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In January this year, Deborah Turness was appointed CEO of @BBCNews. What most people are unaware of - either by accident or design - is that she is married to little-known John Toker - the UK Govt Cabinet Office's Director of Communications for Security & Intelligence.
In January this year, Deborah Turness was appointed CEO of @BBCNews. What most people are unaware of - either by accident or design - is that she is married to little-known John Toker - the UK Govt Cabinet Office's Director of Communications for Security & Intelligence.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Toker's role as Director of Comm for Security & Intelligence, there is next to nothing about him online, & while I cannot verify if @g_johnjtoker (dormant since 2017) is actually the same John Toker, if it is, his political views are pretty clear:
One thing we do know is that in 2012, days before former executives at Murdoch’s News International were to testify at the #Leveson Inquiry, the Govt was granted special 'core participant' status that gives advance access to witness statements & the ability to question testimony.
GB "News" amplifies a Times non-story, in which the Times sent 300 FOI requests to every EVERY UK university looking for evidence that writers are being taken off reading lists & found TWO examples - ZERO books were banned, other books better suited for the courses were chosen.
Who did PATRIOTIC Australian GB "News" presenter Tom Wootton wheel out to fuel this absurd & misleading culture war non-story & "SLAM UNIVERSITIES FOR CENSORING OR BANNING BOOKS"? Fellow damaged Australian right-winger, Amanda Platell.
Who?
Well...
Who?
Well...
PATRIOTIC GB "News" - a channel which on Friday invited on a well known far-right activist who recently described the #Holocaust as "a lie", & is funded by overseas-based multimillionaires & billionaires. 🇬🇧
GB News - the far-right's propaganda channel!
GB News - the far-right's propaganda channel!
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Introducing Daily Mail columnist, Australian Amanda Platell.
"Pundits say the PM has a 50/50 chance of surviving. me? I'm so confident Boris will win the next general election I've had a large bet - a designer handbag - on it" - Platell in the Daily Mail, February 2022.
Introducing Daily Mail columnist, Australian Amanda Platell.
"Pundits say the PM has a 50/50 chance of surviving. me? I'm so confident Boris will win the next general election I've had a large bet - a designer handbag - on it" - Platell in the Daily Mail, February 2022.
From 1999 to 2001 Platell became the @Conservatives head of media, during which she supported William Hague.
Since 2002, Platell has contributed as a toxic, divisive, hard-right culture-war-fuelling freelancer to the Daily Mail, & is a regular on GB "News" & the #Marr show.
Since 2002, Platell has contributed as a toxic, divisive, hard-right culture-war-fuelling freelancer to the Daily Mail, & is a regular on GB "News" & the #Marr show.
On 21 November 2011, at the #LevesonInquiry into the culture, practice & (absence of) ethics of the British press, @HackedOffHugh Grant accused Platell of a "hatchet job" on his then recent fatherhood, following a shit-stirring toxic article she wrote for the Daily Mail.
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Before continuing,
always good 2 have
metrics at hand.
Dates
Places
People
Assholes
+
Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch
NoW
News of the World
Destroying Democracy
Mob Tactics
Phone-Tapping
Mob Tactics
So lets review.
Before continuing,
always good 2 have
metrics at hand.
Dates
Places
People
Assholes
+
Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch
NoW
News of the World
Destroying Democracy
Mob Tactics
Phone-Tapping
Mob Tactics
So lets review.
UK Phone Hacking Scandal Fast Facts
4-29-19
British newspapers
r accused of making payments
2 police + hacking N2 phones of:
celebrities
law makers
royalty
murder victims
Most cases involve
News Corp.'s News of the World,
Sun, DMG publications involved.
cnn.com/2013/10/24/wor…
4-29-19
British newspapers
r accused of making payments
2 police + hacking N2 phones of:
celebrities
law makers
royalty
murder victims
Most cases involve
News Corp.'s News of the World,
Sun, DMG publications involved.
cnn.com/2013/10/24/wor…
Let's note + begin w
British Monarchy
November 2005
British tabloid
News of the World
[NoW]
prints story about
Prince William
injuring knee,
prompting royal officials
2 complain 2 police
of probable voicemail hacking.
Phone Hacking = MobTactic
Murdoch's fall in bowl of soup.
British Monarchy
November 2005
British tabloid
News of the World
[NoW]
prints story about
Prince William
injuring knee,
prompting royal officials
2 complain 2 police
of probable voicemail hacking.
Phone Hacking = MobTactic
Murdoch's fall in bowl of soup.
