+ + + Murdoch Shuts Down News of the World + + +
+++ The best-selling English language newspaper in the world is to shut after 168 years. +++
+++ Rumour The Sun staff have been told to prepare for a seven day operation.+++
UPDATE – Full Statement:
NEWS OF THE WORLD CLOSING: Full statement from James Murdoch:
N E W S R E L E A S E For immediate release Registered office: 3 Thomas More Square, Thomas More Street, London E98 1XY Registered number 81701 England Switchboard: 020 7782 6000
News International today announces that this Sunday, 10 July 2011, will be the last issue of the News of the World.
Making the announcement to staff, James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation, and Chairman, News International said:
“I have important things to say about the News of the World and the steps we are taking to address the very serious problems that have occurred.
It is only right that you as colleagues at News International are first to hear what I have to say and that you hear it directly from me. So thank you very much for coming here and listening.
You do not need to be told that The News of the World is 168 years old. That it is read by more people than any other English language newspaper. That it has enjoyed support from Britain’s largest advertisers. And that it has a proud history of fighting crime, exposing wrong-doing and regularly setting the news agenda for the nation.
When I tell people why I am proud to be part of News Corporation, I say that our commitment to journalism and a free press is one of the things that sets us apart. Your work is a credit to this.
The good things the News of the World does, however, have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong. Indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our Company.
The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself.
In 2006, the police focused their investigations on two men. Both went to jail. But the News of the World and News International failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose.
Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.
As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter. We now have voluntarily given evidence to the police that I believe will prove that this was untrue and those who acted wrongly will have to face the consequences.
This was not the only fault.
The paper made statements to Parliament without being in the full possession of the facts. This was wrong.
The Company paid out-of-court settlements approved by me. I now know that I did not have a complete picture when I did so. This was wrong and is a matter of serious regret.
Currently, there are two major and ongoing police investigations. We are cooperating fully and actively with both. You know that it was News International who voluntarily brought evidence that led to opening Operation Weeting and Operation Elveden. This full cooperation will continue until the Police’s work is done.
We have also admitted liability in civil cases. Already, we have settled a number of prominent cases and set up a Compensation Scheme, with cases to be adjudicated by former High Court judge Sir Charles Gray. Apologising and making amends is the right thing to do.
Inside the Company, we set up a Management and Standards Committee that is working on these issues and that has hired Olswang to examine past failings and recommend systems and practices that over time should become standards for the industry. We have committed to publishing Olswang’s terms of reference and eventual recommendations in a way that is open and transparent.
We have welcomed broad public inquiries into press standards and police practices and will cooperate with them fully.
So, just as I acknowledge we have made mistakes, I hope you and everyone inside and outside the Company will acknowledge that we are doing our utmost to fix them, atone for them, and make sure they never happen again.
Having consulted senior colleagues, I have decided that we must take further decisive action with respect to the paper.
This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World.
Colin Myler will edit the final edition of the paper.
In addition, I have decided that all of the News of the World’s revenue this weekend will go to good causes.
While we may never be able to make up for distress that has been caused, the right thing to do is for every penny of the circulation revenue we receive this weekend to go to organisations – many of whom are long-term friends and partners – that improve life in Britain and are devoted to treating others with dignity.
We will run no commercial advertisements this weekend. Any advertising space in this last edition will be donated to causes and charities that wish to expose their good works to our millions of readers.
These are strong measures. They are made humbly and out of respect. I am convinced they are the right thing to do.
Many of you, if not the vast majority of you, are either new to the Company or have had no connection to the News of the World during the years when egregious behaviour occurred.
I can understand how unfair these decisions may feel. Particularly, for colleagues who will leave the Company. Of course, we will communicate next steps in detail and begin appropriate consultations.
You may see these changes as a price loyal staff at the News of the World are paying for the transgressions of others. So please hear me when I say that your good work is a credit to journalism. I do not want the legitimacy of what you do to be compromised by acts of others. I want all journalism at News International to be beyond reproach. I insist that this organisation lives up to the standard of behaviour we expect of others. And, finally, I want you all to know that it is critical that the integrity of every journalist who has played fairly is restored.
Thank you for listening.”
News International Limited publishes The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and News of the World. In terms of growth, share, circulation and reader engagement, the Company’s titles are among the world’s most successful. News Printers Group Ltd prints the national titles and operates as a contract printing subsidiary for the three state of the art printing plants. Further brands which are part of the group include the Times Literary Supplement, http://milkround.co.uk and http://brandalley.co.uk.
In 2007, News International Ltd became the UK’s first carbon neutral newspaper publisher. This was achieved by increasing energy efficiency, switching to renewable energy and combined heat and power and purchasing high quality offsets.
Shewed move!
for the truth come over to me
Truth and Islam dont go together.
bit like socaisit worker.
indeed
Oi, Miliband you middle class tosser, you’ve lost me my Sunday read now, you pillock.
Bit like >>> is New New Labour just Old Communism <<<<<
Well said Billy.
Socialist and worker, surely a contradiction in terms.
Please Billy
Tell us about Moha*ad’s family life?
Oh, London Muslim! Thou must return to My land in Saudi!
Oh, My slave, you must leave the infidels and start life anew! Get a 1-way ticket today, do not delay or you will anger Me!
In other words London M@zzo bog off!
PS: Bring all your friends and family, too. It will make Me happy! I will reward you with stuff. Virgins and shit like that.
For goodness sake you lot, give it a rest, you’re like a budgie with a mirror.
Oh, Sir Waad, do not make Me angry! You will not like Me when I’m angry.
Grrrr.
rather a big red bus.
How sad it is that anything that Rupert Murdoch touches turns to crap?…
Is he related to Gordon Brown by any chance?
Sky News? BSkyB, The Simpsons? The Times?
Were will its readers go? They haven’t got a third grade paper on Sunday to wipe there ass.
Coming next week! The Sunday Sun.
I hope this is boycotted. No replacement money for the scummy NI.
Where’s thatn little tincker Andy Coulson could be the little chap could be up for purjury in the Scottish courts various false statements when he was editor N O W he never payed anything to private dics, it did not happen when he was in charge totally inocent etc all to do with Guido’s “pal” Tommy Sheridan who got sent down the line. Has Coulson come back from Spain.
The “Sun On Sunday.”
or The World of the News reporting rape, murder and hacking by left wing newspapers.
There’s something very satisfying about seeing the Screws fall victim to the kind of hysteria it promoted as a scandal rag, posturing hypocritically as a moral publication when it was no more than a prurient “read” for the masses. Good riddance.
…and plagiarism, of course.
And Rupert Murdoch to be replaced by Rupert Murdoch in a wig and glasses.
He is around 80, not got much time left.
can you guarantee that?
let’s hope the strain of having to cover up for his incompetent and corrupt family and friends hurries him along
yep, and spookily enough it will look and behave exactly as the NOTW did
Well, I never, you don’t say?
Surely ‘The Sunday’
thesunonsunday.co.uk was registered as a domain two days ago – ha!
Just wondering what the chavs will read/wipe their fat arses…
The Sunday People?
Space now for a Labour loving Sunday Guardian? I can almost see Ed and his crew rushing into a corner to have a …..
I suppose the same as the toffs, instead of Eddie’s face on the toilet paper it will be Davy’s
The Guardian. Perhaps Polly could be a page 3 girl. Pass the bucket.
Pages 4&5 as well.
and back to broadsheet
Its just the title they’ve got rid off, same owner, same journalists, same ethics will all be working on whatever they replace it with next Sunday. You’ll get a couple of high profile scalps on the way and then all can get back to ‘normal’ in the cosy world of the media and political elites.
that’s the way to do it
i told you I could do it and you didn’t believe me
Thats why the Sun shines outa your fundament :^)
What an appaling turd Tom Watson is…
He needs his own personal sewage farm.
Shred move
Pure genius
The King is Dead long live the King.
Anyway the Sun is bigger than the World.
News of the Universe next?
the domain name ‘TheSunonSunday’ was registered 2 days ago. by Name withheld…
Prescott, that fine upstanding man and model of integrity on TV at the moment shooting his mouth off, trying to make poitical capital out of this outrage. He slips into his tirade the fact that in 1998 it was found that wrongdoing was widespread (mentions 300 instances were found).
So Precott, if you had found that things were that bad why didn’t YOUR governent fuckingwell establish a public enquiry.
Talk is cheap. What a fucking hypocrite
shot himself in both feet me thinks, he never was that bright
When he’s yabbering on, look at his jowls shake and flop about, and imagine what Tracey will have seen from even closer quarters.
The man’s a babe-magnet.
Is he, and are the other Labourites, spitting such so much bile and venom about Rebekkah Wade-Brooks because that rather fetching lady told them to eff-off when they waved their pathetic little cocktail sausages at her?
“rather fetching”? fuck me, you’ve set the bar pretty low.
when was your last visit to specsavers?
Permanently or temporarily?
Shut down paper, journalism has to be beyond reproach, revenue from last edition to good causes, blah blah. Now can we have BSkyB please?
It’s the right thing to do. Where have I heard that before?
Well, Rupert did spend a lot of time with Gordo’s tongue up his arse.
It’ll be back due to “public demand.”
The World of the News….perhaps
I don’t think you can say NOW readers “public”.
With any luck, we’ll end up with a Tory prime-minister by the time it’s all over!
Once again Murdoch lays down his friends for his life.
wow…
What will you read now on Sundays, your Holiness?
Gay Times, as per usual.
Seig Heil, Herr Ratzinger!
It’s a bloody rag. Surprised it sells half a dozen copies.
Its cheaper than toilet paper, its very good to wipe your ass.
If you want a black arse.
It four colour process CMYK…
you’ll need to see billy hague about that
Wholy absorpant and right up my ally
Hello Sally. Will you be tweeting the good news?
No one is that desperate are they
Where’s my Peppa Pig spoon? I cannae eat my yoggie without my Peppa Pig spoon!
Startling. Audacious. Murdoch at his best.
Murdoch bought NOTW for £34M in 1969, since when it has been consistently profitable. A cash cow which paid for itself many times over. Now that it is – like me – bled white – he can kill it off with no problems.
I’ll bet he’s really smart. He’ll put a token £50M into some special purpose vehicle for handling residual legal costs for NOTW, which will effectively limit his liabilities.
All the journos will transfer to the Sun.
Now I can get my tits out on Sundays!
People can go after the parent company.
the Sun could use a few journos.
Smart move, especially with the Parliamentary summer recess just days away. shows Murdoch senior is still light on his feet and will now outmanoeuvre all the baying lefties.
Shame someone can’t do the same to the EUSSR.
He’s also set a precedent. If any Guardian journalists are now exposed having links to any private dics what will happen then?
Spot on. With the cynical hat on, is this a canny move by Murdoch? NoW is not the only paper that’s been indulging in skulduggery, they just happen to be in the spotlight. Has Murdoch reckoned that if the Mirror or Mail papers get fingered, he’s now set the bar?
Now let’s see other newspapers involved in similar scandals shut down too.
Will Prescott and Bryant baying for their blood like they did with the NoTW?
Interesting. That leaves a gap in the market for bottom feeders. Who will fill it I wonder?
Really? You think that the NOTW is the only ‘Bottom Feeder’?
No, of course not. There are 2.7m people who “read” the NoTW though.
From next week, they either don’t buy anything, or a different rag picks up the readership. Money would have been on the Sport, but now?
What do you mean “read”? Usually nice pictures.
Looks like the Sunday Sport picked the wrong time to go bust.
bust or tits-up both seem appropriate expressions
You have conservativehome.
Not enjoying opposition? Bless! Only another 9 years!
Minimum.
Ever considered stand up comedy? You are good.
Don’t consider stand-up comedy. You’re not good.
Huff Pooff ?
The Sun-Day!
Good thinking. I’m guessing Murdoch is ahead of us there…
Though will the Sun now be the next paper to be caught in this trawl?
pure as driven snow – or at least it will be, after the shredders have done their work
Sunday Sport and the pornographers?
Victory for the Guardianistats!
The brave Spartan 300{thousand} took down the mighty armies of Murdoch’s Persians.
An example for Hari to Kiri. But can he nuke himself from orbit?
What, no more News of the Screws?
looks like a case of ” The bung stops here “
brilliant!
Mmmm interesting.
Very. Almost an admission of guilt. Actually, no almost about it. Mea culpa.
NI are buggered, just watch the shares drop even further.
Phone hacking bad.
Police corruption bad (a sign of how much we as a country have slid towards third world status).
Politicians committing crimes left right and centre worse.
Worse of all state media with political agenda influencing (to put it mildly) the thoughts and actions of much of the population.
Make no mistake as bad as call me Dave is, if it wasn’t for the B-bbc over the last decade, the terror that was New Labour, which includes: the death of thousands of innocent people in an illegal war, (inc Dr David Kelly) and an almighty clusterfuck of our economy, the import of millions of aliens, the trashing of our manufacturing base (while the unions were as quite as lambs) the exporting of tens of thousands of jobs, changing the nature of employment (and much else) from one of certainty to one of precarious temporality, the beginnings of privatising the NHS, the dumbing down of education, the, almost, unbelievably pernicious introduction of ID chips for every individual except them, the politicisation of the police force, the monitisation of the individual, the criminalizing of the motorist, the selling off of our gold reserves, the stealing of pensions, HIPs, and much more, the Conservative party would (and should) have won by a landslide.
Just think the B-bbc very nearly pulled off a victory for the broon. Unfucking believable, their the real story.
“Politicians committing crimes left right and centre ”
Yes,but apart from the 6 or 7 scapegoats tried & sentenced for their crimes many more of them have got away with it & some have even been re-elected or will continue to be able to sit on the red bench & all enjoy having access to the trough.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Amongst all this corruption, decline and the country sliding quickly in to the third world and becoming a banana republic, there is a profit to be made. That is why I am becoming very rich.
17 = that is a really good comment on what has been going on.
Respect.
He obviously told them ages ago to bury it and put a lid on it.
They failed to do so.
End of.
Bleh. The Guardian won’t be far behind, either.
Journalists in Murdochworld may be disposable, but not nearly so much as printing presses when you can get people to pay for online subscriptions.
Not just the Guardian, there will be a few editors quaking in their brogues.
Well lots of hacks made unemployed by the BBC/Guardian, me thinks the beeboids need to be checking their Cocaine for the next few months, they might find rat poison in it.
One lives in hope.
There never was any news in that rag anyway.
No loss.
Don’t be such a snob. There was plenty of news although it might not have interested you.
Bad news for m’learned friends, though. Fewer shag happy footballers, etc. to defend.
Can you imagine the extent of the dirt that they must have ‘uncovered’ to make this decision. Their brand was already in the toilet – so what they must know internally must be jaw-droppingly nasty.
So we are a week, or so, away from a Super, Soaraway, Sunday Sun!!!
Do the Murdoch Family hold us all in such contempt and think we’re that thick?
Hello nail, meet hammer head. (2nd time I have used that today)
Howdy, how’s it hanging?
So Wade/Brooks and Coulson have, whatever you think of it, driven a British newspaper with over 150 years of history into the ground. Well done you vile, immoral pair!
It’s the normal hacks that will suffer.
In order for Murdoch to break the link with the past and maybe establish another Sunday tabloid, Brooks has to go too.
NOTW was not a newspaper, it was a scandal sheet.
Despite the crappy celebrity gossip, the fact remains it was published for over 150 years, hugely successful, gave the largest readership exactly what it wanted and regularly exposed the establishment.
Interesting to note that those MP’s called to account by the NoTW are the ones baying for it’s blood.
Billy, you are a bit slow here – I know there is a lot to read – but it was the NOTW that exposed the cricket cheats from the sub-continent (not India, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh)
Speaking of vile immoral pairings I always think of The BBC and Labour – Whilst working hand in glove with the Labour Party to attempt to destroy any organisation that does not pander to their socialist agenda the tax payer funded BBC is scared shxxless of a right wing media news organisation destroying their left wing dominated stranglehold on the news media of this country.
Coulson and Brooks may or may not have been privy to the hacking allegations but the BBC, Labour and their cheerleader the Guardian have destroyed The News of the Screws with a witch hunt to end all witch hunts whose only real target was not the truth but fear of a serious rival giving true media plurality back to a country that has been all but emasculated by over a decade of deceit, lies, coverups and utter incompetence.
I think the horse has already bolted, so shutting down the stable at this point is damage limitation rather than a strategy. It might (still mixing metaphors) make a good fire-break though.
So even out of office the left still create unemployment.
Yes but remember to pay your licence fee and union dues.
Any chance he dishes the dirt on the whole fucking lot of them now.
Oooh, wouldn’t that be nice. I for one would buy the paper that was in, I’d even, it would take some psyching my self up, I’d even listen to radio 5 with one of those posh socialist tarts reading it out.
yes please
The left should enjoy their gloating.
This is Murdoch at his very best.
And when he has done what needs to be done, he will turn his attention to those baying hypocrits on the left.
The next few years are going to be fun – but not for Labour, the BBC or the Guardian.
Try opening your eyes. This is not left/right its about people, and a culture, that think its OK to hack the mailboxes of dead children and “bung” bent coppers. I applaud anybody, whatever their political hue that helps expose scum like this.
Lol, so funny that you tell others to open their eyes when you’re so blind and stupid as to fail to see the political motivation behind these stories being broken. Don’t get me wrong, what NOTW did is disgusting and unforgiveable, but if you think the Beeb, Guardian et al are doing it for altruistic reasons, you’re as deluded as you appear to be.
Sure the right wing press have jumped on the bandwagon too, but that’s cos they know Murdoch’s media empire is more successful than their own, and it will continue to be.
Tricia Daly is bang on the money – expect a lot of people’s dirty laundry to come out in the coming months and years.
And just how did the ‘culture’ get that way?
Chris Smith culture sec, White paper, New labor government 1997: “I want to change the culture of culture”
Yes your right nohandsclapping. However I’ve just tried to listen to a frothing Lord Prescott on Sky and his indignation is makng me wish the hacks had hacked him even more. I know his inabity to form sentences is well known but today’s performance was embarrasing…how the fook did her ever become deputy PM. Compared to Prescott, Clegg is a communications genius….
John’s john…….
Just spoke to someone who works at NI – All out war on New Labour is on the horizon…
Will be replaced by the same thing with a different name
how about “cun*ts_r_us”?
Genis. Murdoch wrongfoots everyone and there’ll be a new shiny sunday tab out in about 6 months.
Boom! And down it goes.
Revenge!
Are you sure it won’t be nemesis?
Let’s be honest print paper is on the decline, I haven’t purchased a paper in years, you can get most papers free on your Kindle (use Calibre software) even Guido’s blog can be downloaded free rather than pay for it.
you mean people pay to access this?
Yes Amazon charge.
Sad.
Holy fuck!
It’s tragic that we have lost the only sunday family newspaper with tits in it.
I am no more after Sunday!
Do you never watch the Andrew Marr show?
You mean all those fucking dead eyed celebs?
The giuardian is full of tits.
Look
I’ve said it numerous times before. You can read it in my newspapers, the Times, The News of the Worls, the Sun. I’m a cu-nt. I don’t care of course because I’ve got my millions. You little people can fuck off
That’s the spirit! You get more like me every day!
Except I’m richer and I own more houses.
give him time – he’s a chip off the old block
If thats not an admission of total guilt then I’m a Dutchman
Hiya Hans!
The Sunday Sun (The SUNday?) will just be the Screws in all but name anyway.
Oh dear, looks like Murdoch has pulled another flanker. Doh!
Yes, but will Rebekah Brooks resign?
…… if ( hypothetically of course) you are sacked for “gross misconduct” the employer will avoid paying severance pay under the terms of contract of employment.That is of course purely a generalisation and not specific
Excellent move by Mudoch – sack all the NotW staff, make the Sun journos work 7 days and thus save money in the long run.
You dont become a media mogul without having some brains.
Also he can argue that he owns one less paper when he wants to takeover Sky.
Wow…this scandal is worse than I tought!
How sweet it is. Now all we need is Rebekah Brooks to get fired and Glen Mulcaire to get his c unting face caved in.
Time to use similar grounds to shut down:
The Labour Party
The Liberal Democrats
The Conservative Party
The BBC
Yes and the whe nation to vor Plaid Cymru…. Free at last, free at last good God Almighty free at last… !
Crap… My English is soooo bad!
It’s The Sun wot won it!
As i sat on the sofa with a glass of wine Yoda said to me “Fear is the path to the darkside”, a tear fell from my eye.
One of the most moving interviews i have ever done.
The Farce is strong in this one. Johann, search your feeeelings, you know this to be ture.
Students of crisis management should buy a copy on Sunday.
Good riddance, the dead tree press is dead.
and Murdoch knows this. Even in his dotage he’s a shrewd businessman.
Dead tree died.
What time of day does Question Time get recorded – looking forward to leftie jizz-fest with Dimbleby crowing over the demise of a paper and laughing at all those about to lose their jobs.
Join us on the Biased BBC website for live bloging tonight, good fun if you have a stiff drink first..
Closure of NOWT announced on anniversary of 7/7 outrage – is this another Mossad operation?
You are Billy Bowden, and I claim my 5 knicker.
He’s a knob who can tell friend from enemy.
Do you have a story?
Do you know of a story that we should be investigating? Then get in touch with The News of the World News Desk: newsdesk@notw.co.uk
Come on Guido…. u know more than u are telling….
big assumption
What a shame. I was planning a front page splash showing photos of child porn and the headline “LOOK WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOUR MAY BE DOING!”
good story – but how about “what to do when you discover your old man is a raving pooftah”?
personal experience is so much more powerful
Great smokescreen but it won’t save Coulson or Wade.
Can’t help noticing the Hari story has gone away though, guess this plays much worse than a bit of cut and paste .. bet he can’t believe his luck.
Is Guido aiming for a job in Ruperts new Sunday paper?
Political editor?
Me first!
murdoch’s desperate, but he’s not that desperate.
he’s in the market for anyone that’s good with a shredder or wiping computers
If Rupert Murdoch had any sense he’d now start a UK edition of Fox News based in the USA and broadcasting on Sky to really turn the heat up on the drug users, shirt lifters and pervs at the Guardian and BBC.
Please god, let that be true. They’ll be shitting themselves.
The Leftie Liberal Pricks…
I don’t care if they lift shirts, use drugs or whatever — each to his own, but they are a bunch of traitors selling us all down the river, so fuck’em.
Closure of NOTW announced on the anniversary of the 7/7 outrage – is this another Mossad operation?
Timed to spite the Eye if you ask me.
17/7/2011 – SoS, first edition
Yep, heard from friends that NotW will be rebranded. Wonder what it will be called? The (voice) mail on sunday?
Peston just said the critics in the left wing media are rejoicing.
Maybe so. but its not as if the NOTW readers are going to pick up a copy of the Observer for its “in depth look at the horn of Africa crisis and woeful tales of human tragedy. Christine Lagarde; has feminism has finally broken the glass slipper ceiling?.. Plus, Readers offers . Its Etruscan pottery week at the VA. Get your free Mochacino coupon.”
A lot of Etruscan pottery has tits on – and dicks – it might just work.
Does he including himself?
Yes, not everybody is a Leftie Liberal Prick.- H/T to Pat Condell.
The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us,’ Rebekah Brooks reported to have told staff this afternoon at tearful meeting
Wow she’s quick, she’s only just worked out that the Guardian and the BBC were out to get them.
I think this will be WAR between Murdoch and the Guardian/BBC
Unfortunately I think Murdoch has too much of a business brain to be motivated by revenge. He’ll go with the highest bidder or best deal, as per usual.
Totally agree, and I look forward to it. That said, I would like the Police’s enquiries now turned towards Daily Mirror…pawn for pawn sacrifice and all that
For Hyena Boy and his minions the dark clouds are closing in. You see…knowingly being a recipient of hacked info to further your political ambitions is also very serious. Its called “””culpability””” . Tory MP’s have all gone to ground, no comments from Gideon, Warsi, Clarke, May, and especially Green…Why you ask. They know why, and I think you do too.
All those leaks between 2006-2010 to undermine last gov – I suggest you check out the source.
The Torygraph today have tried desperately to give the ( false ) impression that Gideon was hacked- this is the most transparent attempt at distraction every seen. No credence to this what so ever, and those of us in the know have given it no credence.
This is going to the top Gudio…and I don’t mean Murdoch
Cambos next strategy – Terms of ref of inquiry…..Will try to make the Inquiry to focus on specific none political cases only….You heard it here first
No one ever understands what you say TaT.
Gideon and hyena Boy..? You have your very own vocabulary. Shared with Golum.
He’s now cutting & pasting previous posts. It’s called spamming and it is exceedingly tedious..
“….those of us in the know have given it no credence.”
That’s interesting. Are you saying that Labour party staffers and apparatchiks know where the sources of these stories are? Do you know where the Milly Dowler phone hacking story originated? Was it someone in the Labour party, using information they sat on whilst in government?
I’ve just noticed that I don’t even read your comments before down-arrowing them any more – it’s become a kind of pavlovian response.
And each time, I’m rewarded by reading your tripe, and thinking, “yes, I *was* right”.
Now, where’s dinner?
I wouldn’t mind being hacked by Rebekah Brooks
Red heads are the best, but fucking tricky.
too right – and I should know.
mind you, i was only interested in 50% of what she had to offer – almost as good as a bloke and, in a darkened room, you could hardly tell the difference.
A very effective campaign by BBC/Guardian/Labour.
They’ll be popping the champagne in Broadcasting House.
I wouldn’t be if I were them – do you really think it will be just left at that?
If I worked in either establishment, I’d be watching my back for a very long time.
Sunday Sun registered two days ago.
Closing the NOW might be a shrewd move long term newspapers are in decline and hemorraging money, so to close it down could be a good move. Look how much the guardian loses per year (33 Million). If it was not for autotrader and its offshore tax arrangement it would be looking at going bankrupt. This is why news international is pushing online editions a lot cheaper to produce and no distributions costs and pure profit. It cost nearly as much to send the whole edition of the times on ipad to 1 or 10,000 so pure profit and no newspapers left over at the end of the day.
I think the left wing who have been pushing this might find that stories get leaked about them.
Rupert Murdoch: “I want to find Ed Miliband’s head under my bedsheets when I wake up tomorrow morning”
Presumably without the body attached.
That’s pulled the rug from under several persons feet, all we need now is for the BBC to follow suit.
So Murdoch closes his paper the N.O.W but leaves the bad apples in place, new name same old, no change, gets the political shits off his back and keeps his advertising up.
Methinks that this smacks of desperation by News Corporation ….. but it is too little too late….the BSkyB deal is dead in the water for the foreseeable future………it’s obvious however that certain senior people within NoW and News International are to/will be offered up to their fate and the full weight of the law….as the saying goes no greater loyalty hath an employee than to lay down his/her liberty and reputation for his/her employer…………
Nope, it smacks of good business on their part, but I suspect that you have no idea of how to run a business without it involving losing large sums of taxpayers’ money.
Un-f**king-believable!
I thought that Brooks and a few hacks might get fired, but never expected the entire operation to be wound up.
However, once the phone hacking extended to dead servicemen & people started talking at Cameron’s vulnerability by association, Rupert & News International must have chosen the nuclear option to protect the rest of NI, in the UK at least (and possibly wider). In any event, there might have been even more skeletons in the NOTW cupboard, which would ruin its reputation even more.
A bold move by a bold business brain.
But is he bold enough to get rid of Brooks. She HAS to go.
NI will never be able to draw a line under this fully while she remains senior in the organisation.
bekky’s done a toenails and, at 80, murdoch’s not so fast at pulling things out of his arse as he used to be.
When wondering why Murdoch would emperil a PM rather than damage Rebekkkka Wahetevr, why does Julie Burchill’s novel ‘Ambition’ pop unbidden into my head? Surely that book wasn’t written, a la Jackie Collins, using contemporary gossip?
It cannot be, surely.
Fuck me! You’re the one who bought a copy?
It was a review copy, honest – but it does bear an eerie resemblance to current events.
Could you spare 50p for a cup of coffee?
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2011/07/news-of-world-to-close.html
big changes had been announced last week anyway re the 7 days; not a rumour at all. This works well to nix unions and do the right thing. Never waste a good crisis.
Unless no one has guessed, this is a typical cynical ploy by the Murdochs
Close the News of the World (by the way get your souvenir copy this Sunday) and hope that will be enough to get away it. Complete with crocideile tears of course
Then hey presto a month later your soar away Sun, becomes a 7 day a week publication. Of course cant have Sun staff due the Sunday edition, so the newly redundant NOTW staff can be re-employed (reduced rates of course), then a month later (September) Start talking about the BSkyB take over – sorted
He didn’t get where he is today etc etc….
I made an excuse and left.
Now we will move on to BSkyB, it’s the right this to do!
Well done Murdoch. Good on yer, mate. Sod the pommy b******s and their 168 year old paper.
I’m only half a fairy.
The Lefties have done Murdoch a favour. Gave him the perfect excuse to streamline his business without industrial action.
Very strange to see Labour MPs rejoicing that they have put hundreds out of work.
That will teach the bathtardth to thtop thupporting my Parathite Party.
The unions can only complain to themselves and their MP’s, it’s screwed the left up for shouting and yelling and trying to get their own back on Murdoch, now will we hear the yells of distressed left wing newspaper card carrying people wondering with about carrying their P45′s around looking for non existant jobs, next year just before the Olympics we will get dribbles of nasties from NI owned foreign newspapers, they should have took Murdoch out in 2002 when they had a better chance, but they let the muddy waters get muddier, and in their ineptitude got a lot more people damaged.
Do you really believe the Labour party care about redundancy among those who don’t vote for them?
…Or even those that do when foreign millionaires come calling and strip steel workers of their pension funds?
The paper id dead long live the [new] paper.
It’s very rare I agree with something John Prescock says, in fact never. But the obese twat says this is just a stunt and I reckon that’s all it is. If The Sun goes 7 days as suggested, the same poisonous culture will continue. All Murdoch has done is to give himself a get out of jail free card. I imagine certain files and papers will mysteriously go missing during the shut down process.
Given that most of the hacking happened on Labour’s watch, it’s fairly obvious they knew what was going on but stayed silent to keep Murdoch on side. The inquiries should dig up who in Labour knew what was happening. I’m sure they benefited from some of the hackings.
Labour also failed to regulate the press when they had the chance in the late 90′s.
Keeping Murdoch on side was obviously far more important in those days. Perhaps Prescott would like to tell us why?
Once upon a time Journalists kept the most appalling dossiers on politicians–real, dirty,dirty dirt that was dynamite. Cottaging, wife-beating, serious kickbacks, alcoholism, Guardsmen on Hampsted Heath, mistresses, arab boys etc. Exposure or non was dependent on the Polictician’s relationship with the press, particularly the Press Barons (Older people will recall the private activities of Babara Castle, Wilson, George Brown, LOrd Boothby, Lord Wigg etc).
The really nasty attacks by Miliband, Prescott and others must mean that they have nothing in their lives to hide or they have just swallowed poison.
Newscorp stock up on the day, but still down on Friday’s close …
Ru (Rebekah speak) seems to have read (!) the situation well.
Memo to George: now would be a good day to hand even more money to the EU. Make it £10bn. Plus another £10bn to Africa. I don’t care how you fund it.. sell the Falklands or something.
I dont get it, close one paper so that the rest of the media can carry on as normal ?
What good will this do at all ?
He can’t close down. I haven’t finished feasting on this corpse. It will rot!
Ed Miliband has just been on BBC News 24. You can tell by his expression the guy is just not sincere. With Miliband it’s all about saving his own skin, it’s sickening to watch.
BBC coverage of this story is woeful.
true – i can’t wait to see sincere dave on – to restore my faith in human nature
Any chance of shutting the BBC down too?
I wonder if any BBC journos are worried.
Cant wait for NI revenge…………………………………
Don’t call us James, we’ll be calling you.
What about the fake sheikh?
Murdochs Cynical – Never….ha ha
Sunday Sun website was registered TWO DAYS ago!
As people have been saying,
Rupe is cute.
What’s the betting that we will soon see the launch of the “Sun On Sunday” using
the same offices, the same staff, and even the same moral standards as the NoW?
How could it be that the prime minister of the United Kingdom should have chosen as his mouthpiece the editor of a gutter rag, known only for smears, muck-raking, double standards, hypocrisy, error, and innuendo? Birds of a feather, Mr Cameron, birds of a feather…
bit harsh – dave felt that they were his kind of people.
and obviously did all the necessary due diligence
Thanks BBC/Guardian. Can I have my union fees back please?
Millibland so insincere on Sky.
Actually made my flesh creep.
Web addresses for the “seven day sun” and the “sun on sunday” were aquired two days ago – via Radio 4.
Maybe someone outside of the Murdoch empire taking a punt?
They’ve tightened up on that – Murdoch has lawyers who will ensure that anyone who has done that will make nothing and probably end up with a whopping great legal bill for their trouble.
Yum
Graun must be raging. NOTW shutting down pulls the chair out from under further investigation of NI and slows the momentum of this being a major story. Advertisers will love the clean break too.
News International 1, International Progressivism 0? Have to wait and see on that one.
Good to have you on board Voter. Would you like to enrol as a Special Constable. Interesting perks available.
Lucky for the BBC this has all blown up. They don’t have any other news. What is the license fee for?
Is Rebekah Brooks the new Fred Goodwin?
possibly – but, on balance, i’d rather fuck fred
Murdoch does nothing unless it benefits Murdoch.
Take no notice of whatever he says. It’s all bullshit.
Murdoch does nothing unless it benefits Murdoch.
Mark my words…
Read wot it says at the bottom. NI cares about the planet. We work hard to keep our Carbon Footprint neutral.
Sky News reports that the recently formed NOTW lynch mob is ready to sort Brooks out. I like the smell of toast…
Lots of people are speculating that Rupert is fucking me. Actually I am fucking him.
At least then he does not have to look at that face, which looks like a distressed or is it diseased, ginger minge!
Nothing wrong with a ginge! I personally love them … Just depends who it’s on…
Karen Gillan (Dr Who assistant): Yes please! Nom nom nom.
Gillian Anderson (arguably more auburn): Please, be my guest.
Rebekkkkahhh Brooks: Erm, no thanks. It’s probably in dreadlocks.
take a leaf out of one her old men’s books – back door job
Thankyou God.
Please, don’t call me God. You know it gives me an embarrassing semi-on.
“Check check check !
“HIT !”
“Shift Target Right !”
“Target acquired !”
“Visual ? !”.
“Target ‘Sun Newpaper’. Confirmed visual !”
“This is Captain Merry Marxist……… SHOOOT !”
Well done the Euro-Marxists, well done.
(Only Nixon could go to China. Only the ‘Conserv-it’s-self’ party could (will) introduce state censorship of the media to Britain)
Well done…….Clap clap clap clap clap,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Liberal Conspiracy are having a wankfest about how they got the NOTW to close. Lefties, delusional as ever.
Lefties are just Leftie Liberal Pricks…
Smoke and mirrors ( not Daily Mirror ) obviously.
So, it will be the Sun On Sunday with the same old scumbags at the helm and another bunch of scumbags manning the oars for the teflon digger!
You’ve got to laugh, Jame’s is obviously a chip of the old block, ” all advertising revenue from this sunday’s edition of the NOW will be distributed to good causes”
Oh, and then he says that they will not be accepting any commercial avertising on Sunday.
Tricky pair of bastards or what!
I think he said “all the revenue” – which would include sales receipts
Whenever a screw is turned down the Sun shines on a new day.
will the British Legion take a cheque from them?
Will they be offered one?
It’s now a Zero Carbon newspaper.
Let’s hope the NoWT goes out with a bang on Sunday.
A rogues gallery of all the establishment heads exposed over the years, with a round-up of their weird predilictions and transgressions.
Changing the name of the Srews will have as much of an effect on changing Murdoch’s reputation that Hazel Blears’ “refund” had at stopping the Expenses Scandal.
Watch out Daily Mail uyou upset Labour and the BBC. They wont stop until the BBC Labour Guardian axis rules
I am not a reader, and I have no time for Ned Kelly as he was called by the NOW staff in 1989 but the NOTW was a campaigning investigative paper that broke a lot of stories exposing the venality and obnoxiousness of the political class, the business class and the more recently the jobsworth class, as well as run of the mill crime and gossip. I believe that the rest of the print media are too prejudiced or too supine to tackle the stories that the NOTW could tackle so now we are left with only the partisan press and an adolescent blogosphere. God help us al who want to know the truth and have the sense to accept that journalism is a dirty game but an essential one.
Any truth in the rumour that Murdoch is planning a new paper; The Daily Planet?
This story has more twists and turns than gordon’s colon…what a move from the pressmeister…NOTW history…at a stroke…allocate funds to settle whoever and move on…we came we saw we didn’t like the implications for the future …kaput…masterly as ever. It will be interesting to see how the other papers particularly the mail and express will react when their own inevitable dubious tactics come to light.
“Yes, for the good of the Regiment, and because several officers behaved badly, I have decided to have you all shot at dawn!”
OFCOM NEWS Intl.
Has any one questioned the integrety of using Ofcom in the BSKYB thing?
You might want to check out their FoI disclosures and their attitude to the public interest.
TRY their commissioned report,
ERA Report 2008_0578, and all the difficulties in gaining access to the information and the “sir humphry” shananigans to assist the public disclosure of some serious problems covered in burocratic fog.
Would I be correct in thinking
Ofcom has its own agendawhich is at total odds with the public?
Sir Humphry would learn some new tricks.
That letter is a masterclass in how to run an evil empire. I can imagine him sat there stroking a white cat whilst dictatiing it.