Should the N.O.T.W. have been 'put down'?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tish-institution.html

There should have been no need for the News of the World to close down after being a British institution for 168 years.

The name should have been saved just as a listed building would be saved, and the ones who are guilty of these criminal actions should first be suspended from their jobs and then sacked for illegal practices, if found guilty in a court of law.

I don't wish this thread to turn into another "who wants to read such tripe" and just for the record 'I don't', but there are plenty out there who do, just as there are plenty that will read such publications as the OK Magazine etc.

A newspaper is just pages of plain paper before anyone goes to unlawful lengths in the pursuance of getting their particular agenda printed on those blank sheets.

So it is those who should be 'put down' not the paper, after all 200 innocent people will lose their jobs, because of a criminal few.

[Old_Geezer]

It's a commercial decision to stop flak getting to NI and it's management. Apatr from that I'm sure it could have weathered the advertiser fleeing storm after the hub bub died down.

[anotheoldgit]

They will have to run off a few thousands more this week, because they are to be advert free, and all proceeds are to go to charity.

So will all be rushing out to get your copy and at the same time helping charities?

I will get mine to frame, now isn't that sad?

[LazyGun]

@AoG explain to me how calling Rupert Murdoch by his well known nickname of Digger is racist?

[Ankou]

i'd rather just give my cash to the dec

[AB Editor]

I think this Sunday will be the first time a lot of people buy the NOTW - do you think regular readers will miss out due to "vulture" buyers?

Also, what will the headline be?

[Ankou]

posh spice has baby, and jordans norks are bigger than ever.

[DTCwordfan]

An expose on Ed Millipede would be excellent......but more likely one on David Cameron - or they could try and blow the lid on the Queen or Phil the Greek. The principle of "If we are going down, we will take as many of you as possible."

Would be wonderful though if they named and shamed all the policemen and women that had taken bungs from them......

[vivandorron]

I haven't read the N O t W since I was a boy. I was brought up with grandparents who purchased it and it was great to sneak a copy to school for the other kids to read all the scandal.

Consequently, I consider it to be as is said by AOG..."a British institution".

Murdoch could have put it up for sale; but no he want's to bring it back under a different name. A criminal act I say.

Ron.

[jno]

Diggers is an Australian word, originally used for Anzac troops int he first world war. I don't think you'll find many Australians objecting to its use.

There were English Diggers too; fine people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

[Kromovaracun]

AOG

I don't feel like you've answered any of my questions.

"
And it makes me proud to see the letters RR on the engines of the airliners that take me abroad. "

Why, out of interest?

[vivandorron]

According to my copy of 'The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary (Published in Australia 1990).A Digger was initially one who took part in the New South Wales and Victoria gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Now the term is for an Australian foot soldier under the rank of corporal. The second meaning having come into use during WW1.

Consequently, as jno rightly suggested........Aussie folk will not object to it's usage.

Ron

[ichkeria]

Speaking as a member of the "nasty liberal left" I nonetheless agree with anotheoldgit. The NOTW has been sacrificed most probably to save Murdoch's TV ambitions.
I also condemn the lynch-mob mentality of companies and organisations like mumsnet (spit) who, by their posturing and ill-advised campaigning against the wrong target, contributed to 200 innocent people losnig their jobs.
The NOTW was trash certainly, but it was traditional British trash, and to kill it off like that is cultural vandalism, particularly when the guilty parties are still at large.

[LazyGun]

@AoG still no response re the racist allegation? forshame....

@Ichkeria - if you want to blame anyone for the closure of the NotW, look no further than the previous regime who indulged in the worst excesses of gutter journalism, which when revealed, has called near universal loathing by the public - what firm in their right mind would wish their brand to be associated in those circumstances? And if you really wished to find fault with someone for causing the closure, look no further than Murdoch, pere et fils, who cynically close the paper in a desperate attempt to keep their bid for BSkyB alive......

[Manwithnoname]

@AoG still no response re the racist allegation? forshame....

LG. One would expect nothing less from someone who uses the Daily Mail as a bible for their propaganda posts ;

[grffindoor2011]

So a bit of hacking went on big deal. Many on here have been lapping up the stories the NOTW and others have been dishing out over the years as a result.

There are real crimes out there not this hacking nonsense which for me is lower down than stealing a half eaten mars bar from a fat woman.

[LazyGun]

Thats seems a pretty cold and pretty callous reaction grffindoor. Unmoved are you by the plight of the Dowler family? Unconcerned over the bribery of officers within the Met? Insensitive to the interference by NotW journos into the investigation of the death of a teenager? Untouched over the invasion of privacy of grieving families of dead soldiers?

Just a storm in a teacup? Well, its a free country, and you are entitled to your point of view - but I think you would be in a minority

[Astonvanilla]

Pity they don't shut Sky down as well, Murdoch still making millions. I could save a fortune

[DTCwordfan]

from what they are saying on the Beeb news, fine neutral thinking and lack of bias organisation that it is, (hummmph), is that the BSkyB bid may well be rejected by HMG - and that is probably the reason that the share prices are sliding on int'l markets. Bleddy good thing too as that is the only way the Digger and his overpaid family and cronies will learn.

[albaqwerty]

According to the DR, (I can't do a link, sorry, I think it's on page 15)

Thesunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.com domain names were registered about 2 days ago.

I don't buy the Sun nor the NOTW so I couldn't really care more