Rupert Murdoch escaped intense scrutiny from the Select Committee after being hit in the face by a custard pie thrown by 'artist' Johnny Marbles. All was not as it seemed, however. Under fairly light police interrogation, Marbles cracked. "W...
As he sat before the Parliamentary Select Committe, alongside his son, James, the nation tuned in to rolling news channels, hoping to get some kind of insight into the murky world of News International from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. For a scand...
London - Rebekah Brooks has vigorously denied sharing a bareback saddle with the Prime Minister. "That would be incest," Medusa-curled Mrs B told the Commons Culture/Media/Sports committee. Or being in a betting syndicate with the First Lord of...
The most important blow for democratic freedom for thirty years was struck today when, in frenzied scenes, some no-mark got his fifteen minutes of fame. Something genuinely interesting and important was unfolding before an enthralled nation, so it...
Former journalists from the News of the World have banded together to open a new steak pub in the heart of Fleet Street. Called the "Hack and Tap", the new restaurant offers fine steaks you can 'hack' at, with great drinks on 'tap'. Failing that,...
Dear Sir, it's a damned queer affair about these colonial johnnies from Australia, what? Not content with stealing sheep and loaves of bread from honest shopkeepers in the 19th century, what do they do when they get transported to the world's most God-forsaken hell-hole? They make it into a veritable University of Crime, that's what the sewers do. First they hunt the aboriginals to extinc...
London - The search for the illusive 'smoking gun' in the NewsCorpse hacking scandal took a macabre twist today. Ex-NOTW writer Sean Hoare - who first fingered Andy Coulson in a New York Times hacking expose - was found dead at his home in Watford...
Despite the growing global controversy which is engulfing News International, Rupert Murdoch has surprised media watchers by adding yet a further notable journal to his UK stable. This comes at a time when Murdoch was expected to sell his UK titles a...
Media reporting staff at the BBC are up in arms over the corporation's coverage of the News International crisis. For years, listeners to Radio 4's Today programme and viewers of TV news bulletins have been accustomed to listening to media corresp...
It hasn't been confirmed yet, and quite frankly, it sounds quite hard to believe - a bit like an article in the Daily Mail - but apparently, former head of the News Of The World, Rebekah Brooks, has been banged up in a cell at Strangeways prison, Man...
London - Rebekah Wade has been arrested for a series of sartorial horrors involving some truly horrendous hacking jackets. A series of disgraceful equestrian haute couture faux pas has seen the wife of ex-National Hunt trainer Charlie Brooks haule...
So, if the rumours are to be believed, the police have finally arrested Rebekah Brooks in connection with the News Of The World phone hacking scandal, which could signal that Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire is about to collapse around him like the...
Dear Sir, I think it is jolly shocking all, thi's about Robert Murdog (Rupert Murdoch - Ed.) and these phone's what he has been hacking. After, all it i's so dear to run a phone line, without the'se hacking going on top of the bill's. I think that Robert Murdock (Rupert Murdoch, you fool - Ed.) should of been forced to pay the bil'ls for all thes'e people what phones' has of been hacked.
The FBI has revealed that, in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks in the US, employees of News International dug up the graves of victims and 'hacked' into them, removal vital organs, bones and even brains in an effort to find more information. Agent...
New York - Under fire from a phone hacking scandal that threatens to destroy his communications empire, media mogul Rupert Murdoch today admitted that he routinely hacks his own phone daily "just to keep up with what's going on." "Once you turn 80...
Former News of the World journalist Baryl Scrape reveals the secrets of being a top tabloid news reporter. Until the paper was closed recently, I was a top journalist at the News of the World. To make it as a top news reporter you have to be able to break the stories that no-one else is even aware of, its all about being the first on the scene, otherwise you're just playing catch-up with yeste...
In the wake of the News Of The World phone hacking scandal, and numerous computer hacker attacks on various secure websites and databases, one question which puzzled investigators, was: How do you recognise a hacker? And by logical extension: How...
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