Phone Hacking Scandal

[alan45]

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 employment

What do you say??

I guess that's a NO then http://www.soapboards.co.uk/forums/s...897#post751897

[Perdita]

Was a snippet I heard on my local radio show where they talk about upcoming soap storylines and other showbusiness news.

[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.

The more I see and hear of Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks the angrier I become.

[Perdita]

What about you?:

http://www.soapboards.co.uk/forums/s...911#post751911

[alan45]

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 Sun

[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.

[alan45]

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. I explained why I left the reference to the NOTW in my post

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.It was just a suggestion on my part as a form of protest. I asked you if you agreed but you never answered. I never thought for one minute that merely not posting on this forum would bring The Dirty Digger to his knees. Indeed I doubt whether he even knows or cares about soapboards bearing in mind the contempt he has shown for the relatives of Milly Dowler and the hundreds of servicemen murdered in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was just a token protest which obviously you disagree with. As you are one of the most prolific posters I suppose I should not have expected it. You are of course entitled to your views and I do respect them believe it or not.

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. I agree with you 100%

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 WWII

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.

[tammyy2j]

We will have the Sunday Sun soon enough more money for Murdoch

[alan45]

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.

We can only hope this Scuppers his plans to gain the remaining 61% of BSkyB.

[parkerman]

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.