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Title: The rise and fall of Rupert Murdoch’s protege Rebekah Brooks
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Published: Jul 16, 2011
Author: Gordon Rayner, Daily Telegraph
Post Date: 2011-07-16 01:42:40 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON — Rebekah Brooks’s resignation on Friday brought to an end one of the most colourful and, ultimately, controversial careers in Fleet Street history. Treated almost like a daughter by her boss Rupert Murdoch, she was seen as “bombproof” even after the media mogul closed down the News of the World. As the billionaire and his prodigy walked away from the ruins of the most-read newspaper in the English-speaking world, he was still assuring her that her job was safe. But for those on the outside of News International looking in, the only surprise about her eventual demise was why it took her so long to pay the price for her complete failure to get a grip on the telephone hacking scandal. She had quit, she said, because her “desire to remain on the bridge” had made her a focal point for criticism of the company. Lord Prescott, whose reaction to her resignation had been “Thank God!”, was typically forthright as he demolished her reasoning. “I was a seafarer for 10 years,” he said. “I wouldn’t have liked her on the bridge if she didn’t know what was going on or where she was going and what direction, and that is why she has gone.” Mrs Brooks is expected to leave with a $1.5 million golden goodbye and millions more in shares, but the money is unlikely to make up for the loss of the power the 43 year-old had relentlessly pursued as she went from secretary to chief executive in less than two decades. Rebekah Wade, as she was until two years ago, was brought up near Warrington, Cheshire, and got her first job in Fleet Street in 1989 as a secretary at the News of the World, where her naked ambition quickly helped her move on to writing features for the newspaper’s Sunday magazine. From there she switched to a commissioning role and moved up the executive ranks until she was moved to the Sun to become deputy editor in 1998. Her ability as a journalist was equalled by her talent for networking. When she was still a secretary, she learned to ride because her boss was a keen rider, then took golf lessons so she could play with another key executive. Sailing lessons followed once she discovered that Murdoch was a sailor who keeps a yacht moored near his New York home. “That’s the way she operates,” said one former colleague. “She gets right under the skin of the people she works for and spends every hour of every day trying to advance her career.” She counted Tony and Cherie Blair as personal friends, was on the Prince of Wales’s guest list when he celebrated his 50th birthday and spent evenings at showbusiness parties accompanied by her then husband Ross Kemp, the actor, whom she married in 2002 following a six-year engagement. In 2000, aged just 31, she returned to the News of the World as its first female editor, and quickly courted controversy with a campaign to “name and shame” convicted paedophiles living in the community. The stunt provoked vigilante mobs and, some police officers said, wrecked investigations. But worse was happening behind the scenes. In 2002, following the disappearance of Milly Dowler, News of the World journalists asked a private detective to hack into the schoolgirl’s mobile telephone to listen to voicemail messages and allegedly delete some to make room for more. Brooks would later claim to have known nothing about it. What she did admit to knowing, when she moved to The Sun as its editor in 2003, was that her reporters had paid police officers for information. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP who was later a victim of telephone-hacking, believes that admission in itself, made before a committee of MPs, should have forced her resignation. She again became the story in 2005 when she was arrested for an alleged assault on Kemp at a time when The Sun was running a campaign against domestic violence. She was later released without charge. Murdoch seemed happy to forgive her lapses of judgment, and was also prepared to overlook the declining sales figures at the titles she edited: during her time at the News of the World sales fell by almost 170,000; in her six years at The Sun the tabloid lost 432,000 readers. Murdoch also had other things to worry about; in August 2006 Clive Goodman, the News of the World’s royal editor, and the private detective Glenn Mulcaire were arrested on suspicion of hacking the telephones of members of the royal household, for which they were jailed the following year. At the time, Brooks was not implicated in the scandal that forced the resignation of her successor, Andy Coulson. It left her clear to land her ultimate job, as chief executive of News International, in 2009. Her new job enabled her to network on an epic scale. When she married her second husband, the Old Etonian racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, in 2009, Gordon Brown and David Cameron were both wedding guests. Brooks’s promotion to chief executive of the newspaper group, however, meant she was now ultimately responsible for the company’s response to continuing allegations about telephone hacking. As an ever-increasing list of celebrities launched damages claims against the News of the World for intercepting voicemails, a fresh internal investigation unearthed incriminating emails which Brooks handed over to the Metropolitan Police in January. She might not have realised it, but she had effectively sealed her own fate — the Met had the evidence it needed to launch a new criminal investigation. Meanwhile, an offer of cash payments and an admission of liability to telephone hacking victims failed to stop the court actions. Yet it was only on July 4 that the crunch finally came. Mark Lewis, the solicitor acting for many of the hacking victims, announced that Milly Dowler’s telephone had been hacked by the News of the World during Mrs Brooks’s editorship. Brooks’s friend David Cameron described the disclosure as “truly shocking”. Rupert Murdoch flew to London to take personal charge of the mess that Mrs Brooks had failed to sort out, before his son James, the chairman of News Corporation, announced that the News of the World would cease publication after its next edition. The 200 News of the World staff who had been told they were out of a job were outraged when she did not resign; some accused Murdoch of sacrificing all of them just to save Brooks’s skin. Since then Coulson and Neil Wallis, Coulson’s former deputy, have been arrested and Brooks knew it was only a matter of time before she, too, was interviewed by detectives. But one source close to Mrs Brooks said the tipping point came on Thursday, when Elisabeth Murdoch broke rank and told friends Brooks had “f—— the company”. The Murdochs, it seemed, were finally turning against their protege. © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun Read more: www.vancouversun.com/life.../story.html#ixzz1SF81LUAz
Like Russia's Bolshevik Jews, Zionists in Israel, duals in America who don't care what happens to others, whether it's legal or not, as long as they get power, stolen territory or loot Brooks demonstrates that anything goes.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
So, Rebekah Brooks is a jew. That explains her rise to power under her jew mentor Murdoch.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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