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What a proper, proper cunt.

Indeed.

It's hard to imagine that any human being at any time considered that what the NotW did might have been okay. Celebrities is one thing, but the families of the dead? Christ, it's terrifying that anyone, at any level thought that was an acceptable thing to do.

Totally agree!  Completely wrong on all levels.

Didn't know what it was about until today.

Saw on facebook a 'boycott NOTW' like. Thought nothing of it until I later had a look out of curiosity. I had to re-read what I had read because I wasn't sure I got it right the first time.

Worst one for me was them hacking Milly Dowler's phone, then deleting voicemails to clear space for new messages. It's scary that anyone would even think of doing something like that, let alone actually doing it. Got to be the lowest our media have ever reached which is saying something.

Whilst you can't blame Murdoch for it happening in the first place as he'd never of known about it let alone be involved, his handling of it over the last week just highlights his arrogance and generally not giving a fuck about anyone else. How can the editor of the NOTW at the time of the Milly Dowler hacking still have a job with News Corp, let alone his full support.

The one good thing is that judging by the news reports tonight it could easily go nuclear for Murdoch at long last. News Corp share price down 4%, possible blocking of Sky takeover by Ofcom and it's finally given our politicians the bollocks to go tell him to do one.

I won't be buying it again

Police are now refusing to rule out that Sian's mobile wasn't hacked.

Won't be buying it again

I've cancelled my Sky contract and cancelled my holiday to Australia. What a wanker!

I think it's fucking quality. Great snooping from Rupy and a blatant disregard for the law - the bloke must have some minerals.

If even a quarter of these allegations are true I suspect the notw is finished....many advertisers already pulling out...

I don't agree with what the NotW have done, but other papers have apparently phone hacked as well. Sky News had Ken Livingstone alleging that, so what do you do boycott all papers?

Rebekah Wade/Brooks CE of News International lives just round the corner in our town, think she will be keeping a low profile for a while.

No doubt others have done it but Murdoch got caught, the others didn't

If the others get caught then yes, they should also be boycotted.

it can't just be NoTW. I imagine all papers have done something similar in the past

Does anyone actually buy that piece of shit paper?

Embarrassing for David Cameron because did he not go to Rebekah Wades wedding recently?

I don't buy any newspapers.

Yep, they have been caught, they are the first, and some of the allegations are particularly despicable (whether true or not, they are in the public mindset now)....I just feel the tide of public opinion against them will reach a critical mass and will be too strong to pull back.....hence, why I think the notw is finished...

Other may have done it yes, but only the red tops, not the broadsheets surely?

I get the Adver.
That's only because I get it delivered and I got a cheap deal (£1 a week or something) and i've never bothered to cancel it after that :)

It is estimated the NOTW generates £38M pa in ad revenue alone..with newspaper sales falling drastically across the industry the ad revenue is the only way they can continue to make money. Therefore with the likes of Ford, Vauxhall etc pulling out this could be the beginning of the end for this turgid rag as eeven the NOTW cannot survive soley on the revenue generated by Adult Wank lines in the back of the classifieds..!!

Looking at the Global fortune of Rupert M I doubt he is too worired as it is just a drop in the ocean to him...I for one never buy it as it is shite anyway.

On a slightly different note...who does Rebekah Wade score on a 1-10 of "Someone you shouldnt but would?"

A redhead with long legs - just about my idea of heaven on earth!

no no and no

I suspect it isn't. There will be noises of a 'root and branch reform', people will be rightly hung out to dry.  And then it'll all settle down a bit. And it'll somehow carry on.

Remember when the NOTW printed this:

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/_news/nolnews_opinion/nolopinion_notwsays/1310183/If-we-lose-sight-of-the-poor-mites-at-the-heart-of-this-issue-we-are-all-guilty.html


Presumably shameless Rebekah Wade be getting the same NOTW treatment on Sunday.


I won't be buying it again. Which is a shame as I think we'll feature heavily in the footy section.

I see Ridsdale's now jumped on the bandwagon...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14060257

The fact that this is the lead story on most of the national radio and television news, but is struggling to get much of a feature in several of the tabloids indicates a fair few might be hoping this goes away before people look too deeply at them.

I bet his password was something simple like 'pete'

I'm reading that the next News of the World will be the last edition.

Murdoch admits defeat.

This sunday to be the last ever edition of the News of The World.

edit: Costanza beat me to it

Coming Soon:

The Sun on Sunday

I'll miss the sport section...

Oh Batch... :)

I'll miss the stories of which Premiership footballer was shagging who.
The football was good in it though, but I hated how the paper was always out to stich people up just to get a good story, like Sven. Even the Andy Gray sexism story was done by them to get back at him for sueing them over phone hacking him. Poor old Richard 'hanging out the back of it' Keys just got caught up in it all.

It'll be a re-branding though won't it?

They think its all over...it is now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

Precisely the reason why Murdoch's licence to print in the UK (if such a thing exists) needs to be looked at.

Of course, in the last year it broke the cricket batting scandal, but as Costanza says it'll be rebranded as The Sunday Sun, or something like that. The question is that what will happen to other papers who have done exactly the same when it all comes out?

Well I think the takeover of Sky by News Corp is now not likely to happen in the near future.

There is no licence to print newspapers in the UK- need one for broadcasting due to the limited bandwidth etc, but anyone can publish a newspaper.

That is a lot of people to sack just to keep Brooks in a job.

I was as wrong as possible.

But at least I can buy the all new Sunday Sun without it being the News of the World...No he hasn't announced it yet ..

Brooks MUST go.

Most of them will just go over to a Sunday edition of the Sun (if it happens), but the senior staff needs to be looked into especially Brooks.

She's slightly above Kate McCann, but nowhere near as hot as Amanda Knox...

Doubt it. Some will but this will be a huge chance to cut costs.

As for her being sacked, surely a proper criminal investigation is required?

Yes, but even Murdoch is not going to turn down making money. NotW was the biggest selling newspaper in the UK and Murdoch is going to print another paper to replace it.

Fully agree with the investigation into Brooks.

Well, he is willing to shut the paper for the sake of owning Sky, so I think we can tell where he thinks the real profit will come from.

But there is no-way Murdoch will let 3m readers go to rival newspapers. Come the 17th July, there will be another paper to replace it.

National Union of Journalism suggesting that every NotW hack has been sacked.

That'll repair Murdoch's image no end, putting hundreds of people out of work to protect Brooks.

Vince Cable must be smug at home tonight

The Sun on Sunday was announced last week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/28/newsinternational-rebekahwade

This is all just a convenient excuse for News International to make people think they have dealt with the problem, whereas actually it's helped them achieve their plans.

And the website was registered on the 5th:

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

I still cannot believe Rebekah Brooks is still in a job.

You need to get a job So69 instead of picking on poor old Rupert :bye:

This is a fuck you multiball. 1. You have to let him have Sky, since he is committed to "proper behaviour" 2. Brooks and Murdoch Jr scuttle off to the US. 3. Murdoch Sr proves he would close it rather than do what you tell him  4. Coulson goes to prison 5. Sun on Sunday launches

All for the cost of 6 months lost income and redundancy costs and catching everyone out.

Murdoch is the best evil genius there is.

Theres probably no chance of anyone catching the corrupt cricketers now.

But I cant believe they went after the fammilies of murder victims and deceased soldiers!

Brooks admitted they paid Police in a commons inquiry. She is guilty as sin.

Anyone else think the incinerators in Wapping might be getting an increase in business over the next few days. Not sacking Brooks/her refusing to resign, proves nothing has changed in my view. News Corp - not fit to own TV stations!

I'm surprised not much has been said about the police handing over information for money.

I was thinking the same thing.  He'll be breaking out the bubbly, I would imagine.

Interesting the Lib Dems are so quiet on the issue. Letting Labour stick the knife in.

"Its editor Colin Myler said it was "the saddest day of my professional career".

He added that "nothing should diminish everything this great newspaper has achieved".

Nice to see the closure of the paper is his saddest day not the day he learnt the piece of shit he edited was totally inhuman.

I think there may well be other papers editors shitting themselves particularly the Mail as they appear to have used similar tactics........allegedly

any thought that since they've already settled with sienna miller for about 100 grand it set a bit of a dangerous precedent, what with 4000 names turning up.  Of course no one is suggesting that invading the privacy of the families of the dead and the missing is anywhere near as serious as listening in on some vacuous celebritunt's conversation with her hairdresser, but lets just say it was - that would be about 10 years worth of advertising revenue. 

A sad end to a great name, albeit one sullied by Rupert in the past few decades.

No more Sunday Screws scandal 

But it didn't happen under his watch so what he says is fair enough - 200 people have lost their job today - to save one woman's job - over something that isn't their fault - it occurred years before most of them worked there.

No it didnt,was going on untill very recently in fact,and i bet every one of them new it was going on as well,with the stings and traps i say good riddance.

Lets hope the government bring the police to book now.

If anyone wants a good chuckle watch Hugh Grant explain how bugged Paul McMullan and caught him admitting how this was going on, police were being paid, etc.  The very last few moments are particularly amusing...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052690

That reporter got fucking owned

The cunt tried to make light of it, fucking prick.

Yeah some of that was quite painful but the sleazy bastard was banged to rights.

I stopped buying papers a long, long time ago and not just because I moved abroad.

I remember the exact moment it all clicked.

It was when Diana died, so I must have in my early twenties at the time. Was on a bus going to town and there were these old dears gossiping and nattering behind me. I wasn't really paying attention but I did hear "oh I know. The Monarchy can't carry on now"

It all just fell into place that it wasn't their words or opinion, but that of (insert red top here). I wanted to ask the what THEY thought and WHY. Of course I didn't ask, but just left feeling quite annoyed.

I've never bought a paper since.

I couldn't agree more. I have never read the Daily Mail in my life, and yet I could tell you exactly what they're writing about on a weekly basis because my nan co-opts it word for word as her own opinion.

I do read papers, but I try to read a variety and not just accept the opinions put forward as the gospel truth.

i read the times and sunday times because atherton is the best columnist going about, paul kimmage does the best interviews, neil harman the best for tennis. whilst hugh mcillvaney, oliver kay and matt dickenson are very good as well. but thats for sport and is really irrelevant in a thread for this..

Alot of comparing this sleaze to the MP robbing us blind.

MPs like to have a dig now the Media is in trouble...

IMO

The Gutter press is just that....however, i choose to buy a Newspaper if i want one, those robbing fraudsters in Westminster take my money whatever....so no comparison for me..

I'm a hypocrite as alot of what newspapers do makes me feel angry towards them,yet i still buy them.
Recent events that have been disgusting imo were the treatment of the innocent landlord in the Bristol murder at xmas,and the treatment Sharon Shoesmith recieved in the baby P aftermath. Disgraceful treatment of individuals which their knuckle dragging readers would take as truth.

Maybe a total shake up of how newspapers conduct themselves is needed?

They were quite right to go after Shoosmith. She wouldn't take responsibility for what went on in her Dept. Same as this woman who was in charge of the NOTW. Only difference was that a baby was "murdered" whereas with the NOTW the victims had already been murdered.
Of course it can be argued that in both cases the real culprits are the ones who actually did the deed.

I think the biggest and most worrying thing in all of this is how much power News International has. There is a fine line between freedom of the press which I encourage and out and out blackmailing politicians, the same people who we should have faith in and trust to run this country properly. The relationship between certain media outlets and politicians should be investigated properly.

We all know there is a moral standpoint of which newspapers don't necessarily comply with but more worryingly when there are allegations made of police bribery, threats to a number of individuals associated with politics, with politicians living in fear of questioning these people because of what they might do in retaliation.

The politicians and the law should be above media outlets, not the other way around.

Hopefully, like arriba said, this has to be the time to have a complete overhaul of the press in this country, or at least find a way of stopping this happening again. I honestly think they hide behind the 'freedom of the press' to go out and do just what they want, no matter if it's legal or not.

This isn't the first time Murdoch has been involved in a hacking scandal by the way. One of his employee's stood accused of hacking a rival pay TV networks smart card encryption and releasing the details on the net.

Coincidence?

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/tarnovsky?currentPage=all

i don't understand the mega excitement over an exclusive etc...people generally have a set paper or two they read...would anyone actually be swayed to buy the notw as a result of their superb investigative journalism?

Despite abandoning the bid (for now), this could be a great opportunity for News Corp as the BSkyB share price is plummeting so could just sweep up a load of shares for much less than what they were proposing.

They've already spent $5bn on a buy-back of News Corp shares.

Quite a canny bastard, really.

That's insider dealing/market abuse and they'd never get away with it.

Not sure they can, as they already own over 30% wouldn't a further purchase trigger a mandatory takeover offer?

Plus Murdoch isn't completely stupid, if he bought just a single share more the shit would hit the fan - there is already talk of News Corp being forced to dispose of its share holding in BSkyB.

Might not have this right but isn't there some sort of 'cooling off period' whereby having lodged a takeover bid they now can't buy any shares in BSkyB for 3 months for that very reason?

Brooks/Wade gone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14166162

at last.

She should've gone a week or so ago.

I really don't see what the hysteria is all about. Sure wrong things have been done, people need to be sent down for it, etc etc. But, the crime is hacking into mobile phones etc. Nobody's died because of it.
I see Brown, making the effort to attend parliament to have a go, (where he is protected by privelege) when he imho has committed a far greater crime, (spending money the country didn't have). This is the same Brown that attended Brooks' Wedding after he (falsely) alleges that she was responsible for hacking into his sons medical records.

Depends which of his organisation he uses for the share purchase.  This deal was between News International and BSKYB so he could just use a separate entity as an investment vehicle.

Is it because of this c u n t that sky is so expensive?

Just a general rip off Britain trend, the company has few competitors, and as long as people keep paying they will keep increasing prices. One thing I would like like to know is, why the Italian version of Sky has far shorter advertising breaks? Is it because the Italian viewing public have a far lesser tolerance of advertising than we do. In case you didn't know they also have a stranglehold in Italy and Germany

Well i wonder if someone in your family was murdered or raped then you found out there phone had been fucked with if you would feel the same.
I would like to think you would be livid as i would.

I despair at times. :no:

You can't tell me that the man himself didn't know anything about this

He may have,may not have, either way i dont think he gives a damm anyhow.

in australia the ad breaks are much longer and more frequent than they are over here, for further comparison

More allegations

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55401

They are pretty awful in the US as well tbf

Not been a good few days for Rebekah.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051

I reckon there are plenty of people with dirt on Murdoch that they'll be releasing to do the most possible damage. All the politicians and other media in the UK are looking for payback after years of living under his rule. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be the end of him, reckon there is a good chance he'll be forced out of the UK by the end of it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

The plot thickens,no doubt more conspiracy theories.

This is good.  Taken from the BBC live feed:

0958: Iran has urged the UK government to look into what it called the "suspicious" death of News of the World whistleblower Sean Hoare, BBC Monitoring reports.

BBC Live Feed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14193124)

When advice starts coming from Iran, you know it's serious.

Was he not a drug addict and alcoholic?

Yup - must most media outlets seem to bypass this fact!

Irrelevant. Iran was it's suspicious and that's good enough for me.

Iran have also advised that Hitler was actually from Droitwich.

Am I alone in being totally bored by the self-perpetuating bun fight that is the Murdoch scandal?

I think so, yes.

Anybody else watching this??

It's unbelievable how little the old man knows about his own company and how much his son is bailing him out with every answer!!

yes, its fascinating...

Murdoch Snr. is in his 80's.

What did Mr Smithers and Mr Burns do to get such a grilling from the MPs?

Not really considering the NOTW makes up about 1% of his business empire.

it's called being briefed by those who he pays millions to!!

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Rupert Murdoch just got hit by a custard pie...Mr Tumble...Mr Tuuuummmmmble

Louise Mensch is hot. I'd confess to many things if she interrogated me.

Prat, bloke has just made Murdoch 'a victim'

What an idiot. Just trivialised the whole thing. Its taken 40 years to bring Rupert Murdoch to any sort of account in the UK. Twat.

Haha just seen the footage of his little ting tong wife hitting that bloke! Ace!

Really?

[url width=116 height=175]http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/img/representatives/116x175/62809.jpg[/url] ???

She's much hotter than that at the moment, must be an old picture. Plus she sounds quite posh, which works.

Looks as though he's in a spot of bother again.

No kidding, about half The Sun's senior journos just got arrested. Monday's edition could be sparse.

They might have to reprint some stories from 1994. Oh hang on they already did that. Tawdry rag.

Wonder if he'll use new lies this time, or use the ones he did last time.

Although, "I know nothing" pretty much covers most bases.

How I'd laugh if he closes The Sun. 

Their Empire is crumbling.

Smash it I say.

The sooner the TV bit goes the better

I have the TV bit and I agree. More likely to see a Lancaster bomber on the moon though.