 So let's get this straight:
1. Politicians curry favour with journalists.
2. Some journalists will bend the rules or even break the law to get a good story.
3. The police will sometimes turn a blind eye to wrongdoing if they can expect a favour in return.
As Captain Renault said to Rick in Casablanca, 'I’m shocked, shocked..........'
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 Mmmmmmmmm....
... "politicians" ... "police" ... but only "some journalists" ... ;0)
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Why the "fuss"? Hypocracy is why. These people claim to be arbiters of honesty and decency and they wag there moral finger at us all telling us how bad these people are and it turns out thet they are at least as bad. It's worth pointing out that the moralisers-in-chief, the Independant and the Guardian, are just as bad. The Independant's 'celebrity' columnist, Johan Hari, refuses to apologise after being outed as a liar and a plagiarist. They must be happy that this NI story has broken! Still, their paper is the best a getting wet boots dry!
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Journalists arbiters of honesty and decency!!!!!!!! The word itself now means disgusting. The industry looks for trouble, pokes its nose into peoples private business and does anything for a quick buck. Liars and hypocrits 99.9% and the ones who are not will. As an example, the outdoor mags. They all shout about being green and in the same mag tell us to go to some unknown treasure or spend money on a new jacket.
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I assume it was because the politicians were afraid of Murdoch as he elects (well controls the publicity that elects) our government and this is an opportunity to cut his power base.
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As Captain Renault said in Casablanca "round up all the usual suspects"
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 As an example, the outdoor mags. They all shout about being green and in the same mag tell us to go to some unknown treasure or spend money on a new jacket.
It's a bit of a leap hacking a murdered schoolgirls phone to a walking mag running an aarticle on a walking product isn't it? 
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 i think i may be quite pleased at not knowing what this is about. (flicks over to page 4 in my boys own "do what i say and not what i do" manual)
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The phone hacking stuff is bad, but surely much more worrying is the extent to which RM and his henchmen (and women) have had politicians and the police at their beck and call.
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But why are we suddenly worrying about this? I know the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, and the phones of 7 July bombing victims, was sinking to a new low, but we have known for years that our politicians were bending over backwards to do what Murdoch and other newspapers proprietors and editors wanted, so that they would then support them. Tony Blair was probably the most blatant in this regard.
But none of this is new. Decades ago, Churchill gave the Rupert Murdoch of his day an actual job in the government: Lord Beaverbrook, proprietor of the Daily Express and the London Evening Standard.
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 Liars and hypocrits 99.9% and the ones who are not will.
That's politcians too
Listening to the committee today, I sensed 8 or so good cops, one bad cops and the others ineffectual. Murdochs - how long did it take to answer question. Body language from junior was scratch ear, hold back of neck. I never read the rag, but hearing James M say, the paper has been around for over 100 years, closing it down was tough. Hang, you havent owned it that long. If you had, there would be a real emotional attachment. This was business/politics etc Think we should see them interviewed by the FBI, with lie detectors are body language experts.
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Will the last policeman to leave the Met kindly turn out the lights
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Well sorry for no longer caring about this story. I am more worried about the Euro zone and the horn of Africa crisis than some bent journos/politicians/police - shock horror! Never thought they existed before. I mean we could be on the edge of Greece and Italy defaulting on national debt plus USA could too!! Anyone got any idea what the implications to global economy would be as I don't just reckon its going to have more of an impact than the humiliation of Rupert Murdoch and the loss of jobs in the media due to the shutting down of a toilet rag of a newspaper.
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Lost,probably allow some organised default on Greek sovereign debt which could adversely effect many of the European banks which could then lead to similiar defaults for Ireland which would adversely effect U.K based banks such as Lloyds/RBS that have large exposure to Indirect Irish debt.phew...Much has been priced in the market,for instance Lloyds has dropped from 79p to mid 40s in share price already. Ive been heavily betting on falls in banking shares since beginning of May,im 120 points to the good on Dexia a Belguim based bank with a ridicolous amount of Greek sovereign debt. I reckon if you got some tramp off the street they could run some of these banks better than the current incumbants.If I ran my buisness as incompetently as some of these banks id be in cardboard city not on huge salarys and bonuses. As for u.s surely the politicans will come to an agreement??If not I hate to think what will happen.
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 I had to laugh. A reason for not sending any money to famine struck countries. It will probably end up in the bank accounts of a few corrupt folk. Mmmm. Sound a bit like the banking 'crisis'.
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Financial crisis. A country has 100 apples. Three people have 70 of the apples, and 3,000,000 folk share the other 30. Post 'crisis', 3 people have 95 of the apples, and 3,000,000 share the other 5. The same amount of apples are still in the country, but we are all in this together. Apples don't vanish.
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