Murdoch Aide Rebekah Brooks Arrested

I want to read about the guy found dead in his flat (apartment). I want to know what happened.

Hope Murduck gets his due!

Good for her I hope she spills the beans

look at the smile on this vampires face..looks like he found 'deep throat'

I just spoke to someone who read they hacked thousands of phones. Not only that but they also DELETED older messages to get to newer ones. I'm betting that NewsCrap will never recover from this. As soon as they discovered they did it here in the US the shit will really hit the fan and "FOX" News will become "FUCKED" NEWS.

I can see a couple of things realistically happening. One would be for ol' Rupe to break up his media monopoly and start selling off the parts in a last ditch effort squeeze whatever money he can out of his burning empire. Two: Lawsuits. Lots and lots and lots of lawsuits.

It will be interesting to see if the millions (probably) promised to Ms Brooks to keep her mouth shut will outweigh the fact that she could spend a decade or two in prison. Or will she cut a plea bargain and reveal all the sordid details.

Yeah, I don't know who ever thought that it was a good idea to give law enforcment the ability to hack someones phone without getting a warrent from a judge first (thanks un-Patriot Act). Everyyear the number of times police use this system seems to double. Do we really have 2 times as many terrorist acts occurring every year? What is the need then?

I will not be satisfied until Murdoch himself is sentenced, the offices of News Corp shut down, and Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, and Ann Coulter are drawn and quartered then wheeled out to the streets for a public flogging.

Or just an apology for deliberately lying to the American public.

This story is awesome and it will take up the rest of the summer with Murdoch's empire going down in flames. When it is made know that phones were tapped here in the U.S. of politically elected officials you haven't seen the shit hit the fan yet. This will be bigger than Watergate!

Don't fool yourselves. Just as this story starts to become a serious threat to FOX news in the USA, Israel will start bombing Iran just to throw our attention elsewhere. (Among other reasons). Word is the bombs are going to start dropping sometime in September. If you think it's going to be easy to take down the conservative, teabagger, republican mouth-peice you're wrong. They're more then willing to kill anybody and use any dirty trick to stay in power. They've done it before and will again. So far in the first decade of this century they have stolen an election, lied us into a war, ruined our economy and put forward the biggest bunch of Fascist for public office ever to grace the American political stage! These people will stop at nothing!

Typical .....arrest everyone but the freaking Boss! This most powerful magnet who would casually allow any of his underlings to subscribe their own creative ideas to running HIS news empire!
Do you think for a moment any one connected to this organization would ever jeopardize their career and his wrath by doing something as brainless as this without his freaking knowledge? Because of what it is ...is the very reason he would have to give his OK on it....of course with the, " I don't want to Know anything " statement after a detailed description.
If this was for stealing something from him it would be much different , but this was giving him plenty and they would want / expect to be awarded for such deeds.
This always plays out as if it were staged ...simply to sell more story or "copy".

I hope Brooks turns on Murdoch. They need one to turn. That would open the floodgates on the organization.

I sure hope they have Nexxus products in British jails, because Rebekah Brooks has some SERIOUS issues with split ends!

I hope she sings like a bird and ends his sorry ass .

phooey
she resigned before arrest...

Good, throw her in jail!

This is the takedown of conservative control in the US. The key to their power has been their ability to control the mindless masses. That started with Clear Channel and morphed to Rupert's network. Once the shield of sycophant news imposters is eliminated, the Repubes will have to start answering their own questions, real questions. And I believe the "masses" will be disappointed with the answers. Every post on News Corp should have a photo of their largest stockholders. I doubt your basic American redneck is going to appreciate finding out they have been feeding at the trough of a Saudi prince.

http://www.mujahideenryder.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/al-waleed-bin-talal.jp...

This was published the day before "Rosebud" was fired

Just reverse the story line that Kane attacked corporate trusts and pretended to champion the underpriveleged, the main theme that journalism was a way to garner personal political power is still in tact. It is obvious to me that Murdoch read Citizen Kane and used it as a structural model for a journalistic empire which is now sure to fall apart as did that of Citizen Kane.

As to Susan (Kanes obsessive love interest) we find Rebekka Wade that is given News of the World (not an opera house like Susan) find myself in the same position as the Greenslde Blog in the UK "With his stubborn refusal to fire News International's beleaguered chief executive Rebekah Brooks in mind, I am reminded of that moment in the movie when Orson Welles (as Charles Foster Kane) dies while holding a snow globe and uttering a single word: "Rosebud".

So, when his time comes, I wonder whether a chastened Murdoch will replicate that scene by also muttering a single word: "Redhead"."

In the political power aspect may I add one excerpt here from a breakfast scene from Citizen Kane.

Wife Emily is bothered by Kane's criticism of the Presidential office in public, an office she considers a sacred cow institution:

Emily: Sometimes, I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh-and-blood.
Charles: Oh Emily, I don't spend that much time on the newspaper.
Emily: It isn't just the time. It's what you print - attacking the President.
Charles: You mean Uncle John.
Emily: I mean the President of the United States.
Charles: He's still Uncle John, and he's still a well-meaning fathead who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. This whole oil scandal...
Emily: He happens to be the President, Charles, not you.
Charles: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.

So they have chosen Rebekah to be thrown under the bus. Poor girl hope she has a good lawyer. She will be needing it.

But what penalty will she really receive if found guilty, and will the iceberg of criminal activity be swept under a carpet of one sacrificial black lamb?

Golly gee,-whiz...I just can't wait until the can of worms is opened up on this side of the big pond.....I'm so giddy about this...the timing couldn't be better.

Has anyone noticed that over on FOX News there are maybe 3 videos relating to this investigation, and maybe 2 written articles about this whole cluster fluck??

It's soooooo funny because no one over at FOX News can scream: "Wah! wah! The "Lame-Stream" media is picking on us!!!"

Man..I'm gonna have my cable re-installed the minute I find out there will be congressional hearings. I know I can see a good deal of C-Span on line...but I don't wanna miss a single episode in the Chronicles of Murdoch...or as the FOX Burns.

Wouldn't it be lovely to see them destroy each other. That is one slasher flick I would watch.

I hope she cuts a deal and flips on Murdoch.

i would love to see a Rat take down a Fox.