In the news

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/07/3263157.htm?site=sport&section=all

^ Sad news.

Get in! Rupert Murdoch's stake in News International lost £120 million in value yesterday as the news of the phone hacking scandal broke in the states and the share value tanked. Now a way needs to be found to convince companies to withdraw advertising from all NI services, not just NOTW

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/murdoch-empire-in-crisis-2308179.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14060257

When they're even hacking the emails of the Plymouth Argyle chairman, it's fairly clear that this wasn't just confined to a couple of rogue reporters. Although Risdale is one of the biggest opportunists out there.

I also find it suspicious that supposedly the only paper in the NI portfolio that was benefiting from this underhand behaviour was NOTW, and frankly refuse to believe that information was not shared between papers if it was felt that NOTW could not use it where others could.

I also find it suspicious that supposedly the only paper in the NI portfolio that was benefiting from this underhand behaviour was NOTW, and frankly refuse to believe that information was not shared between papers if it was felt that NOTW could not use it where others could.

I don't know how the NOTW and other NI owned papers work specifically, but it would be strange for papers to share information, even if they were owned by the same people. What would would usually happen instead is the sharing of content ready to be (or already) published.

That being said, this is only based on talking with someone who works on national content sharing in newspapers.

You mean about me being right? It's not that surprising. When you have as many ideas as me one of them is bound to vaguely plausible, now and again.

the only thing i find surprising about the whole mess is that anyone's even remotely surprised by the fact that that vile, gutter press journalists do horrible things in order to get exploitative stories to sell their hate filled shit rags.

the guardian website looks as if it's about to expode due to an uncontrollable surge of smug self satisfation as well.

the whole thing is predictably shit.

thought penthouse had gone bust?
(not regular reader or anything)

I always said that you had your finger on the pulse, so to speak...

^^you're missing the point.

The reason it's all kicking off is the fact it can be pinned on brooks now, the wider implications for the Cameron government could be massive.

It's gone far beyond the indignation over the hacking, it's about the future of the murdoch press and it's relationship with government.

I don't know how the NOTW and other NI owned papers work specifically, but it would be strange for papers to share information, even if they were owned by the same people. What would would usually happen instead is the sharing of content ready to be (or already) published.

That being said, this is only based on talking with someone who works on national content sharing in newspapers.

I understand that, however NOTW is only published on a Sunday and I find it hard to believe that if they knew they were going to be beaten to a story by a rival non-NI paper they wouldn't share their info, with say the Sun, so that at least one part of the organisation could benefit from it.

To dismiss this for being not all that surprising, is very short sighted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14064430

Looks like Jeremy Hunt will delay the decision on the sky takeover until September according to this

NOTW to be axed.

No more soft porn being presented as campaigning journalism. Given that it, and the Sun paid for The Times' deficit, what are NI going to do for cash? Start a new Sunday newspaper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

Damnit! Beaten to the scoop!

I paid a copper £2k in a Wapping Macdonald's drive thru.

Must hack more phones.

Anyway, as you said, they'll just start a new Sunday paper. This is just an attempt to escape the issues (political and financial) which NOTW has brought up.

If they get away with this shit by closing it down and starting a new Sunday paper I may just have to get my rioting balaclava out.

The Sunday Sun, mark my words.

"You demand accountability? We shut down the entire newspaper! We made the jobs of hundreds of people completely unconnected to the scandal redundant! We claimed a massive tax write off in the process! And you want accountability?!"

I'm betting on "The Events of the Globe."

All the staff will get snapped up by nuts magazine

Contrary to popular belief, even shit right-wing tabloid newspapers require actual humans to run them. Many of them aren't even monsters.

My entire Twitter feed is ablaze with this, never before has a single news story united such a disparate bunch of people.

Good riddance.

Let's hope that justice will hold those accountable for this farce, not that I can see Murdoch being charged but still.

What was Cameron thinking when he employed Coulson as director of communications is still beyond me. He might as well hired a Mugabe as his human rights advisor.