J.K. Rowling testifies at the Leveson Inquiry: British Phone-Hacking Scandal (November 24, 2011)

J.K. Rowling speaks before the Leveson Inquiry, addressing the troubling relationship between the British press and public privacy. Rowling recounts deeply personal experiences of media intrusion, sharing how reporters targeted her family, invaded her home, and how even one of the manuscripts from her book was stolen from the printers.
This program was aired on C-SPAN 2.
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[@theafaith23]

Central to all these intrusions was resentment at her success, ignoring the fact that she earned it. And she made a vital point: the damage done cannot be retracted. It's permanent. I applaud and admire her courage and tenacity.

[@joancooney7724]

What,her success at bullying young people with disabilities…..shame on the U.k and anyone else that supports her

[@jkrowlingk2]

Hey dear are you a big fan of jkrowlings work

[@SE-ve9gx]

J.K. Rowling is an absolute moral heroine. One of the wisest, strongest, and greatest of our time.

[@abeltesfaye_]

Couldn't be further from the truth

[@jkrowlingk2]

Hey dear are you a big fan of jkrowlings work

[@storminight]

Love this woman. More people need to stand on principle.

[@tabbymoonshine5986]

She is a vile bigot, entirely ideologically captured, spends her time in her mouldy castle demonising a minority who affects her NOT one jot.

[@soulfoodie1]

Exactly

[@Fiskene]

More people need to allow other people to live their own lives.

[@joancooney7724]

J.k. Rowling should not be a parent after making fun of a Disabled young man (Tim Walz ) son…she’s a disgrace to the U.K

[@ravens-crypt]

@@joancooney7724 proof please

[@cshaf0812]

What a wonderful and brave woman and mother. There is nothing more pure than a mother who seeks to protect her children from the avaricious press and the horrors of this world. God bless and protect her and her family 🙏

[@abeltesfaye_]

Being transphobic doesn't make someone "brave" 💀

[@jkrowlingk2]

Hey dear are you a big fan of jkrowlings work

[@alexandragrace8164]

Thanks for sharing! Glad the Rowling Library is archiving her long history of being a champion for human rights! ❤

[@simeridraws]

Agree!!

[@carolynmcmickle6728]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheRowlingLibrary]

Thank you very much!

[@soulfoodie1]

Thsnk you for this. It is important to reflect on what Rowling and her fdmiy has had to deal with ftom very early on . She speaks with auch clarity and integrity here . Love how she has always protected her family

[@simeridraws]

This was fascinating to listen to

[@stanislavabanova2]

A true deep cut😁How you keep finding these gems is beyond me👏

[@TheRowlingLibrary]

Thank you very much! :-)

[@stanislavabanova2]

@@TheRowlingLibrary Thank YOU for all your wonderful work!

[@Ahmet_Koctar]

This woman had enough trouble for a lifetime. Leave her at peace.

[@jillyjoan8416]

She's volunteering the evidence, let's hope it's not abused or buried. Pray for this lioness' safety.

[@ravens-crypt]

This was in 2011 plus she has the courage of Gryffindor and the hard work ethic of Hufflepuff and the wisdom of Ravenclaw and the cunning of Slytherin on her side so she can handle it

[@org6760]

Please, post more old interviews by JKRowling from the Harry Potter years, please, please

[@PEGGLORE]

She's so super awesome. We share synchronicities and wish to meet her. I was born on her 15th birthday, whilst she was caring for her ill mum. My grandad died 6 years later on her 21st birthday, on my 6th birthday. Have to write a best selling book in my new flat, like her..

[@anna-a33]

I LOVE this channel! Where do you get these from? Thank you❤

[@TheRowlingLibrary]

Glad you like them! It's from our personal archive.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

❤ J K Rowling

[@robertmiller2173]

Thanks J.K. Greatly appreciated, Cheers. Thanks again, many of us suffer from depression. Your works are great….You are great but like us all, we are all Human. Anyway Thanks for everything!

[@alexagaba284]

She seems to me a very likeable person..

[@GeorgeFloyd2023]

The Buggles lead singer? Is that his real stage name, prior to the invention of the internet? How weird. It conjures Instant memories for me. "Can you hear me now", AT&T?

[@jillyjoan8416]

Authorize a photo session, charge the hell out of it for publishing rights, and pour the money into fighting against transitioning kids.

[@davidlixenberg5999]

This was a very worthwhile statement. It is slow at the start. David Lixenberg

[@Sapan-b4v]

I want a tip from you that the story is in my mind of whole novel but why it is so difficult to express it on writing,is it my laziness or else?

[@GeorgeFloyd2023]

How does a healthy 23-year-old man (Trevor in 1990) get unemployment? Aren't they obligated to take whatever is offered? And meanwhile, I was working 7 days/week then.

[@koenhughes9267]

Certainly, if we were living in Soviet Russia, where you got what you were given, or else.

[@pinxtownington4645]

Don't say it too loudly, looking at statistics there is a section of society who lives in council houses women don't work and guess who pays the bill all their lives muggings like you and me

[@koenhughes9267]

@@pinxtownington4645 So to you the problem isn't super rich individuals and worldwide corporations not paying their taxes, corrupt politicians taking backhanders and cutting social welfare, endless wars and anti British aliens getting special treatment to the detriment of society, but the real problem is single women living in slums wanting state money so they can feed their kids. Get a grip son.

[@EaDeganawida]

💛

[@electron-Volt]

An elegant, intelligent woman of character. I absolutely love her.

[@Alzerwozere08]

Thank you for publishing! I searched for this inquiry years ago and was convinced I'd imagined it. Great snapshot of JK's career in the 2010's and the live concerns on British media culture 🗞️

[@GeorgeFloyd2023]

Have you ever even read the Harry Potter series?

[@GeorgeFloyd2023]

24/7? January 25, 41 AD: Just act very crazy (deserving of benefits unlike all of those fakers on chronic unemployment) and very non-gay/macho, and you might survive this day, Caesar Claudius.

[@phwbooth]

What a lady!

[@JudeRevolution-c1l]

LOOK A TRANSPHOBE ... 🙄🙄🙄

[@gnostic268]

What a joke. JK presenting herself as a victim.

[@MarinaE-mo2wy]

For those reading the idiotic comment above, JKR was one part of the huge Levenson Inquiry in 2011 into the tactics of the UK gutter press and Rupert Murdoch that includes the tactics Rowling recounts along with phone tapping and bugging. There were many well known UK celebrities involved including Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan. Anyone who gives a shit about the behaviour of the mainstream media understands the significance of it. "Why is this project important? The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press was the most public and wide-ranging inquiry of its kind in British history - a reflection of the central role of news and journalism in modern society. Witnesses included five prime ministers, leading proprietors and editors, journalists, celebrities, judges and victims of wrongdoing, and their testimony was seen live by large audiences online and on television. The rise of ‘fake news’ and the accelerating decline of print have ensured that the Inquiry’s important work on press freedom, responsible media and safeguarding remains as topical as ever - yet the archive content has remained inaccessible to many. It had been structured according to a logic that made sense for a live inquiry, but that logic no longer applied and the site became increasingly bewildering. It did not help that for some time there was no search tool at all. This precious resource was crying out for new thinking, new signposting and new explanatory material to guide the reader impartially through the issues - and for the best search tools. Discover Leveson delivers those. Two years in the making, Discover Leveson is a new, fully searchable and freshly curated online public archive, ensuring that any reader, from the professional to the casual, can now tap into this rich resource easily and even enjoyably. In this way, the efforts of the Inquiry and of those who gave evidence will not be wasted, and there is a greater chance that its primary mission - learning lessons for the future regulation of journalism - will be fulfilled. The archive is of great historical significance, capturing a picture of Britain’s 300-year-old print press industry in the final period of its power. But the main task of the Inquiry was forward-looking, addressing questions that remain pressing today and will do so into the future. How can the public interest be defined, and by whom? When might journalists be justified in intruding into someone’s privacy? When does partisanship compromise accuracy? Can regulators be truly independent? Can journalists be compelled to accept a regulator’s authority without creating a form of censorship? What is the proper role of politicians in the regulation of journalism and how far are they subject to improper influence from by editors and proprietors? Working with the National Archives and partners the SDS Group, the David & Elaine Potter Foundation and the Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust, Kingston University has designed a free, fully searchable, intuitively curated resource, putting this rich archive of material in easy reach of the general public, and also of researchers and professionals across journalism, communications, law, history, politics, criminology and other fields." discoverleveson.co.uk/home/aboutproject

[@SladeL]

Because being a victim is your sacred identity of course.

[@ravens-crypt]

So it okay for the mainstream media to invade the privacy of a family Because of one member is a well known person like that if this was anyone else you would say no and you would definitely be saying no if it was someone you know on a personal level just because you disagree with JKR doesn’t mean you get to choose who’s the victim in this case the evidence does that alongside testimony does. Act accordingly and think to your age not your shoe size .

[@al81yoo]

@agnostic268 , do you realise what she is talking about? If so, and you don't see her as a victim here, then you are condoning gutter journalism and phone hacking. Please choose your words more carefully.

[@PumpkinMozie]

I respect the trials she’s been through and some of the treatment she’s received is truly despicable. But it also amazes me that this seemingly sensitive, intelligent woman who went through all this then turns around and cyber-bullies an innocent female athlete with no evidence, to the point where people were demanding to see this poor woman’s private body parts? A woman who was born and lived her whole life in a country where gender-affirming care is nonexistent? A country where she could be jailed, assaulted, or even murdered over these false accusations? That’s not the JKR I grew up admiring. She has turned into the kind of person she used to stand against. It hurts my heart.

[@sclark9011]

woke wankers always twist the truth. Please stop the woke nonsense and stop twisting the truth

[@daisycaltha6561]

I am glad not living in Algeria, where free speech in limited. You are a little bit confused. Nobody wants to see Imane Khelif's privat body parts!! J.K. Rowling does neither mind men with DSD (Disorders of Sex Development; XYY, XXY etc.) nor transpeople at all. Rowling only fights for fairness for women and girls: Women's safe spaces such as sport categories, women's prisons, women's/girls' locker rooms and shower rooms, shelters for battered women, etc.. The IBA disqualified Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting during the women's boxing World Championship 2023. The IBA said, that these athletes are males, having XY-chromosomes and hight testosterone levels (blood tests). The world knows that the IBA is a corrupt Russian organisation, but the tests were carried out by an independent laboratory.!! Both athletes accepted the disqualifications, even if Khelif was almost winning the gold medal! Probably the two athletes did not take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), because they wanted the medical tests and their results kept private; so, they were able to attend the Olympic Games and go on with their cheat, because they knew, that the IOC does not do DNA tests and testosterone tests for boxers. Khelif's father showed Imane's birth certificate to the press. The certificate is dated 2018!! That implies, that Imane has DSD, and the midwife or gynaecologist could not determine the sex of baby Imane just by the look of his body. That is not a rare situation. It happens rather often, that baby boys are born with DSD and then, because of their external appearance are brought up as girls. But then comes the puberty, the Y-chromosome kicks in and it brings the awareness to those children (no breast growing, no menstruation, big hands and long arms, wide shoulders, less body fat, big muscles, dense bones ect.). Depending of the variety of the DSD, those teenagers, advised by their doctors, then decide, which way they want to live on their life, /pretending to be women or being plain men with DSD. I do not know anybody, who said Khelif is a transwoman, but he's probably a man with DSD (XYY or XXY). - The Y-chromosomes gives people having it an advantage over women (XX) in sports. (e.g. Caster Semenya and others) and therefore it is unfair for men with DSD (and men/transwomen too) to compete against women in sports. By the way, Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, had to resign. - DNA test for female athletes have to be carried out once, to safe women's sports!!!

[@daisycaltha6561]

I am glad not living in Algeria, where free speech in limited. Dear PumpkinMozie, you are a little bit confused. Nobody wants to see Imane Khelif's privat body parts!! J.K. Rowling does neither mind men with DSD (Disorders of Sex Development; XYY, XXY etc.) nor transpeople at all. Rowling only fights for fairness for women and girls: Women's safe spaces such as sport categories, women's prisons, women's/girls' locker rooms and shower rooms, shelters for battered women, etc.. The IBA disqualified Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting during the women's boxing World Championship 2023. The IBA said, that these athletes are males, having XY-chromosomes and hight testosterone levels (blood tests). The world knows that the IBA is a corrupt Russian organisation, but the tests were carried out by an independent laboratory.!! Both athletes accepted the disqualifications, even if Khelif was almost winning the gold medal! Probably the two athletes did not take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), because they wanted the medical tests and their results kept private; so, they were able to attend the Olympic Games and go on with their cheat, because they knew, that the IOC does not do DNA tests and testosterone tests for boxers. Khelif's father showed Imane's birth certificate to the press. The certificate is dated 2018!! That implies, that Imane has DSD, and the midwife or gynaecologist could not determine the sex of baby Imane just by the look of his body at birth. That is not a rare situation. It happens rather often, that baby boys are born with DSD and then, because of their external appearance are brought up as girls. But then comes the puberty, the Y-chromosome kicks in and it brings the awareness to those children (no breast growing, no menstruation, big hands and long arms, wide shoulders, less body fat, big muscles, dense bones ect.). Depending of the variety of the DSD, those teenagers, advised by their doctors, then decide, which way they want to live on their life, /pretending to be women or being plain men with DSD. I do not know anybody, who said Khelif is a transwoman, but he's probably a man with DSD (XXY ect.). - The Y-chromosomes gives people having it an advantage over women (XX) in sports. (e.g. Caster Semenya and others) and therefore it is unfair for men with DSD (and transwomen too) to compete against women in sports. By the way, Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, had to resign. - DNA test for female athletes have to be carried out once, to safe women's sports!!!

[@daisycaltha6561]

How dare you to threaten J.K. Rowling with assault or murder, in case she visits your country (Algeria?)! Concerning the IBA statement, Imane not filing a lawsuit with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and Imane's birth certificate from 2018, Rowling is right claiming Imane is a man (with DSD?) with an advantage over women in sports and taking away a real women's admission to compete!

[@dra2033]

this “innocent female” athlete has XY chromosomes and testosterone levels typical for a male of the same age. Even her boxing coach concedes this, but still insists that Khelif is a woman.

[@joancooney7724]

J.k. Rowling, bullied Tim Walz son who has a disability………you must be proud of yourself Rowling

[@pickepoopy]

Did that really happen - I can’t find evidence of this anywhere?

[@marcinpawlik4474]

I used to admire her so much. These days watching her descend into madness is much more entertaining than any of her derivative books ever were. She is a perfect example of someone who made the mistake of believing they were special and who consequently wound up believing they could never be wrong. Taking herself a bit too seriously. It is a shame though. Like I said, we need heros in our very mundane lives. Too bad she is not one.

[@pete-k9h]

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