Crikey!

I think the movie "Network" should be refilmed with the network being led by someone who looks like Murdoch, and even have an Asian concubine wife by his side.

Andy Coulson is likely to have attended sensitive meetings, No 10 admits

That is such a wonderfully non-sensational headline isn't it?

I missed the word "tabloid" in the headline and thought this was going to be about Fox News during the Bush administration.

...Cobra, the cabinet's crisis response committee...

Someone in charge of naming committees is either a smartass or has never heard of G.I. Joe.

I'm too tired to read it all, but does it say whether he sat in on the meetings when he worked for the NotW or when he was actually working for Cameron?

Slaxl: I'm too tired to read it all, but does it say whether he sat in on the meetings when he worked for the NotW or when he was actually working for Cameron?

The possibility of that confusion is, in itself, a good indicator of a problematic relationship, no?

Slaxl: I'm too tired to read it all, but does it say whether he sat in on the meetings when he worked for the NotW or when he was actually working for Cameron?

While he was working for Cameron, but it also mentions that by the time Cameron hired him the NotW was already up to its eyeballs in scandals, which theoretically should have set off the CYA alarm in Cameron's head.

Behave yourself, subby. He was working as the Prime Minister's Communication's Director at the time.

What's the point of BUYING entire governments if you can't use the perks?

Ummm... he was FORMER Murdoch Tabloid Chief and current Communications Chief for Prime Minister Cameron.

That's like saying "Time Magazine Reporter Allowed To Sit In On White House Meetings" when you're talking about Press Secretary Jay Carney. Headline fail.

fitzhume: Ummm... he was FORMER Murdoch Tabloid Chief and current Communications Chief for Prime Minister Cameron.

That's like saying "Time Magazine Reporter Allowed To Sit In On White House Meetings" when you're talking about Press Secretary Jay Carney. Headline fail.

Yeah, or Bush's spokesman who worked at Fox News before coming to the White House - Tony Snow?

This doesn't seem like as big a deal as they're making it sound. Administrations hire ex-media types all the time to do things like "communications director" or "spokesman" so I'm not sure how this is any different.

Well, besides this guy apparently being an incompetent ass, but that's more a failure of the hiring policy than an intelligence breach.

skinink: I think the movie "Network" should be refilmed with the network being led by someone who looks like Murdoch, and even have an Asian concubine wife by his side.

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Kay: We're gonna check the hot sheets.
[Kay pulls up to a newsstand and buys a pile of supermarket tabloids]
Jay: THESE are the hot sheets?
Kay: Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes.

Cronyism: how does it work?

Oh, that's how it works.

Ask again after he miraculously survives yet another "he's dead" momentous battle with McGuyver.

Oh wait, wrong guy.