All Posts Tagged With: "Colin Myler"

The Many Lives of Myler

For a man who has spent so much of his professional career with one foot in the dung heap, it’s remarkable that News of the Screws editor Colin Myler has survived as long as he has.

In the last few weeks, he has had to pay the Madeleine McCann search fund for the gross (some would say criminal) breach of privacy and copyright in publishing extracts from Mrs McCann’s private diary, written at a time of overwhelming distress. They claimed they published the extracts in ‘good faith that we had Kate’s permission to do so.’

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The News of the World is indignant.

The News Of The World is indignant this Sunday about local authorities using surveillance techniques to catch Council Tax cheats. There’s always an enjoyable sense of the ridiculous to be had in seeing the Screws working themselves up into a righteous frenzy about someone else doing exactly what they’ve been doing – extensively and sometimes illegally – for years.

In their usual scrappy way, without naming one authority or citing any specific examples, they tell us that ‘Town Hall’ snoopers are using anti-terrorist powers to monitor mobile phone signals to see who is sleeping over with whom, and doing it regularly enough to nullify a single occupancy discount. They quote MP Eric Pickles “the country is walking into surveillance state where spying on citizens has become the norm.”

Yes – and more often than not by the News of the World.

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The Sun Sinks Lower

Those beneficent guys at News International have responded to the “Credit Crunch” (what hack was responsible for this beastly weasel?) in more ways than one.

Two weeks ago, Colin Myler, cuddly Lancastrian editor of the News of the Screws explained to a judge in the High Court that the reason they had chiselled their informant (Woman E) out of half her money for filming Max Mosley’s S&M session wasn’t that she failed to deliver any ‘Zieg Heil’ salutes, but as a result of the Credit Crunch.

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