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BMAC Awards 2012 Tags: bskyb    BSkyB is the most admired company in the media sector. Steven Van Rooyen, MD of Sales and Marketing, collects the award. Recent Updated: 5 months ago - Created by Management Today Editorial - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Management Today Editorial 2012_04_270015 Mr BoKtok and BSkyB Tags: uk   greatbritain   england   funny   britain   humor   humour   murdoch   subtitles   captions   subtitle   misprint   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   misprints   jeremyhunt   culturesecretary   levesoninquiry   lordjusticeleveson    In the land of Murdoch where the shadows lie. (And also evesdrop.) Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by Gwydion M. Williams - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Gwydion M. Williams Making Mobile Matter - Harvey Nash Event 2012 Tags: sky   apple   mobile   event   android   apps   bskyb   jasontitus   davidgibbs   html5   albertellis   harveynash   shoreditchstudios   shazamentertainment   kaldorgroup   jonnykaldor   williamexcell    David Gibbs, Director of Mobile Applications and services BSkyB, speaking about BSkyB's mobile offerings. How are companies realising their mobile ambitions? How are they overcoming the challenges of managing content across multiple platforms and devices? How are they turning their strategy into revenue generating reality? This event, hosted by Harvey Nash at Shoreditch Studios, London, looked at these key issues and more. Keynote speakers: Jason Titus CTO Shazam Entertainment David Gibbs Director of Mobile Applications & Services at BSkyB Jonny Kaldor Co-founder Kaldor Group Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by HarveyNash - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - HarveyNash Making Mobile Matter - Harvey Nash Event 2012 Tags: sky   apple   mobile   event   android   apps   bskyb   jasontitus   davidgibbs   html5   albertellis   harveynash   shoreditchstudios   shazamentertainment   kaldorgroup   jonnykaldor   williamexcell    How are companies realising their mobile ambitions? How are they overcoming the challenges of managing content across multiple platforms and devices? How are they turning their strategy into revenue generating reality? This event, hosted by Harvey Nash at Shoreditch Studios, London, looked at these key issues and more. Keynote speakers: Jason Titus CTO Shazam Entertainment David Gibbs Director of Mobile Applications & Services at BSkyB Jonny Kaldor Co-founder Kaldor Group Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by HarveyNash - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - HarveyNash Making Mobile Matter - Harvey Nash Event 2012 Tags: sky   apple   mobile   event   android   apps   bskyb   jasontitus   davidgibbs   html5   albertellis   harveynash   shoreditchstudios   shazamentertainment   kaldorgroup   jonnykaldor   williamexcell    How are companies realising their mobile ambitions? How are they overcoming the challenges of managing content across multiple platforms and devices? How are they turning their strategy into revenue generating reality? This event, hosted by Harvey Nash at Shoreditch Studios, London, looked at these key issues and more. Keynote speakers: Jason Titus CTO Shazam Entertainment David Gibbs Director of Mobile Applications & Services at BSkyB Jonny Kaldor Co-founder Kaldor Group Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by HarveyNash - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - HarveyNash Making Mobile Matter - Harvey Nash Event 2012 Tags: sky   apple   mobile   event   android   apps   bskyb   jasontitus   davidgibbs   html5   albertellis   harveynash   shoreditchstudios   shazamentertainment   kaldorgroup   jonnykaldor   williamexcell    How are companies realising their mobile ambitions? How are they overcoming the challenges of managing content across multiple platforms and devices? How are they turning their strategy into revenue generating reality? This event, hosted by Harvey Nash at Shoreditch Studios, London, looked at these key issues and more. Keynote speakers: Jason Titus CTO Shazam Entertainment David Gibbs Director of Mobile Applications & Services at BSkyB Jonny Kaldor Co-founder Kaldor Group Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by HarveyNash - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - HarveyNash PB292339 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: protest   demonstration   london   solidarity   demo2011   banners   posters   placards   slogans   jamesmurdoch   rupertmurdoch   newsinternational   bskyb   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   broadsanctuary   phonehacking   newsoftheworld   notw   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   gianthead   papiermache   p45   westminster   avaaz   avaazorg   unitedkingdom    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 A BSkyB shareholder gets an easy, partisan interview from Sky News before going into the shareholders' Annual General Meeting Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292310 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Tom Watson (MP) and Chris Bryant (MP) stand either side of the fake James Murdoch. Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292307 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Tom Watson (MP) and Chris Bryant (MP) stand either side of the fake James Murdoch. Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292304 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) and Tom Watson (MP) in front of the protest at the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Watson sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal and has been a voracious critic of the Murdoch empire. Bryant has himself been a victim of threats and blackmail from News International executives and journalists for his part in criticising Murdoch Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292303 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) and Tom Watson (MP) in front of the protest at the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Watson sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal and has been a voracious critic of the Murdoch empire. Bryant has himself been a victim of threats and blackmail from News International executives and journalists for his part in criticising Murdoch Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292301 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292300 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) being interviewed in front of the anti-Murdoch protest outside the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Bryant was the victim of a smear campaign carried out by the News of the World newspaper for daring to criticise the corrupt practices of News International Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292297 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) being interviewed in front of the anti-Murdoch protest outside the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Bryant was the victim of a smear campaign carried out by the News of the World newspaper for daring to criticise the corrupt practices of News International Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292293 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) posing with the fake James Murdoch at the anti-Murdoch protest outside the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Bryant was the victim of a smear campaign carried out by the News of the World newspaper for daring to criticise the corrupt practices of News International Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292287 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29.11.2011 Chris Bryant (MP) posing with the fake James Murdoch at the anti-Murdoch protest outside the BSkyB shareholders' AGM. Bryant was the victim of a smear campaign carried out by the News of the World newspaper for daring to criticise the corrupt practices of News International Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292284 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292278 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292273 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292256 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292246 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292243 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292231 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292230 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292225 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292198 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292197 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292192 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292189 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches PB292182 Avaaz anti-Murdoch (Lo Res) Tags: london   westminster   unitedkingdom   protest   demonstration   solidarity   posters   banners   papiermache   slogans   placards   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   p45   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   broadsanctuary   notw   qeiiconferencecentre   tothillstreet   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   tomwatsonmp   chrisbryantmp   demo2011    Anti-Murdoch protests at BSkyB shareholders AGM. London 29112011 Activists from campaigning group Avaaz protested this morning outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre which was hosting this year's annual BSkyB Shareholder's meeting, calling for the removal of James Murdoch as chairman, citing his mismanagement of the ongoing tabloid hacking scandal which has already seen the demise of tabloid paper The News of the World (NoTW). The protesters were joined by Tom Watson MP (Lab. West Bromwich East) who sits on the Commons Select Committee investigating phone hacking and Chris Bryant MP (Lab. Rhondda) who was himself hacked and smeared by journalists from the former NoTW. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Off with his head! : P7198591 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198580 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198576 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198567 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198560 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198544 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198542 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198536 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198522 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198516 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198514 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7198508 Tags: westminster   protest   parliament   demonstration   masks   mafia   slogans   placards   corruption   gianthead   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   crowdsourcing   abingdonstreet   oldpalaceyard   avaaz   avaazorg   phonehacking   peteriches   hackgate    Campaigners from Avaaz protest outside Parliament against Rupert Murdoch. 19.07.2011 As Rupert Murdoch and his son James were inside Parliament giving 'evidence' in front of a Parliamentary sub-Committee to answer may serious questions about their knowledge and complicity in the notorious phone-hacking scandal which is rapidly unravelling the Murdoch Empire, a group of campaigners from online protest organisation www.avaaz.org mounted a small protest outside. This from the Avaaz website on their long-running campaign to stop Murdoch getting his hands on satellite broasdcaster BSkyB, and to break up Murdoch's Empire: Stopping Rupert Murdoch: The Story It's an amazing time for our democracy, and our community. Together, we took on the world's most powerful media baron, opposing the biggest deal of his career, and won! After seven months of campaigning, 1 million online actions, 250,000 messages to official consultations, 2 polls, 8 stunts, legal threats and thousands of phone calls to our leaders, Murdoch has been forced to abandon his bid for BskyB! Even before the most recent hacking scandal revelations broke, Jeremy Hunt himself recognized it was our campaigning that repeatedly delayed the deal going through. People power stopped Murdoch for months, and when the most recent hacking scandals broke, we cut through the spin and helped get a real judicial inquiry and evaluation of the fitness of the Murdochs to own British broadcasters. Now Murdoch’s political friends -- who used to hang on his every word -- have abandoned him, his CEO Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges and London's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned. And the US and Australia are pushing for their own Murdoch investigations -- threatening the survival of the entire News Corp empire! With over 9.5 million members worldwide across 193 countries, Avaaz is a an influential organisation without peers, bringing attention to a great range of vital issues around the globe. To date Avaaz has participated in over 171,000 actions since it was formed early in 2007. The phone hacking revelations (known popularly now as Hackgate) have been covered extensively now around the globe, seeing several News International employees arrested with many more to follow as the uncovering of the Murdoch press' criminality stretching back thirty years is scrutinised and the pieces of the dark puzzle are put together, and we are now witnessing more and more examples of the depth of the Murdoch Empire's global treachery and corruption as more and more of Murdoch's past victims come forward with their own stories to tell. All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches bskyb Shareholders are Pissed Tags: uk   wallpaper   news   art   illustration   digital   photoshop   james   high   highresolution   artwork   media   poetry   artist   graphic   internet   arts   creative   commons   social   daily   hires   future   creativecommons   resolution   hd   wallpapers   everyday   rupert   murdoch   pissed   prose   digi   shareholders   rupertmurdoch   commonsart   2011   bskyb   surian   newsinternational   jamesmurdoch   phonehacking   soosay   ssoosay   suriansoosay   creativecommonsart    Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by ssoosay - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - ssoosay The Three Amigos / Parties to Unite over BSkyB Bid Call Tags: uk   wallpaper   news   amigos   art   film   illustration   digital   photoshop   three   photo   high   highresolution   artwork   media   call   poetry   artist   graphic   lol   united   politics   internet   cartoon   over   arts   creative   parties   kingdom   commons   social   daily   hires   photograph   80s   unite   future   creativecommons   labour   resolution   government   law   conservative   hd   wallpapers   everyday   democrats   liberal   bid   the   prose   digi   ukpolitics   commonsart   2011   bskyb   davidcameron   surian   “rupert   nickclegg   “phone   murdoch”   soosay   edmiliband   ssoosay   suriansoosay   creativecommonsart   hacking”    Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by ssoosay - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - ssoosay Lo Res P7076519 Tags: news   newspaper   tv   media   fb   protest   parliament   masks   solidarity   editor   purplepeople   scandal   murdoch   economics   journalism   protesters   wapping   slogans   flashmob   journalists   placards   corrupt   corruption   ofcom   bribery   arrests   chiefexecutive   redundancy   nuj   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   rebekahwade   andymay   editorinchief   jamesmurdoch   newscorps   phonetapping   notw   cockspurstreet   hackedoff   phonehacking   joblosses   sackings   rebekahbrooks   culturesecretary   takebackparliament   peteriches   andycoulson   jeremeyhunt   departmentforculturemediaandsport   elliotfolan   millydowler   clivegoodman   glennmulcaire   hackgate   antinotw   antimurdoch   monopoliescommission   davidxameron   chippingnortonset   meghowarth   sackbrooks   savingbrookes    Anti-Murdoch flashmob demands Rebekah Brooks' sacking. London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Rupert Murdoch wants BSkyB Tags: sky   campaign   peoplepower   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   38degrees    Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees Don't reward Murdoch with BskyB Tags: sky   campaign   peoplepower   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   38degrees    38 Degrees members appear - campaigning to stop Murdoch taking control of BSkyB (join the campaign here: www.38degrees.org.u​k/page/s/murdoch-deal-peti​tion#p... Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees Don't reward Murdoch with BskyB Tags: sky   campaign   peoplepower   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   38degrees    38 Degrees members appear - campaigning to stop Murdoch taking control of BSkyB (join the campaign here: www.38degrees.org.u​k/page/s/murdoch-deal-peti​tion#p... Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees 38 Degrees members appear Tags: sky   campaign   peoplepower   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   38degrees    38 Degrees members appear - campaigning to stop Murdoch taking control of BSkyB (join the campaign here: www.38degrees.org.u​k/page/s/murdoch-deal-peti​tion#p... Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees Rupert Murdoch wants BSkyB Tags: sky   campaign   peoplepower   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   38degrees    Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees Lo Res P7076527 Tags: news   newspaper   tv   media   fb   protest   parliament   masks   solidarity   editor   purplepeople   scandal   murdoch   economics   journalism   protesters   wapping   slogans   flashmob   journalists   placards   corrupt   corruption   ofcom   bribery   arrests   chiefexecutive   redundancy   nuj   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   rebekahwade   andymay   editorinchief   jamesmurdoch   newscorps   phonetapping   notw   cockspurstreet   hackedoff   phonehacking   joblosses   sackings   rebekahbrooks   culturesecretary   takebackparliament   peteriches   andycoulson   jeremeyhunt   departmentforculturemediaandsport   millydowler   clivegoodman   glennmulcaire   hackgate   antinotw   antimurdoch   monopoliescommission   davidxameron   chippingnortonset   meghowarth   sackbrooks   savingbrookes    Anti-Murdoch flashmob demands Rebekah Brooks' sacking. London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. 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London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7076280 Tags: news   newspaper   tv   media   fb   protest   parliament   masks   solidarity   editor   purplepeople   scandal   murdoch   economics   journalism   protesters   wapping   slogans   flashmob   journalists   placards   corrupt   corruption   ofcom   bribery   arrests   chiefexecutive   redundancy   nuj   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   rebekahwade   andymay   editorinchief   jamesmurdoch   newscorps   phonetapping   notw   cockspurstreet   hackedoff   phonehacking   joblosses   sackings   rebekahbrooks   culturesecretary   takebackparliament   peteriches   andycoulson   jeremeyhunt   departmentforculturemediaandsport   millydowler   clivegoodman   glennmulcaire   hackgate   antinotw   antimurdoch   monopoliescommission   davidxameron   chippingnortonset   meghowarth   sackbrooks   savingbrookes    Anti-Murdoch flashmob demands Rebekah Brooks' sacking. London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches Lo Res P7076276 Tags: news   newspaper   tv   media   fb   protest   parliament   masks   solidarity   editor   purplepeople   scandal   murdoch   economics   journalism   protesters   wapping   slogans   flashmob   journalists   placards   corrupt   corruption   ofcom   bribery   arrests   chiefexecutive   redundancy   nuj   rupertmurdoch   bskyb   newscorp   newsoftheworld   newsinternational   rebekahwade   andymay   editorinchief   jamesmurdoch   newscorps   phonetapping   notw   cockspurstreet   hackedoff   phonehacking   joblosses   sackings   rebekahbrooks   culturesecretary   takebackparliament   peteriches   andycoulson   jeremeyhunt   departmentforculturemediaandsport   millydowler   clivegoodman   glennmulcaire   hackgate   antinotw   antimurdoch   monopoliescommission   davidxameron   chippingnortonset   meghowarth   sackbrooks   savingbrookes    Anti-Murdoch flashmob demands Rebekah Brooks' sacking. London, 07.07.2011 On what proved to be a momentous day in UK press history, News International, the owners of the scandal-ridden News of The World newspaper suddenly announced the paper's shut-down following a last edition to be published this weekend. The newspaper's reputation has been destroyed by the infamous phone-hacking scandal which News International has tried desperately to underplay over the past few months, but which suddenly erupted into a fully-blown national outrage this week when it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police had evidence to suggest that not only had the newspaper's journalists been behind the hacking of murdered teenager Millie Dowler, the families of several of the victims of the 7/7 London Underground bombings and the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also that the News of the World had been secretly - and illegally - paying members of the Metropolitan Police to get hold of confidential data on up to a thousand people over the years to provide the paper with insider knowledge and many scoops. These very serious allegations have been revealed against the backdrop of News International's current bid to buy the remaining 61% of shares in the pay-to-view TV company BSkyB, which had been protested vigorously by many people concerned about the unchallenged domination of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United Kingdom. Today's flashmob, organised by the group 'Take Back Parliament', congregated outside the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - the domain of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who, despite many demands for a full review of News International's suitability and trustworthiness in the light of months of revelations about the phone-hacking and News International's attempts to deceive Parliament during questioning several months ago, has ignored all the warnings and was pushing the Murdoch bid through the official channels at an indecent speed, raising suspicions that David Cameron's close relationship with News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes and with Rupert Murdoch himself was influencing Hunt's professional judgement. The flashmob protesters - some wearing cutout masks of Rupert Murdoch - held up copies of today's London Evening Standard (which is not a Murdoch newspaper), displaying the front page headline "Murdoch Staff Pay Met £100K In Bribes", referring to the illegal supply of highly confidential information to reporters by trusted police officers to News of The World journalists. Demanding an immediate and complete halt to the BSkyB bid attempt, the protesters also called for the sacking of News International's Chief Executive Rebekah Brookes who was Editor in Chief of the News of The World when all the worst offences were supposedly carried out and who, many maintain, must have known what was happening, despite her frequent denials of any knowledge of the phone-hacking offences. Also of the utmost concern is Brookes' close personal friendship with Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, and the depth of the debt of gratitude he feels he owes to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for the massive support he got from the Murdoch press during the last general election. Many, many questions remain unanswered right now about "who knew what and when did they know it?", and as police enquiries commence it was announced today that five journalists will be arrested, as will ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson who resigned when the first scandal broke after Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman was famously imprisoned for hacking into Prince William's phone. Coulson immediately became David Cameron's election strategist and press spokesman until more recent discoveries obliged him to resign his post as Cameron's spokesperson. Coulson has always maintained he had no knowledge whatsoever of the phone-hacking, but a cache of emails was handed to the police a few days ago which allegedly contradict Coulson's claims of innocence in the matter, and of the clandestine payments made to corrupt police officers, may be behind the news of Coulson's imminent arrest. Today's shock announcement of the newspaper's sudden demise saw around 200 journalists made redundant today, almost none of whom were working on the paper during the period in question, prompting National Union of Journalist General secretary Michelle Stanistreet to make the following official statement this afternoon: “This shows the depths to which Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants at News International are prepared to stoop. The announcement James Murdoch should be making today is the dismissal of Rebekah Brookes as chief executive of News International. The shocking revelations this week show beyond doubt the systemic abuse and corruption at the top of the operation ran by both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Yet News International has persistently lied about the extent of this scandal and tried to pass it off as a problem created by a couple of rogue reporters. “Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism. Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BskyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook. That simply won’t wash. It is not ordinary working journalists who have destroyed this paper’s credibility – it is the actions of Murdoch’s most senior people. “James Murdoch was absolutely right when he said in his statement today that ‘Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad.’ Yet those wrongdoers are still there today, at the top of the News International empire and ordinary staff at the paper are paying with their livelihoods. “The closure of the News of the World – a newspaper that has been in print now for 168 years – is a calculated sacrifice by Rupert Murdoch to salvage his reputation and that of News International, in the hope that readers will switch allegiance to a new seven-day operation at The Sun, the government will wave through the BskyB deal and he will widen his grip on the UK’s media landscape. “It is ironic that 25 years after the Wapping dispute it is the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his management that has caused the closure of the newspaper. The NUJ will offer all support to its members at the News of the World facing compulsory redundancies and will be organising an emergency meeting of all journalists at the title to offer advice and support.” All photos © 2011 Pete Riches Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission. Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application about.me/peteriches Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by pete riches - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - pete riches BSkyB-Social-Media-Marketing-By-Jam BSkyB: Social Media Marketing By Jam www.socialkonnekt.com/socialbuzz/sky.htm Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by SocialKonnekt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - SocialKonnekt Sky+HD remote Tags: remotecontrol   skyhd   andrewkavanagh   ©bskyb    © BSkyB | Andrew Kavanagh Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Andrew Kavanagh - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Andrew Kavanagh Tags: portrait   sky   canon   pose   tripod   bskyb    © BSkyB | Andrew Kavanagh www.sky.com/ Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Andrew Kavanagh - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Andrew Kavanagh Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics The Dark Knight Tags: sky   superhero   batman   thedarkknight   andrewkavanagh   ©bskyb    © BSkyB | Andrew Kavanagh www.sky.com/ Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Andrew Kavanagh - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Andrew Kavanagh Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics Children's Ward Paintings, Middlesex Hospital Tags: painting   artwork   volunteers   themed   artinthepark   bskyb   middlesexhospital   jillnewman   andreasinclair    As one of a regular series of volunteer events in the community that Art in the Park organise and deliver, artists Jill Newman and Andrea Sinclair worked with 100 volunteers from the History Channel at BSkyB over two weeks in Spring 2010. The aim of the project was to create interesting artwork on a variety of suggested themes to brighten up the Paediatric Ward at West Middlesex University Hospital. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Art in the Park pics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Art in the Park pics 60,000 voices calling for a thorough inquiry by Ofcom surrounding the Murdoch power grab of BSkyB Tags: bskyb   murdoch60000messagestoofcomsayingstopmurdochsbskybpowergrab    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees 60,000 messages to Ofcom saying "Stop Murdoch's BSkyB power grab" Tags: bskyb   murdoch60000messagestoofcomsayingstopmurdochsbskybpowergrab    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by 38 Degrees - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - 38 Degrees BSKYB-ACCEUIL Tags: entrada   plataforma   bskyb   tvdigital    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by sateliteinfos - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - sateliteinfos BSkyB Space Hopper This BSkyB branded space hopper was created as part of the 'bounce' brand scholarship scheme which I designed in my final year at University. I was told even though I was pipped at the post in the competition, the space hopper itself was commissioned. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Nikki Hallett - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Nikki Hallett BSkyB 'bounce' logo BSkyB asked my University to create a scholarship brand they could use. I came up with 'bounce' as it reflected the energy of the production studios, and the enthusiasm of thestudents wanting to get involved in media. I came 2nd in the competition. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Nikki Hallett - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Nikki Hallett DSC00768.JPG Tags: meetings   bskyb    Bored. At BSkyB Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by apathytastic - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - apathytastic Sky Gone! Tags: sky   digital   tv   birmingham   media   war   cable   row   virgin   channels   birminghamuk   prices   unfair   dispute   telewest   freeview   skyone   skynews   bskyb   virginmedia   alloutmediawarintheuk    Interestingly the debacle over the Virgin, BSkyB no deal could push more viewers towards Freeview, which in my own humble opinion would be a result as both companies loose out to the better value offered by the BBC licence fee. Unless Sky start pulling out of freeview then we are in for a war! Oh correction Sky are pulling out of Freeview, we are in for a war because that will split the digital platform into three, rather than having universal access we will be a nation divided, not good for energy saving if you need two or three digiboxes is it? Recent Updated: 6 years ago - Created by Lee Jordan - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Lee Jordan Something Fishy Tags: sky   fife   olympus   dslr   dunfermline   e500   bskyb    This game is somewhat addictive. We found it on the BSkyB website. It's good when the Call Center is quiet. Recent Updated: 7 years ago - Created by craigcutch - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - craigcutch