Phone hacking Flashcards
How many subsidiaries does this conglomerate have and who are they?
There are many, the sun, Sunday times, news of the world (now the Sunday sun) and the Sunday Times.
Which conglomerate does Rupert Murdock own?
News international
Which news paper has the largest circulation and who is it owned by?
The sun has the largest circulation in the country and is owned by Murdock, acting as a subsidiary of news international.
What is common in a broadsheet?
Bigger pages
Serif mast head
Is read by an educated audience
What is common in a tabloid?
Red top
Picture based
Cheap, lower class audience
What is it that Rupert Murdock wants?
He wants political power, he is a media mogul and has a phenomenal amount of power
What happened on April 9th 2006?
The artical, published about the royals, triggers suspicion of phone hacking and months later news of the world writer Clive Goodman admits to the crime, resulting in four months in jail.
glen Mulcare, the private investigator, gets six months in jail for his involvement and Andy Coulson, the editor, resigns.
Who received payoffs after being released from jail?
Goodman and Mulcare
What is the name of the head of the professional footballer association and how much does he receive to drop the court case he has against the news paper?
Gordon Taylor, he is payed £700,000
What is the name of the famous media agent and how much is he payed to droop his court case against the news paper?
Max Clifford reportedly received £1m
Why would max Clifford be hacked?
Because he was a massive media agent and has clients leaving voice mails for him, which would lead to big, exclusive stories
What is the name of the self regulating body which deals with the media?
The press complains commission
Which one of the phone hacking victims accused the police of ‘putting a lid’ on the inquiry?
John Presscott
What did Brian Paddick say about about the relationship between the police and Murdock?
‘these news papers are so powerful they may even be above the law’
Who is the openly gay senior police man who was attacked by the newspaper?
Brian Paddick
Who was the police officer in charge of the investigation?
Andy Hayman
Which paper was it that was using phone hacking to get stories?
News of the world
What happened to Andy Hayman?
After being attacked by the paper over an elegiac expense scandal, he left then force and was employed by Murdock paper, The Times, as a columnist.
What was the result of Andy Hamilton being employed by the times as a columnist?
He was effectively silenced and later condemned Prescott’s recent call for a judicial review into the police inaction as a ‘rant’
What did the labour MP say about Scotland Yard and how they are treating new witnesses who are coming forwards out the scandal?
Paul Farrelly said Scotland Yard interviews them under caution, he sees it as a deliberate mean of putting them off and presenting any new evidence coming to light
We’re there any financial links between the police and the paper?
Rebekah Brooks had admitted publicly that the paper had paid the police for information and would do so in the future.
How had murdock’s power been thought to silence other papers on the phone hacking scandal ?
It is thought that the Guardian were muted on their reports, unwilling to alienate the ‘most powerful’ paper
What was said about Andy Coulson by Stephen Glover?
‘neither the daily mail or the daily telegraph yet wants to go into war with Mr Coulson, who is after all in the Tory Camp’
Who is Andy Coulson and what has happened to him through the course of the scandal?
Was the editor of the mass Sunday tabloid The News Of The World, and now the prime ministers write hand man
How many people are thought to be victims to the scandal?
6000 public figures, including members of the cabinet
How were the previous government silenced?
The previous government was also silenced. Even when Coulson was appointed Cameron’s director of communications, little fuss was made by Labour. Prescott says that his colleges feared murdock’s power.
Which leader was Coulson the write hand man and director of communications for ?
David Cameron
Who is Andy Hayman?
The senior police officer in charge of the investigation. He was a target of the paper himself and after leaving the force he was employed by murdock’s paper, the Times as a columnist, thus silencing him
Who was Brian Paddick?
An openly gay senior police officer, who was another one of the papers victims and said ‘these newspapers are so powerfull they may even be above the law’
What happened to Adam price, am MP, when he tried to get Rebekah brooks to attend a parliamentary committee meeting hearing to explain the companies record?
He was told that if the committee didn’t back off, Murdoch’s press would ‘go for’ its members. The committee caved to the threat
Could the paper be viewed as scared by the prospect of victims speaking out?
Yes as it has already paid out millions in court confidentiality agreements as seen with Gordon Taylor
Who is George Galloway?
The MP who refuses to be paid off
British ruling class corruption is nothing new to Britain. What is the smear campaign that started after the miners strike?
Robert Maxwell conducted a smear campaign against Arthur Scargill, using dodgy forces and closely co-operating with state fources such as MI5
What did the show dispatches do to show the nature of corruption today?
It showed the corruption that happens when groups like the Chipping Norton Triangle excert dangerous control over the country, as the pro-fascist Cliveden set did in the 30’s
What is the Chipping Norton Triangle?
Chopping Norton is the town where David Cameron, Rebekah Brooks, Tory Publicist Mathew Freud and his wife live.
