Category Archives: media

How cozy is cozy? Just ask Santa

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Eric Francis

Phone hacking: A scandal that has diminished Britain David Cameron’s friendship with Rebekah Brooks and employment of Andy Coulson puts him at the heart of the phone hacking story. The Telegraph | from July 15, 2011 The chief executive of … Continue reading →

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…and how would you like your pie?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Fe Bongolan

Approximately an hour into the highly anticipated inquiry by members of Parliament of News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch, a comedian named Jonnie Marbles served up a shaving cream pie onto Rupert’s face. Marbles was quickly … Continue reading →

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Moon, Nessus, Pholus in UK Chart

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Eric Francis

This is turning out to be a challenging day to write a horoscope. So far, anyway — but the distractions are one revelation after the next. What we’re witnessing in the world is not a scandal in the UK, or … Continue reading →

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Second Scotland Yard Official Quits

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Eric Francis

Today a second official of Scotland Yard — London’s Metropolitan Police — has resigned in the wake of a broadening scandal involving phone hacking and collusion between police, politicians and tabloid journalists. Yesterday Sir Paul Stephenson, head of Scotland Yard, … Continue reading →

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NY Times: Head of Scotland Yard Resigns in Phone Hacking Scandal

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Eric Francis

The head of Britain’s Scotland Yard, Paul Stephenson, resigned on Sunday over accusations about the police’s handling of phone hacking investigations. In a statement, Mr. Stephenson said he had no knowledge of the extent of phone hacking at The News … Continue reading →

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Rebekah Brooks arrested over phone-hacking allegations

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Eric Francis

Editor’s Note: For those of you following the phone hacking scandal that Planet Waves covered Friday, you’re familiar with the name and face of Rebekah Brooks. She was, until Friday, the head of the News International division of News Corp, … Continue reading →

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Reports: Gordon Brown Hacked by Murdoch While PM

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Eric Francis

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s bank account information and stealing the medical records of his … Continue reading →

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(More) News about News of the World

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Eric Francis

As you may have read, Sunday’s is the last edition of News of the World, the British tabloid that been sacrificed to the escalating News Corp scandal. We got a tip that former News of the World journalists were setting … Continue reading →

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When Outrage Becomes More Important than the Crime

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: В There’s a lot going on to be pretty crazy mad about: economics, foreign policy, the environment. Not only now, but over the last year, the last eight years, hell, the last thirty or forty years. As … Continue reading →

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The Strange Case of Stewart v. Cramer

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Fe Bongolan

Dear Friend and Reader: What is illusion? What is reality?В I think anyoneВ who is fully awake knows there is a slim to nothing veil between the two.В  As a nation and a world swirling for the past ten years under Neptune … Continue reading →

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