'News Of The World' Phone-Hacking Scandal

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This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.

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

oh god i hope so

hi troon

but what will factory workers in northern england read at breaktime now?

oh yeah they still got the sun

they'll wait a while and bring out another rag with new name, same shite.

LOL, I can't believe they killed it. It makes sense, but that was a quick decision.

Allegedly the Sun are moving to a 7-day rotation though.

I worked at the NOTW for a few weeks in 2010 (I think, maybe 2009) and there was a terrible life-size portrait of Murdoch in the grand hallway.

Incidentally they had me cold-calling readers, extracting quotes and trying to arrange formal interviews. Unfortunately the subject was mobile-phone-recycling, so it's not dishy.

The office were generally cool though. Some of the women were hot and one of the reporters had just infiltrated the BNP party. The Editor was understandably stressed and usually acting like a cunt, but it was considered completely normal with his role. He rode a motorbike.

Farewell NOTW. Now my CV will look even more interesting, although there'll be a few hundred more journalists looking for work.

Oh, their celebrity-gossip guru, Dan Wootton(?), is a cunt. And although I realise that the entertainment reviews were glorified adverts I had no love for their Scottish film reviewer either.

unrelated but on the subject of shit newspapers i lolled in the newsagents yesterday... one of those tit rags had fake glamour pics of kate middleton massive on the front page. i had to stop for a while and fiddle for change in my pocket. she looked very naughty indeed.

  On 7/7/2011 at 6:20 PM, Gary C said:

I worked at the NOTW for a few weeks in 2010 (I think, maybe 2009)

It was late summer 2009...

Anyway, this is a bit of a surprise - but you can definitely expect the Sunday Sun or something similar to replace it. NOTW was essentially just the Sun's sunday edition anyway, as MoS is to the Daily Mail and the Observer is to the Guardian.

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Newspapers simply can't keep up nowadays, and grey areas of legality are the only way to get a dishy story out of a saturated media. How can a Sunday gossip-rag stay ahead of the curve when their readers get a constant feed of tailored news every second of the day? It can't.

It will be rebranded, but this is the first nail in the coffin of print journalism.

The sun will be out on a sunday now, 70% of the workers will be from NOTW anyway.

thesunonsunday.co.uk was bought a few days ago apparently.

Even though I know it will soon be old news and forgotten about by the herd, I still can't stop myself feeling a giddy glee whenever I read a new story about the NOW's world crumbling.

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:28 PM, Gary C said:

It will be rebranded, but this is the first nail in the coffin of print journalism.

the first? that coffin's got more nails than a skanky old hairdresser.

but magazine subscriptions among young people are up, apparently. disclaimer: i read that in a magazine.

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:49 PM, luke viia said:

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:28 PM, Gary C said:

It will be rebranded, but this is the first nail in the coffin of print journalism.

 

the first? that coffin's got more nails than a skanky old hairdresser.

 

but magazine subscriptions among young people are up, apparently. disclaimer: i read that in a magazine.

I subscribe to a magazine. In fact, it's a magazine that posts all of its content online for free - but I still pay for the print edition because I prefer it (and I like to support it).

The gutter press is sitting in its own gutter is LMAO

  On 7/7/2011 at 9:28 PM, Iain C said:

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:49 PM, luke viia said:

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:28 PM, Gary C said:

It will be rebranded, but this is the first nail in the coffin of print journalism.

 

the first? that coffin's got more nails than a skanky old hairdresser.

 

but magazine subscriptions among young people are up, apparently. disclaimer: i read that in a magazine.

 

I subscribe to a magazine. In fact, it's a magazine that posts all of its content online for free - but I still pay for the print edition because I prefer it (and I like to support it).

i too subscribe to magazines. 12 issues for $10 ain't so bad - and then people come over and say "oh, you're subscribed to _____! anything good in this issue?" and i say, "look for yourself!" and they shut the fuck up and read something for a bit. pure class.

  On 7/7/2011 at 9:28 PM, Iain C said:

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:49 PM, luke viia said:

  On 7/7/2011 at 7:28 PM, Gary C said:

It will be rebranded, but this is the first nail in the coffin of print journalism.

 

the first? that coffin's got more nails than a skanky old hairdresser.

 

but magazine subscriptions among young people are up, apparently. disclaimer: i read that in a magazine.

 

I subscribe to a magazine. In fact, it's a magazine that posts all of its content online for free - but I still pay for the print edition because I prefer it (and I like to support it).

SOS?

break this down for non uk residents pls.

News of the World is a 168 year old Sunday newspaper over in Blighty which has been owned by Rupert Murdoch for the last 40 years.

It's typical tabloid really, sensationalism and celebrity gossip are its bread and butter.

In the last few years a recurring story in the British papers is about tabloids hacking into politicians phones to find dirt on them. In recent times it has come to light that a few papers but especially the News of the World have been hacking into phones of missing children which have been major stories from one time to another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler

This particular one kicked off a big scandal when it turned out that the paper had deleted some voicemails on the phone while she was missing and still presumed alive to make space for more messages that they can report as news. The public were outraged and so were politicians and people in the public eye who need some good publicity. Namely Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour party (who lost the last election) who is going to use this ammunition against the current PM who hired an ex editor of the News of the World who as it turns out is being arrested tomorrow regarding this whole phone hacking scandal.

Also the recent news of Rupert Murdoch being able to buy BSkyB, essentially monopolising news media over here has made this a bigger story.

As a result the News of the World are calling it a day. But the smart money is on The Sun (sort of the weekday brother of News of the World) making a Sunday edition which will pretty much be the same paper anyway. It's all PR.

Did I miss anything?

Pretty much it. There's the paying police for info too. C4 news tonight there was an anon. victim of a sex assault whose details had been sold. Strangely the video of the segment says it's private, but you can check it on the channel (hopefully) http://www.youtube.com/user/Channel4News

good riddance

lol

You tell 'em troon. Fight the power.