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By Stephen Foster on July 7, 2011
“”It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure, it’s the poor that gets the blame,” goes the old adage (or something like that) and that seems to have been the attitude of the London Metropolitan Police in its approach to arresting the alleged miscreants in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. So tomorrow, according [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, arrests, James Murdoch, Keir Starmer, met police, news of the world phone hacking scandal, Nick Davies, Rebekah Brooks, Sir Paul Stephenson, the guardian
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
Which might turn out to be an even bigger scandal than hacking into people’s phones including dead servicemen’s, we read today in the Daily Telegraph. This is Rebekah Wade, as she then was, telling arch-enemy Labour MP Chris Bryant that the News of the World paid policemen for information. Her successor as NoW editor, Andy [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, Chris Bryant, Daily Telegraph, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rebekah Wade
By Stephen Foster on April 14, 2011
He’s just acquired another one of course in former BBC producer Craig Oliver but the consensus (and it’s early days so far) is that Oliver is useless. More noted for the array of technology he carries with him than any advice he may or not give, Oliver seems unable to persuade his boss UK coalition [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson, british empire, Craig Oliver, daily mail, David Cameron, immigration, john Prescott, kashmir, Nick Robinson, oxford university, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Glover, Tony Blair, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on April 8, 2011
Andy Coulson is not just the former News of the World editor most implicated in the ongoing phone hacking scandal but, until recently, coalition PM David Cameron’s director of communications so he knows a bit about public relations. But, as some of his new PR peers queue up to tell PR Week, the problem for [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, david jones, elbrus, Euro RSCG, Kate Robertson, m&c saatchi, news of the world phone hacking, one young world, pha media, Phil Hall, PR Week
By Stephen Foster on March 14, 2011
More evidence is emerging almost daily about the fetid pool British tabloid hacks cheerfully swam in through the last decade. We already know that News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman was jailed in 2007 for phone hacking, as was his sidekick freelance private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Coalition government director of communications Andy Coulson [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alex Marunchak, Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, daily mirror, Glenn Mulcaire, News International, news of the world, panorama, phone hacking scandal, Piers Morgan, Rebekah Wade, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on February 18, 2011
Well they just won’t will they? Here’s Roy Greenslade’s account from the Guardian today and he knows whereof he speaks because he used to be a senior editorial executive on the Sun (also, like the News of the World owned by News international and ultimately News Corporation) and was then editor of tabloid rival the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, daily mirror, David Cameron, news corporation, News International, news of the world, Roy Greenslade, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on February 10, 2011
It’s beginning to look like it isn’t it? News International ultimate owner Rupert Murdoch spent most of last week in the UK and, all of a sudden, the company has supplied the Met Police with enough evidence for them to re-open their inquiries and admit that large numbers of people were targeted. The rozzers have [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, James Murdoch, john Prescott, News International, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Greenberg
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2011
The UK coalition government, comprised of Tories led by David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne with a tail of increasingly reluctant Liberal Democrats, has been completely sandbagged today by Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott (hardly a household name) resigning over what he sees as a government sell-out in agreeing a bonus and lending deal with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, bankers bonuses, Craig Oliver, Danny Alexander, David Cameron, George Osborne, liberal democrats, Lord Oakeshott, Tories, uk coalition government
By Stephen Foster on January 26, 2011
And the cover-up embraces News International journalists, its managers (many of whom are former hacks) and the very highest levels of ultimate owner News Corporation whose senior executives, including one R. Murdoch, were hardly unaware of the prevailing culture at the company’s tabloid newspapers. It also involves the coalition government including prime minister David Cameron [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, assistant commissioner John Yates, Clive Goodman, crown prosecution service, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, Ian Edmondson, James Murdoch, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2011
Executives at UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, about to announce yet more stellar sales and profit figures, must be so wishing they could do away with Rupert Murdoch, 39 per cent owner News Corporation, The News of the World, Andy Coulson and all the other paraphernalia that goes with a News Corporation connection these days. Because [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Dustin Hoffman, hbo, home box office, news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, sky atlantic
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