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Their [Guardian’s] potential targets may have run into hundreds of people – but our inquiries showed that they only used the tactic against a far smaller number of individuals. John Yates, assistant police commissioner
No evidence has emerged. Press Complaints Commission
Murdoch hit by FBI 9/11 hacking inquiry. The Independent 15th July 2007
Revealed: Cameron’s 26 meetings in 15 months with Murdoch chiefs. The Independent 16th July 2011, weeks into Murdoch phone-tapping scandal
Phone hacking: police uncover more evidence: Prescott name on new list of potential victims. The Independent front page
News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone when Rebekah Brooks was editor. The Independent front page
The seeds of the corrupt relationship which exploded in the phone hacking scandal were actually there all the time in News Corps. Sir Harold Evans, former editor The Times & The Sunday Times
News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone during police hunt: Paper deleted missing schoolgirl’s voicemails, giving family false hope. The Guardian front page
Reward and punishment is how this company works. And that’s essentially the business model. Michael Wolff, author The Man Who Owns the News
James Murdoch wants to ... create the world’s first multi-platform media operator ... If we block it, our media sector will suffer for years. Jeremy Hunt, memo to David Cameron
There was not, there never has been, any grand bargain between the Conservative Party and Rupert or James Murdoch. David Cameron, parliament
Rupert Murdoch – the most powerful media mogul in the world. He is accused of dragging Britain’s press into the gutter, of having contempt for the law, and contaminating our politics and public life. Rupert Murdoch – Battle With Britain, BBC 2013
The News of the World: within a few months Carr was shunted upstairs to become life president, and Rupert Murdoch took control of the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world. He was just thirty-eight years old. ibid.
In 1974 Rupert, Anna and the family – now three children – moved to New York. This was Rupert Murdoch’s land of greatest opportunity. ibid.
1979: from this point on Murdoch and Thatcher are inextricably linked. ibid.
The Times/Times on Sunday: rightly regarded as a stitch-up. ibid.
Wapping reignited the powerful suspicion that Murdoch had again conspired with Mrs Thatcher – this time to smash another of Britain’s powerful trade unions. ibid.
Murdoch had planned the move to Wapping like a military operation. ibid.
Sky went on air on 5th February 1989. ibid.
He had no choice but to agree to a merger with his establishment rival BSB. ibid.
Then a monumental scandal broke. Journalists at the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone message box of murdered teenager Milly Dowler. ibid.
People value honest, fearless and above all independent news coverage that challenges the consensus. James Murdoch, McTaggart Lecture, Sky 2009
The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit. ibid.
It’s a distraction. Ian R Crane, interview On the Edge, AlexG
By shutting down the profit centre, what it means is that after Sunday 10th July the only records required to be kept are the fiscal records. ibid.
The sorts of people we’re really talking about make the Mafia look angelic. We’re talking about socio-psychopaths who basically have no moral compass whatsoever. ibid.
Sean Hoare lost his life – this is the whistleblower ... On the News of the World hacking scandal probably lost his life because he had nothing else that could be taken away from him. ibid.
Sunday Hack: Let The Truth Be Heard. Hacks 2011 starring Kayvan Novak & Nigel Planer & Phil Davis, writer & director Guy Jenkin, Channel 4 2012
Female Hack: I’ve seen more of Ashley’s cock than Cheryl has. Max, Max, we’ve got computers full of Ashley’s cock; we’ve had to install more memory to cope with it. No, it’s always that shape. ibid.
Don’t tell me you’re taking this phone hacking bollocks seriously? ibid. Bland/Nigel Planer
Why won’t you just hack phones like everyone else? ibid. Kate to Ray
The cops are coming! ibid. office
I have high self-esteem, dad. ibid. James to Rupert Murdoch
Our weather forecast is depressing: I want less rain. And the phone hacking is causing a lot of shit; from now on you absolutely have to stop telling me you’re doing it. ibid. Kate to Byron
I persuaded two Blue Peter presenters to sell me drugs. ibid. Kate
Oliver Bland was bludgeoned to death two days into his sentence. Police arrested 26 men including the prison chaplain. Zoe Perkin now edits the Sun. Connor Feast became an Islamist extremist in prison and founded the Martyr’s Brigade of Proactive Sustainability. He is second-in-command. Ho Chi Mao Feast divorced her husband and is now married to Bernie Ecclestone. Stanhope Feast was placed by his family in the Supermax Secure Care Home in the Mojave desert. He has since escaped. Katherine Loy now runs the prison reform charity ‘Yes We Can’. Last year it made profits of £7.5 million. ibid. caption
You’ve got someone sitting in New York who is a foreigner who has enormous influence over parliament, enormous influence over the government, enormous influence over the police force ... That really is a subversion of democracy. Max Mosley
Who needs censorship when we have self-censorship? When news is being withheld, or neutralized, at best, how can we expect anything but cynicism from those who read our daily papers? Maybe the reason many aren’t buying newspapers isn’t that they can get information for free on the Internet, but because they don’t believe what they read, and how can they? Jane Lyn Stahl
We socialists can learn a lot from the Soviets about sharing our wealth with the average Joe. Let me explain to you something about the way your pension works. Maxwell 2007 starring David Suchet & Patricia Hodge & Ben Caplan & Daniela Denby-Ashe & Dan Stevens & Duncan Bell & Tony Turner et al, director Colin Barr, Maxwell’s television message
Maxwell owns 400 companies? ibid. new finance director
I’d rather be notorious than bland. ibid. Maxwell
You can’t tell the difference between what looks good and what looks like junk. You can’t tell because you have bad taste. ibid. Baker
There’s no such thing as money. There’s no such thing as love. ibid. Maxwell to secretary
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they’re being lied to. Robert Fisk
Everyone knows that newspapers don’t always tell the truth. We still believe that somehow they reflect the world as it really is. But this isn’t true. Newspapers are elaborate constructions and the journalists are construction workers. Adam Curtis, Every Day is Like Sunday, 2011
The downfall of the most powerful newspaper owner in Britain, Cecil King, and it almost destroyed the Labour Party … Cecil King ran the International Publishing Corporation which owned the Daily Mirror. It was the largest newspaper business in the world … King was planning to use his immense power to mount what in effect would be a coup and bring down the British government. ibid.
Cecil King decided to mobilise the immense power of the Daily Mirror to propel Wilson into power in the 1964 election. ibid.
After the 1964 election Wilson offered to reward Cecil King with a life peerage. ibid.
King now decided to turn the power of his newspaper empire against the Labour government. ibid.