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A thread for all the press campaigners

Hugh Grant has been in too many battle to give a shit about whether tabloids can trash his career

I think it has been mentioned here before, but his turn in "The Gentlemen" is the work of a man with no more fucks to give re: the press

Nick Ferrari has gone all woke and Dave Spart this morning. He’s concerned about tainted fascist money from a Max Mosley foundation donation to Oxford University. Not bitter about Mosley’s campaigning, then.

Prince Harry and Corrie’s Kevin Webster have won their hacking case against the Mirror Group. Harry’s lawyer read out a scathing statement about what a heap of poison the tabloids are.
Piers Morgan might be in serious trouble.

Morgan comes out fighting, a victim of lies and smears

Towards the end of a fiery couple of sentences, Morgan questions Prince Harry's mission to reform the media and learn the truth about historic phone hacking.

The presenter says the truth isn't something Harry would know if it "slapped him around his California tanned face".

He then wishes reporters a Merry Christmas, before heading back into his house - ignoring questions along the way.

He's taking it well.

He says Harry has talked about the appalling behaviour of the press, but accuses the royal himself of "trashing" his own family in public and earning hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.

"It is hard to imagine more appalling behaviour than that," he adds.

......says the man who turned a blind eye when Milly Dowler's phone got hacked on his watch.

Oleaginous cunt.

Jadda jadda, Fleet Street vermin. Contrition is hardly their strongest suit.

AOB wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:05 pm ......says the man who turned a blind eye when Milly Dowler's phone got hacked on his watch.

That was done by News International.

Blaming it on Alistair Campbell shit stirring sounds very desperate. Will Morgan be suing him and Scobie?

Evan Harris on BBCR4 PM this evening. What a fucking burn that was!

The Windsors are big winners as the press isn’t on their backs. And they won’t be sad that Harry’s successfully sticking the boot in without their fingerprints on it.

If Piers Morgan was so sure of his innocence why did he not attend court and answer questions under oath?

Good Piers: Southend, Brighton, Llandudno.

Crap Piers: Morgan

https://cunto.org/2018/06/06/piers-morgan/

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:01 pm Morgan comes out fighting, a victim of lies and smears

Actually Piers, it was The Law that recognised what the truth is

Bluff Hal accused Morgan the Organ of knowing about hacking, and allowing it.
Morgan denied ordering it or doing it himself.

Spot the difference?

And wasn't the oleaginous fuckpig the one who demonstrated how it was done on some chat show?

A thought which has rattling around my head since Day One of the phone-hacking crime scene, but which I have not discussed before...

Many years ago and when the press was in black and white, (except for pre-press four-colour ads which would set you back over 100 thousand GPB a pop in the Sun, but that's off-topic), I used to buy media.

Lots of it and for lots of money. TV was dull but press was a contact sport. Great fun.

It was basically a boys' club. Plan it in the morning - buy it in the afternoon. The pivotal moment there being "lunch" which involved gallons of beer, a spag bol and bottle or two. Having a grappa and an espresso was not entirely essential but seemed to fortify the few remaining hours of the afternoon.

Then we got mobile phones. This meant that the lunchtime quire of Post-It notes evolved in to voice mails. See where we are going?

Of course, sales directors sit in with editors in wide-ranging management meetings. Always did, will always do so.

So, that begs the question; knowing that our phones would be backed up with messages, would they have broken in to see what their competitors' offers were? Not just for that night's paper, but for campaigns lasting perhaps several months or even annual deals?

Potentially, anyone who has ever advertised in the national press would be impacted by such a scandal - from incontinence pants to the COI. We are talking billions.

Morgan using the Frankie Pentangeli defence there. Lots of buffers.

Seeing the wafer thin skinned, self pitying Morgan losing his shit here is joyful.

There was a line in Harry’s statement about MGN lying to the Stock Exchange.

Alistair Campbell unimpressed by Morgan’s tantrum