Hacking Milly Dowler’s Phone Only Cost News Corp. $4.8 Million So now the world knows the price of hacking a dead girl’s cellphone is $4.8 million after News Corp. finally settled with the family of Milly Dowler. It seems preposterously low for what News Corp. did. Read more More
Scarlett Johansson Opens Up About Forced Opening Up, Calls Leak “Unjust” During an interview with CNN, actress Scarlett Johansson described the leaked nude photos as “unjust” and said she was upset about the invasion of her privacy. To which the Internet responded, “Meh, we’ve already seen your boobies.” Read more More
Nearly 4,000 Victims Identified in Murdoch’s Phone-Hacking Scandal The News of the World phone hacking-scandal seemed like it would have the power to bring down Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Then the story simple ran out of legs. But the full scope has not been revealed yet. Read more More
Who Knew What When: News of the World Cover-Up Bombshell A letter written on March 2, 2007 by former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman emerged on Tuesday. Goodman claims that the disreputable phone hacking was “widely discussed” at editorial meetings run by former editor Andy Coulsen. Read more More
Weekend Recap: S&P ↓, Banksy Hack, Tiger Swipe & More Catching up on all your news and nonsense from this weekend… Read more More
Just Desserts: Murdoch Pie Guy Jonnie Marbles Sentenced to Six Weeks in Jail Jonathan May-Bowles will spend the next six weeks in jail for his role in attempting to pie Rupert Murdoch in the face during last month’s phone-hacking Parliamentary hearing. Awesome bonus: His last tweet was a reply @hypervocal. Read more More
Weekend Recap: Debt Deal, Racist Ads, DB Cooper, Clarissa Explains & Winehouse Gifts… What a fantastic weekend. You’d obviously be forgiven for shutting off your brain and tuning out the news and nonsense that pervades your workweek. So, here’s a quick one-pager on what you might have missed while heading out to the beach with a sixer of Bruce Willis-endorsed Seagrams wine coolers. Read more More