Live: News of the World to close

Live: News of the World to close

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News International says the News of the World will publish its final edition on Sunday.
The 168-year-old newspaper has been embroiled in a row about the hacking of mobile phones.
It is the UK's best-selling newspaper and reportedly the most read English language paper.

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about bloody time is all i have to say on the matter , the journalists of this paper are scum for what they did to the families of the victims they phone hacked

1830: Freelance journalist Neal Mann

tweets: A #NOTW journalist tells me the feeling in the newsroom towards Rebekah Brooks is 'utter fury she has sacrificed paper to save her job'

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personally i think this is just the tip of the iceberg...more will follow. rupert murdoch owns the majority of media outlets anyway - you think he doesnt know whats going on?!

Originally posted by ronishia

Live: News of the World to close

There are already a number of threads running on this topic.
Your desperation to post breaking news couldnt wait the extra few seconds it takes to do a search first?

Any bit of Murdochs power that can be taken away is a good thing.

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I searched and i think this is the first to mention the breaking news about the closure of the paper. It's a very interesting development. Some are saying it will play into Ruperts hands because now he has less influence in the media the government will give him full control of Sky, which has revenue that dwarfs the NofW

Originally posted by captaintyinknots
Any bit of Murdochs power that can be taken away is a good thing.

I think it will be a case of taking with one hand while giving with the other

It's just a cynical attempt to halt the current backlash against the Murdoch empire. I hope the public see through it and continue to question the company's questionable ethics and practices - putting pressure on the B$kyB takeover.

It's only the brand that's closing. Give it a few weeks and The Sun will go 7 days a week in the NOTW's place.

48 hours to stop Murdoch's UK media takeover....
Avaaz petition now at nearly 130,000..............


www.avaaz.org...

closing the paper but not sacking rebekah brooks is scandalous. The staff currently at NOTW had nothing to do with the phone hacking. Basically this is murdoch trying to save his takeover of BSKYB in the UK. He's sacrificed the journos and brooks stays as an executive of news corp. He's hoping this will be enough to placate everyone and save his attempted takeover of bskyb

newscorps name is mud now and Murdoch is reeling. I hope it gets worse for him.

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so long...and thanks for all the tits. (Hitchhiker reference if anyone's with me)

Originally posted by ExistentialNightmare
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so long...and thanks for all the tits. (Hitchhiker reference if anyone's with me)

edit on 7-7-2011 by ExistentialNightmare because: (no reason given)

Very good.

LOL