Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, July 13, 2009

Murdoch Group Digs Itself Deeper

By Steve Hynd


This is funny. Murdoch's London Times produces a report on the Guardian's allegations that the Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid illegally hacked celebrities mobile phones but the article ends up reading like the "argument for the defense". Which is essentially that "it wasn't that bad and anyway, others did it too M'Lord." Most Brits will now follow the timeless advice of Sir Humphrey Appleby: "never believe anything until you've heard the official denial."


Then the Guardian notices that the Times article mentions, as definite victims, celebrities it hadn't already named itself - including the former commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police.



The names emerged as the Met said it had begun to contact people who allegedly had been the subjects of hacking by the tabloid newspaper, but warned that the process could take some time to complete. "We are not discussing who we are contacting at all," a spokeswoman said.


And droves of public names are beating a path to London lawyers' offices contemplating lawsuits.


Some free advice for Murdoch's News International: when you reach the bottom of the hole you're digging for yourself, throw the shovel out so the Guardian can bury you and the Conservative Party's current director of communications, who was editor at the News of the Screws at the time the hacking took place .



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