Divulging her text message correspondence with Prime Minister David Cameron, Brooks revealed that she had corrected his rookie error of signing off messages “LOL,” thinking it meant “lots of love,” rather than “laugh out loud.” This detail speaks volumes to the unhealthy soft power relationship politicians enjoy with News International.
The lines in those relationships between personal and business transactions are so blurred as to often seem nonexistent; Brooks could, in the same testimony, profess that she “never once forgot that she was a journalist” and then recount a conversation she had over dinner with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne lobbying him to approve the BSkyB share buy-back deal on behalf of her employer. For any aspiring journalist, these cool contradictions should be required reading.
It might be that Rebekah Brooks “never forgot” that she was a journalist. But she may need reminding that, for a good journalist, professional distance from sources is a key requirement.
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Few will argue that Journalistic aptitude, was at any time required by Rupert Murdoch's career aspiring lieutenants. Instead, rewards were bestowed for obedience and willingness to do whatever it takes.
And no one exemplified this News Corp ethos, as much as Rebekah Brooks, who according to colleagues couldn't write or edit a news story to save her life.
"Networking" was what Brooks excelled at, because of her flair to charm the pants (trousers) off politicians and her bulldog-style of opportunism.
Any self-respecting journalist, would have blushed by his own recollection of his doings at the dinner with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. But Brooks knew when she testified at the Leveson inquiry last week, that for Rupert Murdoch, it was nothing but a proof of her loyalty.
#1 Posted by Jon Ber, CJR on Sat 19 May 2012 at 02:34 PM
HE CRIMINALLY SPIED ON EVERYBODY.
MURDOCH'S GOOD NEWS
The good news is, that without the slightest of doubts, many more "other shoes" will drop, in the hacking scandal of "a single rogue reporter" as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp asserted for years, despite possessing overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
50 ARRESTS AND GOING STRONG
As police bribes, politicians extortion, hush payments and coverup are now being investigated by Great Britan's authorities, there will certainly be newly added charges against Murdoch's mercenaries with every passing day.
THE US BAD NEWS
The bad news is, that until now, nobody in the US is willing to question Rupert Murdoch and his son James, nor even Fox News, Wall Street Journal and New York Post employees, about their knowledge of the crimes at News Corp.
GOOD MORNING FBI
The law-lambs are still silent. Intimidated. Even though, the accusations against Murdoch's right-hand man and lifetime friend, Les Hinton and his resignation from the Wall street Journal/Dow Jones, should have by themselves be a cause for immediate FBI action.
Jeopardy answer: What is organize crime profiteering!
ANY GOP BRAVE MEN?
In this election year, Republican politicians who've watched Rupert Murdoch dragging their party and the USA in to his swamp, should speak now or forever hold their peace.
BY HOOK AND BY A CHAMPION CROOK
Because it's impossible that British politicians where the only victims of Murdoch's megalomania and determination to rule the world, no matter how.
#2 Posted by Jon Ber, CJR on Fri 25 May 2012 at 07:58 PM