Below a Frank Rich article from 2011 that some how seems timely because Tom Crone has now been arrested and I keep wondering when will Colin Myler? Obviously I want Myler to be forced to step down as the head guy at the NYDN and guess why? Maybe we can get a liberal New Yorker and I will once again be allowed to comment. Don't worry, The NY Times often prevents me from commenting protecting Mike Bloomberg and his mini-me. I don't see much difference between The Times, The NYDN and The Post except The NY Post actually lets me comment! They are all protecting their own agendas and their mega rich pals as well as corrupt politicos protecting all of the above.
Scroll down to the bottom an excerpt on Colin Myler and 9-11.
Rich also gets in to Kerik and Regan having an affair by the open wound the burning WTC site in an apt that was meant to be for rescue workers not some entitled people having an adulterous affair.
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/murdoch-scandal-2011-8/index4.html
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/more-arrests-in-phone-hacking-scandal-as-inquiry-chief-preps-report-on-media-ethics/
Judith Regan was paid for silence and to settle her lawsuit....$10.75 million
"News Corp. has protested just as loudly in denying that it is guilty of hacking in the U.S.—a meaningless claim given the avalanche of evidence yet to be examined, including the long-suppressed Scotland Yard stash of six large trash bags with 11,000 pages of handwritten notes about nearly 4,000 potential News of the World hacking victims. Besides, it may depend on how you define hacking. As David Carr recently wrote in his Times column, a Murdoch division in the newspaper-advertisement-insert business, News America Marketing, was accused of hacking into a rival company’s password-protected computer system, stealing proprietary information and then spreading “malicious information” about that competitor. Embarrassing testimony in the ensuing federal trial in New Jersey was abruptly shut down when News Corp. paid out a $29.5 million settlement and then bought outright the tiny company that had brought the case. Rather remarkably, News America Marketing alone has shelled out roughly two-thirds of a billion dollars—nearly the domestic gross of Avatar—to settle similarly ugly suits under its chief executive, Paul Carlucci. Perhaps less remarkably, Carlucci not only remains in place but is so valuable to Murdoch that he’s done double-duty as publisher of the New York Post since 2005."
Among the first is the News of the World editor at the time of its closing, Colin Myler. He joined a departed longtime News Corp. lawyer, Tom Crone, in waiting only two days after the Murdochs’ parliamentary appearance to accuse James Murdoch of fictionalizing his ignorance of how widespread the hacking was when he authorized a $1.1 million settlement to one prominent hacking victim in 2008. Myler may also have information to share about Murdoch’s American operations. Before succeeding the now-arrested Andy Coulson as editor of News of the World in 2007, he spent some five years under Col Allan as a top editor at the Post.
Myler arrived in New York two months after 9/11, while the Post and Fox News were starting to turn the attack into a corporate franchise, zealously aligning their interests with the ambitions of that day’s local heroes, Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik, and, like them, appropriating ground zero as a brand at every conceivable opportunity. Should a single instance of 9/11 hacking emerge, the Murdochs would face a lynching party led by Republicans. But given that the charge was leveled with thin sourcing by the Daily Mirror, a scurrilous London tabloid in competition with News Corp., there well may be nothing to it. Myler might know.
He might also be able to fill in details about a still-murky 9/11 scandal that unequivocally did occur that fall: the extramarital affair that Kerik conducted with Judith Regan, a News Corp. publishing executive personally recruited by Murdoch, in an apartment originally intended for rescue workersand overlooking the smoldering ruins of ground zero. Kerik, though still police commissioner, was also on the Murdoch payroll then—having received a hefty advance from Regan for his memoir published that November, when the ground-zero trysts were going on.
ps forgot to mention Rudy Giuliani had 11 years to move the Emergency Command Center between the 2 terror attacks WTC and he did not -- he was able to package himself as a 9-11 hero and make 30 million dollars!
whopee.
Now we have a new 911 Tech system called ECTP another sham -- a billion 14 mill over budget 2 bill 14 million as in we were robbed -- welcome to the wonderful world of NY politics and the spin.....sham city.
NYC Sham City.
ps forgot to mention Rudy Giuliani had 11 years to move the Emergency Command Center between the 2 terror attacks WTC and he did not -- he was able to package himself as a 9-11 hero and make 30 million dollars!
whopee.
Now we have a new 911 Tech system called ECTP another sham -- a billion 14 mill over budget 2 bill 14 million as in we were robbed -- welcome to the wonderful world of NY politics and the spin.....sham city.
NYC Sham City.
