Motherfucking Chocobo
Member 589
Level 64.55
Mar 2006
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Jul 7, 2011, 06:06 PM
Local time: Jul 8, 2011, 12:06 AM
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News of the World to end this weekend
So this Sunday's News of the World, the longest running tabloid newspaper in British history is set to be the last. For those not following the story, there's been a long-running scandal about NotW journo's hacking into people's mobile phone voicemail accounts in order to get stories.
When it was just celebrities and politicians it was fairly serious but nobody really gave a fuck. Now however it turns out they hacked the voice mail of a missing school girl who later turned up dead and worse than that, when her voice mail box got filled up with messages from concerned friends and family, they deleted messages to make room for more, meaning her parents thought she was still alive and accessing her voicemail.
Anyway, in order to sweep the whole thing under the carpet, James Murdoch has annouced the paper is to close this weekend.
Only they're just going to launch a new one, probably a Sunday version of the Sun, with all the same staff, so the whole thing is not much more than a cynical PR exercise and has a lot to do with News Internationsl trying to buy BSkyB at the moment without the monopolies commission telling them to do one.
I know it's a journalist's job to uncover stories and such like but surely a line has to be drawn and one would think that drawing it before you were hacking into the phones of people who are missing, presumed horrifically murdered in order to get the inside scoop on the story would be common sense. How far do you support the notion of a free press, insofar as doing dubious shit like this to score a sensationalist headline goes?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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