE POLITICSHOME, WHOSE MAIN SHAREHOLDER IS THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN LORD ASHCROFT, FOUND THAT 65 PER CENT OF THOSE POLLED THOUGHT THAT THE SUN'S ATTACK WAS "INAPPROPRIATE" COMPARED WITH 23 PER CENT WHO THOUGHT IT WAS "LEGITIMATE".

THE CLOSENESS OF THE NEW TORY-SUN AXIS IS SHOWN UP BY THE REVELATION, FROM AN INSIDE SOURCE, THAT DAVID CAMERON PERSONALLY CONSULTED THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, DOMINIC MOHAN, IN THREE SEPARATE CONVERSATIONS BEFORE HE ABANDONED HIS "CAST-IRON" PROMISE TO HOLD A REFERENDUM ON THE LISBON TREATY, NOW THAT ALL 27 MEMBERS STATES OF THE EU HAVE RATIFIED IT.

MR CAMERON WAS UNDERSTANDABLY WARY OF HOW THE SUN MIGHT REACT TO THE ABANDONMENT OF THAT PROMISE. THE PAPER HAS CAMPAIGNED FOR YEARS AGAINST WHAT IT SEES AS THE GROWTH OF AN EU SUPERSTATE. IT WAS IN AN OPEN LETTER TO READERS OF THE SUN THAT CAMERON FIRST MADE HIS GUARANTEE, TWO YEARS AGO.

HIS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT A REFERENDUM IS OFF THE AGENDA WAS SUBJECTED TO A SCATHING ATTACK IN THE DAILY MAIL, BUT IN THE SUN IT WAS GIVEN KID-GLOVE TREATMENT UNDER THE HEADLINE "CAMERON'S CRUSADE FOR UK RIGHTS".

THE PERSON BEHIND THIS AGGRESSIVELY PRO-TORY POLICY IS JAMES MURDOCH, NOT HIS FATHER, RUPERT, WHO CREATED THE SUN VIRTUALLY FROM SCRATCH IN THE 1970S. RUPERT MURDOCH CLAIMED IN AN INTERVIEW WITH SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA THAT HE "REGRETTED" HIS SON'S DECISION TO TURN AGAINST GORDON BROWN, "WHO IS A FRIEND OF MINE", BUT DEFENDED IT ON THE GROUNDS THAT BROWN HAS BEEN A "DISAPPOINTMENT".

YESTERDAY, THE TIMES, ANOTHER MURDOCH NEWSPAPER, ANNOUNCED THAT ITS VETERAN POLITICAL EDITOR, PHIL WEBSTER, IS LEAVING THE COMMONS, WHERE HE HAS BEEN BASED FOR DECADES. MR WEBSTER IS VERY WELL THOUGHT OF BY NEW LABOUR. HIS REPLACEMENT, ROLAND WATSON, WAS A FRIEND OF DAVID CAMERON'S AT ETON BUT HAS NO POLITICAL TIES WITH THE TORIES.

TOM NEWTON DUNN, NEWLY APPOINTED AS THE SUN'S POLITICAL EDITOR, IS ANOTHER OLD ETONIAN. HIS FATHER, BILL, USED TO BE A TORY MEP, BUT DEFECTED TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN 2000.


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PETER MANDELSON, BUSINESS SECRETARY: '[THE SUN AND THE TORIES] HAVE EFFECTIVELY FORMED A CONTRACT'

DAVID CAMERON HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF MAKING A "CONTRACT" WITH BRITAIN'S BIGGEST MEDIA COMPANY TO TRADE POLITICAL SUPPORT BEFORE AN ELECTION FOR GOVERNMENT FAVOURS AFTERWARDS IF THE TORIES WIN.

THE ACCUSATION WAS LEVELLED YESTERDAY BY THE BUSINESS SECRETARY PETER MANDELSON, WHO IS INCREASINGLY THE PUBLIC FACE OF GORDON BROWN'S GOVERNMENT. MINISTERS ARE ANGRY AT THE CAMPAIGN THAT THE SUN HAS RUN AGAINST THE PRIME MINISTER ALL THIS WEEK OVER THE SPELLING MISTAKES IN A LETTER MR BROWN SENT TO THE MOTHER OF A YOUNG SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN.

THEY SUSPECT THAT THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEEN TAILORING ITS POLICIES ON MEDIA REGULATION AND THE BBC TO SUIT THE COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF NEWS INTERNATIONAL, WHICH OWNS THE SUN, AND THAT THE PAPER'S AGGRESSIVE SUPPORT FOR THE TORIES IS A PAY-OFF THAT COULD SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE MASS MEDIA.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/16/jeremy-hunt-rupert-murdoch-the-sun

Claims of Tory-Murdoch pact 'absolute nonsense', says Jeremy Hunt

Shadow culture secretary reacts to Lord Mandelson's accusation that Tories have 'formed a contract' with News International


Page last updated at 00:00 GMT, Tuesday, 5 February 2008
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Mr Murdoch had been reported as a potential rival bidder
Microsoft is keen to better compete with Google

Murdoch rules out bid for Yahoo

Rupert Murdoch has played down speculation that he is interested in launching a rival takeover bid for internet search engine Yahoo.

"We are definitely not going to make a bid for Yahoo," said the chairman of media giant News Corporation.

However, Mr Murdoch then added: "We are just not interested at this stage."

Yahoo received a $44.6bn (£22.65bn) takeover approach from software giant Microsoft on Friday. News Corporation was seen as a potential rival suitor.

Google's concern

While Yahoo's board continues to say it is considering its position, Microsoft says the proposed takeover would create a "strong number two competitor" to search engine leader Google. Google itself has said it finds Microsoft's unsolicited approach for Yahoo "troubling", and has called for it to be investigated by regulators.In a blog, Google said the tie-up could unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email and instant messaging services. It said Microsoft had previously sought "to establish proprietary monopolies".

Online advertising

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer counters that a combined Microsoft and Yahoo would better rival Google, and therefore create stronger competition in the market for online advertising. "Google's clearly got a dominant position. They've got about 75% of paid search worldwide," Mr Ballmer said. Despite Microsoft's deep pockets, the software giant has revealed it may have to go into debt for the first time to finance its $44.6bn combined cash and share offer for Yahoo. Microsoft's proposed bid, unveiled in a letter to Yahoo's board on Friday, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. In addition to News Corporation, other firms named as potential rival Yahoo suitors are Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast


Jeremy Hunt: 'There are no deals.' Photograph: David Levene

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Claims of Tory-Murdoch pact 'absolute nonsense', says Jeremy HunMark Sweney  guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 November 2009  Article history

Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, has dismissed as "absolute nonsense" accusations of a pact between the Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch to favour his media conglomerate and curb the BBC in return for support from the Sun.

Last week in the wake of the row over the Sun's coverage of Gordon Brown, business secretary Lord Mandelson claimed that the Conservative party had "effectively formed a contract" with Murdoch's UK newspaper subsidiary News International. Mandelsonalso questioned what concessions the Tories might have to give if they came to power. unt, in an interview with Sky News yesterday, said that the accusation of collusion was "completely wrong and totally improper". There are no deals. I think what Peter Mandelson said is extraordinary," he added. "If there was some deal between the Conservatives and News Corp, then what about Labour's deal in 1997 or 2001 or 2005? It's absolute nonsense. If you look at what we've been saying on media policy, it's been very, very consistent for the last two years." ater this week Hunt is expected to reiterate key aims of Conservative media policy in a speech at the Manchester Media Festival, outlining a vision of a "Big Bang" revolution through the relaxation of local cross-media ownership rules. unt will say that the UK media sector, which has been heavily hit by the advertising downturn, has been strangled because of "heavy-handed" and "micro regulation". The start must be massive reform of the cross-media ownership rules for local media operators," Hunt will say, according to an article in the Daily Telegraph. "We need to allow media operators more flexibility to own businesses operating on both the same and different platforms. We will strip away the regulations in the same way that Big Bang [deregulation] revolutionised the City [in 1986] to make it the major financial centre of the world." he Conservatives will also significantly strip the power of Ofcom, the media regulator, to make policy, while the BBC will face a cut in its next licence fee settlement when negotiations are held in 2012. unt is also seeking to see the BBC's digital activities curtailed, including BBC3, BBC4 and digital radio stations such as 1Xtra, 6Music and Radio 7. The BBC needs to make a better case for investment in some of its new digital channels which have very low audiences but do cost a lot of money," he said in an interview in the Sunday Times. "If we win the election there will be discussions we will be having with the BBC."

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    The secret plot to stop Murdoch

    The prospect of Rupert Murdoch gaining total control of digital television is alarming even the Prime Minister. Previously unreported meetings have taken place at Downing Street to draw up battle plans. Saeed Shah investigates Tuesday, 29 January 2002

    In a couple of months' time, high-street shops will start selling a £99 box that can bring free-to-air digital channels to every home. The machine is part of a drive to convert the nation to digital television by a new alliance of BBC and ITV. n a couple of months' time, high-street shops will start selling a £99 box that can bring free-to-air digital channels to every home. The machine is part of a drive to convert the nation to digital television by a new alliance of BBC and ITV. he genesis of that alliance is as remarkable as the technology in the new £99 box. It springs from a series of secret meetings at 10 Downing Street. Those meetings, sanctioned by the Prime Minister and involving figures as senior as the BBC director-general Greg Dyke, had one overriding aim: stop Rupert Murdoch. r Dyke, as well as executives from ITV and senior figures from the City, were called in to Downing Street to discuss with the Prime Minister's media policy adviser Ed Richards, ways of stopping Murdoch's inexorable drive to control all paid-for digital television in Britain. t is not just Rupert Murdoch who has been kept out of the new secret loop. Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has been bypassed. The industry figures went straight to Downing Street with their concerns – a damaging snub to Ms Jowell. The background to these meetings is the Government's commitment to switching off the traditional analogue TV signal between 2006 and 2010. After that, only a digital signal will be available. There are three ways to get digital TV: via cable, satellite or through an ordinary aerial (terrestrial). The cable network will never cover the whole nation. That leaves only satellite (BSkyB) or terrestrial, available from ITV Digital, as the national platforms. he trouble is that, despite the success of its monkey ad campaign and attracting 1.2 million subscribers, ITV Digital is in dire financial trouble. So the BBC and ITV have come together in an initiative dubbed the "digital coalition", with the support of government, to reinvent and save the terrestrial platform. The clandestine grouping, which insiders admit is an "anti-Murdoch alliance", began over the summer. Charles Allen, the chairman of Granada, one of the two main ITV companies, wrote a private letter to Tony Blair in June. In it he said that ITV Digital was bleeding cash and was threatened with closure. This was disastrous news for Downing Street. The Government needs ITV Digital to survive, both to provide an alternative to Sky and to bring on board the majority of the population that still don't have digital TV. The aspiration of Digital Britain was in tatters," says one senior TV source. "Since it realised this, No 10 has been involved and kept briefed." d Richards, No 10's newly appointed special adviser on media, and a former BBC policy researcher, took the lead. A procession of executives from ITV, the BBC and the City were called in to Downing Street, including Greg Dyke, to discuss a way to save ITV Digital. By late September, the BBC and ITV were convinced that a solution to both their problems lay in joining forces, and serious talks between the two broadcasters began. or the BBC, this is a crucial project. The corporation has launched a series of channels that are available only on digital TV, and with more planned, such as BBC4, to start next month, it must ensure that there is a way of getting these stations to the licence-fee payers that have funded them. The new channels are free; but, to see them, viewers have to sign up to a pay-TV service. For the last year, Greg Dyke, has been trying to resolve this conundrum. he Government knows that 15.5 million households do not have access to digital TV, and that, as things stand, the majority of these citizens will still not have it by 2010. How can it then switch off analogue TV, and sell off this spectrum? Furthermore, Mr Blair was as horrified as the BBC by the prospect that all television in this country may soon have to depend on Murdoch, to be beamed into our homes on Sky. So  a rescue plan has been hatched by the BBC and ITV. The proposed way out of this mess is to break the link between digital TV and pay-TV. Although Britain leads the world in digital TV, with almost 40 per cent of the population signed up to one of the pay-TV services, take-up is now slowing down. Sky launched its services in 1989 and has gained over 5.5 million customers. But it is feared that most of those that can be tempted have already forked out for a subscription – the most popular Sky package costs £444 a year. Not everyone wants 200 channels and the financial drain of a subscription. Getting the rest of the country on board requires a different approach, according to the digital coalition, which has spent months plotting a new course. An announcement confirming the coalition is due in the next few weeks. Instead of getting a free set-top box with an ITV Digital subscription, which costs an average of £225 a year, consumers would be asked to spend a much smaller amount, say £100 or less, as a one-off payment to buy a basic digital terrestrial box themselves. This would enable them to receive all the free-to-air channels and then, if desired, this box could be upgraded to subscribe to the premium channels available on ITV Digital. Last week, Mr Dyke told a Commons select committee that BBC research showed that two million homes would be willing to buy a cut-price box. All the pieces of the digital terrestrial rescue plan are, then, falling into place. A marketing drive to promote free-to-air content is imminent – with the BBC alone committed to spend £20m on the campaign. Rupert Murdoch will be furious if the new campaign specifically promotes digital terrestrial rather than digital television generally. But if the plan comes off, Sky may just be forced to give one or two of its channels away for free, too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Sky_Broadcasting

    British Sky Broadcasting From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) (LSEBSY) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK andIreland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. It is the UK's largest pay TV provider. More than a third of the equity is owned by News Corporation, an American company chaired by Rupert Murdoch; News Corporation's precise shareholding fluctuates due to share options and buy backs and was 39.1% at May 2009.[1] As of 30 September 2008 it had 9,067,000 direct to home customers in the UK and Ireland. As of February 2007, it also had 3,294,000 indirect customers through the cable operator Virgin Media & through IPTV operator Tiscali TV in the UK, and a further 604,000 indirect cable customers on UPC Ireland in Ireland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

    History

    The Astra satellite network began with the launch of Astra 1A in 1989. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward BSkyB was able to begin expanding its services (the Astra satellites were all orbitally co-located at 19.2° east so that they could be received using the same dish). Sky does not own any of the satellites it has used since withdrawing service from the Marcopolo craft; the Astra satellites are owned and operated by SES Astra (and Eurobird 1 by Eutelsat). Sky has shared its orbital position with other pay-TV systems in the past. Sky has also worked together with Tata Group bringing Tata Sky in India and substituary state

    Origins

    Early years

    By 1990 both Rupert Murdoch's Sky Television and the BSB alliance were beginning to struggle with the burden of massive losses which led to a 50:50 financial merger in November 1990.
    The new company was called British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) but marketed as Sky, Marco Polo House was sold, BSB's channels were largely scrapped in favour of Sky's and the Marcopolo satellites were run down and eventually sold in favour of the Astra system(Marcopolo I in December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo II in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway. Both companies had already one HS376 in orbit at the time). The merger may have saved Sky financially; Sky had very few major advertisers to begin with. Acquiring BSB's healthier advertising contracts and equipment apparently solved the company's problems.

    Move to Digital

    The launch of the Astra 2A satellite at a new orbital position, 28.2° east, in 1998 (subsequently followed by more Astra satellites as well as Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 at 28.5°E), enabled the company to launch a new all-digital service, Sky Digital, with the potential to carry hundreds of television and radio channels

    Timeline

    • 1989 5 February — Sky television launches DTH UK service via Astra satellite
    • 1990 — Sky subscribers reach 1 million
    • 1990 November — British Sky Broadcasting formed by merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB). Murdoch the majority shareholder through News International, BSB partners' PearsonReedChargeurs and Granada plc shareholdings were held through BSB Holdings Limited (BSBH)
    • 1991 — Of BSB's five channels; Now news programmes merged with Sky News and Sky Arts created to use Now programming, Galaxy merged with Sky One, The Sports Channel is rebranded to Sky Sports soon after the merger, and launches on Astra. This followed Sky's forced closure of its earlier venture Eurosport due to EU competition concerns. (The channel was later purchased by TF1 and relaunched.) The Movie Channel is retained and also launches on Astra. The Power Station remains broadcasting on Marcopolo until April.Sky OneSky News and Sky Movies maintained.
    • 1992 July — BSkyB sells the former BSB Marcopolo II satellite to Telenor
    • 1992 — BSkyB signs exclusive live television rights deal with the FA Premier League
    • 1992 31 December — BSkyB ceases transmissions to Marcopolo I satellite following the IBA's withdrawal of the BSB franchise. Despite re-advertising the franchise, and attracting a number of expressions of interest, the franchise was not re-awarded, and UK DBS trasmissions from 31 degrees west ended, effectively making Astra 1 the UK's default satellite position.
    • 1993 1 September — "Sky Multichannel" packages launched
    • 1993 — December — BSkyB sells the former BSB Marcopolo I satellite to NSAB
    • 1994 — 17% of BSkyB is floated on the London and New York stock exchanges
    • 1994 — Five more channels launch, including Sky Sports 2
    • 1995 — Six more channels launched including History Channel and Disney Channel
    • 1995 — BSkyB enter the FTSE 100 Index
    • 1996 — BSkyB signs an extension of its Premier League rights for £670 million
    • 1998 30 August — First of a new generation of Astra satellites launched, paving way for digital satellite television. Sky Digital launches on 1 October
    • 1999 — Vivendi SA becomes sole shareholder of BSBH, which held 11.8% of BSkyB at the time. It also acquired the shareholding of Pathé through merger, bringing its total shareholding to 22% (as of 2001). BSkyB Chairman Jérôme Seydoux forced to resign due to sale of Pathé's interest; Murdoch takes Chairmanship to prevent Vivendi acquiring it (as it would be entitled to)
    • 2001 — BSkyB signs 5 millionth subscriber. Analogue service discontinued
    • 2001 — Sky+ introduced: A set top box/digital video recorder hybrid
    • 2001 — December — Vivendi Universal sells part of its shareholding comprising 8% of the company, followed by the remaining 14% in May 2002
    • 2002 — BSkyB takes an equal share of Freeview, in partnership with the BBC and Crown Castle (now part of National Grid)
    • 2003 — James Murdoch elected as CEO, replacing Tony Ball
    • 2003 — Sky subscribers reach 7.5 million
    • 2003 — Sky acquires the television series 24 from Fox which was previously shown on the BBC
    • 2004 1 November - ITV plc takes full control of GSkyB. Plus, one of GSB's channels, was closed down and replaced with ITV3.
    • 2005 — BSkyB purchase network provider Easynet for £211m ($373.1m).[2]
    • 2005 — Sky launches Sky by Broadband, a service available to existing movie and sports service subscribers that allows them to download movies and sports clips direct to their home computer. The service is made available free of charge
    • 2006 — Sky HD launches on 22 May, with a line-up of 10 high definition channels
    • 2006 — Sky acquires Mykindaplace.com to expand its internet presence
    • 2006 — Sky acquires Aura Sports Ltd to expand its internet media sales presence
    • 2006 — Sky achieves CarbonNeutral status[3]
    • 2006 — Sky launches and allows pre-registering of its new broadband service
    • 2006 — Sky is listed as one of the applicants for the licence to manage Ireland's digital terrestrial television network
    • 2006 — Sky acquires Season 3 and 4 of Lost in a multi-million pound deal with Buena Vista International Television (previous series were shown on Channel 4)
    • 2006 — Sky controversially acquires 17.9% stake in ITV, Britain's largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, blocking NTL's proposal.
    • 2006 — Sky rebrands VoD services, such as Sky By Broadband, as Sky Anytime, adding US imports to on-demand content.
    • 2007 — Sky announces plans to launch pay channels on the digital terrestrial platform.[4]
    • 2007 — Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Alistair Darling asks media regulator Ofcom to investigate Sky's purchase of a stake in ITV plc.[5]
    • 2007 — Sky's increased price demands causes Virgin Media to not renew the contract to provide Sky basic channels (effective from 1 March 2007) after negotiations falls through.[6]
    • 2007 — BSkyB acquire electronics manufacturer Amstrad for a reported £133 million.[7]
    • 2007 29 October — Sky Broadband reach 1 million customer mark.[8]
    • 2007 29 October — BSkyB offer to give up part of their ITV voting rights after a ruling from the Competition Commission.[9]
    • 2008 10 November — BSkyB announces that they will offer online TV. Satellite TV channels to be broadcast over the internet. No satellite receiver needed.[10]
    • 2009 17 February — BSkyB announces that they will be replacing over 90,000 Sky+HD boxes due to a technical fault. Boxes will be replaced for free and customers will receive three months of HD services, free of charge. BSkyB have never confirmed the official reason for the recall, however have stated that the recall was not due to a safety issue.[11]
    • 2009 19 October Sky unveils the Sky Songsmusic subscription service. For £6.49/month users can download 10 mp3s, and get unlimited streaming of over 4 million tracks. For £7.49/month, users get an additional 5 mp3s/month (a total of 15 tracks per month) plus the streaming service.

    Corporate information

    Management

    Rupert Murdoch's News International (a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation) currently has a 38% stake in the company. News Corp also fully owns Sky Italia, about 78% of New Zealand's SKY Network Television Limited and b.net of Croatia andMontenegro.

    The first CEO of BSkyB was Sam Chisholm, who was CEO of Sky TV before the merger. Chisholm served in this position until 1997. He was followed by Mark Booth who was credited with leading the company through the introduction of Sky Digital. Tony Ball was appointed in 1999 and completed the company's analogue to digital conversion. He is also credited with returning the company to profit and bringing subscriber numbers to new heights. In 2003 Ball announced his resignation and James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch was announced as his successor. This appointment caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders.[12]

    On 7 December 2007 it was announced that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down as BSkyB's Non-Executive Chairman and would be replaced by his Son, James. It was also announced that James would be stepping down as CEO of BSkyB and will be replaced by Jeremy Darroch [13]

    Organisation

    [edit]Direct subsidiaries

    • British Sky Broadcasting Ltd
      Operating company for the Sky pay-television service.
    • Sky Television Ltd
      The original 
      Sky Television plc, now a holding company
    • Sports Internet Group Ltd
      Sports content and online betting services.
    • British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings Ltd
      Interactive television services, formerly an alliance of BSkyB, BT GroupHSBC and Matsushita.
    • Easynet Ltd
      Network infrastructure for Sky BroadbandEasynet connectUK Online, and third party corporate customers.
    • Mykindaplace.com
      Being both an agency and a media owner, run many successful sites.
    • Aura Sports Ltd
      Media Sales Agency, sells advertising on the majority of premiership football club websites, as well as other major sports.
    • Aura Play Ltd
      Another Media Sales Agency, sells advertising across a number of websites in the music and entertainment sector.

    Joint ventures

    Others

    Other subsidiaries include Sky In-Home Service Ltd which installs Sky equipment, and the Luxembourg based British Sky Broadcasting SA which is the company which leases transponders on Astra satellites

    Competition

    The Ofcom Consumer Panel complained that the BSkyB plan to operate pay TV services on Freeview was "generating serious consumer detriment"[15] and the National Consumer Council call the BSkyB plan "bad news for consumers,"[16] combined with representations from BTSetantaTop Up TV, and Virgin Media has caused Ofcom to launch an investigation into the "features of the [UK pay TV] market, including control over content, ownership of distribution platforms, retail subscriber bases and vertical integration."[17]

    Virgin Media - Main Competition

    At present the other major pay-TV operator in the United Kingdom is the service provider Virgin Media (Rebranded in 2007 from NTL:Telewest). Virgin Media's cable network was also formed by numerous mergers and acquisitions over the last decade, with different cable companies having used different types of network and technology in their areas.

    Virgin Media currently includes Virgin Media Television, previously the content arm of Telewest known as Flextech Television, which owns several channels, including the Sky1's direct rival Virgin1 and a 50% stake in the UKTV network. Virgin is understood to be seeking to sell this business, and as at May 29, 2009, BSkyB is understood to have made the largest bid at auction.[18]

    Like Sky, Virgin Media offers a high-definition television (HDTV) capable set top box, although from 30 November 2006 until 30 July 2009 it only carried one linear HD channel, BBC HD, after the conclusion of the ITV HD trial. Virgin has claimed that other HD channels were "locked up" or otherwise withheld from their platform[19], although Virgin did in fact have an option to carry Channel 4 HD in the future[20][21]. Nonetheless, the linear channels were not offered, Virgin instead concentrating on its Video On Demand service[22] to carry a modest selection of HD content.[23] Virgin has nevertheless made a number of statements[19][24][25] over the years, suggesting that more linear HD channels are on the way.

    In Q3 2009 Virgin announced that it was making more linear HD channels available on its platform, including FX HD, MTVN HD, Channel 4 HD, and National Geographic HD. Also expected to follow shortly is Living HD.

    In 2007, BSkyB and Virgin Media became involved in a dispute over the carriage of Sky channels on cable TV. The failure to renew the existing carriage agreements negotiated with NTL and Telewest resulted in Virgin removing the basic channels from the network on 1 March 2007. Virgin claimed that Sky had substantially increased the asking price for the channels, a claim which Sky denied, on the basis that their new deal offered "substantially more value" by including HD channels and Video On Demand content which was not previously carried by cable.[26]

    In response, Sky ran a number of TV, radio and print advertisements claiming that Virgin media 'doubted the value' of the channels concerned, at first urging Virgin customers to call their cable operator to show their support for Sky, but later urging Virgin customers to migrate to Sky to continue receiving the channels. The broadcasting regulator Ofcom subsequently found these commercials in breach of their code.[27]

    The availability (at an extra charge) of Sky's premium sport and movie services was not effected by the dispute. This impasse continued for twenty-one months, with both companies initiating High Court proceedings.[28] Amongst Virgin's claims to the court[29] (denied by Sky)[30] were that Sky had unfairly reduced the amount which it paid to VMTV for the carriage of Virgin's own channels on satellite.

    Eventually, on 4 November 2008 it was announced that an agreement had been struck for Sky's Basic channels – including Sky1Sky2Sky3Sky NewsSky Sports NewsSky Arts 1,Sky Arts 2Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 to return to Virgin Media from 13 November 2008 until 12 June 2011. In exchange will be provided continued carriage of Virgin Media Television's channels – LivingLivingitBravoBravo +1TroubleChallenge and Virgin1 for the same period.[31]

    The agreements include fixed annual carriage fees of £30m for the channels with both channel suppliers able to secure additional capped payments if their channels meet certain performance-related targets. Currently there is no indication as to whether the new deal includes the additional Video On Demand and High Definition content which had previously been offered by Sky. As part of the agreements, both Sky and Virgin Media agreed to terminate all High Court proceedings against each other relating to the carriage of their respective basic channels.[32]

    [edit]Television over ADSL services

    Sky is facing increased competition from telecommunications providers delivering pay television services over existing telephone lines using ADSL. Such providers are potentially able to offer "triple-play" or "quad-play" packages combining land-line telephone, broadband Internet, mobile telephone and pay television services.

    In the final quarter of 2006, BT, the UK's biggest Telephone company, launched BT Vision. The BT Vision set-top box, provides true Video on Demand (VoD) over BT's telephone lines using ADSL. The set-top-box complements the VoD component by providing access to the Freeview digital terrestrial television service. Tiscali TV also offers an IPTV service with many channels, including Sky's channels, delivered to a set top box over ADSL.

    To compete with these providers, in October 2005, BSkyB bought the broadband Internet Service Provider Easynet for £211 million. This acquisition has allowed BSkyB to start offering its "Sky Anytime on PC" service as well as a "triple play" package combining satellite television, land-line telephone and Broadband service. Sky also offers some streaming live TV channels to a computer using Microsoft's Silverlight.

    Digital Terrestrial Television

    BSkyB initially faced competition from the ONdigital digital terrestrial television service (later renamed ITV Digital). ITV Digital failed for numerous reasons, including, but not limited to numerous administrative and technical failures, nervous investors after a large down-turn in the advertising market and the dot com crash, and BSkyB's aggressive marketing and domination of premium sporting rights.

    Sky was more receptive to ITV Digital's free-to-air replacement, Freeview, in which it holds an equal stake with the BBCITVChannel 4 and National Grid Wireless. Prior to October 2005, three BSkyB channels were available on this platform: Sky NewsSky Three, and Sky Sports News. Initially BSkyB provided Sky Travel to the service. However, this was replaced by Sky Three on 31 October 2005, allowing BSkyB to air its exclusive licensed content with delays of between 12–18 months from their original air dates on Sky One.

    Terrestrial television companies currently have limited bandwidth. This means that, at present, there is little or no option to offer HD services, until after the final analogue television services are switched off in 2012 freeing up substantial bandwidth.

    In a response to the push towards Free to Air services such as Freesat and Freeview, BSkyB has marketed its own free to view offering (Freesat from Sky).

    On 8 February 2007, Sky announced its intention to replace its three free-to-air digital terrestrial channels with four subscription channels. It was proposed that these channels would offer a range of content from the Sky portfolio including sport (including English Premiership Football), movies, entertainment and news.[33] The announcement came a day after Setanta Sportsconfirmed that it would launch in March as a subscription service on the digital terrestrial platform, and on the same day that NTL's services rebranded as Virgin Media. However, industry sources believe Sky will be forced to shelve plans to withdraw its channels from Freeview and replace them with subscription channels, due to possible lost advertising revenue.[34]

    Stake in ITV plc

    ITV plc has been the subject of a flurry of rumoured take-over and merger bids since it was formed. For example, on 9 November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached ITV plc about a proposed merger [35][36]. The merger was effectively blocked by BSkyB on 17 November 2006 when it controversially bought a 17.9% stake in ITV plc for £940 million [37], a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson[38] and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom[39]. On 6 December 2006, NTL announced that it had complained to the Office of Fair Trading about BSkyB's move. NTL stated that it had withdrawn its attempt to buy ITV plc, citing that it did not believe that there was any possibility to make a deal on favourable terms[40]. At the same time as the NTL bid, RTL, the owner of Five, was also rumoured to be preparing a bid for ITV plc,[41] with the possibility of a stock-swap with BSkyB. The plan would see RTL acquiring BSkyB's stake in ITV plc (with the aim of further acquisitions of shares in the future) in exchange for BSkyB taking full control of Five. However, no move from RTL has yet materialised so far.

    Future

    EPG

    Sky has developed a new version of its Sky Guide electronic programme guide (EPG) service, which includes new genres, easier access to channels, and a complete renumbering system. It also includes new hotkeys to get into new menus quicker. This is the biggest change to the Sky EPG since its launch in 1998.

    On Demand services

    Main article: Sky Anytime
    Sky Anytime is the current brand for Sky's on-demand services currently available on TV (Sky+ and Sky+ HD), and 3G mobile phones. Sky Anytime on PC has been rebranded to Sky Player

    High Definition TV (HDTV)

    Main article: Sky+ HD

    BSkyB launched its HDTV service, Sky+ HD, on 22 May 2006. Leading up to the launch, Sky claimed that 40,000 people had signed up to the HD service. However, in the week before the launch rumours started to surface that Sky was having supply problems of its Set Top Box (STB) from manufacturer Thomson. Starting on Thursday 18 May, and then all through the weekend before launch, people were reporting that Sky had either cancelled or rescheduled its installations. Finally, the BBC reported that 17,000 customers had been let down for the launch due to failed deliveries.[42] Some customers reported installations were only cancelled on the day of the launch. The episode was widely seen as being very embarrassing for Sky, who until that point had been extremely conservative in new service launch schedules. The supply problems were resolved shortly after launch.

    According to figures published by Sky, there were 591,000 subscribers to the Sky HD service by 30 September 2008.[43]

    Football rights

    BSkyB's purchase of broadcast rights for major sporting events, most importantly Premiership football, has been the bedrock of its success. The company paid over £300 million for thePremier League rights, beating the BBC and ITV, and has had a monopoly of live matches since the inception of the Premier League in 1992. Murdoch has described sport as a "battering ram" for pay-television, providing a strong customer base.[44]

    However, following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly came to an end from the 2007–08 season. In May 2006 the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premiership packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for £1.3 billion.[45]

    BT offer a pay per view service of selected Premier League matches through their BT Vision service[46], and Virgin Media offer free highlights on the Virgin Media website.

    In September 2008, BT announced that it is thinking of bidding for live Premier League matches when the bidding starts in January 2009.[47]

    Set Top Boxes and conditional access

    Sky utilizes the VideoGuard pay-TV scrambling system owned by NDS, a News Corporation subsidiary. There are tight controls over use of VideoGuard decoders; they are not available as stand-alone DVB CAMs (Conditional Access Modules). BSkyB has design authority over all digital satellite receivers capable of receiving their service. The receivers, though designed and built by different manufacturers, must conform to the same user interface look-and-feel as all the others. This extends to the Personal video recorder (PVR) offering (branded Sky+). BSkyB initially charged additional subscription fees for using a Sky+ PVR with their service; waiving the charge for subscribers whose package included two or more premium channels. This changed as from 1 July 2007, and now customers that have Sky+ and subscribe to any Sky subscription package get Sky+ included at no extra charge. Customers that don't subscribe to Sky's channels can still pay a monthly fee to enable Sky+ functions. In September 2007, Sky launched a new TV advertising campaign targeting Sky+ at women. As of 31 March 2008 sky have 3,393,000 sky+ users.[48]

    Xbox 360 tie-up

    On 29 May 2009 it was confirmed that Sky Player would be made available via Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console.[49] Included is live streaming of various television channels, on-demand movies and live sports programming. This was a worldwide first for Microsoft, and only available in the UK and Ireland.

    Channel restrictions in the Republic of Ireland

    Sky subscribers in the Republic of Ireland have a more restricted choice of channels compared to Northern Ireland or Great Britain subscribers. The standard Irish channels RTÉ OneRTÉ TwoTV3TG4 and 3e are available to all Irish subscribers and unavailable by any other means on Satellite. However only BBC One Northern IrelandBBC Two Northern Ireland andChannel 4 are available to Irish Sky subscribers. Free to air channels like the ITV family of channels, BBC ThreeBBC FourBBC NewsBBC HD and Five can only be tuned via the Other Channels[50] section. As these channels are only available via the Other Channels section it is not possible for Irish Sky+ or Sky HD subscribers to record programmes from these channels onto their boxes. Sky pays the BBC for the right to include BBC1 & BBC2 NI on the Irish EPG. It may be pressure from TV3 and/or lack of commercial value that Sky doesn't carry ITV channels on the Irish EPG. The BBC charter would suggest that the BBC can't pay the extra charge to be on British and Irish EPG, hence the lack of BBC3, 4 etc. The N.I. subscribers in some packages get RTÉ OneRTÉ Two and TG4, though occasional programs may be blacked out.

    Television channels operated by BSkyB

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New ownership laws could affect Rupert Murdoch

Patricia Hewitt said the plans were "proprietor neutral"

"A less onerous regime is necessary if Britain's leading role in these industries is to be preserve" Tim Yeo Tory culture spokesman

"Outdated rules on media ownership have hampered growth and adaptation for too long," Kim Howells, Culture Minister



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1972519.stm

Wednesday, 8 May, 2002, 05:03 GMT 06:03 UK

Media ownership laws to be relaxed
Rupert Murdoch could bid to take over Channel 5, under proposed new media laws.

The government has said it wants to scrap the law banning large newspaper groups from buying Channel 5 and radio licences.

But newspaper groups would still be barred from owning a significant stake in the mass-market ITV.

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced the proposals as she unveiled the government's long-awaited Communications Bill in the Commons on Tuesday.

The Bill potentially clears the way for the two biggest ITV companies, Carlton and Granada, to merge.

It also sets out tougher regulations for the BBC, to create a level-playing field with commercial broadcasters.

It would also allow media moguls from outside the EU to buy some broadcasting companies.

Protecting diversity

"For far too long the UK's media have been over-regulated and over-protected from competition," Ms Jowell told MPs. She said she wanted liberalise the market but at the same time protect the diversity and plurality of theUK's media. Due to the complex nature of the government's proposals there would be further period of consultation with the media industry and full scrutiny by both houses of Parliament, she stressed. The draft bill proposes a new "light touch" regulator Ofcom - to replace existing bodies such as the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and telecom regulator Oftel. This would act as a "one-stop" shop for all complaints. Under the proposals, companies outside the EU would be able to bid for ITV companies for the first time. But regional ITV programmes would be protected by core safeguards designed to ensure there are a "range of voices" locally and nationally.

ITN concern

Carlton and Granada would no longer be prevented from merging by media law - but they would still be subject to Competition Commission scrutiny. "We will through tough content regulation ensure that we preserve the distinctiveness of British broadcasting while opening up the possibility of investment from all over the world," Ms Jowell told MPs.

She said ownership rules of news provider ITN would also be changed, following recent concerns about the quality of its service.

Opposition reaction

Shadow Culture Secretary Tim Yeo broadly welcomed the liberalisation of the broadcasting market.

But he said "the acid test" of the government's proposals would be whether regulation would operate "with a light touch rather than a heavy hand".

Nick Harvey, for the Liberal Democrats, also welcomed the "general direction" of the draft Bill.

But he called for a stronger commitment to improving ITV's news service and protecting regional programming.

Meanwhile a spokesman for Mr Murdoch's company said: "News International welcomes the overall deregulatory approach laid out in the announcement today.

"We have yet to study the government's detailed proposals and the draft bill."

'No Murdoch clause'

Channel 5 declined to comment on the proposals until station chiefs had been able to look at their full implications. But the organisations that will make up Ofcom said: "We welcome publication of the draft Communications Bill and the move towards a modern and flexible regulatory framework for the converging communications sector. "The communications industry will benefit from a more flexible approach to regulation, minimising regulatory burdens and providing consistency across all communications networks." But Julian Petley, who is chairman of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, expressed concern at the "rolling back of regulatory safeguards in the media". "Now we will see power concentrated in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats and media owners," he said. In the Commons there was concern that the new laws would lead to a takeover of Channel 5 by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns 32% of the British newspaper market. Under existing rules anyone who controls more than 20% of the national newspaper market is prevented from controlling a terrestrial television licence. In a briefing for reporters, ministers were careful to guard against suggestions that they were giving Mr Murdoch any special favours. Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt said the proposals were "proprietor neutral". And asked about the possibility the plans could become known as the "Murdoch clause", Culture Minister Kim Howells replied: "Not if I have anything to do with it."

WATCH/LISTEN ON THIS STORY

The BBC's Rory Cellan Jones "For Rupert Murdoch, another door is opening"

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell "The important thing is that we secure diversity"

Former Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neill  "He [Murdoch] would not get a good return for it"

TALKING POINT

Murdoch move? Should media ownership laws be relaxed? 

IN DEPTH 

Broadcasting Charting its past, present and digital future

See also: 07 May02 TV&Radio Communications Bill at a glance, 07 May02 Politics Culture Secretary's speech in full. 30 Jul01 TV&Radio Keeping tabs on TV

Internet links: Department for Culture, Media and Sport,  Communications White Paper

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1832333.stm

Kirch bought the Formula One rights only last year
Difficult decisions ahead for Leo Kirch
Bernie Ecclestone, F1 chief

La Strada: the film through which Dr Kirch grew his business

Kirch 'open' to offers for F1

Thursday, 21 February, 2002
Debt-laden German media giant 
Kirch has confirmed the media rights to Formula One motor racing are up for sale. Kirch spokesman Hartmut Schulz said the company is "open for other equity investors, particularly for the carmakers" to become involved in F1. KirchGruppe, one of Germany's biggest media empires and the owner of the rights to football's next two World Cups, is weighed down by debts of at least $5bn (£3.5bn), many of which fall due this year. Last week it held talks with its bankers as the list of creditors demanding rapid repayment lengthened.

Murdoch set to gain?

Kirch also has plans to offer Rupert Murdoch's News Corp a "substantial" stake in its TV business in the hope of resolving its debt to him, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. However a spokeswoman for News Corp said on Wednesday the company "had made a firm and final decision not to make any further investment in either Premiere or Kirch Group". And a Kirch spokesman denied reports that Mr Murdoch had travelled to Berlin this week for talks on the the future of the struggling group. The paper said advisors to group founder Leo Kirch plan to start soliciting offers for the 58% stake in Slec, the company that controls the broadcasting and marketing rights to Formula One. British racing tycoon BernieEcclestone was thought to be considering a bid to buy back the rights to F1 he sold to Kirch last year. The FT reported he was likely to offer $800m (£560m), about half of what Kirch paid for the rights. But Kirchdenied reports it had received an offer from Mr. Ecclestone.

TV troubles

Many of Kirch's debts flow from its ownership of Premiere, Germany's biggest pay TV platform, which is nonetheless loss-making.

Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch owns a 22% stake in Premiere, through British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. Under the terms of ownership, he can force KirchGruppe to buy back this stake for £1bn in cash in October - much more than Premiere's current market value. To avoid this, KirchGruppe was reportedly considering offering Mr Murdoch's News Corp a much bigger stake in its business. KirchGruppehas held internal discussions about a deal that would give Mr Murdoch "significantly increased influence" over KirchMedia, the group's core rights and broadcasting business, the FT reported on Wednesday. It cited an advisor to Kirch whom it did not name.

Murdoch's decision

Another possibility under discussion would be the transfer of both Premiere and a large stake in Kirch'scommercial TV business, the paper said. But Mr Murdoch insists he wants cash for the Premiere stake and is not interested in any more shares in Kirch's businesses.

Expansion plans fall apart

Leo Kirch made his fortune by buying up the German language television rights of many Hollywood movies during the 1960s and 1970s. After deregulation of the broadcasting sector, he expanded into television, setting up his own free-to-air television station, and the Premiere pay-TV channel.To attract customers, he bought expensive sports rights just at the height of the internet and media boom. His critics say that he was paying well over the odds. Burdened with debt, KirchGruppe is now beleaguered on all fronts. German television viewers - accustomed to receiving between 10 and 30 free television channels on air or through cable - have been slow to sign up to the pay-TV channel. Shares in his firm's Pro Sieben Sat 1 Media group, which encompasses the four television channels, have rapidly been dropping in value, shrinking in line with advertising revenues and fierce competition from rivals. Strategic partners like media group Axel Springer, which just posted its first loss in history, are now calling in their original investments. The firm holds a stake in Pro Sieben Sat 1 Media, but has the option to sell it back to Kirch for 767m euros (£460m). KirchGruppe owns 40% of Axel Springer in return, but can not sell this stake as it is the security for a loan from Deutsche Bank. Several banks that provided loans to Kirch Gruppe have already gone on record that they will not continue to support the firm much longer. German media reports that two bank creditors of the company, HVB and Dresdner Bank have proposed to buy Kirch's Springer stake for 1.1bn euro, giving the company a breathing space to start paying obligations. No deal has been announced yet.

WATCH/LISTEN ON THIS STORY

Thomas Clark, media editor, FT Deutschland  "Kirch has decided he has to sell some bits and pieces."

Williams team boss Sir Frank Williams "Bernie Ecclestone will ensure the business he created will not suffer"

See also: 15 Feb 02 | Business Kirch seeks bailout, 07 Dec 01 | Business Murdoch 'mulls Kirch takeover',  07 Sep 01 | Business Kirch creates German media giant,  29 Oct 01 | Business DirecTV sold to Echostar 06 Apr 01 | Business New force in F1, 06 Apr 01 | Business Ecclestone: F1 to remain on free TV, 01 Mar 01 | Business Formula One battle hots up, 27 Feb 01 | Business Car makers may bid for F1, 16 Feb 01 | Business EM.TV rescue deal wobblesInternet links: EM.TVNews CorporationKirch Gruppe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/11/rupert-murdoch-charging-online-news

Leading the charge Chris Tryhorn The Guardian, Monday 11 May 2009 Article history

When Rupert Murdoch indicates a shift in strategy, the rest of the media industry takes notice. So the News Corp boss's clear signal last week that his newspapers, such as the Sun and the Times, could start charging for online access over the next year gave fresh momentum to a debate that is dominating internal newspaper discussions. "The inchoate (not yet fully formed; rudimentary; unorganized; incomplete) days of the internet will soon be over," Murdoch pronounced, citing an "epochal" debate in the industry. Having flirted with the idea of turning the Wall Street Journal website free before realising he had bought one of the world's few newspaper sites that makes money, Murdoch has come down in favour of online charging. For a long time many journalists have been bemused and frustrated that their work merits a price in one medium but is given away free in another. Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of Guardian Media Group which publishes MediaGuardian, believes publishers need to think about where they might be able to charge in the future. "There's no review of the charging model, there's no formal kind of agreement that we should be charging at all, but it would be wrong not to think about what we would do in the future," she says. Charging for business-to-business content, however, is a "no-brainer", says McCall, who led GMG's acquisition of Emap's B2B operation on the strength of its capacity to generate digital revenues. The model supporting so-called business-to-professional sites, such asMediaGuardian.co.uk, is "something we need to keep revisiting". But, in general news, the presence of the BBC makes charging impossible: "You basically have a fully funded and publicly funded news organisation on your doorstep. How can you compete with that?" The BBC is what makes all newspaper executives think twice when it comes to making the internet pay. It has played its part in creating the notion that news should be free, which stands as a barrier to introducing any element of pay to newspaper websites. Until now, the most important aim for newspapers has been to grow online readership: the higher a site's unique user numbers, the more advertising it could hope to sell. And the numbers have been impressive – titles used to falling paper sales now have millions of new readers. There is no doubt that online readership has massively extended the reach of British newspapers. Indeed, the combined online audience for the seven audited UK national newspaper networks – the websites of the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent, Mail, Sun and Mirror – peaked in January at around 140 million unique users, when Guardian.co.uk hit a record of 29.8 million. It has tailed off very slightly since then, the first sign that online readership may have reached a plateau now that broadband access has become so widespread and online habits more settled. To some extent, revenues have followed the trend for readership growth – but not fast enough to make up for the fall in print advertising. Trinity Mirror, for instance, reported that total digital revenues in 2008 grew by 27.1% to £43.6m. But they also represented just 5% of the group total, albeit an increase from 3.7% in 2007, at a time when overall revenues dropped by more than £60m. Advertisers have always seen a difference between consumers of print products who might be expected to spend considerable time reading them and looking at many of the adverts in the process, and a web user who may have merely strayed on to a web page by chance or as the result of making a speculative search. And even if online readership has yet to reach saturation point, some industry executives think that growing overall numbers may no longer make much difference to their ability to generate new revenues – although they will not find it easy, initially at least, to allow competitors to overtake their traffic figures. Not only is there a finite amount of money available for online advertising, but there are also many, many sites competing for the cash. Newspapers are wondering whether they backed the wrong horse by going for volume rather than subscription. The focus is now moving to the handful of pay models that have already been developed in publishing. The only British paper that has successfully introduced charging is the Financial Times which, seven years after doing so, has around 110,000 subscribers. A basic subscription to FT.com costs £2.99 a week – £155.48 a year – while a premium deal that includes mobile news and the Lexcolumn costs £3.99 a week, or £207.48 a year. At less than a third of the £650 cost of buying the print FT every day, and less than half the £468 required to take out a print subscription, the online deal looks like bad business for the company. But RobGrimshaw, the managing director of FT.com, says the cost of online distribution is far less than printing and distributing a paper. "Online, the marginal cost of adding a new subscription to FT.com from anywhere in the world is pretty much zero. Once you look at it from that aspect, the online business model is extremely favourable. You don't tend to make nearly as much revenue as print but you make the same profit or even more profit." But without the FT's business niche to target, can other papers charge for content? The fear is that their product is too disposable and substitutable – with multiple versions of the same story online. "Consumers aren't stupid," says Grimshaw. "If they can find something for free they won't pay for it." Then there is the problem of how to charge. Rather than relying on a subscription model, a solution could involve micropayments – although there is no consensus on how much they would be. Newspapers will have to ensure that whichever system they use is efficient and easy, like Amazon or iTunes. Indeed, newspapers look hopefully towards these other areas of the media where a pay model has already been introduced. The music industry, after its crippling battle against piracy, has finally found a way to sell digital content, albeit at a discount compared with CD sales. The broadcasting industry offers a less clear picture. The principle of paying for TV, mainly on the back of premium content, has become enshrined after 20 years of Sky, and on-demand viewing through subscriptions has become popular. But there is little evidence that people are willing to go online and pay for individual programmes. The success of the licence-fee funded BBC iPlayer has encouraged ITV to follow suit with a free, ad-funded model, while Channel 4's 4OD service has shifted away from pay-per-view since launching in 2006. Project Kangaroo, the three free-to-air broadcasters' attempt to develop an online home where they might have sold their programmes, was thwarted by competition concerns. (Equally, if newspapers were to make a collective decision to charge for content, which would avoid losing market share to other titles that remained free, there might be similar concerns.) Perhaps the best hope for newspapers is technological. In the same way that the iPod helped sales of digital music, newspapers hope that there is a device on its way to make the online paper seem more valuable than it does on a computer screen. Some newspaper groups are believed to have had discussions with Amazon about getting their product on to the Kindle reader, a new version of which was launched in the US last week by Jeff Bezos (pictured left). But few believe these first-generation digital readers represent an iPod moment. Murdoch last week hinted at some of the work News Corp has been doing. "We are looking at lots of things, models for charging, mobile readers," he said. "I don't believe in the Kindle model but I do think it is very interesting that people are going to that and to their BlackBerrys to view content." In two years' time he hopes that charges for online content will produce digital revenues that make up for newspapers' print losses. That may be optimistic, but there is no doubt the recession has concentrated minds on moving out of the free era. "There are not many companies out there that make a successful living by giving away their product for free," says Grimshaw. "In the future, quite a lot will be written about how an entire industry managed to persuade itself that it would be smart to give away its product to everybody."

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That James Murdoch speech in full

Hello. It’s a disgrace, you know, that the state funds the BBC to provide consumers with free online journalism. And other news organisations? They don’t charge either. So the consumer has the choice of (a) free state-funded websites or (b) free commercially funded websites. Whatever happened to a free market that actually gives people what they want at a price they can afford? ’m happy to confirm, therefore, that News Corp is introducing a third option for internet users: c) the same stuff you can get free, only you pay for it. hank you.

Comments: he thing is, this is the real current situation:

You want to watch the BBC? You pay for it. ou don’t want to watch the BBC? You pay for it. better, common sense idea would be: ou want to watch the BBC? You pay for it.
You don’t want to watch the BBC? You don’t pay for it.

 amian, I’m sure we all look forward to, in a recession, paying for something we can get for free just a couple of mouse clicks away.
Joking aside, Murdoch senior’s belief that he can beat the internet and turn the clock back to the days when we had to pay to read journalism is surely a sign of the his advance into confused old age.
Newspapers will continue to decline in sales and relevance over the coming years, and attempting to replicate the same business model online – outside of niche markets – is doomed to failure.

 The thing that really impresses me is that he thinks he can charge money for Murdoch-style content (I hesitate to call it ‘news’). here is an excess of right wing fantasies, sleazy gossip items and bare-breasted women on the internet for free already. Murdoch would say that, wouldn’t he? He seems particularly miffed by the BBC’s presence on the internet. The BBC happens to be doing that rather well. I am happy to pay my licence fee for the BBC’s services. However, that does not mean that some ways in which the BBC is managed cannot be improved. Murdoch has subscription TV tied up and should be content. Nobody owes big business a living. It would be foolish of this government or the next to heed Murdoch and come to the aid of an organisation that already has too much influence on the printed media. Murdoch would say that, wouldn’t he? He seems particularly miffed by the BBC’s presence on the internet. The BBC happens to be doing that rather well. I am happy to pay my licence fee for the BBC’s services. However, that does not mean that some ways in which the BBC is managed cannot be improved. Murdoch has subscription TV tied up and should be content. Nobody owes big business a living. It would be foolish of this government or the next to heed Murdoch and come to the aid of an organisation that already has too much influence on the printed media. BBC is not State funded, it is funded out of public subscription, its on-line service is paid for out of that – it is therefore not “free”. (International on-line access carries advertising to pay for it.) Sky News is free to air and its news website has free access. Clearly these are paid for by Sky subscribers and advertisers, yet non-subscribers can benefit. Strange then the Dirty Digger takes a different view about his print media.

@jamika you are paying for the option to watch/not watch the BBC – up to you whether you exercise it. Of course you have no option but to have the option, and pay for it.

However I do think your proposal has some merit if applied to the WeHeartTheNHS. Yes, yes I know… the poor and the poor pensioner, but they watch the BBC too… or not. I had to check the calendar and was surprised that it wasn’t April 1st. Clearly Murdoch is moving beyond satire. ‘News journalism’, ‘quality’ from the purveyors of Fox? Poor deprived News Corp calling a state funded organisation ‘greedy’. And still praying at the altar of PROFIT after the crunch. I’m stumped. thingy – My God, you’re right. Imagine any business wanting to make a PROFIT during a recession. I don’t think anything would change for newspapers if they were to reimpose subscription walls and even if there were no longer a BBC website. I buy papers because they’re easier to read in print than on the web. I mostly don’t read them online: they’re awkward to read that way. Nothing would change for me if subscription walls were introduced. I wouldn’t pay – just as people who are not newspaper readers won’t pay. What I might pay for (a little like paying for Itunes) isan article of exceptional interest to me in the New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, even The Catholic Herald. But I would not sign up to individual websites for cash. I might, though, sign up to an online syndication service for £100 a year allowing me to graze through many sources. As to the BBC, it’s a distraction in all of this. There’s no BBC equivalent in North America; yet the situation for newspapers there is the same. My own take on this. I resent the licence fee of course but…… for the licence fee I get to watch the BBC (sometimes bad, often good, sometimes excellent) and other free to air channels (the odd gem in the rubbish). I also pay a cable subscription which is four times the licence fee and gives access to about 80 channels – mainly dross – plus all the Sky channels. I justify this on the grounds that I want to watch the sport (less and less these days) and the movie channels (rarely). Sky One is just US shows plus domestic rubbish. My wife is beating me about the head to dump the expensive cable channels and I think she is right. We live in France We watch quite a few news channels.
The BBC News (TV)is the least informative. It is very parochial and sometimes so trivial that it could hardly be called a national service.
With the Net I can wonder around sites reading anything that is there. A half an hour news programme on TV is truthfully a waste of time. I think the BBC should withdraw from News programmes altogether.
“…free state-funded websites…” Firstly, it isn’t “free”. It costs me £147.50 per year [including what the BBC calls "the small charge of £5" to pay by Direct Debit]. Secondly, it isn’t “state-funded” either. It is funded by a specific, mandatory tax which is called the Licence Fee and which is levied on all people who own TVs whether they watch, listen to or read the BBC’s output or not. Perhaps ‘Licence Fee payer-funded’ would be a better way of putting it. I have found the perfect way to avoid paying the licence fee: I won’t have a television in the house. This has the added benefit that I don’t waste my life watching the utter dross that constitutes televised content (I also find myself blissfully unable to fathom out who half of the micro-celebrities that seem to take up so much space in the Telegraph are).


BBC is cheaper than sky,but since it lost its independence,ie Some shop keepers daughter did not like its intelligent broadcasting she clipped her wings,so bbc has to become like the other moronric news channels,ie english ones the itv’s sky ,and ofcourse the other moronic news channel CNN london,so everybody is happy all round ,they supply the garbage ,the people are happy listening to crap,and the govt and people at the top are happy. The BBC does not have a newspaper, so why does it need a website competing with those of the newspapers? However, an attack on the very concept of the BBC is simply un-British, like an attack on the very concept of the NHS, or an attack on the very concept of the monarchy. It just sounds wrong, like mispronouncing a word. As, to British ears, Americans such as James Murdoch are wont to do from time to time. The license fee should be made optional, with as many adults as wished to pay it at any given address free to do so, including those who did not own a television set but who greatly valued, for example, Radio Four. The Trustees would then be elected by and from among the license-payers. Candidates would have to be sufficiently independent to qualify in principle for the remuneration panels of their local authorities. Each license-payer would vote for one, with the top two elected. The electoral areas would be Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and each of the nine English regions. The Chairman would be appointed by the relevant Secretary of State, with the approval of the relevant Select Committee. And the term of office would be four years. You would not need to be a member of the Trust (i.e., a license-payer) to listen to or watch the BBC, just as you do not need to be a member of the National Trust to visit its properties, or a member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to be rescued by its boats. At the same time, we need to ban any person or other interest from owning or controlling more than one national daily newspaper. To ban any person or other interest from owning or controlling more than one national weekly newspaper. To ban any person or other interest from owning or controlling more than one television station. To re-regionalise ITV under a combination of municipal and mutual ownership. And to apply that same model (but with central government replacing local government, subject to very strict parliamentary scrutiny) to Channel Four.

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As much as anything, Murdoch’s point is that the BBC is not subject to any commercial disciplines and can effectively predate on anyone it chooses supported by a virtually unlimited supply of money. Along with the government and local authorities it is the only body that can dip its hand into the public pocket and demand money without any guarantee of any particular service in return.
If BSkyB produces rubbish I stop paying for it; at the present time I think my £20 a month is (on balance) a reasonable deal for what I get (especially as if I want decent drama on ITV I have to use the satellite since STV decided to opt out of the national network stuff). If the BBC produces rubbish — which it does a lot of the time — and pays indecent sums of money to 50-year-old adolescents simply to be “edgy” whatever that means, I still have to keep on paying for it.
And though there is nothing on commercial radio to compare with Radio Four there is a lot that compares with Radio One while it is hard to work out why the BBC needs four television channels (excluding its two children channels + 24-hour news) when it fills its daytime schedule with wall-to-wall stuff from the afore-mentioned children’s channels + voyeurism (which is what sniffing round other people’s houses and their possessions is)and the evenings with soaps and more voyeurism (which is what the fly-on-the-wall and (un)reality programmes are).
If you want it, have it; but why should the rest of us pay for it.
David Lindsay has a point. I would happily subscribe to Radio Four and to the News and Parliament Channels; beyond that I will pay for one-offs like Crimewatch or University Challenge or some of the better documentaries that the Beeb used to do so well.
Others would have different priorities and good luck to them.
The simple answer is to abolish the licence fee and introduce payment for each channel or service. Not blocks arbitrarily chosen, as with Sky, but each individual item. Equally Sky should be forced not to inflict moronic advertising on those who have already paid for its services. In other words, a level playing field, which would soon sort out what people really do want to watch, with complete control over what we pay for.

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Yeh, this town’s not big enough for two Labour party supporting media mouthpieces! The problem is much deeper than Murdoch. http://tinyurl.com/dx67kc See also: http://tinyurl.com/mzbmdl,   http://tinyurl.com/nune4d Murdoch and Hannan, seling anything with a hint of Britishness to the highest bidder. Usually an American corportaion.

James Murdoch would interrupt Test Match Special with adverts for pile cream and debt consolidation loans. That’s all you need to know about this ‘British’ citizen.. Peter51 wrote ‘My wife is beating me about the head …..’ Perhaps those Catholic priests who believe in celibacy and remaining single are right. beaton – “probably the most intelligent and considered comment…” : as a high priest of socialism, deigning to trawl the sewers of Conservatism for even the slightest hint of higher life form must be so trying for you.
Perhaps the Grauniad is more suited to your elevated sense of intellectual omnipotence. Wot Londiniensis wrote is claptrap and the word “snicker” is a red flag if ever there was one. I choose what to buy, and the market therefore determines the relationship between marketing expenditure and consumption.
The Licence is a Broadcasting tax and has absolutely no bearing on the consumer’s selection of content received. Websites are Narrow-casting and should be funded separately. Londiniensis: To offer the choice of BBC vs Murdoch, Turner et al is a distraction: if the BBC can’t be influenced by it’s actual and potential audience, then its funding mechanism is in need of re-engineering. That’s not too complex for most DT readers, but probably too real-world for you.
And yes, many people don’t give a fig for the BBC. It is anachronistic, self-serving and an agent of social engineering.
You may not mind other peoples’ money being spent on giving the world a free internet “resource”, and you may not mind other peoples’ money being spent on a socialist spin machine, but if you had to pay personally and directly for said resource, you would soon discover Opportunity Cost.

barryobarma on Aug 29th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I never thought I would be wholeheartedly in agreement with The Dirty Digger Dynasty but on this I am. The BBC is a bloated, self serving monolith that desperately needs cutting down to size. The Taxpayer is paying through the nose to throttle private enterprise. This thoroughly unhealthy in a free enterprise society. doomgloomboomon Aug 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I’m with Londiniensis on this one nobodyexpectsthespanishinquisitionon Aug 29th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Rhetorical Question.
If I buy a product in a shop is it reasonable that I should pay twice for it? This is what the long suffering British taxpayer does with The BBC. First it is forced, by threat of law, to front up the licence fee. Then it is required to pay again to view the same content in the form of BBC products like DVDs, CDs etc. The BBC make a fortune from stuff the taxpayer has already been forced to fund. This doesn’t seem right to me, does it to you?
Would it not be fair to make all taxpayer funded BBC content, free? resulting in a higher licence fee and higher taxes and less direct responsibility to users?  don’t know what Murdoch is proposing to do in the UK and I don’t quite understand this particular blog article, but how to make a profit off of the net has been discussed for years. In the U.S., of the major newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, now owned by Murdoch, is the only one that claims to be making a profit by being online and charging for it. (That started way before Murdoch bought it.) I think this might be called giving people what they want at a price they can afford. I own an internet business, and believe me, everyone who is on the internet is looking for a model that will work to charge for content. The internet user community takes for granted that all content should be available for free. But someone has created that content and needs to be paid for the time and effort, and it costs money to create and maintain a web site. Right now advertising is the source of revenue, but it is not enough and at some point, when they figure out a model that works, most web sites will charge. I am on the side of charging (even though as a user I also now enjoy the fact that most web content is available free.) because I understand the costs involved.

We all enjoy these blogs, but the DT is paying the bloggers, as well as a number of computer programmers and web site designers, and I doubt very much that the advertising displayed covers the cost. It has seemed to me that the very extensive programming that the DT has done to set up its blogs is all pointed in the direction of there at some point in the future being a fee for coming onto to these blogs. I’m not sure what the model would be, but one obvious one is that for the DT computers to recognize a user ID, the person having that ID would have to pay a certain sum, and would periodically have to pay to renew.

The Devil is complaining about Mephistopheles. And poor old Johan the master miller still isn’t taking his medication. That’s care in the community for you. To those who snicker about the licence fee, remember that every time you buy anything in a shop or supermarket you are actually paying a proportion to the commercial organisations who fund the advertising-funded other “free” television resources, which you also don’t watch.
Londoniensis, the cost of advertising falls into the “cost of sales” bracket and is pretty much a fixed overhead: when I buy something in a supermarket I am, no doubt, funding a host of depraved activities (not least those perpetrated by the public sector and funded out of VAT); the ultimate selling price is pretty much set by the market (the other players in the market keep the price of any good down); if the silly sausages wish to use some of their profit margin to pollute your mind with television, so be it.
At least by not paying the licence fee and not having a television I am choosing not to consume the dubious pleasures paid for out of advertising and/or a tax on the stupid. doomgloomboo

“The Taxpayer is paying through the nose to throttle private enterprise. This thoroughly unhealthy in a free enterprise society.”But privately-run enterprises are always superior to state-run enterprises. It is impossible that the creativity, efficiency and all-round superiority of the private sector could be impinged upon by a flabby, bloated, state-sector entity. You must be mistaken. Sorry for the supplementary, but if the supermarkets stopped funding the idiots’ lantern they would have a bigger margin that they could either pass on to consumers (in the form of lower prices) or the producers (I’m still old-fashioned enough to consider it a scandal that bottled water is priced at a higher level than milk – i.e. the farmer would have been better off bottling what’s in the troughs instead of going through that whole “cow process”). “I am happy to pay my licence fee for the BBC’s services. However, that does not mean that some ways in which the BBC is managed cannot be improved.” You pay for it. I don’t expect you to pay for my entertainment and education (however biased one way or the other). When the BBC is managed better and improved maybe I will change my mind and then want to pay a subscription. There should not be a forced subscription for the right to watch television. The license fee is a dilemma but who would have opted for the alternative of U.S. dross? The BBC for fear of its existance is politically dumbed down but had set standards of quality broadcasting for commercial stations to follow. TV shapes lives, not just news but materialistic commercials has turned us into shallow automatons, something SKY excels in.
As for daddy Murdoch as some archetypal Bond villain, ‘I suppose you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?’
‘No Mr. Bond just keep watching the screen’. Shooting’s far too romantic. The BBC isn’t free, virtually every household in the UK is required to pay £139.50 a year for it or face a jail sentence.

I have refused to pay The TV Tax for about 750 days

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Let me get this straight – you can go to jail for not paying money to watch tv? How is that possible?


Future of Newspapers: eReaders?  It would be an understatement to say we are living in changing times, revolution has called and Rubert Murdoch blew the final whistle. Murdoch has said that there is a plan to release a News Corp e reader which will be in direct completion to Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle e reader allows books, magazines and newspapers to be wirelessly downloaded directly to the device. Downloading of newspapers, the digital subscriptions to newspaper, purchasing news content; these are all goals for the journalism industry. As I have shown before, the sales of newspapers have been dropping steadily every year. The cause of this problem is simple, ‘Why buy a newspaper when news is freely available online? Rupert Murdoch has called the end of free news content online. “The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free. We intend to charge for all our news websites.” All of his publications will need a subscription from next year to view content online. In some parts of the industry Murdoch has been met with criticism but most praise this move. We are living between two very different ages. One day (people my age) will be telling our kids of how, in the past, newspapers were printed on paper. You could access news content free online and how those good old days have now passed. It is easy for us as consumers to scoff and announce our total rejection of Murdoch’s money making scheme. I have to admit that paying to read The Sun online brings uncontrollable shakes of disapproval to my body. However, will paying for journalism online become a necessity eventually? If The Sun had an exclusive celebrity story, which could only be read from The Sun, would you be prepared to pay subscription? Alternatively you could buy The Sun newspaper and read the story that way.  Murdoch’s scheme is money making but is also a method to heal the journalism industry. To give the industry a new breath of financial life and have it fuelled by costs other than advertising.

The BBC is technically already doing what Rupert Murdoch has proposed. Our license fee to the BBC could be viewed as a subscription cost to BBC News. The example fails for anybody who doesn’t purchase the license fee; views the BBC from abroad but the BBC do receive payment for their news services. There is no doubt that the BBC will be the mainstream content against other news sites offering subscription as the BBC provides content without subscription. The license fee dominates the market and with Murdoch’s subscription plan, other newspapers will eventually move the same way and the BBC will certainty come under attack and criticism.

I am utterly convinced that paying subscription for newspapers online will be:

  • Only the first stages of reinventing journalism’s model
  • A necessity for being the only way to one day view newspapers

In 1984 there were 1000 internet devices in the world. In 2008 the number of internet devices in the world rose to 1,000,000,000. The amount of digital devices in the world is constantly increasing and with this will change how the internet will be viewed. The internet will become increasingly handheld and the majority of the content on the internet will one day be viewed through our PDAs, Mobiles (if a conventional mobile still exists then) and e readers.

In the UK e readers have hardly penetrated our market yet. Sony primarily dominates but the majority of people are still sceptical about moving away from paper books. What I can see on the horizon is a Harry Potter scenario, where ink will move on the newspaper’s pages and now we have the technology to do that. eInk provides the technology for almost every e reader on the market. eInk essentially allows a digital paper display. This is achieved through positively and negatively charging ink molecules to change a position on a display. There is no glare from an e reader, it appears as paper and the battery is only needed when ink needs to change pattern. A charge is not needed for electronic ink to stand on a page. Due to this a single charge on a lithium battery will keep an e reader going for almost 2 weeks with heavy use. The Amazon Kindle, which is currently only available in America, does more than read eBooks though. It allows you to digitally subscribe to newspapers and magazines; this truly challanges newspapers. Why carry newspapers, magazines and books around with you when you could use a paper thin device to host them all? Whilst the Kindle only allows subscription at the moment other e readers will follow suit. Online subscriptions to newspapers won’t just be online. Eventually you will be able to subscribe monthly to receive newspapers on your e reader. So am I dreaming? Not really. Amazon is working very hard to get their Kindle e reader over to the UK following their success in the American market. As we speak Amazon are apparently sorting out subscription deals with newspapers, magazines and mobile operators. The technology for e readers is constantly improving and Sony (the current leading e reader in the UK) is releasing further additions to their e reader product line. Whilst e readers have not captivated a wide audience through the purchasing of digital books, I think they will change the way we read newspapers. I would like to believe that e readers will have an explosion of popularity this Christmas but alas I am an innovator. I will be buying the new Kindle when it comes out this Christmas, subscribing to newspapers and magazines but it may take longer for the majority of the public to catch up. I believe Murdoch is aware of the eNewspaper future. This might just be his first move, the industry’s first move, for properly accepting digital technology and journalism can work together.

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Comment from chessie
August 9, 2009 at 11:10 am

Three fairly simple and straightfoward questions.

1.Will there be an attempt to make it illegal to talk about newspaper articles that are printed in media behind Rupert Murdoch’s pay wall? I don’t feel the need to elaborate further on this but it strikes me as the only way to guarantee for any length of time that his content stays anything like exclusive on the Internet.

2.Pay walls have been attempted repeatedly and failed every time. The Kindle is plagued with problems and limited functionality. Yes, it’s an amusing toy but does it provide connectivity in the same way a fully functional computer does? No. Does Rupert Murdoch propose to come up with his own E-reader which will suddenly not have all the problems a Kindle does and will also offer all of the functionality of a computer? Somehow I doubt it.

3.Murdoch’s media mega-empire died the second people were able to create their own content. Reversing it requires flat out stripping the Internet of the ability to transfer content between two people over the web. Sure, put it behind a pay-wall. Please. I don’t need to see another article about which celebrity stopped smoking this week and another heartwarming pair of re-united twins separated at birth.

If Murdoch genuinely wants to bring people to his sites, he’s got to provide something people want to see and do it conveniently. This is the Internet. Scarcity will be incredibly hard to create here and scarcity of stories about chicken slingshots, corrupt politicians, and other junk news will be impossible.

August 20, 2009 at 11:54 am

Comment from Ceebee

Having used various e readers on a Sony Clie (6 years ago that was cutting edge !) I find products such as mobipocket (Kindle) very intuitive and an excellent distribution medium. The draw back is the screen size on a pda or mobile ‘phone. The dedicted e-readers (and there are a good number) solve the screen problem and give a far more pleasant reading experience.
Once content can be downloaded from subscription sites the newspaper will finally die, the only cost the provider has is the intellectual process of journalism and those who remember the way Murdoch and co. dealt with the move from Fleet Street will have no doubt as to his determination to achieve the new distribution method .
All objections that mobiles are the long term future are misguided – would you really want to stare at an iPhone screen for an hour to read content ?- and the only way to get anything approaching quality journalism is to pay so the kindle route is IMHO the first step on a road which will surprise us all as much as mobile technology has.


We're no thieves – despite what Rupert Murdoch claims, says Google

Search engine is like a 'virtual newsagent', says Google's UK director following accusation that it steals content Chris Tryhorn guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 December 2009 16.55 GMT Article history

Google defended its treatment of news organisation today, as its UK head rejected Rupert Murdoch's charge that it is guilty of "theft. Google defended its treatment of news organisation today, as its UK head rejected Rupert Murdoch's charge that it is guilty of "theft".

Matt Brittin, the director of Google UK, insisted that publishers had control over how their material appeared on the controversial aggregation service Google News, likening it to a "virtual newsagent".

"We do not steal content. If you look at Google search and Google News what you will find is snippets, a little line that will take you through to the original websites," he told MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee.

"That's accepted as in line with copyright law worldwide, seen as like a newspaper article quoting lines from a book in a book review. We defend copyright owners' rights and it's wrong to paint us as stealing content. We are like a virtual newsagent."

Brittin's appearance at parliament coincided with a similar defence of the company by Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt.

Writing in the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, Schmidt said Google was not to blame for the news industry's problems and wanted to help news publishers to prosper.

"With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame," he wrote.

"Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit from the business relationship without giving much in return. The facts, I believe, suggest otherwise."

Schmidt said ads appearing alongside news articles on Google contributed a "tiny fraction" of the company's overall revenue.

In his evidence to MPs, Brittin pointed out that Google News did not carry any advertising in the UK, while search results for news stories tended not to create opportunities for advertisers.

He said that whereas a search for "hotel in Paris" lent itself to a commercial exploitation, entering the term "bomb in Baghdad" was unlikely to attract advertising.

However, many in the newspaper industry believe that even if Google makes little money from news-related searches, it relies on an abundance of high-quality, professionally produced content to maintain its appeal as a search engine.

Google has come under sustained attack recently from Murdoch, who is preparing to introduce online charging at all his newspapers worldwide, including the Sun and the Times in the UK.

While Murdoch renewed his assault this week at a US media regulators' workshop in Washington, Google has made its first concession to news organisations' criticisms.

The company has changed the way Google News works to restrict users' ability to bypass the paywalls of online newspapers that charge subscriptions, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

Brittin said Google gave news publishers freedom to use its services as they saw fit and that by providing 100,000 clicks a minute offered them the online traffic they wanted.

"Publishers have control, they choose to make content available for free online," he added. "They have control now and have always had control to allow them to opt out. They can say, 'I don't want to appear in Google search or in Google News or in one and not the other'.

"They choose to stay and have content discoverable because they find it helpful to have huge numbers of people coming through to their content."

More publishers would experiment with paywalls, he predicted, while others would stick with a free, ad-funded model.

Brittin, who worked as director of strategy and digital at Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror before joining Google in 2007, said that the local newspaper industry were going through a "difficult transition" in part because the internet had diminished the value of print advertising.

But he rejected the accusation that Google "poached" newspapers' advertising. "That implies a feeling of ownership of advertising [by newspapers], which perhaps isn't the way advertisers would see it," he said.

Brittin added that he cared about local papers and saw a "sustainable and successful future for local media over the medium to long term", pointing out that digital technology reduced the cost of distributing content.

"The economics are going to be different from a time when the only place to advertise was in your local paper. But I think there's an exciting future."

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RUPERT MURDOCH AND HIS BID TO RULE THE MEDIA....MSNBC COUNTDOWN

 
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Billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch explains the writer's strike. Support the writers. Sign the petition here-- http://www.unitedhollywood.com Download daily (more)

 
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Oct.11 - Keith reveals the bush administrations truest innermost feelings of Christianity. Of course we all knew that already. bush and most of his staff are (more)

 
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This was recorded from a dutch talkshow last night (03-29-07). Some funny shit :P. Check out the whole interview at http (more)

 
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Australia's possible future leader Kevin Rudd meets with Ruport Murdoch, ironically days after Murdoch's papers and news agencies slammed Rudd over the Anzac Day dawn service fiasco. Recorded (more)

 
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My Master's Thesis Animation, which I completed while I was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Created using Maya (more)

 
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Rupert Murdoch is on the verge of clinching his bid to buy Dow Jones after several members of the controlling Bancroft family decided to back the deal.

 
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Billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch explains the writer's strike. Support the writers. Sign the petition here-- http://www.unitedhollywood.com Download daily (more)

 
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Keith lays down the law on rupert murdoch and the ny post, which may have impeded on an fbi investigation. Does rupert murdoch, who owns over a (more)

 
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FCC Commissioner Copps says "Not so fast"-referring to the Dow Jones transaction-that what's good for shareholders isn't "always what's good for (more)

 
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An hour with News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. He talks about global media, politics, technology, the future of entertainment, and more. (more)

 
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Rupert Murdoch addressing the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in New York 8 February 2007....Rupert Murdoch Fox Digital Hollywood New York News International

 
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A Bill Moyers essay on Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal. PBS: Friday, June 29, 2007 at 9PM (Check Your Local Listings at: (more)

 
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Australia's possible future leader Kevin Rudd meets with Ruport Murdoch, ironically days after Murdoch's papers and news agencies slammed Rudd over the Anzac Day dawn service fiasco. Recorded (more)

 
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch discusses his proposal to take over Dow Jones, despite opposition from the current owners, the Bancroft family. Comment at www.newshounds. (more)

 
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Rupert Murdoch, Chairman/CEO, News Corp....charlie_rose tvshow charlie_rose_archive

 
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Billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch discusses his purchase of the Wall Street Journal. Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or ipod at http (more)

 
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Yikes! The owner of FOX News Channel has offered the Bancroft family $60 a share for Dow Jones, parent company of the Wall Street Journal He wants to (more)

 
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Aug 1 - Now that Rupert Murdoch has achieved his decades-long goal of acquiring the Wall Street Journal and its parent Dow Jones, analysts wondered how the (more)

 
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The repulsive propagandist, Rupert Murdoch, owner of newscorp & the horrific FOX News, has now engulfed The Wall Street Journal....rupert murdoch newscorp news

 
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The trailer for Oliver Stone's classic film, Wall Street starring Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and academy award winner Michael Douglas....wall

 
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I just checked, searched all tags and the like. I managed to get the first ever review of the iphone up on youtube before anyone else, woot (more)

 
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Wall Street Oliver Stone. Bud Fox Gordon Gekko in the limo discussing goals....Wall Street Bud Fox Gordon Gekko Money

 
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Think Tom started myspace on his own? Think again, tom is not your friend! This is the second part of a two part documentary about the history (more)

 
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Even a dummy like me built a Website and had it on the world wide web with in one hour, all with the help of my little greenie mate ERF the Worm who lent me the ten bucks to pay for the Website with free hosting,
free USA MAIL
 web address with my own web address rather than having the embarrassment of using a GMail HotMail

 YahooMail etc for my worldwide exposing wrongful and immoral acts committed on ordinary people business

 and free web hosting,,by the way anyone seen my little greenie mate ERF the Worm?  
Here I am Wijat, ERF The Worm is here!!! 

 Did you know that mad inventer mate of yours?

 Marvin the Marvelous
also wants me to  lend him 10 bucks so he can have his own Website to share all his inventions and crazy ideas with the with world 

and he also  says he will make good money by joining up to google adsence and partnering with google adds on his Website..

he does not have to do a thing..just place his Google Adsense Code on each of his web pages..Google send the adds and Marvin gets paid by his partner Google..Up till now Marvin has been relying on his MySpace  pages to get his ideas out there...however he has woken

 up to the fact that the owner of MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, the multi Billionaire Media Tyrant.. a member of George Bush's  Builderberger Group,  the Freemasons and the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), who all want to control the world with a New World Order  (One World Communist Government), 

See: http://www.usaweeklynews.com/Obama_TheKittyThatRoared.php
starting with the North American Union of Mexico, USA and Canada, by controlling what every thinks, reads, hears and sees,

 who owns MySpace..makes all the billions of dollars  every time Marvin and his millions of friends click on MySpace everyday...

now Marvin and his friends can have their own Website and have their own Google AdSence Advertsing Revenue with

 their advertising partner Google and use their MySpace and facebook and Bebo pages to let people know about their 

own website name....all for 10 bucks... and advertising your own website on MySpace, Facebook and Bebo all for free also...

.soon Marvin and his friends will be making a good monthly income with their partner Google from their own Website...

Wijat, sometimes Marvin's crazy ideas make sense....
Hi, I'm Mr Wijat's Super Hero Life Saving Son, Al Wijat


I and my millions of Internet friends have just found out we have been ripped off by Rupert Murdoch the Billionaire
Media Tyrant's MySpace. he makes the billions of bucks in advertising revenue every time me and my friends use MySpace.. 

now I am going to borrow 1o bucks form ERF the Worm and start my own web page, build it and update it myself with  the user friendly Website building software for dummies and have it hosted for free with my own personal email address 

with my Website name on it..that will impress the chicks for sure ..look if my dumb dad Mr Wijat can build a Website and have it hosted in the world wide web in one hour,, and he's old fool that never has used a computer before.. I and my millions 

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