News Of the World has folded

[headfairy]

Only reuters confirming it at the moment, but this sunday will be the last edition of the paper...

[bitzermaloney]

Coulson to be arrested tomorrow, apparently, and another person at News International in the next few days. Says the Guardian.

[starmucks]

The best story I've heard about Brooks is that she was made redundant very early on in her career. Rather than accept the fact with dignity and start a new job search, she turned up to work the following day. And the day after, and the next day again. In fact everyone was too mortified to say anything so by the end of the month she was back on payroll. Sums her up I think: tenacious, deluded, pyscho!

[scarlettsmummy2]

There is definitely something dodgy going on- at the minute she can't be seen as anything other than a liability. Surely if Murdoch wanted this deal with bskyb to go through he would have given into the pressure and got rid of her, or at least moved her off to work in Australia or Fox News or something. No-one is irreplaceable.

[starmucks]

There is no question that Brooks knows where the bodies are. But again her power must be dimming now....and as someone posted earlier, many a disgruntled employee should be happy to spill the beans now.

[wearenotinkansas]

scarletts - have always suspected she has some dodgy photos of Murdoch which she uses to blackmail him... or perhaps she is his secret love child???

[scarlettsmummy2]

I can't help but wonder why Wade is being protected?? Is it because she knows too much and this goes even beyond her?? Are they afraid to sack her?

[starmucks]

Coulson had no choice: he was forced to resign because of the hacking into the princes phones. He claimed to have no knowledge but conceded that because it was on his watch he ultimately had to be accountable.

But you are right in suggesting that they knew that more would come out. I don't think however they even considered the possibility of it escalating to the current situation. Shame Labour has such a wet blanket for a leader, Ed lacks the kudos to properly round on the coalition and force them to act against NI.

[CateOfCateHall]

Here we are, the Sunonsunday.co.uk was registered on Tuesday: webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

[Bumperlicioso]

How exactly is the Sun on Sunday going to be a different paper? I hope people give it the lack of credibility it deserves. I don't think these people are contrite at all, they just know that the NOTW would no longer be able to criticise anyone.

I'm surprised no one is asking whether Andy Coulson's recent resignation was because they smelled the shit making its way towards the fan...

[sittinginthesun]

Asset stripping! (iPhone making words up)

[starmucks]

Well I never thought I'd see The Telegraph print anything vaguely complimentary about The Guardian! I think it depends now on how Cameron decides to proceed. His colours have been firmly pinned to the NI stables for the past two years. Hiring Coulson, a despicable Murdoch dance monkey, was a cementing of the relationship. Should Cameron's balls drop over night (forsaking a moral epiphany, or indeed crisis in confidence) and he severs relations, Murdoch could indeed be in significant trouble.

[wearenotinkansas]

Agree with sittinginthesun. Given the paper is going to start losing money very soon anyway, it would have gone down the toilet under the number of claims coming it's way. Murdoch is just making a pre-emptive strike. Not sure if the claimants will be able to claim against the wider NI group.

[sittinginthesun]

Discussion in the pubs around NI HQ is whether this is an asset stopping exercise - 4,000 names and numbers in the notebooks, that's 4,000 potential claims of some sort...( apparently, so I hear second hand).

[nocake]

thesunonsunday.com and .co.uk were registered on 5th July. Either someone saw it coming and is hoping to cash in or Murdoch will simply swap his sunday tabloid operations to a "new" paper and carry on as before.

I really would like this to be the start of his downfall and a new style of journalism and media in this country but I fear that after a bit of fuss it will business as usual.

[headfairy]

As I've said on the other thread, Rebekah Brookes is second in command to James Murdoch, if she's guilty then so must he be. I think RM is just protecting his son in shielding Rebekah Brookes.

[maypole1]

I wonder what Rebecca has over old murdouch that he would rathe close the 100 year old pepper than get rid of her well I hope he's made the right choice because I think most of the disgruntled employes will sing like birds about what been going on.

[Rindercella]

Agreed

[starmucks]

I have no idea of the cost structure of paper. What I do know is that NoWT will no longer exist because of the scale of public revulsion for the title. If this distaste is now transferred to the other titles in the NI stable the outcome could be truly interesting. Could this break Murdoch's grasp on the British media? Maybe a little optimistic at this stage but an exciting prospect none the less.

[Rindercella]

I agree - and I have (cancelled Sky/will no longer by the Times). But advertisers have huge powers within the media. If you think the 30p/60p/£1 cover price pays for the paper then you are misguided.

[starmucks]

Apparently few of NoWT employees are directly employed by NI which is presumably why they can wind it down so quickly. For those, of course it's shit.

Disagree Rinderella, we all have the capacity to cancel our Times and Sky subscriptions. Advertisers only pay for decent circulation.

[Rindercella]

Murdochs please excuse any other typos above, was on a roll....

[paddypoopants]

This has made me even more angry - lots of presumably innocent people working currently at the NOTW now on the dole and those corrupt bastards in charge still protecting each other. It's a fucking joke.

[Rindercella]

What I find most encouraging is that organisations put a stop to any advertising in the NotW. Which, whatever their intentions, must surely have been a good thing. No companies paying £££ for advertising = no newspaper. I think Ford was one of the first companies to have boycotted the NoW so my opinion of them has gone up slightly.

Of course, the same won't happen with the Times/Sky/etc., but I wish it would.

This matter must not be swept under the carpet just because the Murdocs have decided to ditch the NotW. What they have been doing systematically is absolutely fucking outrageous How fucking dare they tap into the mobile of a missing 13 year old girl? How ever was that sanctioned? The people responsible - top down - should be held to account and take whatever punishment the British courts see fit.

Milly Dowler's case particularly resonated with me - at the time, and now. I am from that area. I went to the same school. I know exactly the walk she took and where that bastard picked her up. How dare any newspaper think itself above the law and potentially jeopardise her safety by doing whatever it took to get a story. How dare they give her family false hope that she was still alive and checking her messages. 'They' means the PI, the journalist, the editor, his sub, the owner, right to the top. They sanctioned this. They must, must pay the consequences.

For too long, the British press has been allowed to ride roughshod over everyone. Let's hope this is the tipping point.

There should be an amnesty. I suspect the papers have only had this power as they have deep and dirty secrets on more or less everyone in positions of power. Fuck it - everyone has dirty secrets; everyone has lived. Tell the papers, fuck it. Spill your dirt. If everything comes out at once, I am sure no-one in the country would be that shocked.

[HedleyLamarr]

Just shows how desperate Rupert is to get his grubby paws on Sky. Hop Ofcom get involved to block it, or Twunt grows a pair.