similar charges.....
Should that ever happen such a president / head of state/ prime
minister would be worthy of some congratulations/ clapping....
On Jul 8, 7:33 pm, "G. Ugo Nwokeji" <u...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> Ugo
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> corneliushamelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/History-Of-News-Of-The-World...
>
> > 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+de...
>
> > 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...
>
> > 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.
>
> > > From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> > > [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > MsJoe2...@aol.com
> > > Sent: 07 July 2011 20:57
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> > > AC...@yahoogroups.com; USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
> > > Cc: nigeria...@yahoogroups.com; mwanan...@yahoogroups.com;
> > > Africanswithout_Bord...@yahoogroups.com
> > > 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,
>
> > > BreakingN...@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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