Quotes of the week - Facebook, Frankie Boyle, Richard Desmond

Facebook's PR people get techy about reports that the site is losing members.

"News International can confirm that Rebekah Brooks was recently shown documents by the police that proved she was a victim of illegal voicemail interception.”

A News International spokesperson suggests that the publisher's own chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, had her phone hacked by a private investigator working on behalf of News International title the News of the World.

"Her conduct in visiting the internet repeatedly was directly contrary to her oath as a juror, and her contact with the acquitted defendant, as well as her repeated searches on the internet, constituted flagrant breaches of the orders made by the judge for the proper conduct of the trial."

Lord Judge explains why Joanne Fraill, who caused a £6m drug trial to collapse by talking to one of the defendants on Facebook, has become the first person to be sent to prison for contempt of court for using the internet.

"The FA Cup is already a much-loved competition around the world and we look forward to building on that passion with Budweiser.”

Football Association general secretary Alex Horne unveils Budweiser as the first American sponsor of football's oldest cup competition.

“"He [Frankie Boyle] clearly works at the edge of taste but that is also the place where Channel 4 needs to be, but to be so in a responsible way. We obviously recognise that in that particular case a piece of humour that was contextualised in the programme late at night was then passed on in the media and out of context and did cause a reaction we had not intended."

Channel 4 boss David Abraham responds to criticism about an on-air joke made by controversial comedian Frankie Boyle.

"It was, it was so inaccurate because to me, I don’t know how many, I’ll probably be saying this til my dying day but you know, porn to me is illegal and we had magazines which were sold through WH Smith, John Menzies who were wholesalers in this country."

Porn baron Media mogul Richard Desmond, whose publishing portfolio has included Asian Babes and Horny Housewives, says it is unfair to call him a porn baron.

"Every newspaper is on a journey into some kind of digital future. That doesn't mean getting out of print, but it does require a greater focus of attention, imagination and resource on the various forms that digital future is likely to take."

The Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, unveils the newspaper's new 'digital first' strategy intended to combat losses of £33m last year.

"While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme. The trust would like to apologise on behalf of the BBC to Primark and to the audience at home for this rare lapse in quality."

The BBC Trust apologises to Primark after finding that an episode of Panorama, which investigated the retailer, contained child labour footage that was "more likely than not" unauthentic.

"Too many went too far with their reviews. We r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn't based on today's venom."

PR agency The Redner Group threatens video games reviewers on Twitter over their criticism of Duke Nukem, a new game it had been entrusted with promoting. Games publisher 2K fired the agency shortly after.

"I used a public forum to voice my complaints and I know better. I poured my soul into the project and when I read the review I felt like a father trying to protect his son. In hindsight, I should have approached the writer directly."

Humbled agency founder James Redner sees the error of his ways.