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this phone hacking scandal is fucking insane
this shit sounds like the plot to a movie.
employees of Murdoch's "News of the World" hacked the cell phones of thousands of people, including celebrities, 9/11 victims and a murdered teen
as a result...
- the paper ceased operations after 168 years
- the CEO of the paper resigned and has been arrested
- the main whistle blower from within the company committed suicide
- the UK's top two cops have resigned
- now there's talk that the prime minister might be forced to resign because of he hired the paper's former editor as his communications
chief
http://news.yahoo.com/murdochs-face-questions-uk-parliament-...
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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I've been following this story, it's fucking crazy. The sheer number of hacks is right in line with some 1984-type paranoia.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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it's truly nuts.
this story is gonna keep going for a long time.
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Mark my words, we're going to start learning about similar activity on this side of the Atlantic from the same company. There are already scattered
stories trickling out as we speak. I hope the Justice Department starts looking into it. The man made his fortune in trashy tabloids, and he had no
idea his paper was doing this? Get real.
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Just goes to show how intertwined major media is involved with politics and the policies and decisions made aren't exactly in the interest of the
people.
No doubt this happens in the US as well and pretty much everywhere else. The media has become an extension of government.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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Don't forget the whistle blower was found dead on Sunday, and the police ruled the death as not suspicious.
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I gotta read more about this. I've been out of the loop in the past few weeks.
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Johnny_Whistle
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Nope, no red flags there...
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/hackgate-alleged-black-o...
A member of the Lulzsec hacking group claims to have 4 gigabytes of emails from News International's Sun newspaper and the "royal family," and is
planning to release them today.
"If you look at it from both sides of the Atlantic, they've done everything wrong that one could possibly do wrong ... a failure of Crisis Management
101," Harris Diamond, chief executive of the public relations firm Weber Shandwick, told the paper. "It's just baffling to watch the defense that's
been made and then the failure of the defense to stand up."
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M.Alki
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Has this actually been getting a lot of coverage in the US?
It really is so ridiculously screwed up some of the stuff they have done and other things surrounding it.
Murdoch and his Son got a sort of public grilling the other day where some idiot threw a cream pie in his face and got smacked by Murdochs wife and
kinda gained them a bit of popularity regardless of all that's going on which really sucks.
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i'd say it's been a reasonably big story here. part of that is probably because the more left-leaning news outlets are happy to talk about Rupert,
and by association, Fox, in a negative light. plus, there's the 9/11 victims factor. that said, since (so far) it doesn;t look like our gov't
officials have been involved at all, i'm sure it's not as big as it is there. you fucking prime minster is really getting drug through it on this.
the prime minister!
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not sure if you'll be able to see this in the UK, but this bit on john stewart last night was funny:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-20-2011/accountab...
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The whole 4chan/Anonymous thing is retarded but LulzSec makes me extremely happy with the work they've been doing in recent months outing fucking
morons like these folks.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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M.Alki
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Nope wont let me see it! 
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