What really is your point, Cornelius -- that we should clap for the NOTW management?
There seems to be nothing altruistic in their action. Cover up is the more likely motive.
They were complicit in the outrageous fraud every step of the way. The fraud first came to light years ago, two of the accomplces were jailed, police were reportedly bribed to suppress the case, and the fraud apparently continued unabated. By the time it came to a head, thousands of phone lines had been bugged and people's private voice messages altered. Lord knows what else they did with those phones!
If the management were not complicit, they would have nipped the fraudulent practice in the bud. They took action VERY belatedly -- albeit a decisive one -- and you are showering praises on them.Do you praise accessory or accomplice to serial murder for arresting the serial murderer only after other people have unmasked the murderer?
The management have administered medication only after the patient has been stone-cold. The fraudulent practise they condoned for too long, if not encouraged, undermined people's basic privacy rights, destroyed lives, marriages and careers, obstructed justice, gave the paper undue advantage over the competition, and was instrumental to the profitability you are now praising its management for giving up in closing the paper.
UgoOn Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/History-Of-News-Of-The-World---From-Hard-Hitting-Undercover-Investigations-To-Celebrity-Gossip/Article/201107116026423?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16026423_History_Of_News_Of_The_World_-_From_Hard-Hitting_Undercover_Investigations_To_Celebrity_Gossip
In my view we should not lose sight of The News of The World's self-
censorship and the management's unprecedented reaction resulting in
its self- termination. It was the paper's management that complied
with and facilitated the investigations. And it was the paper's
management that made the unprecedented decision to stop publishing/
printing after Sunday, bringing the paper's 168 years of existence to
an end. They were not closed – they closed themselves. As someone
observed, from a business perspective it's unprecedented that a good
business terminates a profitable brand name, let alone the News of
the World which since 1950 with a circulation of 8.5 million has
enjoyed being the most widely read newspaper in the world. Can you
imagine the Financial Times or the New York Times or Cola-cola which
is kosher or Mr. McDonald Hamburger saying he was going to change the
brand name for ethical reasons such as that there was blood found to
be in the meat?
Watergate aside, and the known/ unknown methods of electronic/ psychic
surveillance/espionage we ought not be blinded to the devious methods
employed by many an investigative journalist in many other newspapers
and the conflicts that have occasionally surfaced with regard to
sources/ disclosure of sources and the methods known or unknown of
obtaining news scoops....
Unfortunately the News of the World – like the Sun being a tabloid,
have always thrived on sensationalized even sexed-up news and the page
3 girlie....
The problem of media monopoly and democracy is ever on-going and the
Murdochs cannot be faulted for ever wanting a bigger portion of the
media pie or for building a media Empire ....only Legislation could
be put in place to regulate that.
The problem of media monopoly in a democracy is a real problem:
http://www.google.com/search?q=The+problem+of++media+monopoly+in+a+democracy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
In connection with this sort of problem in once upon a time Sweden, I
think of Arne Ruth:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Arne+Ruth+-+media+monopoly&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
Is there even a glimmering of any such problem as media monopoly and a
free press in any part of Africa?
On Jul 8, 1:59 am, "Prof. Alfred Zack-Williams"
<a...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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> 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,
>
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>
> Britain's embattled News of the World, the world's top-selling
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> 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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