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News Of the World has folded

65 replies

headfairy · 07/07/2011 16:42

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

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JoleneJoleneJoleneJoleeene · 07/07/2011 17:34

Rebecca brooks said the guardian were out to get them....errr no, you brought it all on yourself.

starmucks · 07/07/2011 17:35

It's sooooo transparent, how could it be considered shrewd? Unless they assume this a nation of nano- memory thickos.

Sun on Sunday seems inevitable.

Time to wage war on his other UK publications.

starmucks · 07/07/2011 17:37

Guardian are actually being thanked by the Telegraph for airing this. Never thought I'd see the day, may have to frame the article.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 07/07/2011 17:45

Someone has registered www.sunonsunday.co.uk..... wonder who? LOL!

niceguy2 · 07/07/2011 17:46

Because most of the people who read the Sun & NOTW are nano-memory thickos! Wink

CogitoErgoSometimes · 07/07/2011 17:46

"Rebecca Brooks is still employed - how is this possible?"

Because Mr R Murdoch is standing by her. Everyone else at News International wants her guts for garters.

PastyKensit · 07/07/2011 17:48

How many people are going to lose their jobs?

TheRealMBJ · 07/07/2011 17:55

She must have something on the Murdoch's or Cameron

flippinada · 07/07/2011 17:55

I see Rebekah Brooks still has a job Hmm

I do feel sorry for all the people who are innocent of all this and are losing their jobs.

MotherPanda · 07/07/2011 17:57

Seeing as the UK had decided to boycott NoW anyway... I'm not really surprised.

They figured they wouldn't be making any money out of it anyway...

I do wonder about those losing jobs, or if they will be shipped over to the sun.

flippinada · 07/07/2011 17:57

In fact....why have all these people lost their jobs and she gets to keep hers?

It fucking stinks Angry.

TheRealMBJ · 07/07/2011 18:00

Please ignore my terribly incorrect use of the apostrophe in previous post. Blush

starmucks · 07/07/2011 18:14

Brooks definitely knows where the bodies are buried when it comes to both Murdoch and Cameron. Either that or she is The She Devil and working some brand of scary media magic on them.

I'm ready to turn book marker and offer the shortest odds ever in history that Brooks will decide to adopt/fall pregnant/hire a surrogate and bow out for family reasons.

starmucks · 07/07/2011 18:14

Book Maker, not marker!

flippinada · 07/07/2011 18:15

That would be a face saving way to go....but poor kid!

HedleyLamarr · 07/07/2011 18:19

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.

Rindercella · 07/07/2011 18:32

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 Angry 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.

paddypoopants · 07/07/2011 18:41

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 · 07/07/2011 18:42

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

starmucks · 07/07/2011 18:48

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 · 07/07/2011 18:54

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 · 07/07/2011 19:05

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 · 07/07/2011 19:10

Agreed Smile

maypole1 · 07/07/2011 19:17

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.

headfairy · 07/07/2011 19:25

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.

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