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Or something to that effect,..WTF was that about?!

'Sorry we're farmers' was the perfect response but geeez louise what a power trip from the doorman!

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A top Washington Post editor instructed editors Tuesday night not to promote a story about a controversy involving the paper’s new CEO Will Lewis.

On Tuesday, a court in the United Kingdom ruled that Prince Harry could introduce new amendments in a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. over phone hacking — including one alleging that Lewis, then an News Corp. executive, was involved in a plan to delete emails regarding the phone hacking after the scheme was revealed.

The Washington Post  a story about the ruling on Tuesday, detailing Lewis’ role and his denials of wrongdoing.

But in the hours after the story was published, editors sought to downplay it.

In an email to some staff Tuesday evening, newsletter chief Elana Zak issued a brief directive with the subject line “don’t distribute this story,” liking to Tuesday’s development.

“Please do not put this Prince Harry story in any of your newsletters,” she wrote.

The email contained no additional information explaining why the paper did not want the story included in its newsletters. The Washington Post did not respond to multiple inquiries about the decision Tuesday evening.

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While the yearslong lawsuit has not dominated headlines in the US, Lewis’ appointment to the top job at the Washington Post and recent court filings have revitalized interest in the story in media circles. Prince Harry and 40 other plaintiffs have  that Lewis attempted to cover up executives’ role in the scandal by helping to justify the erasure of emails that could have contained details about the scandal. Lewis has denied wrongdoing publicly and to the Washington Post newsroom, and said that he was brought in after the scandal to “put things right.” He told staff he.

Lewis, the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, replaced outgoing CEO Fred Ryan in November, with a promise to modernize the paper’s newsroom and stem recent business losses. Tuesday’s ruling is also awkward timing for Lewis, who is slated to unveil the latest part of the company’s new “Build It” strategy at a company-wide town hall scheduled for Wednesday morning, which he  in an interview with Semafor last year.

1. Wealthy, weirdo defendant

2. Multiple crimes alleged

3. Both have gotten away with horrible things throughout their whole lives

4. Defendant's highly implausible denials of having committed the crime they're accused of

5. Defense attorneys have an unpredictable, difficult to control client

6. Both chose less than stellar counsel

7. Both called witnesses for the defense that were more harmful than helpful

8. Both thought they could outsmart the jury

9. Neither proffered a strong defense theory

10. Contemporaneous documentary evidence contradicts the defendant's claims

Anything else?

LONDON (AP) —  can’t expand his privacy lawsuit against The Sun tabloid’s publisher to add allegations that  and some other executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering, a London judge ruled Tuesday.

The decision by Judge Timothy Fancourt in the High Court was a mixed ruling for the Duke of Sussex in one of his three  he has brought in his ongoing battles against British tabloids.

Fancourt allowed the prince to include allegations that his phone was tapped and add claims against other journalists and private investigators that he and other claimants say used unlawful means to snoop on them for scoops.

But he rejected Harry’s efforts to expand the case beyond the period from 1996 to 2015 to include claims of eavesdropping on his mother, the late Princess Diana, in 1994-95, and digging up private information on his now-wife, actor Meghan Markle, in 2016.

Fancourt said allegations that Murdoch “turned a blind eye” to wrongdoing added nothing material to claims made against News Group Newspapers, or NGN. The judge said those claims already include “trusted lieutenants,” naming Murdoch’s younger son, James Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks, who was editor at the defunct News of the World and The Sun.

The judge said some of Harry’s efforts to blame additional executives were to further a political agenda.

“There is a desire on the part of those running the litigation on the claimants’ side to shoot at ‘trophy’ targets, whether those are political issues or high-profile individuals,” Fancourt wrote. “Tempting though it no doubt is for the claimants’ team to attempt to inculpate the man at the very top, doing so will add nothing to a finding that Ms. Brooks and Mr. James Murdoch or other senior executives knew and were involved, if that is proved to be the case.”

Books is chief executive officer of News UK, a division of News Corp. media holdings that controls The Sun and The Times among other publications. James Murdoch resigned from News Corp. in 2020.

Rupert Murdoch, 93, was executive chairman of News Corp. and director of its subsidiary, News International, now News UK, which was NGN’s parent when News of the World folded. Murdoch  last fall as leader of both Fox News’ parent company and his News Corp.

Both sides claimed victory in the ruling that precedes a trial scheduled early next year.

Fancourt said that it was a split victory with the defense gaining an edge on the issues argued. He ordered Harry and other claimants to pay a third of NGN’s costs spent litigating the proposed amendments.

News Group said it welcomed the decision, saying it vindicated its position that new “wide-ranging” and irrelevant allegations be excluded from the case.

The claimants said in a statement that they were pleased the judge allowed many of the amendments that had been “vigorously opposed by NGN.”

The company issued an unreserved apology in 2011 to victims of voicemail interception by the News of the World, which closed its doors after a . NGN said it has settled 1,300 claims for its newspapers, though The Sun has never accepted liability.

The three-day hearing in March included claims against NGN by others, including actor , who accused The Sun of tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him.

Since then, Grant said he had reluctantly agreed to accept “an enormous sum of money” to settle his lawsuit.

Grant said he had to settle because of a court policy that could have stuck him with a huge legal bill even if he prevailed at trial. A civil court rule intended to avoid jamming up the courts would have required Grant to pay legal fees to both sides if he won at trial but was awarded anything lower than the settlement offer.

Attorney David Sherborne has suggested that Harry may have to settle for the same reason.

Harry has a similar case pending against the owner of the Daily Mail.

Last year, he  when Fancourt found phone hacking was “widespread and habitual” at Mirror Group Newspapers. In addition to a court judgment, he settled remaining allegations that included his legal fees.

She was a big part of S2 with the TB disaster.. wondered if that's still the case?

I hope it’s not true, he is a mainstay. He has experience and he is funny. Jeremy relies on him. It said he wanted to own his own block of farmland but again I didn’t read it properly as I saw it while traveling and got car sick and then couldn’t find it again.

Has there been no new episodes on the MT page in two weeks? This sucks, it's my favorite streaming service. Is it not doing well on Discovery +?

Why was colonia dignidad mentioned in S3? I can’t remember the episode or the context. Does anyone know?