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Could someone please send a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary to the news of the world so they can look up the meaning of the word privacy
and sleaze as well as gutter journalism.Quote:
Originally Posted by pipette
People should boycott the News of the World and The Sun in protest. It is absolutely disgusting that these papers paid a scummy gumshoe money to listen into peoples calls just to get some dirt to sell their rags. The buck must stop with the formed Mrs Ross Kemp. Her position is untenable. She should do the only decent thing and resign
The whole thing makes me sick! I, for one, will not be buying these papers any more, that is the only way I can protest.
The S*n is already boycotted by Liverpool fans after what they said a few days after Hillsborough but it does look as though the general opinion of the public is for both to be boycotted especially after what came out this morning about them hacking the phones of the victim's family of the 7/7 bombings
There is a line in this world that you do not cross and the news of the world are so far past that line that they can't even see it any more, it was shocking enough when it was celebrities but they were also targeting the puplic at the most upsetting and destressing times of their lives. Unbelievable. They've gone too far
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mS Brooks and Mr Coulslan must be held accountable for this disgusting act to sell newspapers. No body really cared when it was celebs but targetting families who have lost loved ones through such horror is unforgivable. Cameron won't bring them to justice because they are in Murdoch's back pocket, but they can't get away with this.
The Royal British Legion has dropped the News of the World as its campaigning partner after allegations that the newspaper may have hacked into the phones of bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. :thumbsup:
The Daily Telegraph yesterday claimed that the phone numbers of dead service personnel's relatives were found in the files of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who worked on behalf of the News of the World before being jailed for phone hacking.
This followed claims that the paper also hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, as well as families of people who died in the 7/7 London bombings, among others.
Military charity the Royal British Legion expressed its "revulsion" at the latest phone hacking allegations against the embattled Sunday tabloid, and said that it has "suspended all relations with the newspaper pending a resolution of the allegations".
The Legion said that its advertising budget with News International, parent company to the News of the World, is also "under review". The charity currently takes advertising space in The Sun and The Sun's Forces Channel online to promote its welfare services for Armed Forces personnel and their families.
A spokesman said: "We can't with any conscience campaign alongside News of the World on behalf of Armed Forces families while it stands accused of preying on these same families in the lowest depths of their misery. The hacking allegations have shocked us to the core."
Previously, the legion has teamed up with the News of the World to campaign on Military Covenant issues, and it was preparing to launch another campaign with the paper to save the chief coroner's office from being abolished.
"Clearly, it would make a mockery of that campaign to go hand-in-hand with News of the World," the spokesman added. "We think we'll do better without them."
Kevin Hart, one of the Legion's lawyers who has worked closely with bereaved military families, said that he was "appalled that their private lives could have been invaded".
"The Royal British Legion does its utmost to provide assistance and comfort to these bereaved families, who deserve the nation's utmost gratitude and respect," he added. "To think anyone would exploit their grief is frankly sick-making."
Michele Price, another of the Legion's lawyers, said: "The Legion acts as their voice and their champion. I feel that my families would expect inhuman behaviour on a remote battlefield but not at the hands of Fleet Street."
The Legion added its voice to calls for a full judicial review into the phone hacking scandal, including "powers to call evidence and examine witnesses under oath".
Ford has already announced plans to pulls its advertising from News International due to the scandal, with a range of other companies also currently reviewing their options. :cheer:
Lets all boycott The Sun and the News of the World. Only a small gesture but if lots of people get involved then it would hit them where it hurts. We could even decide not to post any stories or spoilers that appear in these two rags on this forum.
Would that include the posts copied from Digital Spy?
Im game if you are. I know its only a small gesture but the more I think about this scum the angrier I become. When I think about how the parents of Milly Dowler must feel and now the relatives of dead servicemen there is only one course of action left open to Rebekkah and that is to accept responsibility for what happened and seek alternative employmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
The news of the world has announced it will cease publication after this weekend's edition
more to follow....
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NEWS OF THE WORLD TO CEASE PUBLICATION THIS SUNDAY
Damage limitation by James Murdoch. Mea culpa – and with one bound he was free. Murdoch values Rebekah Brooks so much he is prepared to scacrifice the NOTW in order to keep her.Daring move to wrong foot opponents. He’ll hope that’s it……..it won’t be …..see you outside Wapping tomorrow. Printers celebration party!
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Call me an old cynic, but I can't help thinking that this move by Murdoch is not solely one of contrition.
He'll now be in a better position to get his hands on 100% of BSkyB and then, later this year or early next year, we will see the launch of the Sun on Sunday....
I am absolutely certain that the NOTW will be replaced in no time, probably been working on that for a while now
I am just sad for the innocent people who had nothing to do with this, who are now losing their jobs :(
You are not an old cynic. As you predicted the NOTW will survive as The Sun on Sunday although that's what I thought it already was.Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
200 people lose their jobs and the Chief Executive keeps hers. The situation is disgusting. People really should boycott all Murdochs rags now. I have no doubt lots of the information obtained from these illegal activities was used in stories in the Sun
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What do you say??
Rumours are circulating that News International intends to launch The Sun on Sunday to replace the outgoing News of the World.
James Murdoch announced today that News of the World will close on Sunday following the ongoing phone hacking scandal.
On July 5, the domain name www.sunonsunday.com was registered by an unknown company. Several politicians and media commentators have speculated that News International are the owners of the domain name and are intending to re-brand their profitable newspaper.
Lord Prescott described the closure as "a management stunt" and said that the paper will "no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun".
Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke agreed, saying: "All they're going to do is rebrand it."
Former Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Ben Bradshaw said: "The News of the World closure announcement is a smokescreen. News International were planning a seven-day operation anyway. It doesn't address alleged crimes under the editorship of [Rebekah] Brooks."
> Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson to be arrested, says report
> James Murdoch backs Rebekah Brooks after News of the World closure
Meanwhile, former Independent on Sunday editor Peter Wilby said: "I'd wager, [not] a single Sunday will pass without a Murdoch tabloid appearing on the streets. After the News of the World's final issue this weekend, which will contain no commercial advertising and which will, we are told, devote its circulation revenues solely to good causes, expect a Sun on Sunday to appear the following week."
News International had previously announced plans to extend its main papers to a seven-day output.
However, The Sunday Sun is already a newspaper in Newscastle, owned by Trinity Mirror, which Rupert Murdoch tried to buy in the 1970s, although the title Sun on Sunday is available.
Speculation of a Sun on Sunday has also reached Twitter, with TV presenter Richard Madeley saying: "I don't think a Sunday Sun would succeed as things stand - people aren't stupid. But I'm sure this is all about protecting the BSkyB buyout."
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow said: "Watch for the Sunday Sun the Sunday after the News of the World dies this weekend?...at the rising of The Sun a going down of the scandal?"
Surely this is going to be the same paper under a different name, probably using the same tactics to get their headlines?
The News of the World really was just a Sunday version of the SUN
Yeah give it a couple of months and NOTW will be back under a new name with the same trashy gutter press news, with Ms Brooks still at the helm. How can people like Murdoch believe she had nothing to do with the hacking is a joke. She was the editor for ffs she had to have known what her staff were up to.Quote:
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It has just been revealed that when ET phoned home the NOTW hacked the
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I guess that's a NO then http://www.soapboards.co.uk/forums/s...897#post751897Quote:
Originally Posted by alan45
Was a snippet I heard on my local radio show where they talk about upcoming soap storylines and other showbusiness news.
LOL Its still from the SUn. Not much different from reposting it from DS. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
The more I see and hear of Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks the angrier I become.
What about you?:
http://www.soapboards.co.uk/forums/s...911#post751911
I could have deleted the reference to the NOTW and just left the bit from the Sport in it but then iy would have been out of context. However I see the full article from the Sun has been published pratically verbatim http://www.soapboards.co.uk/forums/s...922#post751922 so I may as well continue posting from The SunQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
1. The way I see it, you chose not to follow your own suggestion by posting about an article in the NOTW, if you really felt that strong about it, you should not have posted it at all.
2. Nobody actually openly agreed with your suggestion about the boycott and I personally doubt that Rupert Murdoch will go broke if nobody mentions their articles on an internet forum. Not buying his newspapers could make a difference but I would be interested to see whether the sales of The Sun have been affected and if the replacement for the NOTW is cheaper than the other Sunday papers and/or has plenty of money off coupones/fancy competitions, I can see that selling well too, regardless.
3. I also do not believe that only NOTW and The Sun journalists use sleeze and illegal ways to get their headlines, every editor of a Fleet Street newspaper wants front page headlines and exclusive reports, so I will not be surprised if later this year more journalists working for different newspapers will be revealed to have used dirty tricks to get their stories.
Thank you for your post. I know my protest was small but it reminded me of the words of Martin Niemöller a German Pastor during WWIIQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
We will have the Sunday Sun soon enough more money for Murdoch
I wish I was as sure of winning the lottery as I am about this. IMHO the NOTW was just the Sun on Sunday anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
We can only hope this Scuppers his plans to gain the remaining 61% of BSkyB.
I see the latest news is that both the Sunday Times and The Sun (Under the fragrant Rebecca's editorship) targetted Gordon Brown using some rather dubious practices.
Perhaps the Dirty Digger will have to close down both of them now as well.
I think he would close down anything in his quest to gain overall control of BSkyB. The man must think he is going to live for ever. This present government and its predecessors have only themselves to blame for the rise of this Meglomaniac and his flame haired manipulatorQuote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
News Corporation has withdrawn its bid for BSkyB, Sky News City editor Mark Kleinman has exclusively revealed.
More follows ...
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has announced that it is dropping its planned bid to take full ownership of satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
The announcement came as the House of Commons was preparing to vote for a motion calling on Mr Murdoch to do so.
All three major party leaders had said they supported the motion, which would not be legally binding on News Corp.
The decision follows days of allegations about phone hacking by News Corp subsidiary News International.
'Huge humiliation'
"We believed that the proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation would benefit both companies, but it has become clear that it is too difficult to progress in this climate," said News Corp deputy chairman and president Chase Carey in a statement.
"News Corporation remains a committed long-term shareholder in BSkyB. We are proud of the success it has achieved and our contribution to it."
BSkyB's share price briefly dropped following the announcement to about 4% down for the day, before recovering.
The company has fallen some 20% since peaking a week ago, and is trading at a level not seen since News Corp first announced its bid plans in June last year.
A spokesman for the prime minister David Cameron welcomed the news: "As the prime minister has said, the business should focus on clearing up the mess and getting its own house in order."
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, called it "a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility".
The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said: "It's a huge humiliation. This was [News Corp's] biggest investment plan of the moment. It was one of the biggest investments they've ever wanted to make.
"It is an extraordinary reversal of corporate fortune... And questions will now be asked whether this is the full extent of the damage to the empire."
Robert Peston added there had been "a lot of speculation" that Mr Murdoch might now want to sell his UK newspapers, but the current state of the industry made them less attractive to potential buyers.
"The question is, who is going to pay him the price that they are worth? He will not want to sell those papers at a loss."
Public inquiry
Mr Cameron has asked Lord Justice Leveson to oversee a public inquiry into the News of the World scandal and media regulation.
In a statement to the Commons, he said the inquiry would begin as "quickly as possible" and would be in two parts - an investigation of wrongdoing in the press and the police, and a review of regulation in the press.
The judge will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence under oath, the PM said.
Mr Cameron said those who sanctioned wrongdoing should have no further role in running a media company in the UK.
He said Lord Justice Leveson, assisted by a panel of senior independent figures, would make recommendations for a better way of regulating the press which "supports their freedom, plurality and independence from government but which also demands the highest ethical and professional standards".
He will also make recommendations about the future conduct of relations between politicians and the press.
Mr Cameron told MPs he will require all ministers and civil servants to record meetings with senior editors and media executives to help make the UK government "one of the most open in the world".
Mr Miliband welcomed the proposal, arguing it must be imposed retrospectively, so that he and Mr Cameron publish all details of meetings with media executives dating back to the last general election.
The prime minister was previously criticised for meeting Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, in Downing Street soon after the election, because Mr Murdoch did not walk through the front door.
Newspapers which did not support the government ran stories of "secret meetings".
Earlier at prime minister's questions, Mr Cameron said a "firestorm" was engulfing parts of the media and police, and those who had committed offences must be prosecuted.
Mr Miliband said it was an insult to the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked, that Rebekah Brooks was still News International's chief executive.
Mr Cameron responded: "She was right to resign, that resignation should have been accepted. There needs to be root and branch change at this entire organisation.
"What has happened at this company is disgraceful - it's got to be addressed at every level."
On Tuesday, Mr Cameron met Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband at Downing Street to discuss the hacking scandal.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson is believed to have updated the three men on the current state of the police inquiry into hacking claims when he visited Number 10
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I don't think this will be a end to this bid. The man is a megalomaniac and will try some other method of gaining control of BSkyB. Mark my words
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, has resigned, the company has confirmed.
Her departure follows days of growing pressure for her to step down as the phone hacking crisis grew.
In a statement, she said she felt a "deep responsibility for the people we have hurt".
Tom Mockridge has been unveiled as Ms Brooks' replacement. He was in charge of News Corporation's Italian broadcasting arm.
Rebekah Brooks was editor of the News of the World when murder victim Milly Dowler's phone was hacked.
She said she wanted to "reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place".
Her statement went on: "I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate.
"This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past."
Ms Brooks, who had been with News International for 22 years, bowed to the international pressure piling up on the company.
Recent developments:
The FBI is investigating reports that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sought to hack the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr Murdoch defended the company's handling of the crisis
Mr Murdoch and his son James have agreed to stand in front of the Commons media select committee next Tuesday to answer MPs questions on the hacking scandal
Former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis, who went on to work for the police, was arrested on Thursday
In a message to News International staff, News Corporation's chief executive in Europe James Murdoch hailed Ms Brooks as "one of the outstanding editors of her generation" who "can be proud of many accomplishments as an executive".
"We support her as she takes this step to clear her name," he said.
National apology
Mr Murdoch revealed that News Corp was planning to use national press adverts this weekend to apologise to the nation for wrongdoing at the News of the World.
"We are also sending letters to our commercial partners with an update on the actions we are taking.
"The company has made mistakes. It is not only receiving appropriate scrutiny, but is also responding to unfair attacks by setting the record straight."
Mr Murdoch praised new chief executive Tom Mockridge as "a highly respected and accomplished media executive", who had shown "leadership and integrity" in creating the Sky Italia 24-hour TV news channel in Italy.
Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, said: "It is right that Rebekah Brooks has resigned. No-one should exercise power without responsibility."
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No doubt a golden handshake was involved :angry:
I love the story that has now come out that Mrs Brooks turned down the story of the year last year, M.P.s expenses, because it "wasn't sexy enough". Obviously a great editor!
could this be the downfall of Mr Cameron! Lots of secrets seem to be coming out, like his meetings with the Murdochs and Coulsen stayin at his house
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The former Mrs Ross Kemp is rumoured to have received £ 3.5 million qudQuote:
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