God, those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

[headfairy]

apparently by deleting Milly's messages her family still had some hope that she might still be alive

Important to not let them think they have fooled us. The Sun should go aswell.

I think the not crying comment was more a reference that she knew this decision was taken days ago and that she knew it was a part of the process of protecting her. Nothing to do with her being a woman.

Could be wrong though...

(not sure why anyone would comment that RB wasn't crying.

Five Live have just reported that she was in tears while the statement was read, maybe that's why??

Wow. I await further developments. Interesting times indeed.

We should get everyone we know to buy it on Sunday - the proceeds are going to charity - and have a mass public burining of it.

Cunts.

And the poor honest fuckers, secretaries, cleaning staff etc will be out of a job while those guilty sheer corruption go unpunished and will relaunch.

Never Forget!

Sorry for typo..

It should be Mass BURNING!

With Efigies of the dark witch and wizard on top

And by fucking coincidence, The last Harry Potter premieres tonight!

It does stink, doesn't it? Shows just how cold-blooded and cynical these people are - prepared to sack a paper's staff to ensure RM gets BSkyB. And sweep up advertisers round the back. (Not that I'll shop with any of those who stayed with NOTW...)

Completely in agreement with the posts above. And remarkable how silent Cameron has been - if this had been the BBC (phone hacking grieving families, bribing the police, repeatedly lying to Parliament) they'd have lost the licence fee by now. And closing BBC2 wouldn't have saved them.

News International must hold the public in utter contempt.

yes Cameron is staying well out of it isn't he

apparently TheSunOnSunday.co.uk was registered on tuesday

will see if i can find anything about it, maybe it's just a rumor...

webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

you don't reckon, do you...?

Robert Peston mentions it in his blog - and he is best mates with the general manager of NI (why do the BBC not make him declare his interest)
AND
look up the domain names - all registered by the same company on the same day - Tuesday.

Excellent point madam. The stench around this is truly unbelievable. Agree Brooks must have something huge on RM. Oh how I would love to see his miserable empire topple (yes, I know that means more job losses but lots of them would be jobs like mine, badly paid and badly treated - senior staff will get redeployed or handsomely paid off). Actually, I'd like to see RM on trial and preferably imprisoned and our crappy little excuse of a government lose a vote of no confidence. Tesco's demise would be good too................ none of this will happen of course. Greed is like water and will always find a way

^catinthehat2 Thu 07-Jul-11 17:47:30

Coulson expected to be arrested soon^

Hopefully Rebekah Brooks won't be too far behind him.

And, while I am not standing up for corrupt journalists, lets not forget that the breaking of the unions by the Murdoch empire meant that journalists were left to stew in the pressure of headline production with noone to stand up for their rights if they had a bout of ethics. Yes clearly this argument doesn't stand in principle - the Nazi generals were shot after Nurenberg Trials despite their protestations that they were following orders.

But when are OUR leaders going to get a twinge of principles and go after the Hitler and Eva Braun?

Ah but change, I'm going set up MN's first ever bartering section. I will offer homegrown veg and honest homebaking. It will be lovely

And Tesco can go fuck themselves

There was a piece in the Independent I think today saying Cameron is too astute a PR man to let NI tarnish his image (but not obviously so astute that he didn't become bezzy mates with RB in the first place). I think RM/RB must have something pretty fabulous on him besides though for him to have waved the BSkyB deal through like this (delay, whatever, it will all go through eventually) and keep so schtuum.

I really am astonished that NI can lie repeatedly to Parliament (where is Les Hinton in all this?), there can be evidence that NI bribed the police, perverted the course of justice in a murder trial and an investigation into a missing girl, exploit the grief of families for financial gain and nothing is done about it bar some platitudes about an inquiry.

NI are entirely above the law.

Talkin Pesto is ex Sky so it's natural he would still have mates there, i don't see a huge conspiracy in his coverage. journos move between media companies and between journalism and PR, so if every journo was to list the companies they had worked with/for before every piece they wrote or voiced, we wouldn't have much time/space left for the actual story!

jm on BBC backing RB to the hilt.

Reports also coming in that the NUJ are planning two strikes in July on the 15th and the 29th

James Murdoch is completely unbelievable isn't he?

Must have been practising for this interview for ages, yet it still seems complete bollocks.

flippinada Those strikes aren't anything to do with the NoTW though...

Is that nothing to do with the NOTW....as in nudge nudge...?

"James Murdoch is completely unbelievable isn't he?"

Yup.

No, they're strikes against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. Absolutely nothing to do with NoTW.

and the people most vocal in lobbying for heads to roll at the bbc are..... oh yes....

glad our successive govts listen to such honest people

Well exactly... though perhaps the NoTW should have been a a bit more vigilent about Guardian journalists instead :o