Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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http://youtu.be/LR8V2nByQ1c

..Victoria Beckham has given birth to a baby girl - the first daughter for the former Spice Girl and her husband David.

The baby, weighing 7lb 10oz, was delivered on Sunday morning at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

The Beckhams, who married in 1999, already have three boys - Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five.

Their spokesman Simon Oliveira announced the happy news on Twitter.

"David & Victoria Beckham are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter," he wrote.

"Happy and healthy she arrived at 7.55am this morning at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and weighed 7lbs 10oz."

In another posting, he added: "Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz are excited to welcome their new baby sister to the family."

The family have yet to announce a name for the little girl.

Just days ago the LA Galaxy star, 36, posted a picture of his heavily pregnant wife on Facebook.

Beneath the shot - in which the singer-turned-designer appeared to be sunbathing - he wrote: "Took this pic of Victoria while she wasn't looking. She looks amazing, so close now to the baby being born!"
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Prince William is going to be the godfather.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-worse-financial-crisis-2011-07-06?Link=obinsite

Steve Coogan Rips into News of The World

On Friday on the BBC's "Newsnight" program, comedian Steve Coogan tore into Paul McMullan, a former features editor at the News of the World, in a rant that boosted the BBC's ratings and drew wide attention.

And the topic? Well, The News of the World ended its 168-year run on Sunday due to the phone hacking scandal.

McMullan actually defended the practice--something almost nobody has done.

"I've always said that I've tried to write articles in a truthful way, and what better source of getting the truth is to listen to someone's messages?" he said.

Coogan, who was himself a victim of phone hacking, jumped right in and hit the nail right on the head.

"I think you're a walking P.R. disaster for the tabloids," he said. "You come across as a sort of risible individual who is symptomatic of everything that's wrong with the tabloids ... you're just trying to find out who's sleeping with who."

McMullan tried to defend himself, with a 'false cause proof', saying that he feared a law that squelched press freedom and prevented papers from being able to "catch politicans lying and cheating."

Coogan argued that this was utter rubbish and the editor merely wanted to be able to obtain sleaze and scandal tittle-tattle to help provide spicy stories, which would help sell newspapers.

Interesting to see the media eating the media.

A pack of Jackals turning on itself.

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Is it true that Cameron is thinking of stepping down and making room for Clegg?


Must admit that Vince Cable's indiscretion has done Hunt (or whatever his name is) a favour.

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It is a little amusing how the News readers hesitate when they say his name!

Perhaps, it is the office he has which is producing the mixed up.
8-)

Mind he is suffering from the over to you syndrome.

Mind it is better than blaimng his parents for his problems.

Just how big is the News of the World's parent company, News International, and how does it relate to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation?

Hays,

Being an innocent, why is Cameron referring the News Corporation to the Competition Board and why is Murdock withdraw it previous position of hiving off Sky News?

They are not trying to deals in smoke filled rooms.


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The question is, whether Murdock is an appropriate persons to be a chairman or CEO of any company.

Suggest you read the following:

I have cut and pasted a small amount. But you can read the whole article at::



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/news-corp-shareholders-attack-murdoch
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News Corp investors attack Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch accused of 'egregious' behaviour for using firm as 'family candy jar' in lawsuit that claims it is 'inconceivable' he was unaware of phone hacking at News of the World

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Rupert Murdoch, who has been accused of 'nepotism and corporate governance failures'. The lawsuit says: 'These revelations show a culture run amuck within News Corp and a board that provides no effective review'. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
A powerful group of News Corp's shareholders have accused Rupert Murdoch of "egregious" behaviour and treating his media empire like a "family candy jar".

The shareholder group, which includes banks and pension funds, accused Murdoch of "rampant nepotism" and using News Corp resources for "his own personal and political objectives".

The institutional shareholders, led by the Amalgamated Bank, said it was "inconceivable" that Murdoch would not have been aware of rampant phone hacking at the News of the World.

"It is inconceivable that [James] Murdoch and his fellow board members would not have been aware of the illicit news gathering practices. And yet, the board took no real action to investigate the allegations until 7 July 2011, when Murdoch selected two of his co-directors to deal with the imbroglio," the shareholders said in a legal filing in Delaware, where News Corp is registered.

"These revelations should not have taken years to uncover and stop," the filing adds. "[They] show a culture run amuck within News Corp and a board that provides no effective review or oversight."

The shareholders noted that Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International and editor of the News of the World at the time of the hacking, was "consistently promoted even while the scandal was unfolding".

The legal filing is an update to an earlier lawsuit against the appointment of Elisabeth Murdoch to News Corp's board following the $615m (383m) acquisition of her Shine Group production company.

"News Corp's behaviour has become an egregious collection of nepotism and corporate governance failures, with a board completely unwilling to provide even the slightest level of adult supervision," said Jay Eisenhofer, a Grant & Eisenhofer lawyer representing the shareholder group.

Send your old news of the world's to me please. Selling for 30 on ebay.
If they have had chips in they are not wanted.
The shelves were empty in mins on Sunday.

A company is only as good as its leaders.

That also applies to a government.

News Corporation seems to me to be a corrupt organisation and corrupted those who had contact with it.

But that is the result or price of political PR.

Fred,Your talking about the news corporation. Forget about DC, I know its hard.

DC,

Cameron has cosied up to Murdock and his lackeys. Prepared to accept their practices.


In my mind and others was aware of what Coulson had been up to and to a degree complicit when he hired him for his "use".

He is a blown flush.

What others have done in the past is irrelevant, many think that Cameron was continuing the practices up to the present moment. I do not think he fit for purpose.

Some say he is supposed to be Prime minister.

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DC, can't you bear to write his name.

8-)

You love it since I have come along.All those DC,DC,DC,DC,DC.

Your not a coronation street fan are you Fred, seems very quiet. Dc won't be on there tonight.

A plan is underway to re-launch the News of the World newspaper just one day after the title was closed by owner Rupert Murdoch.

According to reports in The Independent, Susan Douglas, a former editor of the Sunday Express and deputy editor of The Sunday Times, is at the centre of a consortium of media and business figures attempting to put a rescue package together.

What we are talking about is saving the freedom of the press for ordinary people, who are not going to read the Financial Times, or even The Independent or The Guardian. I think its really important and worth doing, she said.

Reports claim that Ms Douglas has already been involved in talks with leading media owners and venture capitalists. She urged that a rescue attempt would need to be made quickly before the opportunity to save the title is lost.

Part of Douglas plans would involve recruiting former News of the World staff who have been invited to apply for roles within News International.

Speaking to Yahoo! News, William Spencer, former digital editor at the News of the World, said the move was fantastic.

I would absolutely want to continue working on the News of the World publication, whether its part of News International or not. Its a classic, iconic brand and it deserves to live on.

From a personal point of view though I think its too soon. We need to know the truth about these allegations and let the dust settle, but if somebody turned round to me tomorrow and asked me if I wanted to still be digital editor and continue working for the title and if the allegations were untrue - then absolutely.

The consortium would have to convince Rupert Murdoch to sell the News of the World title or face a legal challenge but they argue that public support would play a part in rescuing the paper.

What we are talking about is saving the freedom of the press for ordinary people, who are not going to read the Financial Times, or even The Independent or The Guardian. I think its really important and worth doing, she said.

I would interpret this as "we can make another load of cash" by printing salacious rubbish for the gullible, once again.

Adult comics with infantile content.

I didn't know the Express had editors, gave up reading it and the Mail 45 years ago

Would hesitate to put them in my compost heap.

Fascinating to see how the Muddydock empire unravels.

Amazing how you can get so many crooked "journalist" in more than one bag without knowing.

Perhaps, Muddy didn't do the usual standard of investigation before hiring them.

Or is it, once again, "birds of a feather" flocking together.

I think it would be interesting to Cameron, Osborne's and tory head quarter's private E-mails during the period up to the last elections.

Was it a party ijn the hands of Muddy and Asches?

8-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Hays,

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Fred
As you are so keen on picking people up on their spelling, it is Murdoch and NOT Murdock!
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I think he will still take over the company that is spelt BSKYB and NOT SKY B.!


Haven't received a correction of the first statement, and just wonder if you are long on short on Murdock and BSKYB.