News Of The World to close!

[alexxxxx]

I liked this page (see below), rather sad to see such an historic paper go with a bang and if you look into its history its uncovered many stings (the Profumo affair, Cricket corruption) so in my mind its provided a good service in general over its history even if its not my kind of paper.

In my view its all rather a storm in a teacup over the 'hacking', the people who had their phones hacked left their default number as '1111' so its rather similar to leaving the keys in your front door and then being suprised somebody has robbed you, both sides were in the wrong. As for the politicians being 'hacked' they have no sympathy from me because in actual fact considering the amount of civil liberties they've given away of mine over the last decade; what goes around comes around guys.

David David wrote a nice tribute in the Mail today here.

could not agree less. it was systematic breaking of the law. people are not in the wrong if they leave their passwords as easy to remember.. just like it isn't my fault if someone steals my TV if i left my door open. You, of all people, like to point out that people make their own decisions and these people broke the law which most people believe in. It's also claimed that some emails have been accessed too.

http://youtu.be/tSWHzGRksvo

The ex-editor shows no remorse and is exactly what is wrong.

When they deleted milly dowler's messages, making detectives thinking she might be still alive, that was dreadful and really very low. It's alleged that NI have paid people in the police too. Bribery and corruption is part of this scandal too.

[Misawa]

The scandal is an excuse to shut down the brand. It's been in the pipeline for a long, long time. You don't close an entire brand - moreso the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper - because of a scandal like that.

[Spuds]

Kiss bye bye to BskyB

[wixard]

i had to remove my summer work for news of the world off of my cv cos of this
waaa

[Areva]

Murdoch is a vendictive man, whom controls most of the Media in this country; allowing him to have influence of our Political views and theories about the world.

It is deeply sad the News of the World is closing down, but on the other hand. Journalism needs to be above bored and do not support how the media has portrayed itself.

Besides why buy a tabloid? If I'm going to read a load of bogus exaggerated news, I might as well read the Metro.

I do personally hope, Murdoch does not get BSKYB and I do hope his next Sunday paper fail's. Purely on the grounds that the man is Evil, plain Evil I tell ya...

[Misawa]

He withdrew the BSkyB bid.

[xxMATTGxx]

He withdrew the BSkyB bid.

Where does it say that?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Gordon Brown, the man who's government tried to introduce ID cards among other things is now complaining about privacy.. it beggars belief.

could not agree less. it was systematic breaking of the law. people are not in the wrong if they leave their passwords as easy to remember.. just like it isn't my fault if someone steals my TV if i left my door open. You, of all people, like to point out that people make their own decisions and these people broke the law which most people believe in. It's also claimed that some emails have been accessed too.

I agree, but I disagree with the term 'hacking' on some of this where its made out that the News of the World used programmes etc to hack into phones, in many cases they simply took advantage of many people (such as the politicians) who should know better. At the end of the day, while NoTW is guilty as hell, the victims of this left themselves open of which they can only blame their own stupidity for.

http://youtu.be/tSWHzGRksvo

The ex-editor shows no remorse and is exactly what is wrong.

However, the likes of Grant, Steven Coogan and the politicians are using this as an attempt to usher in regulation of the media which is what they want. As Jon Gaunt said on Question Time, the likes of Mr Grant can't complain as they should keep their tackle in their trousers before they open their big mouths calling for regulation of the media. http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co....o-ask-why.html

When they deleted milly dowler's messages, making detectives thinking she might be still alive, that was dreadful and really very low. It's alleged that NI have paid people in the police too. Bribery and corruption is part of this scandal too.

I don't disagree.

[Jordy]

The scandal is an excuse to shut down the brand. It's been in the pipeline for a long, long time. You don't close an entire brand - moreso the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper - because of a scandal like that.

Yes you do, how else could it recover? It had no advertisers anymore and the readership would be next to nothing, a newspapers reputation is incredibly difficult to fix. The Sun is still unpopular in Liverpool due to the Hillsborough disaster apparently and that happened in the 80s; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsbo..._Sun_newspaper

It may well have been in the pipeline to shut it down but that's purely coincidental, the paper had no economic future what-so-ever and would do nothing but generate large losses for News International week after week.

[Misawa]

Yes you do, how else could it recover? It had no advertisers anymore and the readership would be next to nothing, a newspapers reputation is incredibly difficult to fix. The Sun is still unpopular in Liverpool due to the Hillsborough disaster apparently and that happened in the 80s; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsbo..._Sun_newspaper

It may well have been in the pipeline to shut it down but that's purely coincidental, the paper had no economic future what-so-ever and would do nothing but generate large losses for News International week after week.

That's funny, the News of the World was the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper with a readership of almost 3 million. The final edition sold over 4 million copies.

It was an excuse to shut the brand down - which is also the verdict given by my former NOTW staff member friend and most of his colleagues. Readership would barely have been affected. Like all scandals and hot topics, they blow over in time. No one has put much thought into The Sun and News of the World being seperate brands in over a decade because they were almost identical. Those who are that bothered by what's happened would also stop buying The Sun.