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Sunday, August 04, 2019

is it possible that rupert murdoch's media group including the super soaraway phone tapping police bribing politician corrupting sun newspaper was a party to the framing of deceased broadcaster jimmy savile on trumped up charges of child abuse

One of Rupert Murdoch's media corporations, currently styled News Group, has just been ordered to pay a purportedly massive cash sum in damages to Heather Mills and her sister Fiona. The Murdoch family's targetting of Miss Mills in this instance continued from 1999 until 2010.  Slanders and falsehoods against her were printed in 141 separate newspaper articles. She asserts through her lawyer that the damages are the highest media privacy settlement ever awarded in Britain. She had been targetted via the pages of the Sun newspaper and the now defunct News Of The World. She also claims that copious direct harassment activities had been carried out against her and that her phone had been hacked. The Murdochs closed the News Of The World title in 2011 as a tidal wave of similar allegations for slandering and spying on celebrities and private citizens emerged against it. The Murdoch owned News Group has settled at least a thousand cases involving invasion of privacy, slander and spying on members of the public in the past few years. That's a thousand cases in Britain a country of 60 million people. Let's be precise here. One in every 60,000 people in Britain has received a libel settlement from a Murdoch newspaper. News Group's parent company the Murdoch owned News Corp has according to the Financial Times spent a known half a billion dollars on legal costs alone in these cases. The Financial Times adds that previous significant damages awards in cases involving phone hacking in Britain included the Murdochs' pay out of £600,000 to the singer Charlotte Church as well as a £260,000 pay out by a company styling itself Trinity Mirror (now rebranded as Reach) to the actress Sadie Frost. Trinity Mirror has never been proven to have any direct links to the Murdochs. There has been some so far fruitless speculation as to who the beneficial owner and controller of Trinity Mirror actually is. It is known that what I call cross pollination took place between News Group and Trinity Mirror, ie an editor at the Murdochs' News Of The World later became editor at Trinity Mirror's Daily Mirror. I also remember speculation in this regard touching at one time on the now bankrupt Irish media moghul Tony O'Reilly. Tony O'Reilly never admitted to owning or controlling the Daily Mirror and I suppose the truth will die with him. Interestingly Trinity Mirror's Daily Mirror publication, along with a broadcasting front company styled ITV 4, was the sponsor of the initial fishing expedition allegations against deceased broadcaster Jimmy Savile, so quickly and enthusiastically taken up by the Murdoch family's publications. The campaign to posthumously destroy Jimmy Savile came at a very convenient time for the Murdochs as it distracted public attention from the Leveson Enquiry then being held into the criminal activities of various Murdoch run newspapers and companies which were being accuses of bribing police officers, subverting politicians and spying on members of the public. The Leveson Enqury was viewed at the time by some commentators as an existential threat to the Murdoch family's continued participation in the media industry and to the continuance of News Corporation itself as a trading entity. I would suggest that the only salient difference between Jimmy Savile and the people currently receiving record libel payments from the Murdochs, is that Jimmy Savile was already dead when the Murdochs set out to ruin him.

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