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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 1:07:55 PM
With Reagan, Murdoch et al -- Prince Harry settles lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's News Group newspapers for apology, "substantial damages"
"the Murdoch CREEP, eh .. :( .. t'was only a matter of time ..
Press Freedom Index .. 2011-12 .. [smaller = more freedom ]
[...]There’s been little talk here at ScruHoo about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, but we should shine a light on it. In brief, let me quote Carl Bernstein from Newsweek .. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/murdoch-s-watergate.html :
P - “The facts of the case are astonishing in their scope. Thousands of private phone messages hacked, presumably by people affiliated with the Murdoch-owned News of the World newspaper, with the violated parties ranging from Prince William and actor Hugh Grant to murder victims and families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The arrest of Andy Coulson, former press chief to Prime Minister David Cameron, for his role in the scandal during his tenure as the paper’s editor. The arrest (for the second time) of Clive Goodman, the paper’s former royals editor. The shocking July 7 announcement that the paper would cease publication three days later, putting hundreds of employees out of work. Murdoch’s bid to acquire full control of cable-news company BSkyB placed in jeopardy. Allegations of bribery, wiretapping, and other forms of lawbreaking—not to mention the charge that emails were deleted by the millions in order to thwart Scotland Yard’s investigation.”
P - A rogues’ gallery. - http://www.alternet.org/media/151694/the_12_nastiest_villains_in_the_murdoch_phone-hacking_scandal/?page=entire"
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Related:
How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king.
"[...]Citizen Murdoch buys into the beautiful game"
[...]“The president and his men realised from the start that to oust the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, they would need to neutralise the public opposition to US intervention in the Third World,” they reported in 1988.
“To win this war at home the White House created a sophisticated apparatus that mixed propaganda with intimidation, consciously misleading the American people and at times trampling on the right to dissent.”
Murdoch’s role was confirmed in subsequent reports by Parry whose investigative website Consortiumnews published details of meetings between Murdoch and Reagan in the White House.
The first, on 18 February 1983, was arranged by Murdoch’s lawyer Roy Cohn who counted Donald Trump among his clients. Also in attendance was America’s propaganda tsar Charles Wick, director of the US Information Agency (USIA), who was keen for the administration to invest in satellite technology to counter Soviet propaganda.
It was later revealed that Murdoch played a critical role in familiarising Wick with the possibilities of emerging satellite technology and that a collaborative agreement was reached for the introduction of America’s first live global satellite television network. The result was WorldNet, a $15 million-a-year satellite-aided TV network that revolutionised America’s ability to promote its views to the world.
At the time of the 1987 global financial meltdown cash-strapped news agencies across Europe took advantage of the opportunity to cut costs, by accepting ‘clips’ from WorldNet at little or no charge.
It set the trap for the manipulation of the free world’s media.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171905552
[Added Jan. 23, 2025 - And then came Musk's Starlink .. To link - To link - Concerns about its impact on the earth and territorial sovereignty
Concerns about Starlink center on its constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175697376]
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By Haley Ott
Updated on: January 22, 2025 / 8:39 AM EST / CBS News
London — Britain's Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against the U.K. newspaper group owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, News Group Newspapers, his lawyer told CBS News on Wednesday.
Harry and a former senior U.K. lawmaker sued News Group in 2019 over alleged unlawful activities carried out by both tabloid journalists and private investigators employed by its newspapers The Sun and the no-longer-in-circulation News of the World. It was one of a number of lawsuits Harry has brought against newspapers in Britain.
"NGN offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun," the media company said in a statement read out in court Wednesday. The statement also included an apology for the activities of journalists and private investigators working for the News of the World.
"NGN further apologizes to the Duke for the impact on him of the extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales, his late mother, in particular during his younger years. We acknowledge and apologize for the distress caused to the Duke, and the damage inflicted on relationships, friendships and family, and have agreed to pay him substantial damages," the statement said.
Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on April 12, 2024, in Wellington, Florida. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
News Group has faced numerous lawsuits over allegations of phone hacking and illegal information gathering, and it has settled more that 1,300 involving politicians and celebrities. It has always denied, however, that The Sun newspaper was involved in any illegal activities, or that senior figures were aware of anything illegal and tried to cover it up.
Harry had previously said he wanted to go to trial to get to the truth, rather than to get a payout, after other claimants settled out of court.
In court documents that emerged in 2023, Prince Harry claimed that his own brother, heir to the British throne Prince William, quietly received "a very large sum of money" in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with Murdoch's U.K. newspaper group.
"After endless resistance, denials and legal battles by News Group Newspapers, including spending more than a billion pounds in payouts and in legal costs (as well as paying-off those in the know) to prevent the full picture from coming out, News UK is finally held to account for its illegal actions and its blatant disregard for the law," said a statement read outside the court Wednesday on behalf of Prince Harry and the British lawmaker who brought the suit with him. "The truth that has now been exposed is that NGN unlawfully engaged more than 100 private investigators over at least 16 years on more than 35,000 occasions. This happened as much at The Sun as it did at the News of the World, with the knowledge of all the Editors and executives, going to the very top of the company."
On Tuesday, Emma Jones, a board member of the advocacy group Hacked Off, which has worked with Harry on his lawsuit, said proceedings had been scheduled to resume that morning, but that both sides had appealed for extra time as the settlement talks were underway.
Jones said a "huge amount of money is going to be passing hands," but she said she did not know the exact amount.
She said Harry also wanted "some sort of admission… that implicates NGN (News Group). An admission, in a way, of what went on," Jones said.
"He doesn't want to just walk away from this with an apology. He wants something tangible that he can say well, you know, 'I at least have this. I proved my point,'" Jones said as negotiations continued Tuesday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-harry-settles-lawsuit-with-rupert-murdochs-news-group/
See also:
conix, Piers Morgan misrepresented the situation when he said Harry
and Meghan made accusations of racism 'without a shred of evidence.'
March 8, 20217:34 PMUpdated 2 years ago
[...][...]Why Rupert Murdoch Is Finally Done with Donald Trump
A politician on the wane is of little value to the media mogul.
[...]“The 2024 field is rich. You have Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley … the list goes on. All candidates who embrace conservative policies without the preoccupations of the Don.”
P - Ten days later, Murdoch retainer Piers Morgan wrote a New York Post column explicitly urging Republicans to junk Donald for Ronald. Fox News has tilted ever so slightly against the Trump line in recent weeks, with news anchor Bret Baier acknowledging that the hearings made Trump “look horrific” and that Trump’s inaction was “very telling.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169494881
OOPS - (C)old friends: How Lachlan is leading Murdoch media back to a triumphant Trump
Trump has forced the Murdochs to choose between money and power — and Lachlan has chosen the money.
Christopher Warren Jan 17, 2024
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/lachlan-murdoch-donald-trump-news-corp-us-elections/
Post rather disjointed, but the Reagan/ Murdoch/Sandinista combo and the Murdoch News of the World hacking scandal do go hand in hand in relevance to an idea someone coined some time ago: that voters don't elect politicians, oligarchs do. See reply coming up.
And, of course, the importance of the press in the manipulation of public perception around issues.
"the Murdoch CREEP, eh .. :( .. t'was only a matter of time ..
Press Freedom Index .. 2011-12 .. [smaller = more freedom ]
[...]There’s been little talk here at ScruHoo about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, but we should shine a light on it. In brief, let me quote Carl Bernstein from Newsweek .. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/murdoch-s-watergate.html :
P - “The facts of the case are astonishing in their scope. Thousands of private phone messages hacked, presumably by people affiliated with the Murdoch-owned News of the World newspaper, with the violated parties ranging from Prince William and actor Hugh Grant to murder victims and families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The arrest of Andy Coulson, former press chief to Prime Minister David Cameron, for his role in the scandal during his tenure as the paper’s editor. The arrest (for the second time) of Clive Goodman, the paper’s former royals editor. The shocking July 7 announcement that the paper would cease publication three days later, putting hundreds of employees out of work. Murdoch’s bid to acquire full control of cable-news company BSkyB placed in jeopardy. Allegations of bribery, wiretapping, and other forms of lawbreaking—not to mention the charge that emails were deleted by the millions in order to thwart Scotland Yard’s investigation.”
P - A rogues’ gallery. - http://www.alternet.org/media/151694/the_12_nastiest_villains_in_the_murdoch_phone-hacking_scandal/?page=entire"
------
Related:
How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king.
"[...]Citizen Murdoch buys into the beautiful game"
[...]“The president and his men realised from the start that to oust the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, they would need to neutralise the public opposition to US intervention in the Third World,” they reported in 1988.
“To win this war at home the White House created a sophisticated apparatus that mixed propaganda with intimidation, consciously misleading the American people and at times trampling on the right to dissent.”
Murdoch’s role was confirmed in subsequent reports by Parry whose investigative website Consortiumnews published details of meetings between Murdoch and Reagan in the White House.
The first, on 18 February 1983, was arranged by Murdoch’s lawyer Roy Cohn who counted Donald Trump among his clients. Also in attendance was America’s propaganda tsar Charles Wick, director of the US Information Agency (USIA), who was keen for the administration to invest in satellite technology to counter Soviet propaganda.
It was later revealed that Murdoch played a critical role in familiarising Wick with the possibilities of emerging satellite technology and that a collaborative agreement was reached for the introduction of America’s first live global satellite television network. The result was WorldNet, a $15 million-a-year satellite-aided TV network that revolutionised America’s ability to promote its views to the world.
At the time of the 1987 global financial meltdown cash-strapped news agencies across Europe took advantage of the opportunity to cut costs, by accepting ‘clips’ from WorldNet at little or no charge.
It set the trap for the manipulation of the free world’s media.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171905552
[Added Jan. 23, 2025 - And then came Musk's Starlink .. To link - To link - Concerns about its impact on the earth and territorial sovereignty
Concerns about Starlink center on its constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175697376]
------
By Haley Ott
Updated on: January 22, 2025 / 8:39 AM EST / CBS News
London — Britain's Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against the U.K. newspaper group owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, News Group Newspapers, his lawyer told CBS News on Wednesday.
Harry and a former senior U.K. lawmaker sued News Group in 2019 over alleged unlawful activities carried out by both tabloid journalists and private investigators employed by its newspapers The Sun and the no-longer-in-circulation News of the World. It was one of a number of lawsuits Harry has brought against newspapers in Britain.
"NGN offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun," the media company said in a statement read out in court Wednesday. The statement also included an apology for the activities of journalists and private investigators working for the News of the World.
"NGN further apologizes to the Duke for the impact on him of the extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales, his late mother, in particular during his younger years. We acknowledge and apologize for the distress caused to the Duke, and the damage inflicted on relationships, friendships and family, and have agreed to pay him substantial damages," the statement said.
Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on April 12, 2024, in Wellington, Florida. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
News Group has faced numerous lawsuits over allegations of phone hacking and illegal information gathering, and it has settled more that 1,300 involving politicians and celebrities. It has always denied, however, that The Sun newspaper was involved in any illegal activities, or that senior figures were aware of anything illegal and tried to cover it up.
Harry had previously said he wanted to go to trial to get to the truth, rather than to get a payout, after other claimants settled out of court.
In court documents that emerged in 2023, Prince Harry claimed that his own brother, heir to the British throne Prince William, quietly received "a very large sum of money" in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with Murdoch's U.K. newspaper group.
"After endless resistance, denials and legal battles by News Group Newspapers, including spending more than a billion pounds in payouts and in legal costs (as well as paying-off those in the know) to prevent the full picture from coming out, News UK is finally held to account for its illegal actions and its blatant disregard for the law," said a statement read outside the court Wednesday on behalf of Prince Harry and the British lawmaker who brought the suit with him. "The truth that has now been exposed is that NGN unlawfully engaged more than 100 private investigators over at least 16 years on more than 35,000 occasions. This happened as much at The Sun as it did at the News of the World, with the knowledge of all the Editors and executives, going to the very top of the company."
On Tuesday, Emma Jones, a board member of the advocacy group Hacked Off, which has worked with Harry on his lawsuit, said proceedings had been scheduled to resume that morning, but that both sides had appealed for extra time as the settlement talks were underway.
Jones said a "huge amount of money is going to be passing hands," but she said she did not know the exact amount.
She said Harry also wanted "some sort of admission… that implicates NGN (News Group). An admission, in a way, of what went on," Jones said.
"He doesn't want to just walk away from this with an apology. He wants something tangible that he can say well, you know, 'I at least have this. I proved my point,'" Jones said as negotiations continued Tuesday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-harry-settles-lawsuit-with-rupert-murdochs-news-group/
See also:
conix, Piers Morgan misrepresented the situation when he said Harry
and Meghan made accusations of racism 'without a shred of evidence.'
March 8, 20217:34 PMUpdated 2 years ago
[...][...]Why Rupert Murdoch Is Finally Done with Donald Trump
A politician on the wane is of little value to the media mogul.
[...]“The 2024 field is rich. You have Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley … the list goes on. All candidates who embrace conservative policies without the preoccupations of the Don.”
P - Ten days later, Murdoch retainer Piers Morgan wrote a New York Post column explicitly urging Republicans to junk Donald for Ronald. Fox News has tilted ever so slightly against the Trump line in recent weeks, with news anchor Bret Baier acknowledging that the hearings made Trump “look horrific” and that Trump’s inaction was “very telling.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169494881
OOPS - (C)old friends: How Lachlan is leading Murdoch media back to a triumphant Trump
Trump has forced the Murdochs to choose between money and power — and Lachlan has chosen the money.
Christopher Warren Jan 17, 2024
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/lachlan-murdoch-donald-trump-news-corp-us-elections/
Post rather disjointed, but the Reagan/ Murdoch/Sandinista combo and the Murdoch News of the World hacking scandal do go hand in hand in relevance to an idea someone coined some time ago: that voters don't elect politicians, oligarchs do. See reply coming up.
And, of course, the importance of the press in the manipulation of public perception around issues.
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