{"id":182472,"date":"2015-09-08T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/08\/pass-the-popcorn-32\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:51:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/08\/pass-the-popcorn-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdXZdcC_KiE?rel=0\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Please Implicate Rupert \u2026\u2026\u2026 Pretty Please?<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Mark Hanna, who used to work security for Rebecka Brooks, the former (and current) head of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s newspaper publishing in the UK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/sep\/04\/rebekah-brooks-ex-security-boss-vows-to-blow-whistle\">has promised to blow the whistle on her<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The former head of security for Rebekah Brooks has said he will blow the whistle on Rupert Murdoch\u2019s UK newspapers, the day after it was confirmed she had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/sep\/02\/rebekah-brooks-return-tony-gallagher-sun-editor-rupert-murdoch\">re-hired as chief executive of News UK<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In a video uploaded to YouTube, Mark Hanna, who was acquitted last year along with Brooks and her husband, Charlie, of plotting to pervert the course of justice, claims he was \u201cextremely close\u201d and trusted by executives at News International and he now wanted to show how \u201cunderhanded\u201d they had been. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Hanna was the director of security at the company, now known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/newsinternational\">News UK<\/a>. Unlike Brooks, who received a payout of more than \u00a316m after resigning from News Corp in 2011 and has been reinstated, Hanna was made redundant after the trial and received \u00a330,000 from the company.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI am now standing up against those that sit back and treat us all with contempt \u2013 the Murdochs and Brooks of the world,\u201d Hanna said in a two-minute video released on Friday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Hanna, who is unemployed and living on benefits, said the decision by Murdoch to reinstate Brooks four years after the phone-hacking allegations and the closure of News of the World had infuriated him and many others.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He claims that during the trial at the Old Bailey he sat with Brooks, Andy Coulson, Ian Edmondson, Clive Goodman, Charlie Brooks, Cheryl Carter and Stuart Kuttner and witnessed what went on behind the scenes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cTo me, her previous director of group security, this is Murdoch\u2019s middle finger being shoved right in my face after standing trial with her, and others, in what was classed as the trial of the century during which it was widely accepted that I should never have been involved.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t expect anything to happen to any of the people at News UK, at least not while the Tories are running the government.  They are too close to Murdoch, as evidenced by the fact that Andy Coulson, who was deputy editor of the <i>News of the World<\/i> during the phone hacking, went on to be Tories Communication Director, and then Cameron&#8217;s Director of Communications after he won election.<\/p>\n<p>If Coulson becomes a disgruntled ex employee whistle blower, it could get \u2026\u2026\u2026 inconvenient \u2026\u2026\u2026 for Prime Minister Cameron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Implicate Rupert \u2026\u2026\u2026 Pretty Please? Mark Hanna, who used to work security for Rebecka Brooks, the former (and current) head of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s newspaper publishing in the UK, has promised to blow the whistle on her: The former head of security for Rebekah Brooks has said he will blow the whistle on Rupert Murdoch\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,969,974,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}