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m_alvarez_fresno

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Inglorious end to almost 170 years of publishing history. At its best it was a great campaigning newspaper - but at its recent worst it was vile.
I worked on the sports desk there for several years with good, hard-working journos and I'm still part of News International.
200 people axed today, some I still know well, to atone for the sins of a very few. Sad day. I know not everyone will see it that way, but there you go.
 
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RebeccaW

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The present staff are being axed as damage limitation to the rest of the company - which still includes many of the guilty parties, like curly-red-aired Ross Kemp beating whatsername who is either guilty or incompetent. Good friend of Cameron's mind, along with another certain gentleman who is also guilty as sin.

This is a shameful sacrifice of a team put in to rescue the paper after the guilty parties moved upstairs.

Mitch
 
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swearfinger77

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I was just about to start a thread on this !
My feeling is that it's an empty gesture which only appears to be punishing people who weren't involved , it's fairly obvious that once the controversy has died down news international will release another Sunday newspaper to fill the gap (sunday maybe ?)
Rebecca Brooks still seems able to claim no knowledge even though she was in charge at the time , though the BBC seems to think that 2 arrests will be made tomorrow.
Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733
 
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aliceowen

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After dishonouring the families of the dead soldiers and dead schoolgirls of our country, no punishment is sufficient for the cretinous insects that are Notw management team and their evasion of responsibility.

Beggars belief.
 
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DooMeD

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Total shock in the newsroom today.
I believe a full, genuine apology from Rupert Murdoch himself, the resignation of Ms Brooks and generous compensation would have satisfied most parties.
But the BSkyB deal and management's long-wanted desire for a seven-day operation gave the biggest fish of the opening he was looking for (some might be tempted to suggest . . . )
 
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MreK

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It's what pisses me off about business, no morals whatsoever and very little accountabity. It's why my Dad and I never get on as he's disappointed in my history with the criminal way of life I led when younger and as many of my friends are slightly dubious now I'd still trust them way more than I would the companies that pay my wages.
You really do need to be self employed to realise how crappy capitalism really is
 
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steelerxiv79

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Populist tabloid newspaper famous for its mix of celebrity gossip, kiss'n'tell titillation, sport and (on a good day) its exposure of criminal wrongdoing by all manner of ne'erdowells from small-time hoodlums to large scale, in depth investigations of the underworld. Biggest-selling Sunday paper in the UK.

Owned by Rupert Murdoch and now rendered toxic by revelations that it hired investigators to hack the phones and emails of not just celebs and politicians - but young murder victims, relatives of terrorist bombing victims and the families of victims of the Afghan/Iraq wars.

Today it was announced that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.
 
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pinkchicchild

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That was stupid [to not have it already]... I'd have assumed they had owned it for YEARS.

On another note... I rather expect that we'll see the staff almost entirely retained as they are made redundant and immediately rehired for the replacement rag from news international

Interested to hear from SAMA what things were/are like in the company though. The tabloid journos who appear on TV show an... interesting culture
 
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matilda

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Although my gut reaction to the demise of this rag is "good riddance", I do feel a little bit of sympathy for the majority of the employees, whose only fault was working for an unsavoury organisation. As has been said already, they are being sacrificed to try to protect the real culprits like Brooks, Coulson and the Murdochs. And possibly Cameron and his cronies too.

The only really effective solution would be to compel News International to divest itself of all it's UK media interests. It isn't a reputable company and it clearly isn't fit to own ANY form of news media in this country.
 
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ColinG

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Osu,


............. I need to pay the mortgage ............... I was just obeying orders............
The Nuremberg excuse comes in many shapes and colors!


Osu!
 
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MrseAlexTurner:]

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True, but the fact that I'd happily sterilise anyone who reads it probably makes me more of a nazi than they are. Nuremberg is used so casually it pretty much doesn't mean anything anymore.
 
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