Details Brooks cozy relationships
DPA
Rebecca Brooks, former executive of News International, was counted in the vibrant “harvest” of the relationship between the media and politicians, including text messages per week and “Lots of Love” sign-off.
Brooks, 43, was giving evidence to the inquiry headed by Justice Leveson that is trying to determine whether the close relationship between the media and politicians has been used to cover illegal practices as the phone-hacking in Britain. He said the prime minister, David Cameron, a personal friend, was indirectly sent him a text message of sympathy, when he quit his job at Rupert Murdoch’s News International for the completion a long phone hacking scandal last year.Advertising: The story continues below
The message was to the effect of “keep your head high,” and resigned to end his career of 23 years of News International, including news production, now gone tabloid Sunday World, and the mass circulation Sun daily. “He would sign DC (David Cameron), in the main proceedings” in relation to Brooks. Occasionally he would sign “lol” a lot of love. So I said what I meant “laugh”. Of course not make it. “” I’d like David Cameron, the text, and vice versa, sometimes, a lot of people, “said Brooks. Too much has been said of the alleged close relationship between the media and politicians he added.
Politicians of all parties had sought close ties with the media, he said. “If politicians are afraid of you?” Judge Brian Leveson asked. “I do not see politicians as people get scared easily, “she said.
had received similar messages of support from the Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, said Brooks, adding that he had met and had dinner with Blair at least 30 times between 1998 and 2007.
However, Brooks insisted that neither she nor the politicians who worked, never hiding the boundary between professional and personal relationships.
“I would never jeopardize my position as a journalist, and never compromised his political position,” he said. ” Both the press and politicians have a career first. “
a protégé of Mr. Murdoch, 81, the international media mogul, Brooks dismissed as” trivial “problems through research, that” I bought a dress and I went swimming with him. “However, he admitted that, through the power of media representatives, has played an “informal paper” in support of Murdoch’s attempt to seize total control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster British TV, in which Murdoch’s News Corporation holds a 39.1 per cent.
Brooks said that a “joint anti-Sky offer” was formed in Britain, led by the BBC and most newspapers. Murdoch withdrew the attempted acquisition in the heyday of piracy scandal last year.
The survey, among other things, trying to determine whether the government of Cameron, and especially Jeremy Hunt, the minister responsible for culture and media, has had an “inappropriate” to promote the offer before it collapses.
Hunt, who is also minister responsible for the Olympics is due to testify in the investigation in the near future. Cameron also expected to be called.
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