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- Rude Dude With Tude
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A CPS statement http://blog.cps.gov.uk/2012/09/op-elveden-charge-dci-casburn-charged-.html
quote:Op Elveden charge: DCI Casburn charged
Alison Levitt QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the DPP, said:
“The CPS received a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police Service which arose from Operation Elveden in relation to April Casburn. Ms Casburn is employed by Metropolitan Police Service as a Detective Chief Inspector in Specialist Operations.
“We have concluded, having carefully considered the file of evidence, that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that it is in the public interest to charge DCI Casburn with misconduct in public office. The particulars are that on 11 September 2010, April Casburn, being a public officer, and acting as such, without reasonable excuse or justification, wilfully misconducted herself to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust in that office. This charge relates to an allegation that DCI Casburn contacted the News of the World newspaper and offered to provide information.
“DCI Casburn will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday 1 October.
“May I remind all concerned that DCI Casburn is now charged with a criminal offence and has a right to a fair trial. It is very important that nothing is said, or reported, which could prejudice that trial. For these reasons it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."
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Sep 24, 2012 18:48
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- Rude Dude With Tude
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The morning news planning email has a bit that's relevant to here;
quote:THE SUN NEWSPAPER’S VERY OWN CRIME SECTION – 1) Rebekah Brooks' bodyguard in court charged with concealing computer information. David Johnson, a security professional for the former News of the World editor, in court accused of perverting the course of justice.
ALSO ii) The royal editor for The Sun newspaper, Duncan Larcombe, in court accused of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office after allegations that he paid John Hardy, a colour sergeant at the academy, and his wife Claire Hardy, over £23k for stories about the Royal Family and Sandhurst Military Academy between Feb 2006 and Oct 2008.
AND FINALLY iii) Fergus Shanahan, former deputy editor of The Sun newspaper, in court charged with conspiring to commit misconduct in public office arising from Operation Elveden, the Metropolitan Police Service investigation into allegations involving the unlawful provision of information by public officials to journalists.
Exciting times!
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- Rude Dude With Tude
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In more New sUK news, turns out nobody will pay £1 for tits and poo poo puns on the internet http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/16/sun-paywalls
Greenslade for the Graun posted: Sun online's disastrous paywall start as traffic plunges by 62%
Web metrics sometimes appear to resemble opinion polls in that the questioner gets the desired result. They are more believable when a web measurement company is entirely dispassionate and neutral.
That's the case with SimilarWeb, which is based in Tel Aviv. So I commend its research into The Sun's online traffic over the past two months.
It compared data after the the paper erected its paywall in August with that in the previous month. Here are the headline findings:
*Monthly site visits down by 62.4% from 37.3m visits in July to 14.4m visits in August.
*Average time spent on site down by 67.4% from 3:59 minutes in July to 1:18 minutes in August.
*Bounce rate up by 31% from 47.5% in July to 68.9% in August. (For the uninitiated, bounce rate is a metric that records visitors who click on a site and then leave without going on to access content within it. So the higher the bounce rate percentage, the worse the site's performance).
By any standards, I think this amounts to a disastrous start for The Sun's paywall strategy. I have to say I am surprised. I expected the paper to do better, not least because of the Sun+ goals app.
But it is early days and there will surely be an improved take-up rate over the coming months.
You can see more of the research details, along with a graphic showing the drop in traffic, on SimilarWeb's site here. And you can see how it collects its worldwide data here.
Oh dear.
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- Rude Dude With Tude
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We don't have a general "holy poo poo the state of the media" thread other than this so I'm putting this here http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/itv-paid-student-bar-tab-in-binge-drinking-expos/5072986.article
Boredclarts posted:ITV paid student bar tab in binge drinking exposé
ITV’s production team paid the bar tab for a group of students during a Tonight investigation into binge drinking, Broadcast can reveal. The Jonathan Maitland-fronted investigation, titled Tonight: Britain’s Young Drinkers, aired on 17 April and investigated the effect of excessive alcohol consumption on young people in Britain.
As part of the programme - which featured an interview with a parent whose son died after a binge drinking game - the production team followed four students on a night out. It put them through a series of health checks before and after, to measure the alcohol’s impact on their bodies.
Broadcast has learned that the production team at ITV Studios’ factual arm Shiver paid for the students’ drinks during the night out, prompting a complaint from one of their parents. The matter has been formally investigated by ITV and although the broadcaster declined to comment, sources confirmed that it did pick up the bar tab for the young people. ITV would not be drawn on whether the incident broke its editorial guidelines. Broadcast understands that Tonight’s series producer David Warren resigned last month, but ITV would not state whether his departure was related to the Britain’s Young Drinkers investigation. Warren declined to comment.
An ITV spokeswoman said: “ITV carried out an internal investigation following a complaint from a family member of one of the participants in the Tonight programme.” An insider stressed that all of the students were consuming alcohol legally. They were carefully consulted during the production process, the source added, and were allowed to watch the documentary before it aired earlier this year.
The programme carried the results of an exclusive survey, which revealed that three quarters of 1,000 18-25 year olds admitted to drinking alcohol purely to get drunk. A leading specialist told ITV that excessive alcohol consumption is fuelling an explosion of liver disease among young people. The 30-minute investigation pulled in an audience of 2.8m (13.4%). Two viewers complained to Ofcom about the show’s content, but the media regulator decided not to investigate the concerns.
Who thought that was a good idea? "duty of care? naaaah gently caress 'em" 
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- Rude Dude With Tude
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Oh boy! http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-academic-stumbles-top-secret-8492134
MEN posted:Salford academic stumbles on top secret file which could detail sex abuse by establishment figures
Dr Chris Murphy, from Salford University, found the file in the National Archives while carrying out a research project
A university lecturer has unearthed a previously top-secret file held at the National Archives which could contain allegations of ‘unnatural sexual’ behaviour by establishment figures in the 1980s.
Dr Chris Murphy, from Salford University, stumbled upon the potentially ‘extremely significant’ file by chance – weeks after a Home Office review into historic child abuse allegations failed to find any documents relevant to its investigation.
Dr Murphy, who is a lecturer in Intelligence Studies, was working on a research project about Government secrecy in the National Archives, in Kew, south West London, when he uncovered a file called: “PREM19/588 - SECURITY. Allegations against former public [word missing] of unnatural sexual proclivities; security aspects 1980 Oct 27 - 1981 Mar 20.”
The “PREM” category of files covers documents and correspondence that passed through the prime minister’s office.
He described how he did a ‘double-take’ when he saw the classified file – before wondering about the implications of the title.
Dr Murphy said: “This material was so significant that it was brought to the attention of Margaret Thatcher. How prominent must this individual have been in public life if it is being raised in Number 10?”
The academic raised the document with Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk, who has campaigned on behalf of victims of child sex abuse.
He said: “It’s astonishing that a Government review into child abuse allegations in the 1980s was unable to find any files that could help the inquiry and yet a Salford University lecturer has now managed to locate a file that could be extremely significant.
“All credit to Chris. Now the Cabinet Office need to publish the contents of this file and stop trying to sweep information relating to historic child abuse under the carpet.”
A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said classifications of filed are ‘reviewed periodically’.
She added: “In this case, the file was kept closed and retained as it contained information from the security services and advice from the Law Officers.” Asked whether it would be released to the current institutional child sex abuse inquiry, the spokeswoman said: “We are clear that any files that are pertinent to the historical child sex abuse inquiry will be made available to the panel.”
In November, a report was published following a review by NSPCC Chief Executive Peter Wanless into how the Home Office had dealt with allegations from Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in the 1980s that prominent public figures had sexually abused children
It found ‘no record of specific allegations by Mr Dickens’.
That review ran along side the current institutional child sex abuse inquiry, which was set up by Home Secretary Theresa May in July to find out whether public bodies had neglected or covered up allegations of child sex abuse in the wake of claims paedophiles had operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
That inquiry has been beset by problems following the resignations of the Government’s first two choices for chairman and doubts over plans to give it extra powers. Previous appointments as inquiry chairwomen Fiona Woolf and Baroness Butler-Sloss resigned following claims about their perceived closeness to establishment figures.
So Thatcher knew. But I suppose her not doing anything is to be expected when you're a monster who doesn't believe in society.
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Peter Oborne has resigned from the Telegraph over their uncritical coverage of advertisers including HSBC, Cunard and Tesco, this is his explanation and it's incredible: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph
Some highlights:
quote:on Monday of last week, BBC Panorama ran its story about HSBC and its Swiss banking arm, alleging a wide-scale tax evasion scheme, while the Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published their 'HSBC files'. All newspapers realised at once that this was a major event. The FT splashed on it for two days in a row, while the Times and the Mail gave it solid coverage spread over several pages.
You needed a microscope to find the Telegraph coverage: nothing on Monday, six slim paragraphs at the bottom left of page two on Tuesday, seven paragraphs deep in the business pages on Wednesday. The Telegraph’s reporting only looked up when the story turned into claims that there might be questions about the tax affairs of people connected to the Labour party.
After a lot of agony I have come to the conclusion that I have a duty to make all this public. There are two powerful reasons. The first concerns the future of the Telegraph under the Barclay Brothers. It might sound a pompous thing to say, but I believe the newspaper is a significant part of Britain’s civic architecture. It is the most important public voice of civilised, sceptical conservatism.
Telegraph readers are intelligent, sensible, well-informed people. They buy the newspaper because they feel that they can trust it. If advertising priorities are allowed to determine editorial judgments, how can readers continue to feel this trust? The Telegraph’s recent coverage of HSBC amounts to a form of fraud on its readers. It has been placing what it perceives to be the interests of a major international bank above its duty to bring the news to Telegraph readers. There is only one word to describe this situation: terrible. Imagine if the BBC—so often the object of Telegraph attack—had conducted itself in this way. The Telegraph would have been contemptuous. It would have insisted that heads should roll, and rightly so.
quote:Three years ago the Telegraph investigations team—the same lot who carried out the superb MPs’ expenses investigation—received a tip off about accounts held with HSBC in Jersey. Essentially this investigation was similar to the Panorama investigation into the Swiss banking arm of HSBC. After three months research the Telegraph resolved to publish. Six articles on this subject can now be found online, between 8 and 15 November 2012, although three are not available to view.
Thereafter no fresh reports appeared. Reporters were ordered to destroy all emails, reports and documents related to the HSBC investigation. I have now learnt, in a remarkable departure from normal practice, that at this stage lawyers for the Barclay brothers became closely involved. When I asked the Telegraph why the Barclay brothers were involved, it declined to comment.
This was the pivotal moment. From the start of 2013 onwards stories critical of HSBC were discouraged. HSBC suspended its advertising with the Telegraph. Its account, I have been told by an extremely well informed insider, was extremely valuable. HSBC, as one former Telegraph executive told me, is “the advertiser you literally cannot afford to offend”.
E: there's a bit on Channel 4 News about it right now, if you're interested.
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