Hacking issues - involving the McCanns

Andrew wrote:

Dee Coy wrote:For the first time yesterday watching the clip I thought GM looked tired and worried. A man who has maybe lost control?

Looking again at the clip of him on the bench it looks like he has lost weight - certainly his face is a lot thinner, cheekbones more prominent.

He was probably kipping on that bench afterwards with a bottle of whisky.

Looks like his partner has given him the boot.

Enough about Clarence though.

Even Clarence has gone off to the far side of the world

Mitch, or Clarence, as he likes to be known is all about himself.

Hot-footed it over to Oz for an audience. Hot-footed it back because they all probably thought he was a pratt.

He's creamed as much as he can possibly can with the name M. (Wanted extra cash and some limelight)

But, when it all goes wrong, then without doubt he will distance himself.

Gerry who..?

Err.... nope - don't know the McCanns.

Got a flight to catch.....

Some great comments on Cristobell blog, Gerry's Hacked off - especially this yesterday from John Blacksmith (7 April 2016 at 21.17)



http://cristobell.blogspot.co.uk/

Ah well, GM is in good company, David Cameron now has the same headlines..........accused of hypocrisy

Cameron offshore fund row: PM accused of 'hypocrisy'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35994283

Interesting development now, 'Hacked off saying Government policy reversed due to John Whittingale's role in press regulation being compromised.
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Public 'can't have faith' in Whittingdale press role




    http://www.itv.com/news/2016-04-13/hacked-off-government-press-hacking-policy-reversed/

Hacked off trending on twitter..........

Faster Share ‏@Smjoha · 8m8 minutes ago

BBC and Hacked Off accused of being 'rank hypocrites' for revealing Culture Secretary John… http://sh.st/UBhjQ





Spirit of Savile ‏@moor_facts · 12m12 minutes ago

Spirit of Savile Retweeted Ian Dunt

hacked off with hacked off


Spirit of Savile added,


Ian Dunt @IanDunt Hacked Off are now just as bad as those they campaign against http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/04/13/whittingdale-story-destroys-the-last-vestiges-of-hacked-off …






Whittingdale story destroys the last vestiges of Hacked Off's credibility





http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/04/13/whittingdale-story-destroys-the-last-vestiges-of-hacked-off





Michael Harris ‏@mjrharris · 27m27 minutes ago

Michael Harris Retweeted Ian Dunt

Hacked Off making huge strategic mistakes. Because over time they've stopped listening to any voice that disagrees






Ben Weller ‏@BenWeller · 34m34 minutes ago

Truly incredible level of hypocrisy from Hacked Off today

Jimmy Rushmore ‏@JimmyRushmore · 40m40 minutes ago

Andrew Neil absolutely crucifying Evan Harris of Hacked Off. It's almost painful to watch #bbcdp




BBC and Hacked Off are accused of being 'rank hypocrites' for revealing Culture Secretary John Whittingdale's relationship with dominatrix he met on online dating site

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3537386/BBC-Hacked-accused-rank-hypocrites-revealing-Culture-Secretary-John-Whittingdale-s-relationship-dominatrix-met-online-dating-site.html

Just to rebuff Jill's post about Gerry McCann that has started a frenzy on twitter. Classic misinformation again.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/leveson_inquiry_documents_closed

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/231127/response/581228/attach/html/4/attachment.doc.html

Mods - move if see fit.

Thanks Andrew - I did see it on twitter, and wondered why on earth only the McCann's would be 'secret'.

Not exactly latest news as such but just inadvertently found myself reading this:

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/leveson-ii-revenge-of-the-freedom-snatchers/19169#.WG7WuFOLTcc

And this from a few weeks back:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/14/gordon-brown-delay-murdoch-sky-takeover-leveson-part-2

Gerry McCann onBBC radio 4 today again talking about press intrusion and more regulation required.......

BBC Radio 4 Today‏Verified account @BBCr4today · 1h1 hour ago
 
Should there be more press regulation? Gerry McCann who was a victim of press intrusion and @ed_miliband says there should as MPs vote on the decision today #r4today



https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_fourfm

Lord Hartgrove‏ @captain_clegg_1 · 2h2 hours ago


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Gerry #mccann on radio4 today moaning on about press freedom and intrusion. Ironic that the #McCanns used the same papers to get people to donate to their fund. And who told them that Kate couldn't have sex after Maddie vanished? Oh yes it was the #McCanns

Words almost fail me whenever the McCanns pop up complaining about press intrusion. Aaaargh!

Freedom wrote:Words almost fail me whenever the McCanns pop up complaining about press intrusion. Aaaargh!

In other news, the producers of Loose Women were disappointed to learn of the unavailability of Dr. Harold Shipman for an upcoming feature on geriatric healthcare.

UK will lose freedom of press if MPs back new regulations, minister warns

Joe Murphy 2 hours ago




Britain will slip further down the international league table of media freedom if measures to regulate newspapers are passed by MPs, a minister warned today.

Culture minister Margot James said: “UK’s current standing at 40th on the World Press Freedom index needs to be improved, not set back further.”



Her intervention came as the Commons prepared to vote on a proposal that would expose newspapers to paying the full costs of some court cases even if they are proved to have been in the right.



The idea was put to a vote by Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and backed by privacy campaigners reportedly funded by F1 racing tycoon Max Mosley. A second vote was called by former Labour leader Ed Miliband in a bid to force a new statutory inquiry into newspapers, their relationships with police officers and handling of data.







“These amendments would undermine the freedom of our newspapers,” tweeted Ms James, who said the new Data Protection Bill would strike a fair balance “between respecting press freedom and curbing excesses”. Former Guardian editor lan Rusbridger tweeted it would be “crazy to impose punitive costs on newspapers” in the way proposed by Mr Watson. But he said the arguments for a new Leveson inquiry were “harder to dismiss”.

Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine was abducted in Portugal a decade ago, said it would be “a betrayal of the victims” of media intrusion not to hold the second part of the Leveson inquiry. He said he had no faith in the independent newspaper regulator Ipso, telling Radio 4’s Today programme: “I wouldn’t even talk to them.” 

Theresa May told Cabinet yesterday it was “very important for the Government to resist amendments which could undermine our free press”.

The Prime Minister pointed out that almost £50 million of public money was spent investigating phone hacking, saying another inquiry would not be a “proportionate” solution to claims that had been investigated already.







Local newspaper editors say the Labour amendments could destroy regional journalism. The News Media Association described them as “draconian”.



https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/uk-will-lose-freedom-of-press-if-mps-back-new-regulations-minister-warns-a3834326.html

Just putting this here a video from 2015

BREAKING NEWS








Piers Morgan‏Verified account @piersmorgan · 3m3 minutes ago
 




BREAKING:

Press Freedom 1.

Press-hating celebrity criminals 0.










Guido Fawkes‏Verified account @GuidoFawkes · 6m6 minutes ago  


Guido Fawkes Retweeted Media Guido

Ed Miliband, Tom Watson, Max Mosley, Impress, Hugh Grant, John Cleese, Brian Leveson, Gary Lineker, Steve Coogan, Evan Harris… your boys took one hell of a beating (well, nine votes)

Media Guido‏ @MediaGuido · 8m8 minutes ago


Leveson 2 Defeated, Watson Bottles Section 40 Vote: https://order-order.com/2018/05/09/leveson-2-defeated-watson-bottles-section-40-vote/ …

Another defeat for Gerry. Shame. Still, he must be getting used to it by now.

https://content.yudu.com/web/3pylg/0A3pylh/TheJournalistJULY18/html/index.html?page=4&origin=reader

A brief article here (top right) in the latest newsletter from the National Union of Journalists.

So victims of ‘press abuse’ like the Mccanns (!!!) are to be allowed to take the government to court over its decision to scrap part two of the Leveson inquiry. A judicial review will be held this Oct.

If the Hacked Off group wins, it will get costs so the taxpayer pays.

The press has indeed behaved very badly with McCann coverage by questioning nothing and just taking their PR teams press releases at face value. Print lies or misinformation often enough and it becomes ‘the truth.’ The journalists who have written these 'exclusives' over the years should be expelled from the NUJ - but possibly they were never members. I do believe that the NUJ cares about standards.

In other instances, people have been badly treated like Christopher Jeffries who is also mentioned in the NUJ article in its magazine. I do believe there should be appropriate mechanisms for redress.

Trust the McCanns to get in on this as though they were genuine victims. It is irritating to see their names in the list of press victims along with innocent Mr Jeffries.

It has never done my blood pressure any good to see the McCanns linked together with people who have suffered at the hands of the media or are crime victims, like April Jones's family.

I musn't get too wound up now about it as, with the infernal heat as well, I would explode!

I missed this somehow so thanks to JCL on twitter for bringing to my attention...….

1. November 2018 at 2:42am
   
   

High Court challenge begins over cancellation of part two of Leveson Inquiry


   
Lord Justice Leveson with the report from the first part of the inquiry Photo: PA
The Government’s decision not to go ahead with the second part of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and regulation is being challenged at the High Court.
Leveson II was due to look into unlawful conduct within media organisations as well as relations between police and the press.
But Culture Secretary Matt Hancock announced in March that reopening the “costly and time-consuming” inquiry – which reported on press regulation and ethics in 2012 – was not “the right way forward”.
The decision was taken jointly by Mr Hancock and then Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

    
Christopher Jefferies ahead of his evidence at the Leveson Inquiry Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA
The challenge is being brought by Christopher Jefferies, Kate and Gerry McCann, and Jacqui Hames, who all gave evidence during the first part of the inquiry.
Bristol landlord Mr Jefferies, who was libelled by the press when he was wrongly accused of the murder of Joanna Yeates in 2010, told the inquiry he was “vilified” by the media.
The McCanns complained of press intrusion into their lives after their daughter Madeleine went missing on holiday in Portugal in 2007.
Former detective and Crimewatch presenter Ms Hames received apologies and damages from News Group Newspapers, part of News UK, and Trinity Mirror over phone hacking and other illegal activity.
Speaking after Mr Hancock’s announcement, Ms Hames said the Conservatives had broken a promise by former prime minister David Cameron to finish the inquiry and she had “no confidence” in the Government.

    
Phone-hacking victim and former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Crowdfunded journalism website Byline Media is also bringing the judicial review, which will be heard by two senior judges on Thursday and Friday.
Sir Brian Leveson heard the first part of the inquiry, which cost the taxpayer £5.4 million, over 17 months and delivered his report in 2012.
In a letter to then Home Secretary Amber Rudd dated January 23, Sir Brian said he believed the bulk of the inquiry’s scope should go ahead.
He said: “I have no doubt that there is still a legitimate expectation on behalf of the public and, in particular, the alleged victims of phone hacking and other unlawful conduct, that there will be a full public examination of the circumstances that allowed that behaviour to develop and clear reassurances that nothing of the same scale could occur again: that is what they were promised.
“For the reasons given above, I do not believe that we are yet even near that position and would urge you to give further consideration to the need for at least the bulk of part two to be commenced as soon as possible.”
Sir Brian added that while he could not preside over the second part himself because of his workload, he would have been “very willing” to help another chairman.

 
Gerry and Kate McCann ahead of their appearance at the Leveson Inquiry Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA
Announcing the original inquiry in 2011 in response to a wave of public anger over alleged phone-hacking by the now-defunct News Of The World, Mr Cameron said that it would be divided into two parts.
But Mr Hancock said there had been “significant progress” in the practices of the press and the police, including the creation of the new Independent Press Standards Organisation, since Sir Brian’s report.
A large majority of those responding to a consultation launched by his predecessor John Whittingdale in 2016 opposed the implementation of Leveson II, he said.
Telling MPs he was formally closing the inquiry, Mr Hancock said that priority should be given to dealing with the challenges of the modern media landscape, such as the rise of clickbait, fake news and social media.
Last updated Thu 1 Nov 2018 


                  https://www.itv.com/news/2018-11-01/high-court-challenge-begins-over-cancellation-of-part-two-of-leveson-inquiry/