'Black ops and espionage’ inside Fox News

[anakie]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News television channel had a "black ops" department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged.
Dan Cooper, who helped launch Fox News as managing editor in 1996, said that a so-called "brain room" carried out "counter intelligence" on the channel's enemies from its New York headquarters, and that he was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter.

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Mr Cooper, who left Fox News soon after its launch, provided a quote for a 1997 article about Roger Ailes, Fox News's president, by journalist David Brock in New York magazine.
The quote was not going to be attributed to him, but he alleges that, before the article was published, Mr Cooper's agent received a telephone call from Mr Ailes threatening to withdraw Fox's business from all his clients.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/black-ops-and-espionage-inside-news-20110721-1hpkn.html#ixzz1Shksh5Gx






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Do you suppose the American media will pick up this story - or once again do you have to rely on the foreign press for stories critical of Fox?


peace

[juajen]

1. There needs to be a lot of investigating when it comes to

anything concerning Rupert Murdock and his minions. I think there is a lot of hacking into cell phones and email going on, not just on Murdock's part. I still find it weird that John Edwards was outed. I'm sure he was being very careful. I found his behavior incomprehensible and was extremely disenchanted with him, but I question how The Inquirer got it's info. We need some new tough laws regarding hacking. The Patriot Act probably made this easier. We need to get rid of that, too.

[JDPriestly]

12. Thanks. Note my avatar.

I put it back on after the Weiner business.

There are just too many invasions of privacy.

I'm getting tired of all the scandal and gossip.

It's one thing when it affects someone who is judging the "morality" and sex lives of other people very harshly while violating his own claimed standards.

It's quite another when someone who is not interested in the sex lives of others is "outed" for private and very personal behavior.

[roxiejules]

2. Murdoch bought Wireless Gen & will be data mining your child

http://gothamschools.org/2010/11/22/murdoch-buys-education-tech-company-wireless-generation/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1521504




Wireless Generation has made its business partly by cobbling together government contracts with school systems. In New York City, it took over development and management of ARIS, the city’s online warehouse of student data, which began under IBM. It also helped write the algorithm for School of One, a program run by the DOE that teaches students math by having them run through a playlist of exercises on their laptops and face-to-face with teachers.

The company is likely to make a bid to build the technological pieces of the national tests that will be tied to the “common core” standards.

[JDPriestly]

13. That includes your kid's IQ scores and other measures of talent

and behavior. This is totally improper. That information should be held on paper by schools and parents only.

It should not be placed into any computer system anywhere -- not even university computers.

My college transcript shows the scores I got on the "entrance exams" when I was 17 and started college. That was a long time ago. That should not be information that can be easily obtained by some third party, say a prospective employer.

[roxiejules]

14. Bill Gates calling it 'Shared Learning Infrastructure'

I wish that parents would wake up to what is going on in the schools:


http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-super-mugging-ny-state.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/murdoch-buys-education-technol.html

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/12/jon-alter-kneels-to-again-to-his-micro.html


The Gates Foundation, which pushed data systems and testing as part of "Race to the Top", has also selected Wireless to “build its national Shared Learning Infrastructure,” in what is likely to prove a generous windfall for Joel Klein and Rupert Murdoch.

[Firebrand Gary]

3. Oh Look, another story on Fox "News " and their illegal and immoral tactics.

I realize that the media is beggining to follow this story more closely, that said they could sure do a hell of alot better.

[FreeBillClinton]

4. It's Australian. US News probably won't cover it..

[rpannier]

5. Fox News already killed any chance of an investigation

When they said it would show the administration to be partisan if they pursued this.

[Firebrand Gary]

7. I missed that. Did Fox actually say that? Shit, if that's the case.

We should use that response for everything we disagree with.

[rpannier]

10. I think the guys name is Jim Pinkerton

He's on the show with Alan Colmes, Cal Thomas, etc

[buckrogers1965]

6. At best there will be a whitewash.

My bet is that the Obama administration will suppress any investigation into any right wing activities no matter how corrupt and illegal they are.

Worst case they just drop the investigations after saying "Yeah, crimes were committed. What are you going to do about it? Pick up that can, citizen."

[FreakinDJ]

8. Depends on the contents of the "Hacked Emails"

We don't know what they have and who may be handling the release of them. Would they use the same precautionary measures as wikileaks ? Warning Governments and Officials prior to the actual release such as wikileaks did prior to the release of Cablegate?

Look at the volatility and destabilization of governments the cablegate release caused

[tblue]

9. If this admin was smart it would seize this opportunity to destroy

this evil empire, or at least cut it off at the knees. But if past is any indication, we will "look forward, not backward," except in the case of Wikileaks and also of Anonymous. My gosh, is this admin or is it not on the side of right? Can it please at least TRY to take out this toxin that's poisoned our media and the minds of gullible people? PLEASE!!!

[buckrogers1965]

21. They hate wikileaks

Because wikileaks keeps on breaking up the past, which we should be forgetting. Damn, I just realized how 1984 Orwellian that sounds. Scary.

[No Elephants]

11. One of the many ironies here is that they went to so much trouble and violated so many

legal and ethical restrictions to get their paws on hard data, yet broadcast and publish stuff they just make up anyway.

Much like they are just making up their testimony.

[Grrrfun]

20. the stolen data

is for blackmail.

Steal personal embarrassing data from target, about an extra-marital or gay affair say.
Drop 'hints' to person of interest, Corporate Officer or Politician, that you know their secrets and that Faux will RUIN THEM!!..
Profit.

Faux works hand in glove with some alphabet soup groups here and abroad I suspect... They are useful for their megaphone and will be protected as long as possible by the doj. Obummer will do less than nothing to harm the propaganda organ called Faux. He'll probably go BACK on o'liely's show to show solidarity or something..

Faux can only be harmed thru negative public opinion, and corporations that still have a shred of decency refusing to work with anything rupee marduk related.. see 2012 Olympics dumping them for example...


This story is HUGE and FASCINATING and Faux Snooz is at the center of it.. The story has Stars, Royalty, Mysterious Deaths, Espionage and Super Villains!! Keep repeating that to everyone you know.. It will make a great movie one day when the old octopus is dismantled and gone.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Kick and Rec to the top

[Blue_Tires]

16. kick

[RamboLiberal]

17. K&R

[MinM]

18. DailyMail: Allegations Fox News had 'Black Ops Brain Room' for hacking gain traction

:daily:
The Daily Mail had this a few days ago (along with some other interesting stuff at the link):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016169/News-World-phone-hacking-9-11-families-demand-answers-FBI.html

[Chimichurri]

19. I wonder if this is what helped bring Spitzer down.

[unionworks]

22. anonymous gets rolled up by feds

...after lulzsec hacks news of the worlds website. The feds then give fox news first dibs to release the story. The third reich only lasted six years. How long has it been for the fourth reich now, 8?

[unionworks]

23. almost forgot

K & R!