News International and Pottergate

[rebness]

This is a story that happened in the chaos surrounding September 2001, which was buried by News International and has recently come to light. Twitter went mad for it yesterday and I still cannot wrap my mind around it, the story is that insane.

Ladies and gentlemen, have News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks at her most insane, power-tripping best: 
 

'So, at that time, [when] we were working on the assumption that up to 50,000 people had been killed, I was required to parade myself around morning conference, dressed as Harry Potter.'

Harry Potter and 9/11 totally linked? News International thinks so.

 

 

Comments

[ukashi-goshi.livejournal.com]

Oh you cruel woman, you spring something this brain-breaking on me before I've had coffee? I kept checking to see if I was looking at the Onion.

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, is it April Fools day. That's for fecking real?

[hystree.livejournal.com]

What am I reading...

[jadedscorpion.livejournal.com]

That's for real? Why on earth would he need to dress up like that anyway?

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

This will never not be funny. :D

[pandorasblog]

I know the story is being seen as a bizarre/funny wrinkle in the NotW collapse with bonus 9/11 content, but I actually find it far more interesting as a window on industrial relations: a member of staff being subject to spurious and humiliating tasks, who is so stressed that he is signed off work, then gets CONSTANT harrassing calls from various members of staff asking him to reiterate the circumstances that led to his illness over and over.

It reminds me far too much of things friends have told me about how their employers treated them when they were signed off with stress and other problems...