To think those boycotting anything to do with Murdoch are mugs

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what the hell do you think you will achieve. So far lots of journalists and all their support staff have been made unemployed. Do you want the people at Sky and all the other Murdoch companies in the UK to lose their jobs too. You are not punishing Murdoch you are purnishing largely innocent people. Get a grip.

in fact here, take the packet......

hahahahahaha

thanks, you have given me my first belly laugh of the morning

If there is a demand for their services then someone else will employ them.

i'm on a health kick, so no biscuits here - have this instead

Surely the fact he is having to spend billions propping up his company shows it is working...

Well, the boycott hasn't made lots of innocent people lose their jobs, that was fundamentally the responsibility of News International.

Cant do biscuit on my phone but have one. Those murdoch employees shou/d have thought about the ethics of their employer before taking the job.

I understand your sympathy with people who are now out of work and their families. Everyone knows that to lose your income is incredibly hard. However I think you have the wrong villain in the piece. Was it not Murdoch whose newspaper was involved in criminal activities and who fired his staff?

It wasn't me I assure you.

How rude!

It's up to individuals to spend their money as they wish. If they decide to boycott the group on principle then sobeit!

as an aside, I love 'fuckwit' as an insult.

Am i to assume you think Gordon Brown's son's medical records were fair game?

Aquired legally or not it was a repulsive act to ring him up and tell him they 'knew' and were running the story whether GB and his wife liked it or not.

The employees are collateral damage. It's up to their company to look after their welfare, redundancies etc. I wonder if the phone hacking was provable a while ago but was left till now to put the blockers on the Sky takeover? Murdoch is odious and I hope he doesn't get any more opportunities in the UK. Hopefully the employees have some rights which are being protected whilst they look for other jobs.

I agree with that, reeling, but it's unfair not to levy the same disdain at the public who salivates over this scummy slop. The quality of some people really does defy belief.

OP you are very silly. These people are going to recieve some form of financial settlement for loosing their jobs and if they are worth hiring, someone will take them on.

Why should everyone allow the disgraceful behaviour that goes on within this company to carry on just to hold on to the jobs of a few, when the impact of the attrocious actions of those who work within the company can have much wider reaching and awful effects on the public and the victims directly involved?

There is a morally responsibility for all of us to not allow this to continue.

I only wish people in this country put as much effort into boycotting other companies that cause atrocities outside of the UK that are connected to this country.

Beautifully put GOML

I don't hold the people who buy it with disdain.

It's up to them how they spend their money.

Just the likes of Rebecca Brookes (and others) who were in charge at the time.

my very first

It is sad that so many innocent people have lost their jobs but illegally accessing phones, medical records and lets not forget, DELETING missing peoples voicemails is wrong!

If this is a catalyst for the complete over-haul in how the media operates then sobeit.

Hope that the empire folds...and Rebekah and her like lose their jobs.

Their staying is making the situation worse.....

People might be more inclined to buy the papers if they thought that those higher up the chain (and ultimately responsible for the hackings) had been eradicated.

"People might be more inclined to buy the papers if they thought that those higher up the chain (and ultimately responsible for the hackings) had been eradicated."

yes

Plenty of newspapers are struggling to survive at the moment. If people have started buying them instead, that helps avoid further job cuts there. Murdoch is bad news even without the hacking - he has real power over our politicians, plus if you look at Fox News in the US, it is a very nasty pusher of right-wing propaganda.