Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

Hacked Off campaigner Hugh Grant is appearing tonight alongside others at a rally to encourage public support for media reform. The actor will join others – including victims of press intrusion, politicians and campaigners – at the event hosted by the Hacked Off campaign and the Coordinating Committee for Media Reform (CCMR). The rally is [...]

**From CNN.com by Brian Cathcart There had to be something special about Rebekah Brooks. Here was a woman, after all, who managed to be a close friend of Tony and Cherie Blair, then a friend (perhaps less close and more briefly) of Gordon and Sarah Brown, and then a very close (‘lots of love’) friend [...]

by Brian Cathcart Peter Hill was editor of the Daily Express for seven years, from the end of 2003 to early 2011. Among his claims to fame is that he edited the newspaper throughout the Madeleine McCann affair in 2007-8, overseeing coverage that led to a £550,000 libel pay-out by the group and to grovelling [...]

by Brian Cathcart After all the excitements of the Murdoch week it would be easy to imagine that the Leveson inquiry’s job of tackling press abuse in this country is done, or at least that the worst is over and the objective is in sight. Not so. We might never have imagined that News International [...]

**From Comment is Free/Guardian by Brian Cathcart Murdoch’s persona is ingenious, but News Corp’s corrupting influence is laid bare in cold detail in the Jeremy Hunt emails Rupert Murdoch’s critics, watching him testify, were no doubt thinking: “The devious old bastard. He forgets so selectively and he dissembles so artfully.” And what were Murdoch’s many [...]

by Brian Cathcart (Picture: Howard Lake) So now we know the character of the relationship between the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and News International, and it could hardly look much worse if he had been caught accepting brown envelopes full of used tenners. Jeremy Hunt (or, just conceivably, those acting directly [...]