So Goodman now says he deliberately lied over paying police officers. What is more revealing is how the News of the World treated sources: taking a ” heartless commercial decision” to expose them to get another story.
Day 70, Part 2:
Clive Goodman lied to newspaper executives that he was paying police officers so that his stories were published and his contacts were paid more promptly, he said today.
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So now Clive Goodman ” the Royal rogue reporter ” changes his story and says he got the Royal phone books from freelance journalists not the police.
Day 70:
Clive Goodman received three royal phone directories from fellow journalists, he told the phone hacking trial today. Mr Goodman, the News of the World’s former royal editor, said that one of the sources for which he arranged cash payments was a freelancer, while the other was a newspaper executive.
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Very interesting. Rebekah Brooks now admits her extreme interest in Milly Dowler’s disappearance but says nobody tells her of the police’s disclosure to News International that Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked by journalists at the News of the World
Day 66:
Rebekah Brooks agreed today she was “
extremely interested
” in Milly Dowler’s disappearance – but denied she knew the News of the World had hacked her phone.
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So The Guardian cannot be blamed for closing the News of the World over Milly Dowler. There already was plan to close it as part of the move to take over BSkyB.Interesting admission.
Day 61, Part 2:
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group considered closing the News of the World a month before the Guardian disclosed it had targeted missing girl Milly Dowler, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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Rebekah Brooks: Turning Down MPs expenses story ” pretty high error of judgement”, while Cabinet minister Charles Clarke responsible for another leak, she claims Scotland Yard told her!
Day 60:
Stories for which the Sun paid a civil servant thousands of pounds could have come from a variety of legitimate sources rather than a public official, the paper’s former editor Rebekah Brooks said today.
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So Rebekah Brooks admits paying out cash to public officials without knowing who they were – and that her treatment of Clare Short, a former labour Cabinet minister, over her page three campaigns was ” cruel and harsh”.
Day 59:
One of Rupert Murdoch’s most senior executives told a court today that she authorised payments to public officials in return for information for stories in his British newspapers.
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Rebekah Brooks admits she offered ex Royal correspondent and hacker Clive Goodman a job back at the Sun to prevent him going to an industrial tribunal and disclosing that he believed phone hacking was rife at News International. Interesting!
Day 58, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks offered a phone hacker a job after he came out of prison to stop him alleging widespread hacking at the News of the World, she told the phone hacking trial today.
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Rebekah Brooks defence: I learned about the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone from The Guardian. Fascinating.
Day 57, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks today denied any involvement in the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone. Giving evidence at the Old Bailey, Mrs Brooks said she had not known that the schoolgirl’s voicemail had been intercepted days after her disappearance in 2002.
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Very interesting that Rebekah Brooks said she had never heard of Glenn Mulcaire during her editorship.
Day 55, Part 2:
Rebekah Brooks relied upon the News of the World’s managing editor Stuart Kuttner to oversee the paper’s multi-million pound budget, she told the hacking trial this afternoon.
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The feminist defence of Rebekah Brooks against misogynist males at the News of the World.
Rebekah Brooks battled her way through a high-spending, hyper-competitive and sometimes “misogynistic” world to climb to the top of tabloid journalism, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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