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.