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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: GUEST,Roger Knowles Date: 07 Jul 11 - 10:16 PM Now all that has to happen is the cessation of 'The Sun' & 'The Star', all other 'red labels', and all of the cheap 'celeb news' magazines. After that, literacy can re-emerge on the news stands. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 Jul 11 - 07:53 PM This was the most popular paper in England. The vacuum will be filled. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 07 Jul 11 - 07:22 PM As I said in the other thread, Dave Sutherland, the website domain "sunonsunday" was registered to an un-named company two days before Daddy's Boy announced closure of the NOTW. And I'd be surprised if there was to be any holiday. Expect to see the Sun on Sunday on the news stands the week after next. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Teribus Date: 07 Jul 11 - 06:49 PM I can remember being utterly slagged off on this forum for my opinion of British journalism and the standards they hold to. The relevations regarding the "News of the World" back up everything I ever said. Good riddance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Richard Bridge Date: 07 Jul 11 - 05:48 PM Oh, passing off? |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Dave Sutherland Date: 07 Jul 11 - 05:24 PM "So, the 'News of the World' is having a publication holiday, then coming back as the 'Sunday Sun'!" No - "The Sunday Sun" has been the Sunday paper in the North East of England for many years (long before I was born)and it is still going. It used to carry a folk music column way back in the day.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: autolycus Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:57 PM None of this affects the fact the the buyers of the Screws and other NI oeuvres are still in place. Still, a small step in the right direction. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:55 PM I can understand how unfair these decisions may feel. Particularly, for colleagues who will leave the Company. Of course, we will communicate next steps in detail and begin appropriate consultations. Can't the many write complete sentences? Does he know how to use "the" in any way not followed by the word "Company"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:53 PM I'm not sure a soap actor is that much worse than a folksinger? It's not true anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: John MacKenzie Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:48 PM She's married to a soap actor. No further words are necessary! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:38 PM So, the 'News of the World' is having a publication holiday, then coming back as the 'Sunday Sun'! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Alan Day Date: 07 Jul 11 - 03:00 PM Sorry mate they picked me instead !! Al |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 07 Jul 11 - 02:46 PM I have to say I am very dismayed at the whole affair. It was wrong, it was underhand and it was sickening. One point which can't be ignored is Rebekah Brooks. She may be guilty or she may not, but you can't escape the fact she is one fine piece of ass. I suggest she does a centrefold spread in the last issue of the News of the World, Basque, stockings, suspenders and heels. Come on, what men among you wouldn't buy that issue. http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/Pictures/web/v/n/r/Rebekah_Wade_mw.jpg |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: GUEST,TIA Date: 07 Jul 11 - 02:44 PM No need to buy. Just flip through on the newstand! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 Jul 11 - 02:44 PM A "boycott of companies that advertise" with Murdoch is, of course, nonsense, since his companies are major publishers of both national and local papers around the English-speaking world. England is the home of low quality tabloids, others are as bad or worse. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Will Fly Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:54 PM Rupert is clearly a sharper cookie than any of you care to accept. Oh, I think that outcome was pretty much predictable. We heard the news in the pub about an hour ago, and that option immediately came to the fore. He's good, but he's not that good... Anything that Murdoch is associated with is dubious and subject to scrutiny. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:53 PM What would be more effective would be a boycott of companies that advertise with Murdoch |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:52 PM There was already a thread running on this. NewsCorp apparently registered the domain name "Sun on Sunday" a couple of days ago. I've heard from someone at News Inernational's Wapping fortress that this Murdoch initiative is perceived by staff as sacrificing the current (innocent) team to save the necks of guilty former staff who are now their bosses. It won't work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: GUEST,livelylass Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:49 PM A journalist on a sister paper was interviewed on Radio 2 earlier this evening. He said the staff will be retained and The News of The World will reappear in the autumn repackaged and under a new title, so hold the champagne. Rupert is clearly a sharper cookie than any of you care to accept. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:41 PM Richard you pipped me at the post. TIA the problem with boycotting companies advertising in Murdoch publications is that you have to buy the publications to find out who is advertising in them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:37 PM Just cutting off a bit of the Murdoch media empire isn't enough to kill it. Got to dismantle the whole stinking rotten thing and make certain the principal players are never permitted near an editor's desk again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: GUEST,TIA Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:36 PM I am in! Not buying anything advertised in or on a Murdoch medium. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Richard Bridge Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:35 PM Acorn, there is. It's just that governments have been to scared of Murdoch's propaganda powers properly to control him. Can we maybe get a boycott of other Murdoch media together and bring the whole evil empire down? |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Will Fly Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:31 PM When I heard that Ford and Sainsbury's and others had pulled out, I thought, "That's it...". Great! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:29 PM Is RIP appropriate,surely more like R.I.H. |
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Subject: BS: RIP 'News of the World'. From: Acorn4 Date: 07 Jul 11 - 01:19 PM Great news that the "News of the Screws" is no more but doesn't there need to be something like an ASBO to stop these people ever starting up a newspaper again? Murdoch closes the News of the World |
