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You know what's annoying? People like Nick Cohen talking about how this is all sour grapes and we need to leave the press alone etc. (I think he's done that in the past). And I like Cohen. I would have thought people like him would LIKE the poo poo cutting out of their profession, but everyone seems to think it's a big cleaning of house where everyone is a suspect. It's not hard to figure out who is a dick, and who isn't. What have these other "good" journos got to worry about?
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kingturnip posted:I remember back while Leveson was still going on, friends saying they wished it was all over, because they were getting tired of hearing about it. If it looks like it involves politicians, lots of people just turn off. Short of making people take a 50-item multiple-choice test before they're allowed to vote, I'm not sure it's possible to force people to pay attention. Mate of mine yesterday said it was all "theatre" and that nothing was going to come of it. Tried to explain that the theatre was because it was the first enquiry held with social media and full-time streaming and that the media/public interest was higher than anything before. And that the report wasn't out yet so he should wait.
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Sep 19, 2012 09:56
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Is Tom Watson a Labour frontbencher now?
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Sep 19, 2012 11:18
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I recognise that name, he does photography for Eye Spy magazine (which is a great read)
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Sep 19, 2012 16:06
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Oh my poo poo if Sky News is implicated that's massive
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Sep 20, 2012 11:04
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About loving time!
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Oct 2, 2012 11:34
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Brown Moses posted:The good thing about having all these posts about Southern Investigations and friends already written up is they aren't covered by the contempt of court rules that are now in force after Rees and Marunchak got arrested. Poor David Allen Green was about to publish a detailed examination of them and the Daniel Morgan case and has now had to rewrite the whole thing to avoid contempt. Is that how it works? You can't be done for anything at all?
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Oct 3, 2012 13:24
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WebDog posted:Meanwhile, in the colonies... The Chaser are bloody magnificent.
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Oct 4, 2012 11:38
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Oct 23, 2012 10:33
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Oh God... that's quite big isn't it?
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Oct 23, 2012 21:16
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But the article says before it was commonplace at NI.
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Oct 23, 2012 22:01
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As in Rupert knew, or James?
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Nov 19, 2012 12:09
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Do we have a timeline for what might happen after this properly gets out? Are we going to be in for a long, protracted investigation? I hate the slowness of things sometimes 
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Nov 19, 2012 13:02
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Vomits beans  Is that a saying?
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Nov 20, 2012 12:31
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I thought we all knew the Mail/Dacre were getting a section 13 notice?
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Nov 21, 2012 17:30
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I'm sick and tired of Nick Cohen ranting on Twitter. I fail to see how any kind of regulation is going to stop exposé journalism. If you have the evidence, go for it.
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Nov 25, 2012 18:29
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Hong XiuQuan posted:If you watch the first episode of Jonathan Creek, the hack journalist in it uses the technique to access someone's phone mail. That's right - it was so widespread in the 1990s that the producers were probably advised by a journo that this was a technique for every intrepid reporter. Holy poo poo I forgot about that! Also amusing to see both Alistair McGowan and Alan Davies wearing a full Steadicam rig and attempting to look like they knew what they were doing. Steadicamming is hard.
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Nov 28, 2012 16:13
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Political Scrapbook is worth a read today. Couple of things about the free speech network http://politicalscrapbook.net/ Guto harri is a dick
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Nov 28, 2012 22:08
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Last night's programme was good, what did everyone else think?
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Nov 29, 2012 12:27
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Oh wow I hope we can download it afterwards. Thanks for the reminder
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Dec 12, 2012 09:11
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3 more Elveden arrests today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21058379
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Jan 17, 2013 11:30
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No chance they succeed, surely?
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Mar 12, 2013 23:22
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4 Mirror journos/former journos arrested over alleged phone hacking between 2003-2004. Guess who was editor then. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21785103
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notaspy posted:Has there been any news on the low cost libel that Leveson wanted? There was something about the bill being hijacked by a peer and then the story becomes too complicated for me to understand. Help, someone?
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Trin Tragula posted:Ian Hislop's position on this has always been "we don't need anything new; all we need is for the existing laws to actually be properly enforced; and by the way, why was nobody enforcing those laws, isn't that the real problem?" He's right, of course, but the inquiry was not just looking at the press doing illegal stuff, but also immoral stuff and ownership, and people forget that. Why should we have a press that is allowed to print demonstrably inaccurate material that third parties cannot make a complaint about, etc.
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Mar 20, 2013 14:54
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They do, and they print frequent corrections and letters from complainants.
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Mar 20, 2013 15:32
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Could be an arrest by appointment? Also how reliable is that source?
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Apr 2, 2013 10:11
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So nobody got arrested?
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Apr 10, 2013 15:03
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I hope we find out soon The suspense is killing me and I would have liked the MoS to hold off until they could actually SAY something.
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Jun 3, 2013 08:42
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Everyone's trials will be heard in September
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Jun 7, 2013 14:01
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And our survey says?
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Jun 11, 2013 14:35
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Brown Moses posted:Just on BBC Breaking News Is this significant? Floodgates open now? Very damaging financially and otherwise for them in the US?
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Jun 18, 2013 14:05
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This secret recording of Murdoch is starting to get some traction, aye?
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Jul 3, 2013 20:45
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And Channel 4 News tonight I think
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Jul 3, 2013 21:53
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Remember, he doesn't have to turn up. But it may be bad PR to not. Also the Met want the tape 
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Jul 9, 2013 18:19
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He's gonna do it! NewsCorp statement suggests so anyway
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Jul 9, 2013 22:35
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WebDog posted:Yup, in the first episode. Maddie, a journalist, brute forces her way into someone's answering machine by systematically trying number combinations. It's strongly alluded that this is pretty common knowledge in her trade. My wife pointed this out when we recently re-watched the entire series and we guessed that for it to be written in it must have been common knowledge. Amazing to look back at it.
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Aug 12, 2013 18:14
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Tom Watson was on Q&A, the Australian version of Question Time, broadcast on the ABC recently. The episode can be viewed here and the download appears to be non-geoblocked. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3818772.htm He did alright but I think people in Australia failed to see the significance of things. Also those Twitter comments on the bottom of the screen are stupid sometimes.
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Aug 27, 2013 12:59
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Leveson is in front of the DCMS right now! Guardian website has a stream.
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I was about to post the same thing. Surely illegal to possess those?
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