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A former News of the World reporter who alleged Andy Coulson "encouraged" him to hack phones has been found dead.
Sean Hoare, who made claims in a New York Times article about the Prime Minister's former communications chief, was discovered at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire, after concerns were raised about his whereabouts.
The death is being treated as "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious", Hertfordshire police said.
Well who would have thought it?...  |
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"A former News of the World reporter who alleged Andy Coulson "encouraged" him to hack phones has been found dead.
Sean Hoare, who made claims in a New York Times article about the Prime Minister's former communications chief, was discovered at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire, after concerns were raised about his whereabouts.
The death is being treated as "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious", Hertfordshire police said.
Well who would have thought it?... "
Dr David Kelly? |
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"A former News of the World reporter who alleged Andy Coulson "encouraged" him to hack phones has been found dead.
Sean Hoare, who made claims in a New York Times article about the Prime Minister's former communications chief, was discovered at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire, after concerns were raised about his whereabouts.
The death is being treated as "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious", Hertfordshire police said.
Well who would have thought it?...
Dr David Kelly? "
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Not worth a mans life. Or are we baying for blood on this one? Eye for an eye - that sort of thing? I know I'm not. Its a very sorry affair and nobody is above punishment but we don't have a death penalty in this country. Just prison. |
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"Not worth a mans life. Or are we baying for blood on this one? Eye for an eye - that sort of thing? I know I'm not. Its a very sorry affair and nobody is above punishment but we don't have a death penalty in this country. Just prison."
Who is baying for blood?.... |
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"I think its all really disturbing 
It really is....and it hasn't ended yet I would guess"
Rob and I were saying last night that the potential fallout from this could be massive and I agree that its nowhere near over,its scary! |
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"Why do I suddenly see Rupert Murdoch as Emperor Palpatine hissing "Wipe them out...all of them!"
Goes far deeper than the Murdochs this one.....I would hazard to guess."
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
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"Not worth a mans life. Or are we baying for blood on this one? Eye for an eye - that sort of thing? I know I'm not. Its a very sorry affair and nobody is above punishment but we don't have a death penalty in this country. Just prison.
Who is baying for blood?...."
Those who will bay - the royal 'we' as in those who start shouting for more than is available punishment and will view suicides or breakdowns or deaths from stress as a fitting punishment. Probably sun readers  yeah yeah I know that will bring the sun readers out having a go but Im not biting. Just making a comment that prison is all they will get and anyone losing their life over a scandal is too high a price to pay. |
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""unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious"
Not thought to be suspicious. Let's wait for the autopsy before jumping the gun, eh?"
When all said and done, suicide, if that's waht it is is a crime. Go fugure. |
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""unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious"
Not thought to be suspicious. Let's wait for the autopsy before jumping the gun, eh?"
Maybe this otherwise healthy youngish man died of natural causes....
But then again that would be the coincidence of all coincidences wouldn't it?.....given the bombshells dropped over the last couple of weeks. |
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""unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious"
Not thought to be suspicious. Let's wait for the autopsy before jumping the gun, eh?
Maybe this otherwise healthy youngish man died of natural causes....
But then again that would be the coincidence of all coincidences wouldn't it?.....given the bombshells dropped over the last couple of weeks."
He could have had a dodgy ticker. Investigative journalism would be quite a stressful job I'd have thought, so who knows what the guy was suffering from. An otherwise healthy young mate of mine dropped dead a few years ago - seems he had a dodgy ticker too. Nobody knew. |
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"We'll have to see how it turns out after it's investigated.
Same thing with the guy who died on the loo at Glastonbury recently.
They soon hushed that up didn't they?
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Well they were left with nothing to go on.  |
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""unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious"
Not thought to be suspicious. Let's wait for the autopsy before jumping the gun, eh?
When all said and done, suicide, if that's waht it is is a crime. Go fugure."
Suicide ACt 1961 - doing it is not a crime, nor is attempt, but aiding and abetting is.... |
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"In the history of cans of worms this is potentially the biggest since Watergate...
A Makro wholesale size can of worms.
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Watergate was a real surprise, this is kinda exposing what lengths we know journalists will go to for "The Scoop". |
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There is hope that not all prime ministers are cosied up to the media barons. Here's a little snippet about Clement Attlee I just found on BBC.co.uk:
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Historian and author Richard Heller says Clement Attlee was so removed from the media that he had to be persuaded by his press secretary, Francis Williams, to install a tape machine at Number 10 to monitor breaking news.
Williams only sold the idea to cricket fanatic Attlee on the basis that it would give him access to the latest scores, Heller says.
One day when Attlee was checking the scores he was horrified to notice that the machine was also clattering out political news, the historian adds.
"Francis," Attlee said, "My cricket machine's gone wrong. It's putting out stuff about the government."
Williams replied: "I know, prime minister, I put it there."
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There was a journo in France who was going round saying he knew stuff about Diana's death. He was found dead in a burned-out white Fiat in a French forest.
I'm just saying. |
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"There was a journo in France who was going round saying he knew stuff about Diana's death. He was found dead in a burned-out white Fiat in a French forest.
I'm just saying."
He was probably found in a Fiat in a french forest and burned because he was in a Fiat in a french forest. They're funny fuckers like that. He'd have been perfectly ok if he had been in a Citroen or Renault.  |
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another scandal no doubt that will be hushed up....dr kelly springs to mind,do they really believe the british public are imbociles...or what...i wonder ????? |
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Isn't speculation and assumption and poor reporting exactly the thing everyone is having a go at thats bad in journalism - yet thats exactly whats happening on this thread? If there wasn't an audience for the crap thats written in publications they wouldnt go to the lengths they go to to get 'news'. Even speculation about speculation feeds the fire. |
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