22-07-2009, 08:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-07-2009, 08:59 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Quote:The Metropolitan police, who did not alert all those whose phones were targeted, and the Crown Prosecution Service, which did not pursue all possible charges against News Group personnel.
Where are the cops indeed.
Just where they were when it came to the infamous multiple TV broadcasters cases of fraud, er, TV dial-in shows -- nowhere to be seen. I even had personal correspondence with the head of the Serious Fraud Office over this whole subject (the Ministry of Justice didn't bother to reply whereas other government ministers were too busy filing their expenses claims to treat my MP's letters seriously) who couldn't find the balls to make a case of what very clearly was wholesale fraud and conspiracy to defraud. Never will there be any clearer evidence of a fraud case when it had been openly broadcast on the TV every week for years.
Yes - that was outright fraud.
However, I was more disgusted by the deliberate distortion of reality by RDF head honcho Stephen Lambert, in creating conflict where none existed in the Leibovitz/Queengate affair.
In producing and directing over 25 hours of broadcast network television, I was regularly told to sex reality up, to make it more exciting. Which is fine, so far as it goes. However, this injunction routinely leads to the editing of rushes to create conflict when in reality there was none at all.
The only reason Lambert & RDF were called to account on l'affair Leibovitz was because they stitched up Her Maj.
Frankly I care far more about the routine stitching up of ordinary folk, which happens many times every day of the week on broadcast TV.
It's one of the reasons I no longer work for these supposed blue chip, gold standard, companies and organisations.
On topic, I know several tabloid journalists. They are under huge pressure from their employers to "get the scoop". They have large expense accounts which require little receipt-style auditing.
They either spend these £££ on cocaine and hooker parties, or hiring Private Dicks to get the scoop. Those who blow cocaine and hookers don't last very long.
Of course their bosses know absolutely nothing about how these hacks get such fantastic inside information... :motz:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war