Quotes of the Week - Andrew Marr, Wayne Rooney, Playstation...
Apart from some wedding or other, this week's headlines have been dominated by super injunctions, data theft and phone-hacking. Here's what Andrew Marr, Ian Hislop, Wayne Rooney and others have had to say about it all...
"I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists.”
Says Andrew Marr, after admitting gagging journalists by taking out a super injunction.
"Originally Andrew Marr’s injunction said that not only could you not publish the story, but you could not publish the fact that he had an injunction. I thought this was a touch hypocritical since he’s written a piece specifically about privacy law in which he said judges should not determine privacy law, it should be determined by parliament."
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, who has poured money into challenging the gagging order, labels Marr a hypocrite.
"Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone. #bigsurprise."
Wayne Rooney tells his Twitter followers that he may be the latest victim of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
"Richard has been critical in the creation of BBC North and from the very beginning he was an untiring advocate for the move."
BBC North director Peter Salmon confirms that Richard Deverell, a key player in the BBC's move to Salford, is leaving on the eve of the relocation to return to London.
"We are very pleased that this long running legal dispute with STV has been settled by way of an £18m payment to ITV."
Adam Crozier, the chief executive of ITV, confirms that the broadcaster will receive a payout from Scottish counterpart STV following a long-running legal dispute.
"Unfortunately, while the blogs have found engaged local readerships and had good editorial impact, the project is not sustainable in its present form. So over the next month or so, we're going to be winding down the Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh blogs and retiring the local project."
Meg Pickard, head of digital engagement at the Guardian, confirms that the paper is canning its local news websites.
“We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network."
Nick Caplin, head of communications at Sony, confirms that the personal details of millions of its Playstation users have been stolen by hackers.
“It will be an expectation of the Council that it is not just going to be a few representatives from a few film and ad agencies in Soho. This has got to be truly representative of the creative industries in this country."
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg tells The Drum the new Creative Industries Council will be just as representative of agencies outside London as those inside the M25.
“It's extremely hard to fill senior jobs in the BBC and increasingly remuneration is a factor.”
Despite its executives receiving salaries of hundreds of thousands of pounds, BBC director general Mark Thompson says the corporation is struggling to attract senior talent because it cannot match their wage demands.
"We are formally writing to the FA and Premier League asking them to explain their rules for how Sir Dave Richards would have disclosed he had a personal interest in a company receiving contracts for paid work for England 2018 and the Premier League.”
Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins wants to know how contracts were awarded to Sheffield marketing agency Glue, which is owned by the son of Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards.
"We considered that the average consumer would infer from the claim 'Book to the sun now' and the image of the woman sunbathing, in a bikini, with a cocktail, that the promotion included fares to destinations warm enough to sunbathe in swimwear during the promotional period."
Advertising watchdog ASA bans a Ryanair ad telling holidaymakers to lap up some rays in those sun-drenched hotspots Glasgow, Oslo and Derry.