Next casualty in the Murdoch Scandal: LES HILTON to quit WSJ

[nadinbrzezinski]

Breaking just now on MSNBC

[aquart]

1. Hinton. No relation to Paris.

[fascisthunter]

2. thanks nadin

your posts make me feel better

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Oh, come, now. Probably has nothing to do with the Murdoch scandal.

I'm sure he just wants to spend more time with his family.

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:rofl:

[Rex]

4. GOOD we have comfirmation...YES!!! They won't escape justice.

The UK and America can hunt his ass down if he runs off...if the WSJ goes under it will be a great blow to corporatism!

[physioex]

6. WSJ is peanuts...I want Faux News....EOM

[Rex]

17. Not peanuts, they are the Wall Street Bible!

The guy that just resigned was also the head of the Dow Jones...which gets to decide if America has junk stocks or not. These are some big waves being made, bigger then anything in the last 10 years.

I want Foxnex too...I hope they are all pink slipped ASAP. That wretched excuse for a news organization did its job in 2000 - it turned an election toward their chosen candidate GWB.

May they forever rot in hell.

[physioex]

55. Good point.....You are right..EOM

[malaise]

5. jefferson_dem broke it before M$NBComcast

It hasn't broken on BBC International yet.
I love DU

[malaise]

7. Just broke on BBC

:D

[Aerows]

8. Rats fleeing the ship!

They know what's coming. I'm waiting for the exodus from Faux News. They all suddenly want to spend more time with their families (and probably go someplace where there are no extradition laws!)

[malaise]

10. Can you imagine what is going on in that head office

:rofl:

[Aerows]

12. I'm loving it

Their legal team has no leader right now, Brooks resigned, now one of the senior most executives quit. I'd LOVE to be a fly on the wall in the meetings with the senior executives. With him quitting, that's a major sign that the shit is hitting the fan in a big way.

:toast: :applause:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I hear Brazil is nice this time of year...

yep, no extradition treaty... or for real irony, Caracas.

[Aerows]

13. I didn't realize Brazil has no extradition treaty

I have a few friends there. Something to keep in mind LOL!

Seriously, if he quit, there is some serious shit about to go down.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Oh they are trying to staunch the bleeding

See FBI, those people are NO LONGER working for us... please, pretty please, look the other way.

[malaise]

30. What if Cameron quits

:rofl:

[Aerows]

43. If this gets any juicier

I'm going to need a hand towel.

[aquart]

9. And the promise of more:

ExNOTWjourno2

The Next Person To Resign Next Tuesday Will Really Thow A Cat Amongst The Pigeons... M

[malaise]

14. James Murdoch could end up in prison with Brooks, Coulson,

and Hinton and a boatload of cops.

Do not fugg with the royals' security folks.

[Aerows]

18. Yeah, I think they have definitely

bitten off more than they can chew. They have the attention of the Rockefellers, even a Republican Congressman and 3 Senators, not to mention the Queen, the royal family, and quite a number of the Parliament pissed off (and their security possibly compromised).

That's treason if they are citizens of the UK and espionage if not no matter how you slice it.

[malaise]

20. When you bribe the police who guard the royals to secure

their phone book, you'd better make sure they don't catch you.

This sordid mess might reopen the who killed Diana saga.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. I did not think of that one... but you are right

Oh pass the darn popcorn...

[malaise]

25. with or without butter?

:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

51. Here is another one, remember when Prince Harry was pulled out

of Afghanistan in a hurry?

Tinfoil moment

[Aerows]

26. LOTS of popcorn

:popcorn:

I need a bunch of butter on mine

[malaise]

28. This is freaking delish

:D

[Aerows]

34. On Monday

NWSA (News Corp) stock price is probably going to drop like a rock. I love it :)

[Rex]

29. Yep, and WHOA be to them if they

did the same thing to the Secret Service! I'd love to hear Scotland Yards take on this!!

This just gets better and better! Hey could The Rupert have sold information to our ENEMIES!?!

Oh if he did...

[malaise]

35. Which is why he should be treated like a terrorist

If they were prepared to do it to the royals, no leader is safe from these 'anything for profit' criminals.
This is deadly serious shit and I hope they throw the book at them.
Rest assured some folks will be heading to prison in Britain.

[Rex]

41. Yes, we are rejoicing but this is some deadly serious shit!

Just think what a man will do IF he is willing to spy on 9/11 victims for information that could lead to better Fox ratings!!!!

Anything imo.

[malaise]

45. Indeed and apparently he was doing anything

to make money and pull strings. I think Murdoch assumed that they all thought and operated the way he does - money and power trump everything.
What I'm enjoying most is that it's blowing up in his face before he croaks or is incapacitated too badly to understand that all his crooked ways took him full circle to utter and complete humiliation.
I hope his son goes to prison with the rest of his goons. I hope Ailes is destroyed and the Fox has to go hide in the hen house. :D

[Rex]

50. AMEN!

Can you imagine seeing your son hauled off to prison!? The Rupert is paying for the deal he made with the devil!

[Aerows]

36. A freaking Saudi prince

is the second largest shareholder in News Corp. That's not going to look very good if they were digging around in our National Security. Why the hell we allow a foreigner to control that much of a stake in a major media company is beyond me.

[Rex]

38. I hope they were and get caught red handed, it would bring down

all his assets at once! We could be seeing the signs of America waking up from this slumber The Rupert put us under. It appears if the UK is going to go crazy over this and they should!

The Ruperts days are numbered imo.

[Aerows]

44. Exactly

The unholy union between Wall Street, the Republican Party and News Corp would crumble. Other news organizations are going to start smelling red meat if they don't already.

[Aerows]

16. Oooo

Where did you see that? I can't wait to see who is next, then. If it's Ailes, that would literally be Christmas in July.

[aquart]

19. I follow this quite odd person on Twitter.

@ExNOTWjourno2

Marie X.

[Aerows]

39. I finally opened a Twitter account`

just so I could start following her, too. Well, and the characters of a show I like too that Tweet all of the time.

[Aerows]

21. Oh wow

He's more than just working for the WSJ. He's the CEO of Dow Jones. I didn't realize Dow Jones was owned by News Corp. This just gets juicier and juicier. Now it makes sense how Murdoch has as much power as he has (or had).

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Yep. and when they bought DOW JONES, people howled

[Aerows]

31. You notice that they

waited until the market closed to announce it. News Corp stock price is likely going to plummet on Monday.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. At the very least both Murdochs will be gone before long

[malaise]

37. Are you watching BBC International

This is too good.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. Nope I got MSNBC on... I should I know

I am trying to get the signals from the other matter that is at hand. This scandal is lovely... but I am keeping up to it on line

[malaise]

47. Two critical issues at the same time

Of course the good news is that Fox is distracted by this one. On the other hand, men and women must be terrified to use the usual phone connections for the talking points and spin.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. Yep, and I get mixed signals from the MSNBC on the latter

I hope, think they will raise the debt ceiling, but there will be some damage to the good faith and credit... playing with fire them TP are.

[Aerows]

42. Where can we watch, can you post a link?

Thx :)

[malaise]

46. Here - the UK Guardian is the best

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

[malaise]

49. what Les Hinton told the Commons culture select committee

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/09/les-hinton-culture-select-committee
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Les Hinton, then News International executive chairman, gave evidence to the Commons culture select committee on 6 March 2007 about the jailing of the News of the World reporter Clive Goodman for phone hacking. He was questioned by committee chairman John Whittingdale.

JW "Can you tell us what investigations you carried out to determine whether or not anybody else was aware of what Clive Goodman was doing?"

LH "First of all the police obviously carried out pretty thorough investigations, and the result of their investigation was the charge against Clive and against the private detective. Clive went to prison; the News of the World paid a substantial amount to charities nominated by Prince Harry, Prince William and the editor , who told me he had no knowledge of this activity but felt that, since it had happened on his watch, he should take his share of the responsibility, and he resigned <…> I believe absolutely that Andy did not have knowledge of what was going on <...>"

JW "You carried out a full, rigorous internal inquiry, and you are absolutely convinced that Clive Goodman was the only person who knew what was going on?"

LH "Yes, we have and I believe he was the only person, but that investigation, under the new editor, continues."

[CarmanK]

24. I'll pay attention when they get to Murdoch, otherwise its all SHOW!

for the masses. It is obvious that Murdoch's empire is stressed, but no body is in jail yet. And in the US, our DOJ has a way of allowing the robber barons off. Poor Bernie Madoff, he was just a victim!! Not.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. There will be howls to break them monopolies

That will be coming too... oh and his son might be in real legal jeppardy

[damntexdem]

32. More wiltin' and Les Hilton.

Will it save the Wall Street Urinal?

[peacetalksforall]

52. Maybe he will ask Al Gore for a job.'

[malaise]

53. I'm sure a few of his staffers are looking for jobs

everywhere. I wish I was a fly on the wall at Fox headquarters.

[peacetalksforall]

54. What I want to know is this - is FOX still on the wall with the volume turned up at the

airports, doctor and dentist offices, bars?

[nadinbrzezinski]

56. Fox has been mostly ignoring this

and anecdotal, one of the old ladies today was complaining that the lib'rul media wanted to bring it down. (The only time they have mentioned it, it is off the wall you know)

So I took her through the scandal... and asked her if she was ok with them hacking into phones of murdered Teens, dead soldiers and 9.11 victims? I have never seen a fan of Fox shut up that fast. 9.11 will be what will bring them down, in the US, IMHO.