Did Rebekah Brooks’ PR chums invent fake front page stories for her newspapers?
Amid all the Murdoch stuff in the UK newspapers at the weekend was a fascinating piece in the Mail on Sunday claiming that current News International boss Rebekah Brooks used to run fictional press...
View ArticleWorld wakes up to our Piers Morgan phone hacking wake-up call as MPs demand...
And, to be fair, political blogger Guido Fawkes (aka Paul Staines) has gone a significant stage further with his story that the Daily Mirror hacked into Ulrika Jonnson’s voicemail to reveal her affair...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks plays a blinder, Murdochs stutter and Tory MP Louise Mensch...
It was girls on top (yet again) at the Parliamentary quizzing of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks today over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. James did OK under some tough...
View ArticleWhy Rupert Murdoch is convinced newspapers are important (whatever he said to...
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a...
View ArticleWill the News of the World save Mirror publisher?
Rupert Murdoch isn’t a very happy bunny at the moment although he can console himself with the thought that things could be much worse (they still might be). But what the News Corporation boss probably...
View ArticleIt’s hunt the Mandelson time again but this time all roads lead to WPP and...
Hunting Lord Mandelson (former Labour minister Peter Mandelson as was) is a traditional British media sport and his Lordship has enlivened the summer silly season once more by making an offer for an...
View ArticlePR firm Juniper Sport takes centre stage as Mike Tindall affair rumbles on
PR firm Juniper Sport, which handles PR business and some sponsorship matters for the Rugby Football Union and Zara Phillips (new wife of England rugby player Mike Tindall) among others, must have been...
View ArticleAssociated and PR firm Brown Lloyd James in the dock in UK press standards...
Few newspaper companies have sharper teeth than Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, which routinely terrorises its enemies including rival media organisations the BBC...
View ArticleJoan Collins to make ad comeback for Snickers?
That’s what the Mail on Sunday thinks anyway, reporting yesterday that veteran actress Joan Collins, 78, is to make an advertising comeback for Mars brand Snickers, courtesy of agency AMV BBDO...
View ArticleWPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell takes aim at Google over NSA security concerns
We noted last week that WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell (left) had been uncharacteristically quiet of late but this morning he’s bounced back; telling the BBC that companies like Google aren’t really tech...
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