Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: CNN Breaking News.......oohhhhhhhhhhhhh....

 

True. You are educating me. I don't know much about it. The name just rang out head because my  Mom and her friends talked about it, including a Panorama something and their days as students in London. More like Arabian Night Entertainment stories.

 

Thanks,

MsJoe  

 

 

In a message dated 7/7/2011 7:49:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, abzw@blueyonder.co.uk writes:

MsJoe,

 

Sorry to disappoint you. The News of the World your mother adored is not the same paper it is today, as its demise has indicated. Its owner Rupert Murdoch is nasty piece of work and a threat to democracy. He is notorious for bullying workers, particularly trades unionists; he was a corrupting influence in Australian politics, by convincing Premier Bob Hawke not to enforce legislation about ownership of major dailies in Australian in return his paper supported Hawke in the election. British politicians from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown and  David Cameron are frightened of him. He hates the BBC because it is state owned and as such he cannot lay his fingers on it. Both him and his son want the BBC privatised, presumably, so that they can use his billions to buy controlling interests.  For any publisher to claim as his other soft-porn daily, The Sun has claimed that they now choose the government in Britain by using their massive circulation to convince voters to tow their line on election day and vote for party that is sympathetic to Murdoch's agenda including anti-European agenda, anti-immigrant stance and anti-BBC.

 

I can go on, but hopefully you get the essence of why we should celebrate, though I imagine, the NOW will re-emerge in different guise in a few months' time.

 

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: CNN Breaking News.......oohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....flash back News of the World

 

Ooohhhhh didn't now he owned it. As a little girl in Africa, my Mom used to tell me stories from News of the World that sounded like Soap Opera materials. While in London, as students, she said getting the latest edition was almost a religion. While at that, her favorite musician was Tom Jones.

 

Ohhhhhh, sorry to hear the institution is folding but not sorry for Rupert Murdoch, a viral purveyor of literal mischief and yellow journalism on Fox.

 

MsJoe.

 

In a message dated 7/7/2011 11:00:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com writes:

Britain's embattled News of the World, the world's top-selling English-language newspaper, will shut down after Sunday's edition. The scandal-hit tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has been at the center of phone hacking charges.

Victims of the alleged phone hacking, where reporters are said to have obtained PIN numbers and listened to voicemails, include a teenage murder victim, celebrities, royalty and at least one man killed in the 2005 London bombing.

Murdoch has condemned the allegations against News of the World as "deplorable and unacceptable." Murdoch's media empire extends to the U.S. to include Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

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