Allegedly this Weekend's issue will be the last.
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News of the World RIP
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BOOM!
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And all this Sunday's revenue going to good causes looks like news international attempting a bit of damage limitation ...but will it be enough?
glad to see NOTW go thoughPosted 10 months ago # -
with ad income evaporating....well, inevitable.
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i can't be alone in hoping the Daily Mail has done some phone hacking as well...
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...and Ms Brooks strolls off into the sunset.
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If the Daily Mail didnt exist, youd have to invent it though HH.
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Allegedly this Weekend's issue will be the last.
I have it on good authority, although I clearly can not publish either the transcripts or the original voicemail messages, that this is indeed true.
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to be replaced by the sunday sun no doubt.
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I'm sure they will just rebrand it "the World of News" and have a relaunch next week.
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This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.
No 'allegedly' about it. They must be desperate for the Sky deal to go through to take this step.....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733
A sad day as the ones responsible responsible will now not be sacked, but made redundant or transfered probably.
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I'll believe it when I see it. I reckon sales may well increase this w/e and advertisers will find it hard to stay away
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They must be desperate for the Sky deal to go through to take this step.....
I dunno have you seen sky's share price? I bet they are secretly delighted.
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Surely they'll just replace it with the Sun on Sunday or something similar
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I have it on good authority, although I clearly can not publish either the transcripts or the original voicemail messages, that this is indeed true.
It's Ok we can read it on the BBC website too.
Feeble attempt to win public back.
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Is there going to be room at the Daily Star for all these former NOTW bent journos? Clive Goodman's going to end up having to share a desk. He'll hate that
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Not sure this will work though; for NI to take this step they've effectively rolled over and accepted that they're fully culpable.
Rebekah Brooks will clearly go, but the real question is what happens to the rest of the organisation, the one that for the last five years has consistently covered up the fact that they were absolutely guilty as charged.
As someone who detests Sky, The Sun, The News Of The World and all that they stand for, this is almost as good a day as when I heard Thatcher had resigned. Not quite as good, obviously, but still well worth celebrating.
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Interesting to see who blinks first.
The people pulling their adverts are on a 'moral' bandwagon at the moment, but how long before Ford start realising Volkswagen are still advertising (and presumably getting sales due to the adverts...).
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What "news" are they going to put in it?
They ARE the biggest story.Posted 10 months ago # -
The people pulling their adverts are on a 'moral' bandwagon at the moment, but how long before Ford start realising Volkswagen are still advertising (and presumably getting sales due to the adverts...).
Advertise in what?
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to be replaced by the sunday sun no doubt.
You'll be a Southerner then.
A Geordie stalwart paper.
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Advertise in what?
Good point I suppose if they bring NOTW down. Though expect the prices of advertising Fords to go up on Sky if Murdoch gets the hump!
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Good point I suppose if they bring NOTW down.
It's gone, that was my point.
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I've always seen the NOTW as a "Sunday Sun" anyway...in much the same way as The Observer is a "Sunday Guardian"...is that miles off the mark?
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poor old Max Clifford what he going to do now !
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no DD spot on really in that they have the same views and from the same stable bit different editorships and writers [ if that sounds sarcastic it is not meant to]
Yes nice bold PR move but ditching NOTW which is dead now anyway and launching the Sunday Sun is quite a clever ploy.
Nice to see them running scared for once.Posted 10 months ago # -
I've always seen the NOTW as a "Sunday Sun" anyway...in much the same way as The Observer is a "Sunday Guardian"...is that miles off the mark?
Pretty much bang on. Assuming that there is commercial life left in trashy Sunday papers it wouldn't take a great deal of effort to spend 6 months putting together a new brand identity and launching a new companion paper for the Sun.
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the notw also ran real investigative journalism agaist bad guys as well as the salacious stuff. It was a whole cut above the sun
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Oh right, I thought the writers were shared...I stand corrected.
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The Sunday sport must be rubbing there hands. Whilst the new readers of said paper will be rubbing something else entirely.
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200 staff to loose their jobs= 200 people with a grudge against murdoch,
Oh good times ahead
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We are not alone in our cynicism;
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said: "All they're going to do is rebrand it" and former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who alleged his phone was hacked, thought the decision was simply a gimmick.
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200 staff to loose their jobs= 200 more people with a grudge against murdoch,
Nice thought, but a drop in the ocean really.
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All papers are suffering, with dropping reader numbers and dropping advertising revenues, so dropping one will probally do him a favour.
The regular readers will be informed of what to buy next week in this last issue....
200ish less staff to pay, one less print run etc etc etc
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