The Fall of Rupert Murdoch's Empire? News of the World Stops Publication!

UPDATE 8/16: Evidence Submitted to Parliament shows Andy Coulson, Rupert and James Murdock may have lied to the Committee. James may be recalled to explain before Parliament.
UPDATE 7/7: News of the World Ceases Publication!
UPDATE 7/15: Rebekah Brooks Resigns, Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones Resigns, Murdock Apologizes! FBI launches investigation of News Corp.
UPDATE 7/17: Rebekah Brooks Arrested! Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned.
UPDATE 7/18: Deputy commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, John Yates, resigns. Hacking Whistleblower found dead! Labor MPs calling for Cameron to step down as Prime Minister.

Let's hope so.

The News of The World were in big trouble recently when it was discovered they were hacking into the voice mail of high profile celebrities and politicians, and have had to fork out millions in compensation recently. Short jail terms have been served and cases are on going.

But this has just hit the headline news and it's really causing a storm. It's come to light that they were not only targeting high profile celebs but anyone who happened to be in the news, including people who have gone missing.

They intercepted the voice mail of a girl who went missing years ago and was later found murdered, looking for leads to stories they could print in their filthy newspaper.

They even deleted voicemail messages on her phone that people had left for her, desperately looking for her, in order to create space for more messages that might lead to information they could use to dig more dirt, making it look to the police as though she was still alive and giving false hope to the relatives.

Who knows what their sales were today, probably the same as yesterday. It's the newspaper for the less wise among us in British society, and well known for it's paedophile witch hunt campaign some 10 years ago where they called for all convicted paedophiles to be named and shamed and saw local people protesting on the streets in some neighbourhoods. This created an of atmosphere of vigilantism that resulted in some innocent people being wrongly targeted.

And now they have been found to have been interfering with police investigations into the disappearance of Milly Dowler, and who knows what others who may have gone missing in the past 10-15 years? They are saying on the news that the police have been in touch with the parent's of the two little girls from Soham who were raped and murdered in 2002, but didn't say anything else...

This is a very serious matter. Shit just got real with the whole viocemail hacking scandal and the government is now in a position where they have to act on one of the most powerful media organisations in the world.

What are they going to do, and what can they do?

Rupert Murdoch is not a popular man these days, not least amongst politicians.

I wonder how many of the idiots who buy this paper have decided now to boycott it as well, as surely the idea of them interfering with police investigations into the disappearance of children and potentially threatening their safety is unlikely to sit well with them.

I don't believe for a second that the NOTW had anything but the interests of Milly Dowler at heart, and her safety, and a headline story.... They did not set out to further endanger her life, but neither did they have the brain capacity to understand that they could have, and that is why they must have the full force of the law coming down on them in this instance, because clearly they are a threat to not only people's reputation, but people's lives, including children who may have been abducted.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world

 

first heard about this a couple of nights ago, when the local npr (national public radio) station switch over to 'the bbc over night.'

mcleod-ganja i hope your right on this matter.

i would love nothing more, then to see rupert murdoch raked over the coals for being the low life mad capitalist dog that he is.
i doubt that is going to happen though.
:sad:

 

It's not likely to happen.

Something like all of the previous umpteen governments that have been elected were supported by NOTW in the run up to the election, which says it all.

This more than anything shows us the kind of people who are running things, or trying to.

Interesting also to note that this story has been leaked during the summer, just as all the schools are going on holidays and most of the fools who buy The Sun and NOTW are on holiday in the south of france.

 

They are now saying that relatives of the 7/7 bombing attack in london in 2005 may have also been hacked by NOTW

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14040841

 

The more atrocities revealed, the greater the chance of the masses waking up. Fortunately, information cannot be contained indefinitely in the modern world, so I see it as simply a matter of time before people stop taking shit from bastards like Murdoch and his cronies.

 

Rupert Murdoch also owns MySpace now too. Does this mean they are also using it as a potential means to dig dirt on news stories?

 

I just love the headline for this article on the BBC news site.

Cameron promises phone hack probe... sounds kind of painful actually.

I hope it is!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14036673

 

A timeline of events in this story from the brand new UK Huffington Post website.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/..._n_891333.html?ir=UK#s303541&title=March_2002

 

And now the families of dead soldiers may have been hacked.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909

 

Cameron is just a puppet, Murdock's a player... will be watching this with interest, but i don't old out much hope... hope i'm wrong...

 

The actor Hugh Grant talks about how he helped expose the NOTW phone hacking scandal.

This is worth watching as he gets really stuck into one of the journalists from NOTW at the end.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052690

 

i saw another one of him yesterday and thought it may be that but this is a new one... nice one McLeodGanja...!!! wonder if we'll be seeing Hugh vilified in the press shortly... suddenly, i have a new-found respect for Hugh...

 

I don't think the NOTW will be giving much coverage to his next film, unless there is tits in it or a sports celebrity with a drug habit.

 

News just in that the News of the World is to cease printing after this sunday's edition.

Holy fuckarooney.

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

 

you've gone and made rupert cry

 

What about The Sun? It's the same newspaper isn't it?

 

it's owned by his news corporation brand. so it may only be a matter of time before people start pointing fingers elsewhere within his empire.

this is really big news. he literally owns it, after all.