Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"
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I have always boycotted all these.
Confess that I do watch some Fox stuff (Simpsons, Futurama adn films) though.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
The Sunday Sun is a regional rag, it would have to be 'The Sun On Sunday', or something similar - I seem to remember they are planning to combine the newsrooms of the two rags as a cost saving exercise, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did drop the NOTW brand at some point.
dennisr
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
My dad has been reading the NOTW for about 50 years, part of his routine on a Sunday - gets the People, the Mirror and the NOTW - I think he is mostly interested in the racing pages though as he spends an age over those, whilst watching his favourite TV channel , At the Races , I think its' called. I never buy those papers but a few times a year , if I'm there on a Sunday , I might have a peek. My dad probably won't change his routine at all, continue buying it, and when I do ask him why, he will no doubt reply "that's why' which is his response to any question he doesn't know the answer to, or can't be arsed thinking about
pk
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Not good enough. Nobody will get behind a rebrand.
Murdoch has to be taught a lesson once & for all. The entire family does.
bi0boy
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Why shouldn't he continue to buy it if he likes the racing pages? How many companies that have done bad things do you boycott?
pk
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True but not the point. Also, do we know the cops hadn't gained access via other means?
pk
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I would think the reasons are pretty fucking obvious.
These are precisely the people that need convincing.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I boycott Sky/News International , ever since the Wapping days, that wasn't my point though - I'd say there are a hard core of NOTW readers who will continue to read it - it sells about 2m a week?
Because there were ongoing murder investigations that needed to be concluded as rightly and as properly as they could be in the circumstances. Opening such a huge can of worms at the time would/could have diverted the course of justice in the cases involved.
It seems that the police/law courts/whoever have decided now is the time to deal with an increasing problem that is spoiling the free press, civil liberties, justice system and much more. This is HUGE for many, many reasons. A fundamental change in the politics of the World we live in. No surprise that new technologies are being abused for financial gain by evil fuckers, but it's reached the point when something has to be done.
This is the real Big Brother.
Yes, but that wouldn't stop Mulcaire, NotW et al. They've been blagging the long password that enables engineers to re-set your four-digit PIN when you forget it.
pk
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This isn't over until I hear news reports beginning "The tabloid newspaper News of the World is to cease publication after 168 years..."
bi0boy
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I'm sure there's a hard core of Primark shoppers and a hardcore of Nestle baby milk killer supporters, but such is capitalism.
pk
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This.
Cover price is about £1 isn't it?
If 50% boycott then only 1m sell.
That is £1m of lost revenue before you take out lost advertising revenue.
Might be rich but business costs are not going to go down by 50% are they? Things are just getting started too
pk
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Not like you to be so defeatist. Shit or get off the pot mate, there's work to be done.
pk
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Yup. Virgin is better anyway.
strung out
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and stop watching 20th century fox films, and the simpsons, oh and harper collins books are out too (list of authors you can't read anymore)
editor
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The difference with a Sky+ contract is that you're personally handling Murdoch your money each month.
pk
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One tree at a time, get NOTW shut down and the momentum will undoubtedly drag much of the other shit down too.
Most of the TV stuff is available via bittorrent.
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so going to the cinema to watch his films, and buying his books isn't personally handing murdoch your money?
shinkyshonky
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Now we have a advertising boycott going on, is it possible we could get the tweets/email addresses of guest columnists who write for NOTW, to try to get them to walk, this is in response to Martin Lewis`s stance on his column in the NOTW http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2011/07/06/my-column-at-the-news-of-the-world/
which I think is totally wrong
which I think is totally wrong
trashpony
Hag
Just take books out of the library - the author gets royalties, the publisher gets nowt
This would be the jewel in the crown but will take a long time.
pk
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Precisely. Lets focus on the trophy killing, the NOTW, then use that to go after the bigger fish.
The PR fallout and unification of folk from all walks of life will defeat them if the pressure is maintained.
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