Report links Cameron PR man to phone hacking. The Guardian 2nd September 2010
Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel? The Times, 1st June 1967, re arrest of Mick Jagger for cannabis possession
Egghead Weds Hourglass. Variety, 1956, re marriage of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
Wall Street Lays An Egg. Variety, 1929
Dewey Defeats Truman. Chicago Tribune 3rd November 1948, Truman won
All Titanic Passengers Are Safe; Transferred In Lifeboats At Sea. The [Baltimore] Evening Sun
Rosebud. Citizen Kane 1941 starring Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten & Everett Sloane & Dorothy Comingore & Agnes Moorehead & Ruth Warrick & Ray Collins & William Alland & Paul Stewart & Philip van Zandt et al, director Orson Welles, Kane
It’s also my pleasure to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren’t robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven’t had anybody to look after their interests. ibid.
If I don’t look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any money or property ... and that would be too bad! ibid.
You know, Mr Bernstein, if I hadn’t been very rich, I might have been a really great man. ibid.
You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in ... 60 years. ibid.
Legendary was Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome. Today, almost as legendary is Florida’s Xanadu, the world’s largest private pleasure ground. Here, on the deserts of the Gulf Coast, a private mountain was commissioned and successfully built. One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble are the ingredients of Xanadu’s mountain. Contents of Xanadu’s palace: paintings, pictures, statues, the very stones of many another palace – a collection of everything so big it can never be catalogued or appraised, enough for ten museums – the loot of the world. Xanadu’s livestock: the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and jungle. Two of each, the biggest private zoo since Noah. Like the pharaohs, Xanadu’s landlord leaves many stones to mark his grave. Since the pyramids, Xanadu is the costliest monument a man has built to himself. Here in Xanadu last week, Xanadu’s landlord was laid to rest, a potent figure of our century, America’s Kubla Khan – Charles Foster Kane. ibid. newsreel
There’s no such thing at this date in the world’s history in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There’s not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never ever appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with, others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and if any of you would be foolish to write honest opinions, you would be out on the streets looking for another job … The business of journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon … We are the tools of rich men behind the scenes. John Swinton, American journalist 1953 to New York Press Club
Every newspaper must have a ‘responsible’ [that is, a fascistic] editor and only journalists congenial to the government may be employed. A Minister of Propaganda undertakes to colour important despatches and to dole out instructions on the treatment of news items ... Mussolini has said: ‘Journalism is free just because it serves only one cause and one regime.’ Carl T Schmidt’s The Corporate State in Action 1939
They went overboard. I mean, they really did. One newspaper they paid a girl fifteen hundred pounds to sleep with me so they could get a story. I was annoyed because it was only fifteen hundred quid ... They didn’t know but I already had. George Best, interview The Parkinson Show 1975
From where I sit it is abundantly clear that Murdoch is engaged in a process of trying to create a de facto newspaper monopoly in Britain, and that the politicians are well aware of it and are not prepared to do anything about it ... I have no faith in the politicians doing anything about it. Andrew Marr
For decades one man has wielded extraordinary power in Britain. Now a murdered schoolgirl threatens to destroy his power after the News of the World was forced to admit that it hacked into her voicemail and deleted messages. After two weeks of revelations, resignations, apologies and arrests Rupert Murdoch is fighting to save his reputation. Panorama: Murdoch: Breaking the Spell? BBC 2011
For a brief moment in 2007 the culture of criminality was exposed: private detective Glenn Mulcaire and the News of the World’s Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman were jailed and disgraced. News International insisted Goodman was a rogue reporter and that it went no wider. ibid.
Andy Coulson, the News of the World editor, resigned but denied that he had any knowledge of phone hacking. Within a few months he was hired by David Cameron and went with him to Number 10. ibid.
Was James Murdoch involved in a cover-up? ibid.
The police have already paid a heavy price for their failure to investigate properly. Yesterday, Britain’s top police officer resigned ... Today, assistant commissioner John Yates also resigned. ibid.
Andy Coulson resigned, this time from Number 10. ibid.
What a story it could have made for the News of the World – a media magnet dragged down by a scandal borne within the country’s most popular party, parliament and the people outraged, a cover-up, arrests – you couldn’t make it up. ibid.
The Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Press Complaints Commission, have all opened inquiries. But are we any nearer to the truth? Dispatches: Tabloids’ Dirty Secret, Channel 4 2011
The police confirmed Max Clifford’s phone had been hacked, and the papers settled out of court with him reportedly for a million pounds. Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers Association, also sued, reportedly accepting seven hundred thousand pounds in an out-of-court settlement. ibid.
News International nevertheless stuck to its line that this scandal involved only Goodman and Mulcaire. Until just last month. ibid.
The scandal had entangled a whole host of British institutions from the police to Downing Street to the News of The World’s owner Rupert Murdoch. ibid.
With the resignation of Andy Coulson, the seventy-nine-year-old Rupert Murdoch was suddenly galvanised. ibid.
But News International was not the only organisation in damage limitation mode. The Metropolitan Police were also on the defensive. Their original phone-hacking inquiry aroused fierce criticism. Limited in scope, it raised more questions that it answered. ibid.
Many blame what they see as an unhealthy relationship between the police and the News of the World. ibid.
The more cases that come to court the more pressure will build on Mr Coulson himself and on News International. ibid.
It now looks as if the crisis is spreading beyond the News of the World. ibid.
The Guardian – one of the few papers to cover the story. ibid.
They can also impersonate friends and family. ibid.
The Press Complaints Commission has now set up an investigation to investigate its original investigation. ibid.
We reveal how Rupert Murdoch wielded secret power over our politicians for decades. The phone hacking scandal has left David Cameron fighting for his reputation. He is not alone: successive British prime ministers have been enthralled to the billionaire media baron. We reveal fresh information about his empire’s links to the police. How have our leaders allowed themselves to be held to ransom by one man for so long? Dispatches: How Murdoch Ran Britain, Channel 4 2011
Over the years politicians and celebrities have flocked to Rupert Murdoch’s glamorous parties. ibid.
Our current prime minister David Cameron became even closer to the Murdoch empire than his Labour predecessors. He employed Andy Coulson in July 2007 just five months after he resigned over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. ibid.
Rebekah Brooks – she was arrested eight days ago following her resignation as chief executive of News International over the phone hacking scandal. Despite promising transparency in office, only very recently did David Cameron reveal he has met with New International twenty-six times since entering Number 10. Rupert Murdoch even played a key role in momentous decisions like going to war. ibid.
Murdoch’s drive to increase circulation pushed his papers ever further downmarket. ibid.