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The High Court has been told that the current editor of the toxic Daily Express, Gary Jones, was “involved in phone hacking” & “a prolific user of private investigators” while working at Murdoch's News of the World, & the Daily Mirror, in the 1990s & 2000s. Image
Although the court has heard allegations against many former editors, including Murdoch's #TalkTV presenter, Piers Morgan, this is the first time during this trial that a serving national newspaper editor has been accused of involvement in phone hacking.

bylinetimes.com/2023/03/16/pri…
Graham Johnson, a former Sunday Mirror reporter, told the High Court that “This is an investigation into an organised crime group, which is Mirror Group Newspapers. I investigated drug gangs in Liverpool, fraud factories in south-east London, and street gangs in Birmingham.”
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Concerns are growing over TV impartiality on @BBC, #TalkTV, & GB "News".

A timely new study: 'Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK & 2020 US Election Campaigns'.

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Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny.
In the UK, the way “due impartiality” has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a ‘she-said-he-said’ style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims.
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In 2012, Iranian Press TV was forced off the air in the UK after @Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act.

The grotesque #propaganda pumped out daily by Rupert Murdoch's #TalkTV would make even Iran's most ideologically extreme propagandists blush.
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While audience figures for controversial right-wing TV channels Murdoch's #TalkTV & the Dubai-based-multimillionaire-funded GB "News" are piss poor, bosses care more about “impact” than rankings, & other right-wing media organisations relentlessly amplify video clips.
For example, TalkTV & GB "News" clips appear & are amplified on @Youtube & social media platforms.

TalkTV said clips from Piers Morgan's Rishi Sunak interview had attracted more than two million social views by midday on Friday. But we know very little about who watches them.
Morgan’s interview with Sunak is not his biggest show to date in terms of viewership. His launch night interview with Donald Trump averaged 319,000 viewers, according to Barb figures. And the first of his two-part interview with Cristiano Ronaldo averaged 334,000 over the hour.
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News UK spokeswoman: "There's been a medical issue, it's not a security issue and the candidates are okay" - "if we can get back on air we will"
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"Everyone is okay" says Ian Collins on #TalkTV
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What on earth happened then? Hope everyone is ok! #TalkTV #TheSun
A spokesperson for News UK said: "There's been a medical issue, it's not a security issue and the candidates are okay" - "if we can get back on air we will"
Glad to hear Kate McCann, who truly was bossing it, is doing ok! 👇
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Toxic, interfering, fossilised foreign billionaire scrotum Rupert Murdoch’s #talkTV has hardly any viewers for its divisive culture-war crap, so Fox "News" staff have been brought in following a Snr behind-the-scenes executive quitting last week.

theguardian.com/media/2022/jun…
On Monday, the flagshit Piers Morgan Uncensored attracted just 64,000 viewers - beaten by a repeat of 1970s sitcom The Good Life on Gold. Narcissistic plum Morgan has suggested Murdoch should make a massive bid to hire Susanna Reid, who has not denied discussions had taken place. Image
Other talkTV programmes are faring far worse, with just 7,000 people watching toxic hard-right extremist sociopath Tom Newton Dunn, the former Sun political editor who in 2019 published & then unpublished a debunked far-right conspiracy theory linking Jeremy Corbyn to terrorists. Image
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Putting to one side @BBCNews's grotesque focus on the channel crossings, a few days ago hundreds of tweets from hard-right 'patriot' accounts made the absurd & misleading claim that the Govt's immoral #Rwanda plan had been 'successful in deterring channel crossings'.
Typically, despite clear evidence showing that it was weather conditions which paused the channel crossings, the right-wing press - including The Sun, Mail, & Express - amplified the absurd & easily disprovable lie that the Government's #Rwanda plan had worked as a deterrent.
Unhinged GB "News" presenter Patrick Christys joined in with the lie: “Goodness gracious me. It’s only gone & bloody worked... This can’t only be down to wind direction or offshore conditions... This is down to the threat of being deported!" which was amplified by Murdoch's Sun.
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