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LeftishBrit

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Fri Jul-15-11 07:41 AM
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She's resigned! Finally!

Edited on Fri Jul-15-11 07:41 AM by LeftishBrit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/rebekah-brooks-resigns-phone-hacking-scandal

Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive, has resigned after 11 days of mounting political pressure over the phone-hacking scandal.

Brooks announced her decision to News International staff in Wapping just before 10am on Friday, saying her resignation had been accepted by Rupert and James Murdoch. She said she no longer wanted to be a "focal point of the debate" surrounding the company's future and reputation.

She stopped short of issuing a personal apology. "As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place," Brooks said in a statement....

Brooks is to be replaced by the chief executive of Sky Italia, Tom Mockridge, who will take over at Wapping immediately.

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oldironside

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Fri Jul-15-11 11:19 AM
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1. I have just this to say.

http://youtu.be/rY0WxgSXdEE

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T_i_B

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Fri Jul-15-11 03:37 PM
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2. Les Hinton has followed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-live-coverage

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oldironside

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Fri Jul-15-11 04:31 PM
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3. And the most delicious irony...

... is watching Murdoch squirm in front of a baying press pack. How many people has that bastard done that to? Lovely. Karma.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8641100/Phone-hacking-Rupert-Murdoch-meets-Milly-Dowlers-family.html

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fedsron2us

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Fri Jul-15-11 04:43 PM
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4. I would like to celebrate but I suspect that Hinton and Brook

Edited on Fri Jul-15-11 04:44 PM by fedsron2us

are really fall guys and girls. Indeed, the Murdoch press were not the only ones trading in illegally obtained information as any quick glance at the ICO report from 2006 'What price privacy now' will reveal

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/current_topics/what_price_privacy_now.aspx

This document and the results of Operation Motorman should be the basis for any enquiry into this whole affair which runs much, much wider than NOTW or NI. If its recommendation are ignored (as happened when it was first published) then this sort of scandal will just happen again at some time in the future

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