Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM1hJ_T7hzM&feature=related

Notice the pen he waves at the beginning of the clip -- when Hugh Grant wiretapped him, he used a pen taperecorder. This guy is sly and he clearly is seriously pissed at Grant.

If nothing else, watch the last three minutes of Part 2 so you can fully appreciate the look on the interviewer's face at the end. I dare say he was gobsmacked at how that interview went.

And Rome burns again. I hear a fiddle.

How stupid do you have to be to talk about your felonies and knowledge of others on a news show, while waiting to be arrested?

While not the high-water mark for morality, definitely he's nowhere near the bottom. He does admit that it was stupid to go after the victims of crimes, at least. He just doesn't view celebrities as people.

the feeling I had from this guy, is not that he doesn't think celebrities as people, but that he's so fucking jealous of their fame and success that he thinks they deserve to be constantly harassed and have their lives exposed to the public.

>> ^Stormsinger:

How stupid do you have to be to talk about your felonies and knowledge of others on a news show, while waiting to be arrested?


Well, the way it all began with him openly bragging to Hugh Grant about phone tapping seemed bizarre to me at first. But as smarmy and unscrupulous as he seems, I think he felt guilty about what he did and what he witnessed at the paper every day. That's why he came clean, that's also why he seems desperate to get some approval or sympathy now. This is a man who is constantly trying to reassure himself that what he did wasn't so bad, that usually belies some nagging guilt.

If nothing else, he certainly is keen to let everyone know the truth, including the truth about everything criminal he and his coworkers have ever done.

This is the third time I've heard him give the same "5 million quid/bleat about privacy/no sympathy" trope. What trollop. At least he realizes that he may have ended his career.

GOLD!! In part 2: "I've actually been told not to talk about specifics in case I implicate myself." His lawyers must be ripping their hair out by the handful.

I find this sort of honesty refreshing.
It's so easy to hear of these activities and point accusing fingers in shock. The guy is simply saying that this IS a morally bankrupt field, it has always been. Pretending that entire business enterprises that produce revenue off of moral bankruptcy are to be expected to adhere to some standard of decency is ridiculous.

And I don't think he's implicating himself any more than he already has, he was already caught on tape admitting most of these activities and has admitted them later, he's not trying to hide what they did, he's simply saying he was employed for an organization and industry that has used these tactics for years, that laying the blame on individual reporters is childish, and I imagine this, if anything, supports his defensive strategy.

The hell happened to his face?

>> ^budzos:

The hell happened to his face?


Stress?

The more money you make the less right you have to pivacy and the more laws Journos are allowed to break to invade it. Riiiigghhhttt...

I do feel that the reporters are scape-goats though. Its obvious this phone-hacking business went higher up and the closing of News of the World is nothing more than a name change and a staff shuffle.

I think its an incredible irony that they should argue that they need this phone hacking to expose corruption and scandal when the real scandal is happening right under their fucking noses. Great job guys.

*controversy

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*british
A case of cognitive dissonance: Of course he never did anything wrong.
No, the society is to blame, the bosses should've stopped them, yaddayadda.

Scumbag.

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This idiot is going away for a while.

I call shenanigans. There's more to this story than what is being reported. The whole scenario with Hugh Grant recording him seems fishy. And the press tour this dude has been on makes no fuckin sense either.

Wow, very good sift. He's so clearly under pressure and even a bit panicking, apparently.

He knows he's going down - and he plans to take everyone with him!

>> ^messenger:
GOLD!! In part 2: "I've actually been told not to talk about specifics in case I implicate myself." His lawyers must be ripping their hair out by the handful.


Good! Fuck the lawyers!

He's gonna write a book and clean up.

that guy is out of his effing mind