Steven Barnett
@stevenjbarnett
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Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, author, broadcaster, retired classicist, consummate dad dancer.
London
Joined November 2012
ITV drama The Hack starts tonight. How Murdoch journalists hacked phones and broke the law for stories. UK press still free to break rules and ruin lives. Please sign petition for change. https://t.co/7zB5mrqT6g
you.38degrees.org.uk
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened...
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Absolutely shocking behaviour from @TheRAC_UKpatrolman. First wrongly demanded payment for new battery, then took new battery out and replaced it with flat battery - leaving our daughter stranded without a car. Rude, aggressive. Have made formal complaint, might interest@WhichUK
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My take on media ownership after this week's vote in the Lords to allow 15% foreign state investment in our news media (i.e. the Telegraph). For @ConversationUK:
theconversation.com
Foreign states will now be allowed to hold up to a 15% stake in British media.
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“These people need to be brought before a judge” @FranceskAlbs reacts to our film @warmfestival in Sarajevo, one of many of #GazaDoctorsUnderAttack. Now been screened & praised literally everywhere except by @BBCNews who praised it but didn’t screen it
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Its taken 18 months & it should have happened long ago, but finally @BBCNews has plucked up the courage to write clearly about Israeli War Crimes. RT now before they bow to pressure & retract it. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza https://t.co/3cgD0ZjzeZ
bbc.co.uk
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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"They should be ashamed of their silence." This is not a bunch of student protestors. This is the editorial board of the Financial Times.
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Inexcusable cowardice from @BBCNews. BBC hierarchy needs to grow a spine or stop pretending it's committed to fearless, independent journalism. This documentary will have taken guts from @Basement_Films and participants. BBC is now becoming complicit in hiding the truth.
Our @Basement_Films statement on the repeated and indefinite delays to our film for @BBCNews on the destruction of the Gaza health service; now shelved until a report into another film is completed. It has been delayed multiple times since January.
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Did Murdoch execs deliberately destroy millions of incriminating emails? https://t.co/z3MkkRMoSH
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Court document reveals accusations by former detectives, with one concluding NGN’s Will Lewis could have been arrested
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For @Ofcom. And for @lisanandy. Government must tell the regulator to do its job or sack its chairman.
A crude & extremist propaganda channel that is in serial breach of its legal obligations to observe due accuracy & due impartiality, that any serious journalist would be shamed by, and that @Ofcom really needs to crack down on.
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Prince Harry has taken us one step towards the truth, now it's up to police and government to hold the Murdoch press to account. My take for @ConversationUK: https://t.co/BccFEtBKT4
theconversation.com
Another court victory in Harry’s campaign to hold the press to account, but what are the broader implications?
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Sincerely hope that those who have spent years vilifying Prince Harry on the back of vicious tabloid press coverage will now begin to appreciate the concerted press effort to bully him and undermine his legal case. https://t.co/Y09BZQyEqq
standard.co.uk
Prince Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne branded The Sun a ‘criminal enterprise’ and called for a new police investigation
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"Prince Harry & Tom Watson join others in calling for the police and Parliament to investigate not only the unlawful activity now finally admitted, but the perjury and cover ups along the way."
🚨Statement on behalf of the Duke of Sussex and Lord Watson 22 January 2025 In a monumental victory today, News UK have admitted that The Sun, the flagship title for Rupert Murdoch’s UK media empire, has indeed engaged in illegal practices. This represents a vindication for the
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Worth reading the full statement read outside court. Prince Harry has done his job. Anyone who cares about journalism should now support the call for a proper investigation into cover up and perjury at News Group and its toxic culture.
The statement made by David Sherborne KC on behalf of Prince Harry and Tom Watson today says Murdoch’s NGN “unlawfully engaged more than 100 private investigators over at least 16 years on more than 35,000 occasions. This happened as much at The Sun as it did at the News of the
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Worth reading Tom Watson statement after his comprehensive victory against Murdoch's News Group. Especially tribute to Prince Harry for standing up to press bullies, and big questions at the end for police and Starmer.
Like every other person persecuted by News Group Newspapers, I wish they had left my family alone. But what happened, happened.
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This is crucial. If Murdoch's company now admits that the reason it gave to police for deleting emails was false, why did they delete them? Were they interfering with a police investigation?
The apology by Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers to Prince Harry and Tom Watson is important in a second sense. It concedes that the reason it gave the Met Police in 2011 for deleting millions of emails potentially relevant to the phone hacking investigation - namely that he was in
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It is worth two minutes of your time to read News Group Newspapers apology to Prince Harry and Tom Watson, in which for the first time the Murdoch organisation admits “unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for the Sun”. This is the first time the
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Prince Harry's barrister, David Sherborne, hails a 'monumental victory' as The Sun's owner issues a full apology for privacy breaches, declaring, "the time for accountability has arrived”
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This new report by @cfmmuk provides concrete evidence of the systematic anti-Muslim bias that pervades GB News. Surely time for @Ofcom to find a backbone and uphold the law on impartiality. https://t.co/5SdeJ9HAZ0
cfmm.org.uk
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Allegations of obstruction of justice against senior Murdoch execs being pursued by Met police into next year. https://t.co/S17NRgiqTQ
theguardian.com
Met continues to investigate Brown’s claims of misbehaviour within Murdoch group where ‘fake security threat’ was used to ‘justify’ deletion of emails
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Very powerful. Worth watching and listening to end.
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)
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