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Report: News Of The World Whistleblower Found Dead

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The Guardian is reporting that Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter who was first to allege that former editor Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead. “Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home,” reports the Guardian‘s Amelia Hill, James Robinson, Caroline Davies.

According to the paper’s report, little is known as to the manner of death:

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but the force said in a statement: “At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

“The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing.”

The Guardian reports Hoare first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World.

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  • RR

    folks, this just got 100 times worse for murdoch & company

  • Kermit

    Fox news is going down!  Murdoch has a bunker in Fox in NY building for wire tapping…. This was given to the news by a Fox reporter…. and there is no mention to this on Fox (so called) news… hmmmm very interesting.

    Now they are killing Whistleblower?… very freaky

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Murdoch is desperate.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSLEVQBMJKCHPALYRG4FM2LFPQ Chuck

    Or better? Not familiar with this guy’s specific allegations  (will check or wait for a more complete article) but I wonder if some of it was exaggerated and the snowball of misrepresentation weighed too heavily on him? More likely perhaps is the weight of the impact of the scandal on himself and his former coworkers (as well as society at large) was too much for him, kind of like the Enron mess.

  • Erebys

    Incredible spin. Are you a defense lawyer?

  • DAMN!

    Rupert Murdoch now has BLOOD on his hands

    BLOOD!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Maybe Chuck is part of the cover up.

  • News Of The World

    Tic toc.  Tic toc.  Tic toc.  The walls are closing in on ya Rupert.

  • Anonymous

    Considering that the cause of death has not been released, I would think it best to keep speculations at bay.

    Still, though, this type of event never works well for the party in question.

  • Anonymous

    And the hits just keep on coming.

  • Anonymous

    Oh My God! This brings back the memories of the Dodgy dossier back to mind. Doctor David Kelly was found dead after he called out the phony documents the Govt were using to justify the Iraq war. 

  • Harry

    Good Lord. This is not just the largest media scandal. It is sickening based on the actual reporting. This is another sad footnote. I’m really very worried about the media operations of the Murdoch empire now. Nobody could ever believe that Roger Ailes is a man of honor and dignity. He is the author of the Willie Horton ad, the most grotesque political ad in the history of presidential politics. Over the last three years Fox News has worked feverishly around the clock to engineer a scandal that sticks on Obama. Did Ailes, Sammon, or another executive at Fox direct wiretapping or other illegalities in the engineering of the birth certificate, Obama Muslim myth, Bill Ayers, Acorn, Common the rapper, or other faux scandal? One thing for sure is that there are not just a few rotten apples in NewsCorp. Undoubtedly, the FBI has started looking into Murdoch’s American properties. 

  • Harry

    Good Lord. This is not just the largest media scandal. It is sickening based on the actual reporting. This is another sad footnote. I’m really very worried about the media operations of the Murdoch empire now. Nobody could ever believe that Roger Ailes is a man of honor and dignity. He is the author of the Willie Horton ad, the most grotesque political ad in the history of presidential politics. Over the last three years Fox News has worked feverishly around the clock to engineer a scandal that sticks on Obama. Did Ailes, Sammon, or another executive at Fox direct wiretapping or other illegalities in the engineering of the birth certificate, Obama Muslim myth, Bill Ayers, Acorn, Common the rapper, or other faux scandal? One thing for sure is that there are not just a few rotten apples in NewsCorp. Undoubtedly, the FBI has started looking into Murdoch’s American properties. 

  • SNAPTIE

    He was a drug addict,fired and still an drug addict.http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare Hoare, who has been treated for drug and alcohol problems, reminisced about partying with former pop stars and said he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.

  • SNAPTIE

    He was a drug addict,fired and still an drug addict.http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare Hoare, who has been treated for drug and alcohol problems, reminisced about partying with former pop stars and said he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.

  • Anonymous

    Enter FBI.  Rupert is in deep shit.  Dirty Coppers in UK, and now death of a whisleblower.  Can you hear that sound, Rupert?  That’s your Company flushing down the Drain.

  • Anonymous

    Enter FBI.  Rupert is in deep shit.  Dirty Coppers in UK, and now death of a whisleblower.  Can you hear that sound, Rupert?  That’s your Company flushing down the Drain.

  • Anonymous

    This is madness! 

  • Anonymous

    This is madness! 

  • Anonymous

    Launch the conspiracy theories!

  • Anonymous

    Launch the conspiracy theories!

  • Harry Flashman

    All you lefties jumping to the conclusion that this somehow involved Murdock need to take a deep breath and calm down. Throw some darts at your picture of Sarah Palin and relax.

    This most likely had nothing to do with Murdock or anyone who worked for him. Note that the article says he was dismissed for drinking and drug problems, and the on scene police are reporting that it doesn’t seem suspicious. 

    Drinking + drugs + losing your job = bad. This was probably either an accidental overdose or a not so accidental overdose.
     
    Tone down the shrieking until the results of the autopsy, mkay?

  • Harry Flashman

    All you lefties jumping to the conclusion that this somehow involved Murdock need to take a deep breath and calm down. Throw some darts at your picture of Sarah Palin and relax.

    This most likely had nothing to do with Murdock or anyone who worked for him. Note that the article says he was dismissed for drinking and drug problems, and the on scene police are reporting that it doesn’t seem suspicious. 

    Drinking + drugs + losing your job = bad. This was probably either an accidental overdose or a not so accidental overdose.
     
    Tone down the shrieking until the results of the autopsy, mkay?

  • Harry Flashman

    Easy, Tiger. You’ll do yourself an injury.

  • Harry Flashman

    Easy, Tiger. You’ll do yourself an injury.

  • HUH??

    Who the hell is “Murdock”?

  • HUH??

    Who the hell is “Murdock”?

  • Anonymous

    Missing is the names of the individuals that the Murdoch Organization
    wiretapped, it could have been thousands.  He pressed his luck too far
    and expanded into corporate espionage, that was when his operation was
    shuttered.

  • Anonymous

    Missing is the names of the individuals that the Murdoch Organization
    wiretapped, it could have been thousands.  He pressed his luck too far
    and expanded into corporate espionage, that was when his operation was
    shuttered.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Oh well the drug addict wasn’t able to help much reminds me of all of Clintons friends and associates dyeing before whitewater inquiry. Clinton was later to be seen as not being guilty of a criminal act. Same will probably happen with Murdoch.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Oh well the drug addict wasn’t able to help much reminds me of all of Clintons friends and associates dyeing before whitewater inquiry. Clinton was later to be seen as not being guilty of a criminal act. Same will probably happen with Murdoch.

  • Anonymous

    The comments here are almost laughable…all you folks blamingRupert for this immediately.

    I think I’ll jump in and state:

    Clearly, Goerge Soros and MM are at fault here, this guy was their plant and his story and that of George and MM is unravelling faster than you know what.

    Honestly folks, grow up and stop hyper ventilating…..we know y’all hate the number one news network becuase they report truth and fact that you guys like to spike, but come one, get over it.

  • Anonymous

    The comments here are almost laughable…all you folks blamingRupert for this immediately.

    I think I’ll jump in and state:

    Clearly, Goerge Soros and MM are at fault here, this guy was their plant and his story and that of George and MM is unravelling faster than you know what.

    Honestly folks, grow up and stop hyper ventilating…..we know y’all hate the number one news network becuase they report truth and fact that you guys like to spike, but come one, get over it.

  • Anonymous

    WOW! Rupert must *really* be scared sh-tless to have a man murdered. Rupert thought he was having problems with the authorities before, just *wait* and see what happens now that he has had a witness silenced. There would be *no* sweeter justice on Earth than for Rupert to be imprisoned for the remainder of his despicable life.

  • freestyler999

    Julian Assange has blood on his hands. Rupert Murdoch is clean. All you progressives are pathetic. You are supporting an America-hating zealot.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Your champion might have had a whistleblower killed, I think you people are the ones hyper ventilating. If I were you I probably would be too.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Hahaha  the plot thickens….  I think that I will just wait and see just as I will do with “Fast and Furious”..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Hahaha  the plot thickens….  I think that I will just wait and see just as I will do with “Fast and Furious”..

  • Anonymous

    he’s probably out partying with Ken Lay.  Murdoch will probably eventually join them soon.

    Out of sight, et cetera.

  • Uh-oh…………!

    Hard getting the stains of BLOOD off your hands, huh tamponfromtampa?

  • Kermit

    Fact:  Your freaking crazy.

  • Seansnake

    for anyone that has seen ” michael clayton” this resembles the fate of tom wilkenson’s character. you know the one who said too much and “overdosed”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    When you have run out of arguments, bring up Clinton. Good job.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    The crazy guy on the A-Team.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: No dots to connect thus the FBI will be a complete loss to find any fault. Great way of spending more debt thanks to King when we have a debt problem in America. All democrats jump in for the act of spending. Should throw a flag for pilling it on penalty against King it’s a total waste of money this early in the game.

  • Harry Flashman

    Sorry. Type-o.

    By “Murdock” I meant “Murdoch”, you know, the Rupert Murdoch you mentioned in you hysterical post above.

    I know there is HUGE difference in spelling between the two names and that it can be confusing for lefties if everything isn’t spelled out exactly right, even when there is no real difference in pronunciation. Or even when it IS spelled out exactly right for that matter, but I digress.

    Anyway, I hope this cleared up your question for you. If I can help you understand anything else please let me know.

    Hugs and kisses,

    Harry Flashman

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    you guys know MSNBC and CNN are going to run with this full speed

  • @HarryIdiotman

    Funny how you can give out “hugs and kisses” on a page where we’re discussing the DEATH of someone due to Murdoch’s INCOMPETENCE and UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.

    Typical idiotic Fox Fapper.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Typos are no problem, but what I think is more confusing for “lefties” or really anyone who values humanity is your defense of Rupert Murdoch and quite possibly your defense of the murder of a whistle blower. I mean we don’t know anything for sure, but wow that was so awesome timing for this guy to get suicidal, just last week Hoare was questioned by Scotland Yard again and told them that NOTW was using some pretty high tech ways of tapping phones and that this was just the tip of the iceberg on the whole phone tapping scandal.

    Real convenient.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Jeez! Uncle Rupert sure can’t catch a break!

    (Condolences to Hoare’s friends and family.)

  • News Of The World

    Oh Tinkerbell… your God’s little empire is crumbling and you nor any of your far right wing nutjob counterparts are able to do a damned thing about it.  Time to stop praying to Rupert, Tinkerbell.  Move on to your next conspiracy theory.

  • Anonymous

    No they won’t. They’ll be afraid that Murdoch will kill them! lol

  • Anonymous

    its cool vince foster, it will be fine

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    When you have no arguments, just bring up Clinton, that always seems to work.

  • Anonymous

    clinton was in that post? wow

  • Anonymous

    uh oh…i hope all you stupid freaking conservatives have alibis….people are coming up dead now and we know you idiots will resort to violence to achieve your goal of saving FIXED NEWS…The Murdoch empire may have just crossed the line…..hand grenades, handcuffs and orange jumpsuits are the things you wingnuts understand very well……….BOOK EM DANO!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Hey guys, lunatic conspiracy theories are for Tea Partiers ONLY! 

    Next thing you know the Lefties will be asking for John Boehner’s birth certificate or questioning everything Michele Bachmann eats.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Just like another Casey Anthony case trial in the media.. BOMBSHELL..this just in..
    Murdoch is still on the loose..oh wait..so is Casey Anthony…Not Guilty…

  • Anonymous

    HMMMM….I SUSPECT YOU MAY HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME….DELUSIONAL ASSWIPES ARE AT THE TOP OF THE SUSPECT LIST

  • Anonymous

    yeah most jails are full of conservatives lol

  • Jerry Baustian

    It should be noted that Hoare was friends with and worked for Andy Coulson. And that Coulson succeeded Rebekah Brooks. 

    So far, it appears that the only evidence against Rebekah Brooks could be Andy Coulson’s word. 

    But for all you lefties who hope that this spells the end for Rupert Murdoch, if the charges against Rebekah Brooks are dismissed then the investigation will end with Coulson.

    If Brooks is convicted or admits any guilt, then that could put James Murdoch at a very slight risk. Very slight.

    So a great many of you are going to be disappointed. And I will laugh, but you won’t care because you’ll be spamming some other website using some other phony name.

  • Anonymous

    It was probally a typo….the correct spelling is Rupert Murder

  • Harry Flashman

    When did I defend anyone?

    I suggested that people wait for investigators to do their job before jumping to conclusions. How does that constitute a defense?

    Please explain it to me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Vince Foster? Oh yeah he worked for George W. Bush sorry. My bad.

  • Harry Flashman

    So…someone can claim that Murdoch has blood on his hands, a slanted accusation of murder, and that’s all right with you.

    I mock that particular drama queen and you criticize me for it?

    Please.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G37DXDOKKW3VR4QK7U3Q4N2EKA rafael

    Can’t wait for Murdoch to be accused, and  Fox too

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I agree with the Fox lovers on here that we might be jumping to conclusions that Murdoch had this guy killed. It very well could have been David Cameron, wouldn’t be the first time the UK government has killed a whistle blower e.g. Dr. David Kelly.

  • Anonymous

    someone who died in a weird way thats all, it you imply clinton was involved well thats you

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Try English next time.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    They are coming unhinged.  NOTW did what TMZ does everyday and they think Fox News will somehow be taken off the air because of it.  Keep dreaming libys.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    That’s actually the count down until Obamao and his ugly wife are tossed out of the people’s house.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Another loony lib made an account with a conservative’s name in it.  You lefties are just bonkers, a difference in opinion bothers you so much that you feel the need to make secret accounts bashing that person.  Just pathetic…

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    So a drug addict committed suicide, wow front page news.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    Like that’ll stop the left from making any baseless accusations? These are the same folks who claim Bush was behind 9/11 and Palin exerted mind control over Jared Loughner to make him go on a shooting spree in Tuscon.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Thanks Tina!  I appreciate a voice of reason amongst the fomenting liberals on this board.  NOTW does something that TMZ does every day and the liberals are up in arms. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    You mean like Obama is a Manchurian Candidate, double secret probation Muslim, who was born in Kenya, attended a Madrassa in Indonesia, is secretly trying to implement Sharia/Communism using FEMA camps?

    Like that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    TMZ killed a whistleblower, too? OMG!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    And Obama was born in Kenya.

  • Harry Flashman

    The left is indulging in masturbatory fantasies about this, wanking themselves and each other in a drooling, semi-hallucinatory circle jerk of glee.

    I suspect that premature ejaculation will be about all the satisfaction they’ll get out of this. The Murdoch empire isn’t going anywhere.

  • Anonymous

    HA HA HA HA HA!  Obamao?! ROTFLMAO!!!! You are soooooooo witty omigosh – how do you come up with such things?  You must be a brain surgeon or something…

  • Anonymous

    HA HA HA HA HA!  Obamao?! ROTFLMAO!!!! You are soooooooo witty omigosh – how do you come up with such things?  You must be a brain surgeon or something…

  • Anonymous

    …or saying that Bush killed James Hatfield and ordered 911.

  • Anonymous

    …or saying that Bush killed James Hatfield and ordered 911.

  • Anonymous

    Anybody want to bet that The News of the World cut a deal with Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence a long time ago where Scotland Yard would look the other way as long as TNotW sent any terrorism related information gained through it’s methods immediately to British Intel?

  • Anonymous

    Anybody want to bet that The News of the World cut a deal with Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence a long time ago where Scotland Yard would look the other way as long as TNotW sent any terrorism related information gained through it’s methods immediately to British Intel?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    First: Let’s all remember that Mr. Hoare is dead. The scummy scandal now has a tragic element to it. And our prayers need to be with Mr. Hoare and his family and friends. He is a gentleman who had his demons close at hand for some time, but he did the fundamentally decent thing of coming forward when no one else would do so. He also deserves our thanks.

    Second: This is not the first time Mr. Hoare has been in the news since the scandal exploded. He was badly injured a couple of weeks ago in what has been described as a freak accident involving a banner pole and a relative at a children’s birthday party.

    Third: There is a possibility this is all related to the Murdoch/NewsCorp scandal, but only a possibility of it at this stage. Because of that, we owe it to Mr. Hoare and the other Murdoch/NewsCorp victims to proceed with dispatch, but also with deliberation. Speed is not much prized at this point.

    Fourth: The local constabulary took the lead. This needs to be handled  onward by some agency without Scotland Yard connections. The investigation will be permanently tainted if not. We’ve already had one resignation on the basis of Murdoch/NewsCorp bribery of the policy.

    Fifth: It’s hard to see whatever the outcome of the investigation being positive for Murdoch/NewsCorp. Even if not foul play, as we now believe, the is a tragic sting to all of this.

    Sixth: Cameron is en route to the UK from a truncated business development meeting overseas, and Parliament has a whole has been summoned back. Likely, Murdoch/NewsCorp is not in far more trouble than originally thought. If he’s in trouble in the UK at this point, then, as a US citizens, he has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I personally don’t care for this law. It is a powerful law enforcement tool for prosecutors, like the conspiracy laws, to enable a prosecution when substance is lacking. However, it is the state of the law, and it is Constitutional. It seems likely US politicians and public figures are going to begin to distance themselves from Murdoch/NewsCorp. He might be safer heading off for Australia, where he is also a citizen, and where the political establishment is somewhat cozy with him still.

    This is not good for Murdoch/NewsCorp.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    More than you seem to realize.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    No, there was said to have been no foul play.  However, Obamao did fire Inspector General Gerald Walpin because he dared to speak out about our glorious leader.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    No, there was said to have been no foul play.  However, Obamao did fire Inspector General Gerald Walpin because he dared to speak out about our glorious leader.

  • Anonymous

    Like Judge Napolitano believes?

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Wow I had no idea “Obamao” would get you so wound up!  I like it :)  I think I’ll keep it.

  • Harry Flashman

    I was busy cat juggling and torturing puppies at the time. Bush did it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Being a bit of a Pollyanna there, I fear. (Gordon) Brown who still retains influence among Labour, Millibank, the Labour leader,  the Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and the coalition member with Cameron and Cameron himself appear to be poised to go in for the kill. Not a noble effort, to be sure. They’ve all been splashing around in the Murdoch cesspool (except for Clegg) for years, but desperate sometimes trumps noble.

  • Anonymous

    Why should your opinion of someone’s looks come into this discussion?   It is a classless and immature tactic.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSLEVQBMJKCHPALYRG4FM2LFPQ Chuck

    :), would love to be part of the investigation anyways, but no, and I wasn’t opining on whether his allegations were true or not.  Until I learn otherwise I’m keeping an open mind but otherwise assume this practice was well used by the paper and therefore may have been used by other corporate entities.  It wouldn’t be the first time a truth-telling whistleblower was overwhelmed with guilt.  Sometimes its hard to tell the truth when it hurts yourself and those you care for.  I feel bad for his family, but I hope whatever secrets he had will still come to light.  If criminal actions took place those involved should be charged with a crime.  If hundreds or thousands of crimes were committed (presuming one count per victim or occurance of criminal activity) someone could be in deep doo doo, and that is something the British public at least should have answered.

  • ShortBusTrader

    Thank you very much for writing that. I thought I was the only one who thought that Michelle is an ugly monkey. Now at least I know there are two of us.

  • Anonymous

    Largest media scandal? It is one newspaper. Please, calm down.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Oh there are far more than just two of us.  You need to count every human being that actually has functioning eyesight and a few more with really good olfactory senses.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones
  • Anonymous

    Why do I even bother reading comments on here?  I find all the innuendo and dragging in of cheap political shots from both sides offensive in light of a person’s demise.  

  • Dhahdhd

    Where’s all the Fox lovers now?

    F$@kin hilarious!!!!!!

  • Dhahdhd

    Where’s all the Fox lovers now?

    F$@kin hilarious!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    The guy was being hounded by everyone.  Just like any celeb the tabloid turns into circulation fodder. Too bad he didn’t get some help. now he’s just another part of the story which keeps on going.

    News Corp. Investigation Escalates with High-Profile
    Arrests  

    A voicemail-hacking and police bribery scandal
    intensified on Sunday with the arrest of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s
    former British newspaper chief and the resignation of London’s police
    commissioner. http://www.newslook.com/videos/330345-news-corp-investigation-escalates-with-high-profile-arrests?autoplay=true

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Oh we’re right here, just no need to comment because the story of a drug addict that committed suicide has nothing to do with Fox News.  Thanks!

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Don’t hold your breath.  A drug addict that committed suicide has nothing to do with either.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    LOL nice one cjd

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    I see you got your grade A tin foil hat on!

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    I see you got your grade A tin foil hat on!

  • Anonymous

    It is foolhardy to jump to conclusions at this news, but I suspect New’s Corps investors will not be happy.  Already the stock is taking a battering.  

    http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/07/18/news-corp-shares-fall-as-phone-hacking-crisis-keeps-roiling/

  • ?!

    Really?  TMZ hacks into the phones of DEAD 13 year old murder victims?

    News to me!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You certainly are willing to dismiss a life very easily, aren’t you? You might want to read up on the subject a bit.

  • Anonymous

    The racists are out today.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Particularly in the UK.

  • Anonymous

    How about you posting a picture of your gorgeous mug handsome?

  • Anonymous

    Quit wimping out! You know that monkey comment was right up your alley.

  • Anonymous

    I guess it takes a monkey to know a monkey? Right?

    Classic racist dog, operating with anonymity.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Wow, another tin foil hat comrade.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Wow Bush killed James Hetfield? What happened to Metallica???

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Sell the Cowboys, you are running that team into the ground.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Don’t get mad at me, your MSNBC leader was the first to propose it and frankly I agree with him.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chuck-todd-why-is-what-tmz-does-legal-but-what-rupert-murdoch-does-illegal/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Hey look a tea party racist POS!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    You and all the Fox News boobs better hope it’s just one newspaper.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    That rich coming from a guy who ‘liked’ this comment.  How your glass house holding up. 

    “I was busy cat juggling and torturing puppies at the time. Bush did it.”

    By the way, I don’t have to read up on anything, it isn’t my job to babysit or pitty drug addicts.

  • Anonymous

    nope. just not placing blame

  • Nature Freak

    It was Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the candlestick. Colonel Mustard works for News Corp. when needed.

  • tiredofbs

    Someone should check the background finances of this
    “whistle blower” they will surely find Soros money from the start
    & Soros cleanup crew behind this tragic “accident.”

  • tiredofbs

    Someone should check the background finances of this
    “whistle blower” they will surely find Soros money from the start
    & Soros cleanup crew behind this tragic “accident.”

  • http://twitter.com/InYourFaceRadio In Your Face Radio

    This isn’t new,  ex FOX exec Dan Cooper has been singing like a canary for months about FOX phone hacking and secret bunkers by FOX … 

  • http://twitter.com/InYourFaceRadio In Your Face Radio

    This isn’t new,  ex FOX exec Dan Cooper has been singing like a canary for months about FOX phone hacking and secret bunkers by FOX … 

  • Nature Freak

    This death may be a coincidence. Or maybe not. Very strange timing. I think this scandal has just begun.

  • Nature Freak

    This death may be a coincidence. Or maybe not. Very strange timing. I think this scandal has just begun.

  • Anonymous

    Kudos for multi-tasking !  Well done .

  • Anonymous

    lol too funny!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Hey thanks for the link to Chachi In Charge claiming he isn’t a racist because his wife’s best friend is black. That was hilarious.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Best comment on this thread hands down!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I love crazy paranoid teabaggers.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, it is at least three (3) newspapers, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun and, of course, the NOTW.

  • Nature Freak

    I hope George Michael is surrounding himself with extra security. I am serious.
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/george-michael-to-be-interviewed-by-police-about-his-rebekah-brooks-tweets/

  • Anonymous

    What’s if you met this guy? If you’d talked to him? Don’t you even care someone is dead because they exposed the truth? God.. you know, people lay their lives on the line so you aren’t lied to anymore and this is how you respond, without even questioning what happened.

    I hope someday people are more humane to you if you’re in trouble

  • Kermit

    Yes I heard that today on the news too. 

    Fox is going down quicker then what I thought it would!!  LOL  Oh happy day…. and tomorrow and then next…. this is not going away it is just getting BIGGER!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&feature=av2n Unicon

    His drug dealer will be crushed by the news.

  • Anonymous

    Can we say “Nifonged?”

    Lefties, don’t forget VINCE FOSTER! You might want to delay a bit before you continue jumping to conclusions.

  • Anonymous

    What drugs did he do?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&feature=av2n Unicon

    “He made no secret of his massive ingestion of drugs,” Davies wrote. “He told me how he used to start the day with ‘a rock star’s breakfast’ – a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniels – usually in the company of a journalist who now occupies a senior position at the Sun. He reckoned he was using three grams of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week. Plus endless alcohol. Looking back, he could see it had done him enormous damage. But at the time, as he recalled, most of his colleagues were doing it, too.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59271.html#ixzz1SUQMIWOH

    h/t: Snaptie

  • Anonymous

    Rasta, I like to spell his name 0bamao, because he’s a 0 and he’s also Mao Zedong.  I’m witty too, right?

  • Anonymous

    I had no idea that Chachi is the source of objective aesthetics. 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Murdoch is in real big trouble.  Fox is sinking fast.  I hope Ailes’s sister takes over FOX she actually is a lot more liberal.  

  • Harry Flashman

    Just wondering where all you who are so offended about some of the comments were when that fool on the Maher show said he wished al republicand were dead.

    But…that’s different, isn’t it?

  • Harry Flashman

    I hate to encourage Nature Frean but, actually, that’s pretty funny.

  • Anonymous

    And still no one will watch ‘em!

  • Anonymous

    And still no one will watch ‘em!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Interesting development. A brief case with a computer, a telephone and some files was found in dust bin in the car park across from Brooks’ home. Brooks’ husband went to retrieve it and was refused since he could not prove he owned it. The police took have taken it. Hubby still claims it is his, and Hubby’s attorney says the police will release it shortly. As to how the materials got to the car park. Hubby left them in a friend’s car, and the friend dropped them off in the park. Some assumed them rubbish and threw them away. It may be perfectly plausible, but everything is suspect now, isn’t it?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    “Bury your mistakes” -Rupert Murdoch

  • Anonymous

     That means no one else will ever hear about this.

  • Anonymous

    Aren’t Britain’s libel/slander laws far more stringent than ours? If so, I’d be very careful what I “claimed” about the Murdochs. Jumping to conclusions and hurling epithets are the first two events in the Left-wing Mal-Olympics.

  • Anonymous

     Which means no one will see it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Wow Rupert Murdoch died!

    http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun/

  • Jester345

    It looks like one of Murdoch’s thugs got to him.

  • insideguy

     Man all I know is this is getting worse and worse.

  • Vernon

    What convenient timing for a “suicide”

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Huh why?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    We’re going to have to stop doing this if you don’t stop sharpening those front teeth of yours..

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Just like Bill Clintons whitewater friends good point!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Dream on moron!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The insertion of one man’s sack into another person’s mouth. Used a practical joke or prank, when performed on someone who is asleep, or as a sexual act is a democrats act. Democrats are crazy thinking Fox News is not comming in clear on TV’s all over America!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Fox News is still on TV clear here whats up?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: He wasn’t born in Hawaii since he did have a Connecticut
    social security card. Obama is a real Houdini.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: What is ……….is?

  • Anonymous

    Rupert’s Revenge!

  • http://profiles.google.com/robbieinbox Robbie Smith

    As they should, given that Faux News is praying that the scandal dissipates overnight.  

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes dead is better…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    And still topping the ratings. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Montgomery/100002060768348 Richard Montgomery

    What’s YOUR wife look like?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Montgomery/100002060768348 Richard Montgomery

    I’m sorry, What’s your significant other look like?

  • Ferivers

    This is strange indeed. Most everyone here is trashing Mr., Murdock. Lets see, No one, No other company has ever did this before…what do you think all companies do? MM did indeed hacked into Fox News here in the US, but it did not count…they did it twice even. How about Bloomberg bribing the 4 Republicans in NY who voted for same-sex marriage in NY. He gave them each $10,000+ but it’s not important…after all…it is NY and Bloomberg. They do NOT cheat. Hurry, trolls, get the goons out, soon there really will not be any newspapers left as it is their ways of collecting their informations.

  • Anonymous

    Qui bene? 
    Murdoch and company……………

  • Kelc

    Actually Harry,it was Al Gore that first used the Willie Horton ad in the primary against Dukakis.I know you libs just like pushing that lie.

  • Anonymous

    I thnk Glenn Beck praised Julian Assange. Fellow muck rakers, you know.

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