... wow. That's just so many kinds of wrong

[fearmeforiampink]

To mess with the private voicemail messages of celebrities is one level of wrong. It's quite wrong, it's another extension of the "They asked for it" (some of them did, some of them didn't) "Therefore we can do what we want to them" (no, no you can't).

But it's still not as wrong as not only listening to the messages left by the worried family of a missing girl, but deleting them when the voicemail filled up, so they could listen to more of them. Oh, and later getting an exclusive interview with the family about their hopes she might be alive, based on said deletions.

Firstly there's all the 'no that's just not on' side of things. Secondly, there's the whole 'interference in a police case, destruction of evidence' side of it too.

Please can we fire News of the World of of a huge cannon to Jupiter or something? Please?

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[fearmeforiampink]

And my understanding is that, whilst the extent it was known throughout the organisation is at question, certainly there were those in the organisation that knew what he was doing.

[omniscient-fool.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. I don't believe for a second the 'we didn't know' line. I'm just saying that in terms of liability, not knowing shouldn't be an excuse when it's your job to know. Well done on the Murdoch protest btw. Hope you didn't get mobbed by too many Potter fans!