Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Rebekah Brooks Charged

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of News International’s defunct muckraking scandal-rag newspaper, the News of the World, has been charged with attempting to conceal evidence from police, hiding computers and documents and such in the hopes they would not be found, etc., in an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. But is this charge really fair? I don’t think she was trying to obstruct justice, so much as she was merely attempting to make investigators’ jobs more fun and interesting by playing “hide and go seek” with the evidence. It was for entertainment purposes only, and after running a tabloid newspaper for so long, Brooks probably out of habit tried to make everything appear like much more than it really is by orchestrating a fake cover-up for fun, just to make everything more exciting for everyone. After all, isn’t that what they always did with the news stories at the newspaper she used to run? And like that, I’ll bet it was simply intended as good-natured fun all around! (And you can’t blame her for that, now can you?) When this case is over, I’m sure we’ll all clearly see this was nothing more than a publicity stunt for her upcoming autobiography: Babbling Brooks: My Sensational Life Making the News of the World: Read All About It!

Here’s the sensational & scandalous story (Read all about it!):