"News of the World" UK Tabloild is History.

[CleanGreenFuture]

Sunday Edition will be its last.

Just reported on CNN

Edited: Still no link to offer but here's the Google News feed:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&tbm=nws&q=%22news+of+the+world%22&aq=f&aqi=g-z2g5&aql=&oq=

[JCMach1]

1. Beat me to it... take that RUPERT

this rag has been around since 1843.

[Renew Deal]

2. Wow

What happens to all those jobs?

[bigworld]

4. UK's #1 newspaper on Sunday

I always assumed it was a two bit player.

Thanks, wikipedia.

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

[beac]

13. Allegedly the highest circulation English language paper in the world.

Says something about us English speakers, eh?

I'm sure some other sleazoid will rise up to take its place. Probably another Murdoch-owned rag... unless this scandal can been proved to be company-wide (b/c you KNOW it is.)

[DainBramaged]

31. And the little people who desperately need jobs are on the street

Murdreck, close the paper down, quell talk about it till it is forgotten, settle with the harmed parties, move along here nothing to see.

[JCMach1]

47. Saw a report today that almost all of the reporters/editors had been replaced already

i.e. this isn't firing those who did the deed.

In fact, the top editors/executives are still in power.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Can it also be the last for Rupert's FOX News?

[CleanGreenFuture]

6. If the wiretapping being done by News Corp was endemic

throughout the entire company, we can certainly hope that Fox "News" will eventually be found to have committed the same offenses.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. wouldn't surprise me that it's going on

[Atman]

9. Fox "News" viewers won't care, because they won't know.

Fox "News" certainly won't report on this. And remember, the right is perfectly okay with warrentless wiretapping and unchecked spying. It's for the good of the country, you know. If those people on their cell phones had nothing to hide, why should they care that Rupert Murdoch is listening in on their calls?

:shrug:

Sometimes it pays to be a stupid idiot. Fox "News" viewers are a good case in point.

.

[CleanGreenFuture]

11. Does anyone know if they've even uttered a peep about this whole mess - like MSNBC and CNN have?

[beac]

5. Guessing that THIS was the final straw:

Apparently they "hacked into the phone messages of families of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/07/uk.phonehacking/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Good riddance to bad rubbish! Hoping Murdoch is weeping over his wallet as we speak.

Sick bastards. Now, when does the investigation of ALL of Murdoch's holdings begin???

[Tesha]

7. What happens to "the kind of a girl who makes 'The News of the World'"?

Another rock lyric lost to time!

Tesha

[KamaAina]

42. She goes back to Phoenix

'cause she's back on the chain gang with Sheriff Joke. :-)

[Armstead]

10. BBC saying Ruperts son is potentially in deep shit

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. The British are very good at not holding people accountable just like us here. I doubt

that there's going to be any consequences for the Cryptkeeper or his spawn.

[tsuki]

36. But, they can still be outraged. That is a big difference. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. Hey listen. As far as I'm concerned this is one of those things that I

want to be totally wrong about. They're already talking about the so called closing of the paper being just "re-branding". As if nothing happened.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

40. Like Blackwater renaming to Xe!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

43. And professional criminal douchebag Eric Prince riding into the sunset. nt

[malaise]

20. Great news

Hope the entire empire crashes
That they closed it down suggests that a lot more nastiness will be unearthed.

[tsuki]

34. That's why he was plucked from the UK and moved to NY. I think

Wade (Brooks) is set to take the fall.

[ikri]

46. Andy Coulson's the fall guy

Wade is apparently being protected for the time being whereas there's already evidence that Andy Coulson authorised payments to police and may have committed perjury over those payments (ironically in a trial over perjury).

Coulson though is close to David Cameron, having been hired by him as communications director (PR man) for the Conservative Party. If Coulson goes down then it either shows Cameron as having shocking judgement about those around him or he was aware of the allegations and chose to ignore them. Both options are pretty damaging for Cameron.

The absolute best thing that could come from all of this (since prosecuting Murdoch is highly unlikely) is that News Corp could fail the Fit and Proper test for media ownership in the UK which could lead to them having to sell off all of their media holdings in the UK.

[tsuki]

49. I believe Rebekah will fall also. She has been moved for heading

the investigation, and Rupert Roo is flying over there.

[PATRICK]

12. Despite the bluff

and the still craven approach of Murdoch influenced pols the damage is too great, the incidents are still entrenched in the whole org of that paper and could lead far beyond into the rest of the sorry "empire".

So shred the paper and what about the staff? Fly them out quick like the Saudis on 9/11?

Now the new line in the sand is to contain the investigation into a wrap up of the fish wrapper.

Still pretty clear that it is not only Murdoch British tabloids that are into Stazi methods. I would like to know if the UK corporate pals who "may" have been spied on or blackmailed by J. Edgar Murdoch are going to Enron his behind or would be content if his services were still needed to cut loose one company which he could buy back and "restore" to its proper dignity as a propaganda rag.

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. It's strange how the posts here on DU have you believe it's the end of the line for murdoch but

actual unbiased global news coverage paints quite a different picture.

[CleanGreenFuture]

18. Please do elaborate. I have not said anything close to it being the end for Murdoch.

And where is the unbiased news coverage you speak of?

[Shagbark Hickory]

28. Well you did say NOTW is history.

The British parliament is still calling for independent investigations. Which in American politics, translates to "lets do nothing".

To answer your other question, click the button below. Most of the news I get now comes from Al Jazeera and Deutche Welle and Democracy now which airs on Link TV.

[CleanGreenFuture]

32. News Corp is shutting it down. Does that not count as it being "history"? You obviously do not

understand the word "history"... as in the past, gone even. I said in my OP that the last edition of NOTW will be on Sunday, according to CNN. How can you not understand that?

[Shagbark Hickory]

45. Well, you *did* say that.

I did not hear that from any other source at this time.

I'm not calling you a liar or anything.

[LeftinOH]

16. Murdoch still has The Sun, which (I believe) is essentially the same thing. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Roughly the same, but produced by a different team

It's said The Sun will now start printing on Sunday. So effectively he's sacking one team (doubtless they'll take a few of them on for The Sun) and telling the other to expand to produce the company's Sunday tabloid.

Of course, the main problems found have tended to be from a few years ago, so those responsible aren't necessarily going to suffer. For instance, Rebekah Brooks, now head of Murdoch's papers in Britain, was the NotW editor at the time, and Rupert Murdoch has already said her job is safe.

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

:kick:

[DocMac]

19. Who's in jail???

[ProfessionalLeftist]

21. Too bad all of NewsCrap isn't gone. n/t

[CleanGreenFuture]

37. Give it time. I suspect maybe this has gone on throughout News Corp.

Of course, I'm merely speculating.

[LiberalAndProud]

22. We can celebrate the small victories.

Murdoch would like to see the damage confined to News of the World, I'm sure. Time will tell if he has a successful strategy.

[beac]

23. BBC link to story:

News of the World to close amid hacking scandal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

[CleanGreenFuture]

29. Thank you, beac. Good catch.

[beac]

33. The Independent on it now too:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/murdoch-notw-to-close-after-sunday-2308348.html

And the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/07/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-live-coverage

[progressoid]

24. Ouch - that will put a dent in his empire.

NOT

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

[SidDithers]

25. Everyday is worse than yesterday for Murdoch...nt

Sid

[DainBramaged]

26. This paragraph from the BBC story, if only he felt the same about those who FAUX has hurt

He added: "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."

[beac]

30. I'm amazed that his tongue didn't burst into flames and explode after saying that.

That is a WHOLE LOT of blatant lying and craven hypocrisy in a single sentence!

[Dappleganger]

35. boo YA!

:bounce: :toast: :applause: :rofl:

[beac]

39. Reading James Murdoch's quote in the Guardian article I can't help

but wonder if they are closing the NoW to make it harder for people to sue them?

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/07/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-live-coverage

I'm sure that "Compensation Scheme" is going to run dry long before everyone who they've wronged is satisfied. So, why not dissolve the company and argue for years in court that the parent company has no liability because they "didn't know" about the hacking? :mad:

[Erose999]

41. One cog in the Murdoch machine down, 700 or so to go LOL.

[Generic Other]

44. The same ones who filmed the sting with Duchess of York selling access to Prince Andrew

They should have known that messing with the Royal family like that might trigger some form of renewed scrutiny of their methods by the British authorities. Ha!

[Festivito]

48. This TRIES to compartmentalize the phone hacking scandal and bury it.

And, it tries to make a scapegoat of this paper's female head offering a lone-gunman lone-nut excuse right out of a public relations playbook to end the phone tapping scandal and save Rupert's son.

I ain't buying it.