Friday, July 15, 2011

Phone hacking – Rebekah Brooks resigns: live coverage

James Murdoch has just made a comment:

I believe that is the right and responsible action to lead us through the heat of the crisis. But my desire to remain on the bridge, I was a focus of debate. This is now affecting the attention of all honest efforts to resolve the problems of the past.

With that of Andy Coulson as he left No 10:

Unfortunately, continued reporting on the events at my old job at the News of the World it is difficult for me to have 110% this role.I what I 've said about these events but when the speaker needs to give a necessary Speaker, it 's time to move on.

10.08: Here is a longer version of Rebekah Brooks 's resignation statement:

At News International we pride ourselves on setting the news agenda for the right reasons. Today, we lead the news for the wrong ones.

News International is full of talented, professional and honourable people. I am proud to have been part of the team and lucky to know so many brilliant journalists and media executives.

I am so grateful for all the messages of support. I have nothing but overwhelming respect for you and our millions of readers.

I wish every one of you all the best.



'Is it time to clean up your act?' demanded one member of Parliament. Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International at the time, was indignant in his reply. 'Clean up our act? Are you saying we're dirty?'

09:29: The Telegraph has now picked up on an interview that Jean Charles de Menezes 's cousin, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo given. (It turned out yesterday that the cousin, Alex Pereira, has been told that his phone may have also been hacked.)

Pereira says:

[Murdoch 's] Paper has survived to the plight and suffering of many people. It 's not possible, let this go easily. The misfortune of others was the happiness of people.

People using the Internet, the telephone, hoping that the conversation between the person and the person on the other side. Then imagine that it involved someone else, and with the intention of making money, and you can not let go easily.


A source close to the situation said the newspaper group's Associated Newspapers national titles division would do an internal dummy run this weekend and would launch the following weekend if it was a success. The Daily Mail group did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

8.42am:






• The avalanche of adverse publicity is annoying him, but: "I'll get over it"

Meanwhile, the FBI has announced an inquiry into claims that News of the World journalists also tried to hack into the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York.



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