As far as “smoking guns” go, the latest revelation in the on-going phone hacking saga concerning Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is pretty significant. One can certainly smell the cordite if not actually see the wisps of smoke. The latest document to be released this week by the Commons Select Committee is a letter written by Clive Goodman four years ago protesting his sacking from the News of the World following his conviction and imprisonment for hacking the royal family. News Corps has always alleged that he was the “one rogue reporter.” However, his letter claims that phone hacking was widely discussed at editorial meetings until Andy Coulson, the editor at the time and more recently David Cameron’s media adviser, specifically banned further references to it, that Coulson assured him his job would be safe if he did not implicate the newspaper when he came to court and that his own hacking was carried out “with the full knowledge and support” of other senior journalists whom he named. Continue reading “21 August 2011”
21 August 2011 – Amusements
One day Pinocchio came to Gepetto with a problem.
“Every time I have sex with my girlfriend, she gets splinters. What can I do about this?”
“Have you tried sandpaper?” Pinocchio hadn’t, so he went to try it.
“Pinocchio,” said Gepetto a few weeks later. “How did the problem work out with your girlfriend?”
Pinocchio replied, “Who needs a girlfriend when you have sandpaper?” Continue reading “21 August 2011 – Amusements”