Bye Bye NOTW
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Oh how satisfying to watch the demise of a Bully-Boy rag.
It is just glorious:p
It is just glorious:p
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The typical NOTW reader doesn't have high journalistic standards, but the advertisers can't afford to offend any of their customers. There is also a fair chance that the rest of News International will try to distance themselves from NOTW, even though I'm sure the rot comes from the top.
NOTW will suffer for a while, and a few heads will roll, but time will tell if it can move on. It is only a matter of time until the other tabloids involved in telephone hacking are under scrutiny. It's no coincidence that certain papers have tried to ignore the whole phone-hacking scandal as much as possible, even when you'd think that criticising a rival would be in their best interests.
If people are disgusted by the allegations won't it only be the bottom of the barrel celebs who'll have anything to do with the NOTW?
It's likely any celeb doing an 'exclusive' for the paper will be seen as scum?
I know Hugh Grant has made a point of not giving any interviews to any of the tabloid papers for many years, but he's a big, established film star, and gets to pick and choose, and the sorts of films he does don't need to promote that way.
This could become similar to how everyone associated with The Sun was treated as scum in Liverpool.
Personally, I have more problems with the people who were involved with this, and those that associate with them. It doesn't reflect well on the police, or the queue of politicians who sucked up to them. Perhaps this will be the moment at which politicians finally have the guts to stop pandering to the tabloid editors.
I think Wootton should hop on the next plane back down under.
I didn't know he was an Antipodean; well I've never seen him speak on TV, so I wouldn't know.
Well, we never buy it for a start. Then again though, we don't buy any Sunday newspaper at all.
I'd prefer if they were punished severly and made to look qt what type of stories they cover and how they get that information.
The boycott will last till the weekend when they have another CA exclusive.
Eta that's not a dig @ anyone on here but that is what will be used to try and draw folks back in.
So do I, look what effect the Liverpool boycott had on The Sun.
Hacking Millie Dowlers' phone was the complete pits as far as I'm concerned. Heads should roll, especially Rebekah Wade's. :rolleyes: but, of course, she knew zilch about it. YOU WERE THE EDITOR you moron. Everything has to be approved by you. :mad:
QUIT from whatever lucrative job Murdoch has doled out to you, it's about the one decent thing you'd do in your life.
We'll be able to tell which ones he owns by if they start trying to paint this tabloid in a sympathetic light.
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I agree with all of this.
I buy the Sunday Mirror too.
Tabloid journalism is going to come under great scrutiny, but it won't go down without a fight. So far, they have tried to convince us that the hacking was just about listening into celebrities' messages, and that somehow or other, these rich, famous people (and their families) don't deserve privacy. Look at the way they all came out fighting to protect "freedom of speech" to print the gory details of extra-marital affairs or a person who kicks a ball for a living. The effort that went into a big PR con that tabloid tittle-tattle is important and in the public interest was imense.
It's too cheap and easy to run these stories, and the politicians are happy for them to distract the public from anything important.
A former reporter at the News of The World laughed when told Rebekah denied any knowledge of phone hacking.
Surely it's going to be difficult for 'family' friendly companies such as Tesco to continue advertising in the NOTW?
Or will not publish at all.
I'm all for freedom and speech and all that, but there needs to be some regulation on how newspapers go about their business, otherwise they'd be a law unto themselves like the NOTW and many other tabloid rags have become. They are just as nasty and immoral as the people they target with their 'exclusives' every day, it's about time the tables turned on them and get taken down a peg or two!
It is, it's called The Observer.