My money is on "scared". And, in many, many cases I'd still bet that this is the case.
Over the last 6+ years the only people kicking this issue back into the sunlight have been Private Eye. At least two police investigations have been closed in an unseemly manner, with claims everything was already known. Given recent revelations, this is obviously not the case. Police have seemingly been bribed, blackmailed, or otherwise compromised. Ditto for our elected _servants_ in Westminster.
I can't wait to see what comes next; will The Dirty Digger need to fall off the back of a yacht when the FBI and Australian Federal Police investigations ramp up? Will half the UK's politicians be forced into early retirement on their index-linked final salary pensions that resemble those they've taken away from the majority of UK public servants?
Pass the popcorn! I'll take this over Corrie anyday.
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 23:39 +0100, Roger Bamkin wrote:
Now that the barndoor is open it appears that most MPs and journalists can now not only see it but they can write load and long pieces about it. Question: Did they know about all this before? Were they ignorant? Were they scared? Or did they just not see it?
On 20 July 2011 21:14, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote: Forgive the cheekiness, but this seems most apt as a subject to bring up on the WM UK list.
If you've not heard about the NoTW phone hacking, I congratulate you on having very, very effective reality-defenders. Otherwise, assuming you've been like me and enjoying the tabloids being vilified, what questions would you like put to Robert Greenwald on the issue? This is for an original article on Wikinews, and Robert was the producer/director of "OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism". He exposed the overbearing hands-on force downmarket with Fox. What sort of things would people like him asked to speculate about regarding the (now 6 yr+ debacle over phone voicemail hacking). Brian McNeil. -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil - Accredited Reporter. Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org-- Roger Bamkin Chair WMUK 01332 702993 (aka @Victuallers)
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