Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[likesfish]

tightropes are of course not famous for their explosive quality. i think you meant to say he faces the possibility of being blown off (ooer missus) by a great gust of hot air. which would have made more sense.

unless somebody replaces said tight rope with for example det cord.
then it will

 

[claphamboy]

Looks like Tesco could be back-paddling over their recent statement.

13.29 Harry Wallop, our Consumer Affairs Editor, says Tesco is under fire from its customers for putting out a "disgraceful" statement, updating its position about advertising in the NOTW.

I happened to be chatting to a board director of Tesco last night and they said it would be wrong for the supermarket to pull advertising from the paper, while an official investigation was underway.

The statement Tesco put on Facebook this lunchtime said: "Some people have asked what action Tesco will take. We sympathise with their concern and understand their impatience. But we believe the absolute priority now is for the allegations to be investigated thoroughly and properly."

This appeared to be a confirmation that Tesco -- News of the World's 5th biggest advertiser, spending £1 million a year -- would continue to advertise. I tweeted as such.

I've just had a call from Tesco's press office saying the statement can not be interpreted as the company continuing adverts and that my tweet was wrong. "But does that mean you are not advertising with News of the World this weekend?", I asked. "We can't say."

Their customers have reacted with a similar sense of frustration that I felt, with one comment on Facebook summing it up neatly: "Tesco, get a spine." Another said: "Get off the fence!"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...707/News-of-the-World-phone-hacking-live.html

Get those tweets in...

@UKTesco Until you withdraw your ads from #notw, I'll be withdrawing my shopping from Tesco & returning to [insert Sainsbury's, Co-op or Asda].

 

[Badgers]

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[ViolentPanda]

Besides, the boss himself always was a poor man's Robert Maxwell.

Let's hope this episode is Murdoch's Lady Ghislane..

Except I doubt Murdoch will be obliging enough to follow his own stream of piss off the prow of a yacht and into the briny, the miserable old cunt!

 

[ElizabethofYork]

What are you personally going to do to Tescos, out of curiosity?

Maybe he'll refuse to shop there any more. He'll buy his beans from Sainsbury's instead. Pow! That'll fuck em hard in the face.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes you are right. The relish and speed with which people have put the boot into Murdoch has come from nowhere and has no basis in decades of anipathy coming mainly from the politcal left. In fact its year zero and its all happening in a vacumn.

that's because you don't understand it. it's not come from nowhere, and only a thick fuck would suggest it had. it's similar to the reaction people have when they see that a friend has let them down or fucked them over very badly, and any sort of amity turns to hatred.

for politicians, however, as has been pointed out a lot of them have wanted to put the boot in for some time but hadn't dared.

 

[Teaboy]

The Tory right has been sharpening their knives for him since he became leader. They knew they needed him to get a sniff of power, but if they can use this as a reason for an internal coup, to get one of their own in the driving seat, they will.

Yeah they're not impressed with disco and only went along with his crap so they could get elected and he couldent even do that properly. Question is who is their starlet waiting in the wings? Surely not London botherer Boris?

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's not complacency, it's corruption.

The former does facilitate the latter, though.

 

[Idris2002]

Something like this....

"Hi Id like to make an enquiry about a corporate subscription?"

"Certainly sir"

"Nahh not really, you bunch of cunts"

Hang on, maybe you shouldn't target the poor sods who have to man the phones as well?

 

[smokedout]

that's because you don't understand it. it's not come from nowhere, and only a thick fuck would suggest it had. it's similar to the reaction people have when they see that a friend has let them down or fucked them over very badly, and any sort of amity turns to hatred.

this is a good point, but is that what's really going on

 

[laptop]

2,606,397 average circulation per week... so £2,606,397

Less distributors' and newsagents' cut. Small magagazines get only 45 per cent of the cover price from the distributors. NotW may do better, but not much. Say £1.5M max.

 

[pk]

Boycott it like the rest of us?

To put it in stark terms - any firm continuing to fund NOTW is effectively CONDONING the hacking of the war dead, 7/7 victims & the families of murdered children.

With all that that entails.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Dixons has pulled its advertising with the News of the World. Graeme Wearden emails:

Business editor Julia Finch tells me that Dixons, the high street retail chain, has decided to pull its advertising from the News of the World "until further notice". The company, which was ranked 16th in our list of the top 50 advertisers, is expected to release a statement soon.

 

[Badgers]

Hang on, maybe you shouldn't target the poor sods who have to man the phones as well?

Nothing wrong with wasting their time so they can't book as many corporate subscriptions is there?
They will still get paid

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yeah they're not impressed with disco and only went along with his crap so they could get elected and he couldent even do that properly. Question is who is their starlet waiting in the wings? Surely not London botherer Boris?

Boris, despite coming across like Forrest Gump, is canny. He'd probably avoid stepping into "dead man's shoes", because then he'd have to do all the hard work in salvaging the Tory brand (such as it is). I'd reckon on Iain Duncan Shit or David Davis being in the running with the backing of the Tory grandees, though.

 

[Badgers]

Less distributors' and newsagents' cut. Small magagazines get only 45 per cent of the cover price from the distributors. NotW may do better, but not much. Say £1.5M max.

Yeah, so about £75-80m a year?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It is snowballing.

Soon nobody will want to be the last donkey in the paddock, and they'll all go.

 

[Santino]

trouble is - the cupboard's bare of potential leaders - who do they have?

Jeremy Hunt? He was doing ok until this bit him on the arse
The Boy Chancellor? - lol
Michael Gove?
Kenneth Clarke - oh yes, the Right hate him too

David Davis perhaps. Or Hague again as a temporary pair of 'safe hands'.

 

[Pickman's model]

this is a good point, but is that what's really going on

obviously it's a bit more complicated that that, but it's fucking stupid to say it's all come out of nowhere. another motor driving this is that people like being part of a good feeding frenzy, which builds up its own momentum. given the number of people the news of the world has managed to offend, it's no great surprise that so many people have involved themselves in it.

 

[Kaka Tim]

The Tory right has been sharpening their knives for him since he became leader. They knew they needed him to get a sniff of power, but if they can use this as a reason for an internal coup, to get one of their own in the driving seat, they will.

Ah yes - a properly no-nonsnese right wing leader - just what the country is crying out for!

Can they really be that deluded? (well yes - of course they can)

Disco Dave is obviously a grade A cunt, but he has the ability to communicate effectively and like a human being - a skill that eludes nearly all the rest of his party.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Or Hague again as a temporary pair of 'safe hands'.

This sounds most likely. In fact, many would probably see Hague as PM as the correcting of an error in the first place.

 

[krtek a houby]

To put it in stark terms - any firm continuing to fund NOTW is effectively CONDONING the hacking of the war dead, 7/7 victims & the families of murdered children.

With all that that entails.

I don't dispute that, said as much a few pages back.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I can sense a momentous change coming! Media will be changed forever after this make no doubt about it!

 

[Idris2002]

Nothing wrong with wasting their time so they can't book as many corporate subscriptions is there?
They will still get paid

Just don't be verbally abusive to them personally, that's all I'm saying!

 

[Pickman's model]

Ah yes - a properly no-nonsnese right wing leader - just what the country is crying out for!

Can they really be that deluded? (well yes - of course they can)

Disco Dave is obviously a grade A cunt, but he has the ability to communicate effectively and like a human being - a skill that eludes nearly all the rest of his party.

no, hitler was a grade a cunt, stalin was a grade a cunt, so cameron's at best a grade b cunt. unless you know something you'd like to share with the rest of us.

 

[pk]

Maybe he'll refuse to shop there any more. He'll buy his beans from Sainsbury's instead. Pow! That'll fuck em hard in the face.

Actually that's a £150 per week spend, combine that with several schools worth of purchase power and that's my local branch wondering what happened. Get the likes of Mumsnet & other groups who make supermarket runs and yes, that's going to hurt them.

Their cash pays for Mulcaire and co. It's that simple.

 

[claphamboy]

Get those tweets in...

@UKTesco Until you withdraw your ads from #notw, I'll be withdrawing my shopping from Tesco & returning to [insert Sainsbury's, Co-op or Asda].

And copy it to their CEO - @clarkepatesco

 

[Teaboy]

David Davis perhaps. Or Hague again as a temporary pair of 'safe hands'.

Not after the mess he made of Libya. David Davis maybe, with Boris as a wildcard. Although theres little doubting Boris is a cunt it would be quite funny to have him as pm for a week, if just to troll the rest of the world.

 

[Badgers]

Just don't be verbally abusive to them personally, that's all I'm saying!

No need, just tie their time up a bit with some friendly chat.
What are they going to do, make outgoing calls to keen subscribers?

Would you have gone to work at the NOTW today?

 

[claphamboy]

Maybe he'll refuse to shop there any more. He'll buy his beans from Sainsbury's instead. Pow! That'll fuck em hard in the face.

Why don't you just fuck off?