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LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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From the fake article: One detective elaborates. "Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle." I've got to give it to them, that's hilarious.

A box of vintage wine? I thought these were boxes of wine: http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OF...

That's the joke.

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Newscorp or LulzSec?

Both. But in that order.

Indeed. Too bad that so much useful information won't be digested b/c folks get more vicarious thrills reading about criminal acts. Too bad too that folks have to get off harming others irrespective of how they pretend to justify their actions. Yeah I know, grow some, get over it, that's life...

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Cameron's problem is that he hired former NoTW editor Andy Coulson to be his press secretary, and Coulson was forced to resign last January because of these hacking reports. Not only did he apparently approve of and even commission hacking while a newspaper editor, he hired a private investigator who had been jailed for trying to plant drugs on other people (to create a newspaper scandal) and who later turned out to…

The problem, as I see it, isn't the dodgyness, it's that the Lib Dems needs cover to back a vote of no-confidence. A vote of no confidence in a government you're part of is a big deal . If they vote no-confidence on the grounds that Cameron had meetings (even meetings ) and no hard evidence, then the only thing Cameron needs to do to absolutely end the LDs is to demonstrate how Labour also had meetings (News Intl wer…

All correct - that's why I think there's only a 20% likelihood of a showdown tomorrow. And the main reason I give it that percentage is the history of the Lib Dems dating back to the 80s; they've been willing to go through a schism before, and individual MPs might see a rebellion as the best chance of holding onto their seat, especially if they were already unhappy with the compromises forced on them in the coalition.

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It would have been a little more convincing if they'd bothered to use an apostrophe: Media Mogul's Body Discovered. Not to nitpick, but you want a media prank to work, you need to think like media people. They wouldn't forget punctuation.

The grauniad would. From wikipedia: "The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye.[109] This anagram played on The Guardian's reputation for frequent typographical errors, such as misspelling its own name as The Gaurdian."

Who would know (outside the UK)? Thanks for that. (Maybe the lack of apostrophe was on purpose!)
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