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

[agricola]

Miliband being interviewed now, calling for Brooks to go. Do they really have him in exactly the same room and the same pose as his strikes interview?

edit: they have - except the lamp and some pictures have gone

 

[pk]

Aaaaahhhh rfom the BBC it seems the web addresses SunonSunday.com and SunonSunday.co.uk were registreed as web addresses 2 days ago by persons unknown.....

Could be some random chancer, might not be NI

 

[DaveCinzano]

Where on earth will shit films get their guaranteed 5 stars now?

Paul Ross still gives good gush for cash.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Aaaaahhhh rfom the BBC it seems the web addresses SunonSunday.com and SunonSunday.co.uk were registreed as web addresses 2 days ago by persons unknown.....

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

 

[sunny jim]

Any idea if the NOTW was making money? I seem to recall that the Times has been losing money for a while.

The Times was losing money and the NOTW was making enough to keep the Times going as well. This is a major victory, NOTW was the UK's most read sunday and now its no more. Sure another paper will be started but closing down such a widely read paper is not something the execs wanted to do.

 

[editor]

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

That could just be domain leeches though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Who is going to carry on the hunt for Maddie???

 

[ericjarvis]

"News of the World newsroom staff in tears I hear as paper is shutdown"

http://twitter.com/frasereC4/statuses/88999474776649728

(Ed Fraser, head of Home News at Channel 4 News)

I am so saddened by this, and so sympathetic, that I've had to turn the music up to drown out my hysterical laughter. I assume that they will all be malingering no good lazy dole scroungers from next week and I hope they all get the treatment they've been demanding for others.

 

[editor]

Reaction from Justice Secretary Ken Clarke: "All they're going to do is rebrand it".

 

[agricola]

Sky - there is a "lynch mob mentality" amongst NOTW staff for Rebekah Brooks. She needed security guards when she broke the news that they were being thrown under the bus on her behalf.

 

[sunny jim]

Could be some random chancer, might not be NI

Lets hope so

 

[dylans]

Sky - there is a "lynch mob mentality" amongst NOTW staff for Rebekah Brooks. She needed security guards when she broke the news that they were being thrown under the bus on her behalf.

Oh the irony

 

[ericjarvis]

wait till the shit hits the fan with the other press, then relaunch as the 'decent people's newspaper' - could be a clever move

If they actually operate with a decent standard of ethics then I'm all in favour of that. However I suspect what we all have to do is keep them under some serious scrutiny and make as much fuss as possible every time they "push the envelope".

I'd love there to be a decent newspaper, however there currently isn't a single decent national newspaper in the UK. Even the Guardian and the Independent have taken to printing propaganda pretty much verbatim and have relegated fact checking to an optional extra.

 

[dylans]

Dan Wooton, the showbiz editor of the NoW, has put out this "personal statement on News of the World phone hacking":

I'm not going to lie. Having a column in the News of the World this week has not been easy. Like you, I feel sickened by the stories about the alleged hacking of Milly Dowler and others' voicemail accounts. It is disgusting. To be honest, I feel sick about the hacking of anyone. I would NEVER even think about doing that or believe it is acceptable in any way. What I have to stress to you is this: I do NOT work for the newspaper you are reading about. The vast majority of my colleagues, including journalists and management, were not working on this newspaper during those years. There is a new regime in place here. I have only ever worked under Colin Myler as editor. Here's what he said yesterday about this situation. Now, just remember, my job is to bring you guys the best showbiz stories in the business week in week out – the X Factor, Cheryl and Ashley, Kate Moss, TOWIE and all of that good stuff. I do so in a legal, ethical and moral way and will continue to do so. Thank you so much for the people who understand that and have let me know during this difficult week.

Well for that alone, good fucking riddance

 

[pk]

Sky - there is a "lynch mob mentality" amongst NOTW staff for Rebekah Brooks. She needed security guards when she broke the news that they were being thrown under the bus on her behalf.

Nothing can save her. It's jail time.

 

[paolo]

Sky - there is a "lynch mob mentality" amongst NOTW staff for Rebekah Brooks. She needed security guards when she broke the news that they were being thrown under the bus on her behalf.

Sky not holding back... perhaps demonstrating that Murdoch doesn't yet have his majority control over them.

 

[Brainaddict]

That's like some joke front page. What's wrong with these people?

 

[agricola]

Nothing can save her. It's jail time.

I agree, its just mental to watch Murdoch trash so many of his own business interests, his own reputation and many of his staff for one person who isnt a relative, wasnt a great editor anyway and who is directly responsible for all the shit she has found herself in, in such an obviously futile attempt to save her.

 

[trabant]

"Shocked and saddened by closure of the News of the World. Scandals of past week indefensible, but has been a great British newspaper."

http://twitter.com/#!/piersmorgan/status/89008436796338176

 

[dylans]

This is all good stuff but it is clear that this was done so Murdoch could get the BSKYB takeover. We have to ensure that this doesn't happen

 

[pk]

I'd like to see Brooks get lynched, or thrown under a bus. Vile woman deserves it. Doubt she'd last long in jail.

 

[agricola]

This is all good stuff but it is clear that this was done so Murdoch could get the BSKYB takeover. We have to ensure that this doesn't happen

Thats probably what they have convinced themselves, but this is a profoundly stupid way to go about it.

 

[pk]

This is all good stuff but it is clear that this was done so Murdoch could get the BSKYB takeover. We have to ensure that this doesn't happen

Absolutely, this isn't over yet by a long chalk.

 

[Pickman's model]

Er .. I was parodying PKs argument.

which would explain why it was so shit

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd like to see Brooks get lynched, or thrown under a bus. Vile woman deserves it. Doubt she'd last long in jail.

you don't like bus drivers, do you?

 

[Treacle Toes]

Decision on BSkyB takeover postponed by government until September... ?

 

[Pickman's model]

I agree, its just mental to watch Murdoch trash so many of his own business interests, his own reputation and many of his staff for one person who isnt a relative, wasnt a great editor anyway and who is directly responsible for all the shit she has found herself in, in such an obviously futile attempt to save her.

yes, it's brilliant, isn't it?

 

[pk]

which would explain why it was so shit

And why you were too thick to understand it was sarcasm

 

[dylans]

Decision on BSkyB takeover postponed by government until September... ?

yeah in the hope that by then this will have calmed down and the bastard can do the deal.

 

[laptop]

If the NUJ won't defend their profession by imposing some basic moral standards then we should all boycott all British newspapers and broadcast news sources.

The NUJ Code of Conduct isn't dreadful. But (a) it's had no teeth since Thatcher outlawed the closed shop; and (b) almost all the few members within Fortress Wapping did their best to keep their membership secret from management, which was liable to fire them on some pretext if it found out.