News of the World

[joseephuss]

http://abcnews.go.com/International...on-press-spokesman-arrested/story?id=14027008

Former Editor of Scandalized 'News of the World' Arrested

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is promising a massive investigation into the phone hacking and bribery allegations that have led to the collapse of one of Britain's oldest tabloids, "News of the World," after Cameron's former spokesman was arrested in connection with the scandal.

Andy Coulson, who was editor of "News of the World" while reporters broke the law, was also the chief spokesman for Cameron until January of this year. He was arrested at 10:30 a.m. in the U.K. for corruption allegations and conspiring to intercept communications.

As Coulson was being questioned by the police, Cameron admitted that the press and politicians have had far too close a relationship for far too long. He called for a full investiagtion into the hacking and said that a new body must be created to regulate the press in place of the Press Complaints Commission.

"The truth is, we've all been in this together," Cameron said, blaming politicians and members of the press.

 

[YosemiteSam]

They should arrest Rupert Murdoch too.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Turn political
People rant and Rave
Thread gets killed

<opens envelope>

What is....Things that will happen in this thread.

 

[joseephuss]

I understand this thread can turn political. That was not my intention posting it. I just find the story interesting. You have Hugh Grant basically acting like a spy gathering information. You have a news organization tapping phones to come up with stories. You have people with government power getting arrested in Britain. That is entertainment.

 

[bbgun]

A lot of innocent workers will be losing their jobs over this. Bummer.

 

[joseephuss]

A lot of innocent workers will be losing their jobs over this. Bummer.

They can go work for TMZ or the National Enquirer.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

A lot of innocent workers will be losing their jobs over this. Bummer.

Yes that is what I have read as well.

Closing down a whole newspaper but keeping the person in charge of it...the lady not Rupert.

Was some talk of them taking down this paper (which is basically a weekender type deal) and adding it to the Sun (a daily paper owned by Rupert) and making the daily have a Weekend edition.

But now there is talk about the Sun also being investigated so who knows.

So now there will be a lot of people out of work that are probably completely innocent of this mess and had no clue about it.

Top this off with News Corp recently selling My Space for 34-36 million when they bought it at over 450 million.

Not exactly a good couple of months for that company.

 

[bbgun]

Yes that is what I have read as well.

Closing down a whole newspaper but keeping the person in charge of it...the lady not Rupert.

Was some talk of them taking down this paper (which is basically a weekender type deal) and adding it to the Sun (a daily paper owned by Rupert) and making the daily have a Weekend edition.

But now there is talk about the Sun also being investigated so who knows.

So now there will be a lot of people out of work that are probably completely innocent of this mess and had no clue about it.

Top this off with News Corp recently selling My Space for 34-36 million when they bought it at over 450 million.

Not exactly a good couple of months for that company.

They better not take away my Page 3 girls. They keep me going after every WG rejection.

 

[gmoney112]

Great.

A lot of people will take the brunt of the responsibility that had absolutely nothing to do with it. They'll be martyrs and the real, corrupt members that were the catalyst for this nonsense and have money will get away scot-free instead of being punished for being the lying, circumventing the law in the search for a buck scumbags they are really.

Typical.

 

[daschoo]

Yes that is what I have read as well.

Closing down a whole newspaper but keeping the person in charge of it...the lady not Rupert.

Was some talk of them taking down this paper (which is basically a weekender type deal) and adding it to the Sun (a daily paper owned by Rupert) and making the daily have a Weekend edition.

But now there is talk about the Sun also being investigated so who knows.

So now there will be a lot of people out of work that are probably completely innocent of this mess and had no clue about it.

Top this off with News Corp recently selling My Space for 34-36 million when they bought it at over 450 million.

Not exactly a good couple of months for that company.

the news of the world is the sunday sister paper of the sun. the domain name thesunonsunday.com was apparently bought 2 days before the announcement that they were going to scrap the news of the world, its unlikely to be a coincidence in my opinion. basically changing the name to try and get back the advertisers that have pulled ads and customers who were planning a boycott. it'll still be the same people who were hacking murdered girls phones and the phones of families of those killed in the london bombings running the paper.