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"Murdoch / Pellicano: Somebody else finally notices"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, even the Newscorp hacking scandal wouldn't have been so bad if Newscorp stuck to celebrities and other such people. It is because Newscorp hacked into email of victims of real crime that it became sick and disgusting.

It's like we don't care when someone says stuff about rich celebrities. Even if laws were broken, we tolerate it and look the other way.
But there is a no-step zone, and Newscorp stepped into it, violating the privacy of people who suffered genuine tragedies.

8/7/11, 3:57 PM

Blogger catperson said...

Can't wait to hear why Pellicano dumped Michael Jackson. I wonder what Michael Jackson's IQ was. On the one hand he was very smart (made hundreds of millions of dollars, musical genius); on the other hand he was an idiot (admitted to sleeping with boys on national TV, carved up his face and nose until it looked caucasian, and in my opinion bleached his skin until he got chemically induced vitiligo (though his PR people claim the vitiligo came first assuming he ever really had it), expected the public to be dumb enough to believe 3 non-black kids were genetically his, and died at age 50 by using propofol as a sleep aid.)

8/7/11, 3:58 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Newscorp stuck to celebrities and other such people"

Huh? I thought News of the World was involved.

8/7/11, 4:08 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

" I wonder what Michael Jackson's IQ was. On the one hand he was very smart (made hundreds of millions of dollars, musical genius)..."

Michael Jackson a musical genius??

Undeniably clever and talented musically, but a genius?

Makes me wonder what your IQ is.

8/7/11, 6:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

newscorp scandal was an attempt to level conservative media by the establishment. us tried to jump on the bandwagon by extending to get fox news in the US. nothing else.

8/7/11, 6:37 PM

Anonymous Simeon said...

It's really amazing what goes down the memory hole and what becomes part of the narrative. Myl conspiratorial guess would be that the Pellicano scandal had some well heeled survivors who'd like to see it stay down.

OT are you going to bother commenting on the wall street journal article on black women should interracially marry? He makes some implicit big assumptions without stating them, the chief one being that ther aren't any racial differences in physical attraction...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486492588283556.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Dcomments

8/7/11, 6:47 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Pellicano boasts that “I was the top of the ladder. Just to talk to me it cost $25,000. These guys were stringers who worked with reporters to try to get inormation on a celebrity!”"

Guess being a big man (of some sort) makes you feel better when your languishing in jail. Great work Pellicano. Enjoy your stay! BTW, the weather is lovely this time of year up here in Breckenridge. So very nice.

8/7/11, 8:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Long before the Murdoch empire’s phone-hacking scandal ..

You know, all the newspapers in Britain engaged in this hacking, not just the "Murdoch empire".

8/7/11, 8:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My analogy is more apt: Murdoch is butt ugly like Kim Jong Ill therefore has a strong preference for fascism so he can "make" people love him.

Murdoch shouldn't have been allowed to breed nor to be in control of at least half the news of the western world. He's a warmonger as well as a promoter of vigilantism.

The Pellicano thing isn't really central to the NotW scandal. Those guys were just pushing people around to win/avoid legal cases. Murdoch's pushing for influence over politicians and legal systems.

8/7/11, 10:52 PM

Anonymous Lugash said...

I am Lugash.

Later in the interview, Pellicano reveals that when he agreed to work for Jackson during the star’s 1993 child-molestation case, he warned Jackson that he’d better not be guilty. “I said, ‘You don’t have to worry about cops or lawyers. If I find out anything, I will f--k you over.’ ” The detective took the assignment, but says, “I quit because I found out some truths…He did something far worse to young boys than molest them.” But he refuses to say anything more about it. It’s as if Pellicano wants to send Hollywood a reminder: I know which closets hold the skeletons.

Hmm, what could be worse?

Adopting them?

Getting them hooked on drugs?

I suspect somewhere in Central Californian there's a storage unit with a bunch of 'dirt' in it.

I am Lugash.

8/7/11, 11:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Big Spring, TX.

8/7/11, 11:24 PM

Anonymous Londoner said...

Jackson was a prodigious dancer, a good singer (not great, and on many of his songs from Thriller onwards his vocals were shrill and ugly), and came up with many solid pop melodies. But I don't see any evidence of creative genius at all. Furthermore, I don't think he could play any instrument to any kind of standard, was presumably unable to read or write music; and his lyrics were almost embarrassingly simple - even childish.

8/8/11, 5:22 AM

Anonymous W Baker said...

Hey, Steveo, here's an X Y comparison you don't bandied about the press: Murdoch and Co. hacked the subjects of their tabloid articles like the Patriot Act now allows broad sweeps (non FISA court approved) of telephony - and like British MI5 has been doing for years.

Assume an Australian accent....'Crikey, if a Princeton football cheerleader/coke head/ turned cowboy and his black-faced community organiser political cousin from Chicago can go snooping, so can I.

8/8/11, 5:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is because Newscorp hacked into email of victims of real crime that it became sick and disgusting.

That perfectly sums up the problem with modern Britain - it's ruled by sentiment rather than by reason, by mob anger rather than rule of law.

"Oh, it's all right to break the law against those damn rich people, but not against poor little Jimmy!"

In some ways the US is in worse shape than Britain. It has many more nonwhites, for instance. But in other ways Britain is worse off - its whites are more morally, culturally, and intellectually degraded than are US whites.

8/8/11, 10:31 AM

Blogger Geoff Matthews said...

It was my understanding that this wasn't just New of the World, and that they'd been doing this for years (probably before cell phones were widespread).

8/8/11, 12:53 PM

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