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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Sat Feb 11, 2012, 06:10 PM Feb 2012

Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry!

five of its employees were arrested Saturday.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said the five employees from The Sun tabloid had been detained and that police had searched their homes and the group's London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_PHONE_HACKING?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2012 OP

Fighting to contain the damage dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #1

Gloat gloat gloat; hope the Sun sets soon! LeftishBrit Feb 2012 #2

Guess the Susan G. Komen foundation will have to stop buying The Sun and zbdent Feb 2012 #3

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

1. Fighting to contain the damage

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 11, 2012, 06:15 PM

Feb 2012

caused by News Corp grassing on its own staff which has completely pissed off the National Union of Journalists.

LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)

2. Gloat gloat gloat; hope the Sun sets soon!

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 11, 2012, 07:09 PM

Feb 2012

The RW tabloids do not have a good influence on this country.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

3. Guess the Susan G. Komen foundation will have to stop buying The Sun and

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Feb 11, 2012, 08:09 PM

Feb 2012

leaving Fox News on the TV in their public rooms ...

Oh, wait ... that rule, where they didn't provide funds to organizations under investigation, only applied to Planned Parenthood ...

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