Phone Hacking Scandal

[Perdita]

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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[parkerman]

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....

[Perdita]

I am absolutely certain that the NOTW will be replaced in no time, probably been working on that for a while now

[Perdita]

I am just sad for the innocent people who had nothing to do with this, who are now losing their jobs

[alan45]

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....

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.

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

[alan45]

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 employment

What do you say??

[Perdita]

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?

[alan45]

The News of the World really was just a Sunday version of the SUN

[Chloe O'brien]

I am absolutely certain that the NOTW will be replaced in no time, probably been working on that for a while now

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.

[alan45]

It has just been revealed that when ET phoned home the NOTW hacked the