Murdoch journalists stunned by paper's closure

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/07/uk-newscorp-mood-idUKTRE7667CE20110707

(Reuters) - Journalists at the tabloid shut down by Rupert Murdoch broke down in tears on Thursday and expressed shock, sadness and fury at the unexpected fallout of a phone hacking scandal.

Many blamed Murdoch's most senior British newspaper executive and close confidante - Rebekah Brooks - for the bolt from the blue which will put dozens, maybe hundreds, of employees of the financially successful newspaper out of work.

News International, Murdoch's company, is standing by Brooks who was editor of the News of the World when some of the gravest offences were alleged to have taken place.

"They're closing down a whole newspaper just to protect one woman's job," one reporter who asked not to be named told Reuters. "There is a feeling of seething anger and pure hatred towards her. People are just in a complete state of shock."

[RagAss]

1. Don't cry...there's plenty of jobs at FOX for y'all !

[ixion]

2. News of the World had been around for more than a century before being purchased by Murchoch

So I don't think it's really fair to call those journalists FAUX'ers.

[malaise]

3. My grandparents and mother and father

used to go to reading rooms and tea room gardens to watch the News of the World News on the wide screen.

It was quite an event - like watching international news on TV.
News of the World was an institution in British Colonies.

[sarge43]

4. Work for monster, expect to be treated monstrously.

Where was the outrage when the families of dead soldiers and murdered children were being hacked?

Boo-frackin'-hoo.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. When you help the scorpion cross the river don't be surprised....

when you get stung.

[madrchsod]

6. this is the best one of all the hitler youtubes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtk3yLVUOKg

[SpiralHawk]

12. "Serious people don't write blogs." - ROFLMO

"I have a blog." - Hitler

[marmar]

7. Rupert Murdoch reminds me of the media baron in the James Bond flick "Tomorrow Never Dies"

...... whose real ambition was to control the world.

[Botany]

8. FYI; looks like they are just moving operations to another

.... paper.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4910157&mesg_id=4910599

[spanone]

9. murdoch doesn't employ anything close to journalists

[snooper2]

10. man Brooks is one creepy looking motherfucker...

[Blue_Tires]

11. She should have been the first one to go; instead they cut loose the peons

I wonder what's protecting her? She must know where ALL the bodies are buried for Rupert and the PM

[Brickbat]

13. Good thing they weren't unionized -- it's clear the company was like one big family and they could

all look out for themselves.