News Of The World - How delightful!

Flash In The Pan said:
I wonder what will will be next to fall....... The Sun hopefully :D
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hah, good luck with that... since notw went tits up, that's going 7 days inc The sun on sunday, or whatever awful name they can come up with...

Hopefully the Mail.

Not owned by murdoch or his cronies, and utterly unrelated... but just so, so awful :D
 
itsdavedotnet said:
hah, good luck with that... since notw went tits up, that's going 7 days inc The sun on sunday, or whatever awful name they can come up with...

Hopefully the Mail.

Not owned by murdoch or his cronies, and utterly unrelated... but just so, so awful :D
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There are rumblings that if killing off the NOTW hasn't put this behind them that they'll simply close their remaining British print operations as they don't really contribute much to the over all business in the grand scheme of things....
 
Flash In The Pan said:
There are rumblings that if killing off the NOTW hasn't put this behind them that they'll simply close their remaining British print operations as they don't really contribute much to the over all business in the grand scheme of things....
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the other option, indeed, murdoch could just run as fast as his little legs could carry him away from the UK. Either way, any of the papers could (and hopefully would) find a buyer... otherwise there's gonna be a LOT of unemployed journos and snappers out there :(
 
itsdavedotnet said:
the other option, indeed, murdoch could just run as fast as his little legs could carry him away from the UK. Either way, any of the papers could (and hopefully would) find a buyer... otherwise there's gonna be a LOT of unemployed journos and snappers out there :(
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Therein lies the rub, like it or not, print is a dying medium and Murdoch jnr doesn't place a lot of value on it.
 
I vote BBC buys the Times and turns it into a print edition of BBC news.... *dreams*
 
more likely murdoch buys the bbC and turns it into the televisual equivalent of NOTW - newsreaders strip in between stories *nightmares*
 
big soft moose said:
more likely murdoch buys the bbC and turns it into the televisual equivalent of NOTW - newsreaders strip in between stories *nightmares*
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You mean you've never heard of Naked News? I'll not link to it as it's a definite NSFW! :eek:
 
big soft moose said:
more likely murdoch buys the bbC and turns it into the televisual equivalent of NOTW - newsreaders strip in between stories *nightmares*
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Now you're talking about Murdoch's dreams... :D


Or more his taste, he buys up enough of the tory party that the bbc gets its budget slashed and destroys itself, leaving them to bring fox news v2 to the UK...


Tomorrow's guardian front page: "let's call the whole thing off"
http://twitpic.com/5pon8n
 
Brooks has gone, good. Ulrika-ka-ka in the news today saying the Mirror was hacking phones to, though its not been covered much, probably because its trendy to dislike murdoch, while the mirror never has been
 
The Mirror were equally as naughty as News Int, just a fraction more selective with their targets.
 
The Beeb taking over The Times you got to be taking the p*ss, they're useless.

I'm sure loads of people would want to see Britain's best selling newspaper go tits up (The Sun).

The British Press is something we should be proud of having, not all countries have a free democratic press. However, what happened was indefensible and bad practice needs to be stamped out.

Print probably is dying but it's far from dead.
 
While I agree entirely that the NOW, and it's leading players should fall on their swords, I do worry that it may become payback time from the politicians , with our 'free' press becoming totally emasculated, with populist campaigns/investigative journalism becoming a thing of the past. Such issues like the MP's expenses scandal, thalidomide campaign, cash for questions, Watergate, the utter mess that is FIFA, the 'Great & Good' with questionable or wandering libido's , the list goes on and on, and most of them used methods and means of uncovering the truth that the News of The World is being severely criticised for now. The difference being (IMO) is that the NOW lost the trust of the people, so had to go.

Although I never read the NOW, I still feel a little sad in it's passing, it was part of the fabric of the UK, like it or loath it, you couldn't ignore it.

If we are not careful, the outcome of all this could be a press that is so restricted, that they will be afraid to say boo to a goose, and we will all be poorer for it.
 
I'm not sure any of us think that Murdoch is the only one using such tactics, and I agree they may be necessary to expose the "bad guys". Where the NotW went wrong was that they crossed a line when they hacked victims and their families for a cheap and nasty "exclusive" and I just find that inexcusable.
 
Les McLean said:
While I agree entirely that the NOW, and it's leading players should fall on their swords, I do worry that it may become payback time from the politicians , with our 'free' press becoming totally emasculated, with populist campaigns/investigative journalism becoming a thing of the past. Such issues like the MP's expenses scandal, thalidomide campaign, cash for questions, Watergate, the utter mess that is FIFA, the 'Great & Good' with questionable or wandering libido's , the list goes on and on, and most of them used methods and means of uncovering the truth that the News of The World is being severely criticised for now. The difference being (IMO) is that the NOW lost the trust of the people, so had to go.

Although I never read the NOW, I still feel a little sad in it's passing, it was part of the fabric of the UK, like it or loath it, you couldn't ignore it.

If we are not careful, the outcome of all this could be a press that is so restricted, that they will be afraid to say boo to a goose, and we will all be poorer for it.
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you're right Les, its the excuse the politicians have been looking for to clamp down on the press.
 
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Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems,
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:shrug:
 
He also said he had been injured the previous weekend while taking down a marquee erected for a children's party. He said he had broken his nose and badly injured his foot when a relative accidentally struck him with a heavy pole from the marquee. :thinking:
 
photon said:
He also said he had been injured the previous weekend while taking down a marquee erected for a children's party. He said he had broken his nose and badly injured his foot when a relative accidentally struck him with a heavy pole from the marquee. :thinking:
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Reminds me of....

"he ran round the corner straight into the knife, 14 times, backwards...."
 
Looked well dippy on his interview with Panorama this evening.
 
......and Brooks' husband has been trying to reclaim a bag containing a laptop and phone handed into the Police after it was found dumped near their flat. :suspect:

Shame the NotW is no more, this is turning into just their kind of story :lol:
 
It's more of a Daily Sport sort of comedic farce!

Not much point in hoping they'll publish it either! :lol:
 
oh good lord this saga is getting amazing now... Lulzsec provided some MINT entertainment tonight, twitter's been hilarious to keep up with.

All UK news int online presence other than sky is currently offline...
www.thetimes.co.uk
www.thesun.co.uk
www.newsinternational.co.uk


And the best bit, and the most fitting, is how quickly this story keeps moving, now without really much extra input from the traditional media (though the guardian did a sterling job at the start). Stories breaking constantly online and being out of date by the time they hit the printing presses...
 
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Strange watching an entire political structure and the media landscape of an entire country blow up over the space of a couple of weeks.

Lulzsec are promising to release some NotW internal emails tomorrow... should be a giggle.

something tells me a few full page ads in the metro begging forgiveness won't quite cut it though murdoch...
 
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This coming afternoon should provide some good entertainment, assuming the Murdochs don't get hit by a meteorite on their way there :lol:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
This coming afternoon should provide some good entertainment, assuming the Murdochs don't get hit by a meteorite on their way there :lol:
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or suddenly get 'too busy' with other stuff, won't be busy washing their hair...

Rebekah's arrest timing was fascinating - as far as I understand it, because she's been arrested, she now has the right to No Comment everything that the select committee asks her, whereas before she was compelled to answer to them. Hmmm.
 
itsdavedotnet said:
or suddenly get 'too busy' with other stuff, won't be busy washing their hair...

Rebekah's arrest timing was fascinating - as far as I understand it, because she's been arrested, she now has the right to No Comment everything that the select committee asks her, whereas before she was compelled to answer to them. Hmmm.
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Yeah, convenient that.......;)
 
Sunday Mirror now being accused of this by previous employees. Come on you guys who stood around with pitchforks and torches when NOWT was first exposed, lets have you, Trinity Mirror is the target. what? No Rupert Murdoch there so no interest?
 
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