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THE NEWS OF the World newspaper has printed its final edition today, bearing the headline “Thank You & Goodbye”.
The newspaper has folded as revelations about phone hacking by employees at the newspaper gained momentum last week. News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch and former editor Rebekah Brooks have both insisted they knew nothing about the incidents, which are alleged to include hacking into the phones of murder victims and their families.
Allegations that the newspaper paid police officers for information have also surfaced.
Brooks, who is now chief executive of News International, has resisted calls for her resignation and Murdoch has insisted that she has his full support.
Meanwhile, recent press advisor to the British Prime Minister and former editor of the NOTW, Andy Coulson, has been released by police after being arrested “on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications [...] and on suspicion of corruption allegations”.
Photo by the UK consumer news editor at NotW @DanJonesUK of the “amazing News of the World team on our last day in the office”.
Some 22 full-time and 10 part-time jobs will be lost with the closure of the newspaper’s Irish version.
The final version of the newspaper (non-ironically) carried a quotation by George Orwell on its back page, which reads:
It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the News of the World.
Murdoch flew into London yesterday to deal personally with crisis, which threatens to engulf his entire media empire.
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And people will just go out and buy the sun tomorrow. Nothing changes
good at sport the rest was a rag
Good riddance.
I do not, for one second, believe that the other red tops have not been doing the same thing. The NOTW should have been sold for £1 to a somebody or an organisation with impeccable credentials. The job losses are unforgivable, and a calculated contrivance to reduce the financial impact of this crisis on the wider Murdoch empire. Not to mention of course the effect on the regulators decision on the Sky takeover. What ever you think of the NOTW and its competitors, its popularity is evidence that it fulfills a substantial demand in the marketplace. Not everybody wants to spend Sunday morning reading detailed economic forecasts, in-depth analysis of government social policy, and the like. The red top papers are a good laugh, and everybody knows not to take them too seriously. I say come on Sunday Sun !!!!!!!!
I dare say the people impacted by phone hacking take what the tabloids print very seriously indeed. These rags profit from people’s misery and pain and the people who pay them to do it – their readers – aren’t much better in my book.
Rats jumping off a sinking ship.
They were pushed, bit hard to stay working at a company that no longer exists
Goodbye and good riddance. Never read it so Im delighted it’s gone. Only ones I feel sorry for is the support staff who lost their jobs. They had nothing to do with the phone hacking
One red topped cesspit down, lots more still left standing pushing a semi-literate hatemongering anti-intellectual agenda.
Here’s hoping the future brings many more such revelations of the blindingly obvious.
so how long before the rest of the story breaks, the fact that they thought it better to close shop before bigger news comes out.
It’s a heck of a thing, watching holier-than-thou numpties celebrate depriving 4million people of their preferred sunday reading material.
Mob rule at it’s best John.
Draw some boobs on an old copy of Ann & Barry, it would be about the same level.
Indeed. Its far more preferable that a criminal enterprise involved in corrupting the most basic institutions of the state by bribing the police and thuggishly intimidating elected representatives into ignoring their crimes be continue acting with impunity, lest we miss out on such crucial and groundbreaking scoops like the fact that professional sports players are often not faitful to their wives.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The News of the World a powerful investigative tradition that somehow failed to find their own internal corruption.
Feel sorry for some if these workers, however I’d be confident Rebekah Brooks is walking off with a golden handshake despite being incompetent enough not to know what was going on under her management, or being part of it. Either way she deserved to be sacked.
Its hard to reconcile the two positions adopted by Rebekah Brooks.
On the one hand she denies all knowledge what was going on – yet on the other hand she told the staff at NOTW that there is ‘still more to come’.
Something don’t seem right!
If you don’t like it don’t buy it. Simple as.
Hellloooo – Its gone, so there will be no buying it! Duh!
news of the world…what comes to mind oh yea pure shit.
My cat litter tray will miss it most …..
So you’re the bastard with the red arsed cat who shites on my lawn
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