European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 February | 66 comments (66 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Sun team probing sustained criminality: source | Reuters

(Reuters) - An investigation into Rupert Murdoch's top-selling British newspaper, the Sun, has uncovered evidence that it paid tens of thousands of pounds in retainers to public officials for tipoffs, a source with knowledge of the probe said on Wednesday.
Much of the evidence passed to police has been provided by Murdoch's own News Corp group, and deepens a crisis at the Sun, where officers have arrested nine former and current senior staff in recent weeks over illegal payments.
Murdoch has been trying to regain the high ground ever since an outcry last summer - over revelations that his journalists had hacked the voicemails of crime victims and their families - forced him to close the profitable News of the World title and abort a planned multibillion-dollar buyout of Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster.
"This is not about sources or expenses, this is an investigation into serious suspected criminality over a sustained period," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2012 at 03:04:49 PM EST
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Re: Living On the Planet (4.00 / 2)

Independent - Front Page - You couldn't make it up: Sun staff hope Strasbourg can save them from Murdoch

The crisis in Rupert Murdoch's news empire deepened last night when Sun journalists began planning legal action against their employer with the help of two things they have previously shunned - the Human Rights Act and the National Union of Journalists.
Several senior journalists have contacted the NUJ - to which they do not belong because News International has its own staff organisation - seeking its help in putting together a case claiming that the parent company has breached their right to freedom of expression by passing information about their sources to the Metropolitan Police.

Which is interesting given their normal attitude to anything European

The Sun says: The usual editorial line
'I am happy to point out the cases where the Act has been used to right a real wrong... Except that I can't think of any'
Jane Moore, 27 April 2011
'Soft judges must not put the human rights of dangerous fanatics above the right of decent citizens to live in safety'
Trevor Kavanagh, 28 may 2007
'We'd love to see Britain ignoring orders from Strasbourg judges that stop us deporting foreign killers'
Sun editorial, 21 September 2011
'How truly awful ... Is belonging to Europe a price worth paying for allowing creeps like this to hide behind the Human Rights Act?'

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Feb 16th, 2012 at 07:35:27 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 February | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)