SpewLabour Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/21/mirror-phone-hacking-drove-celebrities-to-drink-paranoia-and-hell http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/21/daily-mirror-owners-ordered-to-pay-1-2m-to-celebrity-phone-hacking-victims Given the Mirror has now been found guilty of widespread phone hacking that made the NoW look like a cottage industry, and there are over 100 further cases in the pipeline, when can we expect the Mirror to close? And when are the likes of Tom Watson going to stand up and say how disgusting they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 A mirror is too close when your breath fogs it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Couldn't have happened to a more deserving publication Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpewLabour Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 I'm also waiting for the police raids and the early morning arrests where the journalists are dragged from their beds - especially Piers Morgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 So sad...why now though, given how cosy the trash in parliament and the trash in fleet street are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I'm waiting for the pie in the face in the Commons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Trinity Mirror made a pre tax profit of £102million last year. Sadly I don't think their demise is imminent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 On the news today: they've set aside another 16 million, I think it was. However allegedly, there may be "a thousand claims" in the wings. I suspect we may have had the big profile and big pay-out ones, but there is still significant damage to be inflicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Has Piers Morgan gone to jail? I read he used to tell people at parties how to hack peoples' phones quite brazenly. "Hacking" is a bit of a misnomer in this case though, surely? This whole thing baffles me. Is anybody on the whole face of the planet interested in the contents of Hugh Grant's voicemails? If they are then they deserve to be put out of their misery. (For Hugh Grant I was originally going to say Jude Law - I could picture his face but it took me a further ten minutes to remember his name. Presumably he needs his private life invading again so that we can be reminded who he is). As for the shares thing, anybody who takes investment advice form the Daily Mirror might as well flush their money down the toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxe Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I'm also slightly struggling with the payouts. "Hacking" a mobile phone (i.e. listening to unsecured voice mails) = £250,000 compensation. Compare that to the sort of compensation you get from the criminal injuries compensation scheme, you'd have to be rendered a permanent quadriplegic to get that sort of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 A mirror is too close when your breath fogs it. And fruit flies like a banana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thombleached Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 The hacking thing is a bit of a isomerism as far as I know you dial the person's number (as you would do to pick up your voice mail) press * or something and then enter your voice mail pin 1234. The celebs had I assume not bothered to change the 1234 to something else and so bang you listen to their voice mail. Is that it or have I got it spectacularly wrong? So massive payout cos you didn't change the number and someone took advantage. That exactly it. I think the only case that merits a payout is the Milly Dowler case. Not the breach of trust, but the false hope it gave the parents. So the one case that opened up the floodgates of luvvies who want a piece of the action is IMO the only one that warrants any cold hard cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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