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Post by jockanese on Jul 7, 2011 10:02:47 GMT 1
Renault, Mitsubishi and Vauxhall have joined Ford in refusing to commit to future advertising in the title. Lloyds Banking Group has also joined the advertising exodus from the NoW
Apparently Murdoch has backed Rebecca Wade, the former editor of the paper and a rising star in his corporate firmament....I wonder how many junior members of staff will end up doing porridge to cover her back?
It seems that the concept of 'the buck stops here' doesn't exist in the rarefied upper atmosphere of News International.
Ms Wade is quoted as being a 'friend' of David Cameron - not so long ago, when she was married to Eastenders 'hard man' Ross Kemp, she was hobnobbing with the Blairs.
I think the Americans call it covering all one's bases.
I suspect when the chips are down - as they surely will be- she'll be calling a few favours in from friends in high places...
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Post by ianh on Jul 7, 2011 17:48:46 GMT 1
Interesting news tonight - this Sunday's NOW will be the last ever. Awaiting with bated breath the Sun on Sunday - or, perhaps, not a printed paper but an on line one.
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Post by Ali on Jul 7, 2011 18:28:02 GMT 1
Phone and email hacking is an invasion of privacy - how come the press appear to be able to negotiate their way around these personal rights?
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Post by Ali on Jul 7, 2011 23:18:39 GMT 1
Having seen a little more of this on the TV (ok not the best media) I just wonder if this has all arisen and being used as a block to the take-over of bSkyb ?
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Post by mirabelle on Jul 8, 2011 12:16:15 GMT 1
Ere!! I lived in Surbiton!!! Plenty of NoW readers there too - even on the posh estates.
What NoW did was wrong of course, but Sarah Payne's mother has nothing but praise for them because they helped her so much with her campaign to get Sarah's Law brought in. Sara was not targeted like the Dowlers though.
The rot should stop with that Rebecca woman who sanctioned it all via her grubby little henchmen, but she is apparently Teflon coated. Strikes me she has some sort of a hold over RM hence why she keeps her status whilst all about her lose their jobs & careers - curioser & curiouser...........................
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Post by ianh on Jul 8, 2011 12:49:07 GMT 1
There's loads of NOW readers everywhere - the best selling English language paper in the world. I don't think I've ever bought one but would always have a skim through if there was one at a friend's, left on the bus, or in the pub etc.
Because of their obsession with the sexual infidelities and dug taking of celebrities, it does tend to get overlooked that they have exposed some real corruption - cash for questions, Jeffrey Archer's perjury, more recently the match fixing Pakistani cricketers - and that several dangerous and violent criminals are behind bars because of brave investigative journalism. They have been doing it for over 150 years.
And the paper is not going to go away - it will reappear, re-branded.
It would not surprise me if Murdoch went for the first ever national news"paper" to not be printed on paper but delivered on line to your phone or pc.
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Post by Bunty on Jul 8, 2011 13:18:00 GMT 1
Will they have any top staff left though Ian they all seem to be getting arrested
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Post by mirabelle on Jul 8, 2011 13:36:18 GMT 1
Watch out "Sun Day" will be back! Its just rather unfair that the actions of few have caused all this ie Ms. Wade or whatever she currently is, plus a few of her crummy acolytes who believed the means was justified by the end. I still think she has something over RM hence why she is seemingly unsackable, something even Private Eye have yet to ferret out, because that is after all what they specialise in usually. It'll all come out soon enough though, particularly with all the hacked-off hacks with inside info now let loose on the Street of Shame, but either way Ms.Wade won't be the loser for she is shrewd enough to have a nice 'retirement' package waiting for her, whatever the outcome. I suppose its quite feasible that for RM this whole thing is a means to an end - imagine if he had suggested closing down the NoW, to change it into Sun Day or whatever? There would have been hell to pay. This way he has achieved it all in one fell swoop and is seen as "doing the right thing" for all the scandal thats emerged from phone taps etc. Perhaps he is a lot cleverer than we give him credit for?
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Post by ianh on Jul 8, 2011 22:01:34 GMT 1
My son's somewhat irreverent take on the closure
Rooney, Giggs and Ferdinand will be celebrating the closure of NOTW no doubt. The whores of Manchester are in for a busy weekend.
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