Jackirius Posted 5 July 2011 Posted 5 July 2011 The blame lies at any cretin who buys this rag. Get off
Bellend Sebastian Posted 5 July 2011 Posted 5 July 2011 Where the f*** will this one end? Apologies if link doesn't work (doing this on my phone) but you'll get the idea anyway: telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8619373/News-of-the-World-bereaved-relatives-of-77-victims-had-phones-hacked.html No wonder Mulcaire is in apologetic mood (probably been speaking to his lawyers). Rumours flying around that Brooks will be gone in the morning
l444ry Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 Interesting how few Tory and Coalition traitors stood up to support Chris Bryant's Commons emergency debate motion yesterday...
breadandcheese Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 Interesting how few Tory and Coalition traitors stood up to support Chris Bryant's Commons emergency debate motion yesterday... In all honesty, it's a genuinely difficult one as a government should not have any place restricting a free press. That doesn't mean i condone the actions of the journalists and newspaper involved. You'd have to be pretty depraved to believe their conduct is acceptable (so like everyone else I hope the police bring charges against those responsible for the phone hacking). However, the only statements any government, or indeed any politician from any party can give, is one of disgust and the calling for an independent investigation. All political parties have done this. Other than that, it's letting the police and Ofcom / Press Complaints Commission do their work. I'd feel pretty uncomfortable if the government legislated to tell journalists and the press how to do their jobs.
FoxyPV Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/news-of-the-world-ford-advertising Ford, Orange, T-Mobile, Halifax and others contemplate pulling their advertising from NOTW related newspapers
stripeyfox Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 In my view it has always been a shitty little paper but I suppose it was harmless enough (or so we thought) . Then all the phone hacking comes out -i mean it's one thing to listen to Gazza's messages, but recently kidnapped children? Families of people killed in terrorist attacks? Who else? Probably anybody by the sounds of it. Be nice if all the advertisers pull their £££ from NOTW and people stop buying it totally.
accessory Posted 6 July 2011 Author Posted 6 July 2011 They even hacked the phones of relatives of war victims It's becoming a question of when, not if, heads will roll. Hopefully Murdoch's will be one of them.
BlueSi13 Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 This is staggering. Beyond depraved. Will questions be raised about the future of the free press? Are Murdoch & Co propping up their freedoms by feeding off ours? Do boundaries need to be imposed on how "free" a free press is allowed to be? I can see this rumbling on for a long time.
Fosse Boy Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 The blame lies at any cretin who buys this rag. Well said.
Jackirius Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 Fvckwits like you then? No, I've never bought a newspaper in my life, and the sun/notw would be bottom of my list if I did. I just disagree that everyone who buys the paper is a 'cretin', in fact, if you have the audacity to say something like that and stereotype a large section of a population just under the pretense of what newspaper they buy, I think you need to have a look in the mirror at who is the real 'cretin'. By the way i am not arguing for what the notw did, i think it's appalling.
Wymsey Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 Where the f*** will this one end? Sadly I think this'll be going on for weeks. Far from conclusion as there's been significant breaking news concerning this disgraceful act popping up now and then.
Itsthejoeker Posted 6 July 2011 Posted 6 July 2011 Sadly I think this'll be going on for weeks. Far from conclusion as there's been significant breaking news concerning this disgraceful act popping up now and then. Correction, years.
OzFox Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 They even hacked the phones of relatives of war victims It's becoming a question of when, not if, heads will roll. Hopefully Murdoch's will be one of them. Dream on. The big boys will all distance themselves, and a few low-level journos and private investigators will be thrown to the wolves. That's usually the way of it.
Webbo Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 What did they hope to learn hacking the phones of victims families?
FoxyPV Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 What did they hope to learn hacking the phones of victims families? I'm just guessing anything that the police had told the families but not released to the general public?
accessory Posted 7 July 2011 Author Posted 7 July 2011 Dream on. The big boys will all distance themselves, and a few low-level journos and private investigators will be thrown to the wolves. That's usually the way of it. There's been a steady drip of revelations as the week has gone on. The practice clearly went much deeper than was first supposed. The stampede of companies rushing to cancel advertising deals with the NotW (an action unprecedented in modern media history) indicates the extent of public revulsion. But it's not just the fact that these reprehensible acts occurred which is so damning for Murdoch, but the extensive attempts to cover them up which will cast doubts over his future. Police and politicians also have a lot to answer for over their role in this squalid episode.
Guest Bilo Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 Anything that damages that disgusting individual Rupert Murdoch is just fine by me. His entire media empire is built on deceit, corruption and outright lies. This is their biggest crisis ever and their most heinous crime, topping even the Gotcha headline and the Hillsborough lies. The growing advertising boycott is fantastic news and I sincerely hope the misery continues for News International.
breadandcheese Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 I can understand the revulsion at the journalists involved, but I'm interested to know why there is such revulsion towards Rupert Murdoch.
Jon the Hat Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 I cannot think about this too much, it makes me both angry and upset in equal measure. The Milly Dowler incident in particular as that is close to home.
Guest Bilo Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 I can understand the revulsion at the journalists involved, but I'm interested to know why there is such revulsion towards Rupert Murdoch. His constant use of his influence to get politicians in his back pocket for one, the fact that his newspapers show endemic levels of corruption, bigotry in the case of his redtops and Fox News and the Economist's report in 1999 that showed Newscorp Investments had made £11bn in profits but didn't pay anything like the requisite amount of corporation tax thanks to use of tax havens. Murdoch is most definitely not a force for good in international media.
Zingari Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 I can understand the revulsion at the journalists involved, but I'm interested to know why there is such revulsion towards Rupert Murdoch. i think there are deep suspicions that he actually pulls a few strings in the organisation and he's prepared to turn a blind eye so long as he gets results . The only thing that concerns him is that journos don't get caught . Employers often use devious underhand tactics to achieve their goals and cover their own arses when things go wrong Other than that, Rupert is a fookin silly name and deserving of revulsion
accessory Posted 7 July 2011 Author Posted 7 July 2011 I can understand the revulsion at the journalists involved, but I'm interested to know why there is such revulsion towards Rupert Murdoch. Because on too many occasions, his publications in the UK and elsewhere have gained a reputation for bigotry, jingoism (ironic on several levels, especially given Murdoch's own history and the current furore) and even fiction. It's not unfair to describe him as a cancer on journalism.
Alexikokopops Posted 7 July 2011 Posted 7 July 2011 This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World
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