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....Freak in the morning, Freak in the evening, aint no other Freak like me thats breathing....
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Yeah good riddance, shame we can't get rid of all Murdoch's shit. -
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his gold plated bog does a good job of that
on topic : they had it coming but do u really think they will just shut up shop ? last edition on sunday by the following sunday it will have been renamed and printed for monday morning newsagentsComment
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Its not good for the everyday people who will lose their jobs as a result of this. Yeah some will get a new jobs working for the Sunday Sun (basically the News Of The world re-branded) but they will have lost all their pension benefits and be on worse terms & conditions. While all the people at the top will get away scot free. Some people should go to prison for this.Originally posted by res0nat0r
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I thought it was something about Queen's album
It´s a spiritual thing!
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I think there might be a chance some peeps will go to the slammer (but I think you're right, the people who are at the top might skate), but those that don't are going to face some serious lawsuits - though I'm not sure how British tort law works over this when it comes to the families that were victims in this. As for Rebekah Brooks, looks like there might be a chance she'll be the fall guy on this, while Andy Coulson might get arrested as early as tomorrow.Comment
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That was my first thought
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Tears, then rage, as journalists are told that they face the sack
Announcement was greeted with disbelief at News International's Wapping offices
By Oliver Wright, Jerome Taylor, and Kevin Rawlinson
Friday, 8 July 2011
PA, David Sandison
Rebekah Brooks reportedly told staff the news before leaving the editor, Colin Myler, to address the newsroom
When staff at the News of the World saw Rebekah Brooks standing outside their editor's office waiting to address them they assumed that, as Andy Coulson had done four years ago, she was about to announce her resignation.
Instead, after five minutes of preamble – in which she is said to have got the age of the paper wrong – she told them they were the ones who would be losing their jobs. Some started crying. "Everyone else was like a zombie," said one member of staff who was there. "The anger came later."
Ms Brooks then said she had been asked to read out a statement by the company's chairman, James Murdoch – but that she thought, in the circumstances, it was best to leave it. She retreated to her office, promising to come back later to answer questions.
It was left to the paper's current editor, Colin Myler – in tears himself – to try to explain the ramifications of the decision to close the 168-year-old paper, the news of which he had only just found out himself. Ms Brooks did not return and was reportedly later escorted from the building by security staff. "The only thing I care about is you," Mr Myler told them after Ms Brooks had left. "You are blameless for what has happened."
One member of the staff who was at the meeting said: "We got a call to come to the editor's office and saw Rebekah with Colin. The last time we were there, it was with Andy when he announced he was resigning, so we just assumed she was going. Then she started talking about how good the News of the World was. It was five or 10 minutes before she told us the paper was closing. To be honest I can't really remember what she said before then. It's all a blur now."
But what he could remember was that, contrary to reports on Sky News, she was not crying. "She did wipe her eyes at one stage – but she wasn't crying. Not like Colin. He was crying his eyes out. He said all he cared about was us and, to be honest, I believe him. Not like her. Murdoch has sacrificed a newspaper to save one woman."
After the news, reporters were left to go back to their desks and absorb the news. They still have one last paper to bring out this Sunday.
At another meeting later in the afternoon with Mr Myler and a representative from News International's human resources department, the staff were told they would get 90 days' pay and then redundancy. They were told there were "limited opportunities" for jobs in other parts of the company. "Someone asked if we should come in after Monday," said one. "We were told there wasn't much point in that."
Staff afterwards pointed out that 90 per cent of the current staff at the paper were not there at the time of the hacking allegations – unlike Ms Brooks – and as the afternoon wore on, shock was replaced by deep and vitriolic anger. "We've heard a lot about disgusting behaviour here in recent days," said one. "This is another example." Another said: "Those of us who lose our jobs will be out for revenge. And Murdoch and Brooks should know better than most that we're very good at getting it." But contrary to some reports, it was not a "lynch mob mentality". "That's just being put out by the company to discredit us still further."
Two members of staff were prepared to speak publicly. The paper's chief political editor, David Wooding, said: "Decent and hard-working journalists are carrying the can for the sins of the previous regime. We knew we were in a bad place but we never expected a bombshell as big as this."
Asked to describe staff reaction to the announcement, Jules Stenson, head of features, said: "Profound disappointment rather than anger. Clearly no one among the current staff condones what's gone on in the past; they share everyone's collective horror about what has been reported this week."
Staff at the The Times, part of the same News International stable, discovered the news only after reading to the very bottom of a 1,000-word email sent by James Murdoch. One member of staff said: "It took a few minutes for everyone to read through the statement. There was a 'fucking hell' from the first person who read it."
Shortly afterwards, the newsroom was addressed by the paper's editor, James Harding, who told them he had only just found out himself. He said the only way to respond to the situation was with journalism that makes its readers proud and lives up to its historical standards. And with that he retreated into his office.Comment
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Coulson faces arrest as police say up to 4,000 were hacked
By Martin Hickman and Cahal Milmo
Friday, 8 July 2011
Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, is about to become the highest-profile journalist to be arrested in the phone-hacking scandal, according to reports last night.
As police admitted that almost 4,000 people may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World, speculation was mounting that Mr Coulson would be formally arrested by officers from Scotland Yard today.
According to reports, which The Independent could not verify last night, detectives contacted Mr Coulson yesterday and asked him to present himself at a police station in central London, where he will be formally questioned under suspicion of involvement in hacking. A second as yet unidentified former senior journalist at the NOTW is also expected to be arrested in the next few days, according to the newspaper.
The arrest of Mr Coulson – who has always denied any involvement in hacking – comes six months after he left Downing Street, where he was the communications director for David Cameron.
Police are thought to have speeded up their plans to arrest the suspects after leaks from News International, which owns the News of the World and The Times, which reported there would be shortly further arrests.
The arrests will be carried out by officers from Operation Weeting, whose leading investigating officer, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, warned there were almost 4,000 likely victims of the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was exclusively contracted to the NOTW.
The estimate sharply contrasts with the evidence given by Andy Hayman, the officer who led the original investigation into Mr Mulcaire's activities in 2006-07 who said that there were "perhaps a handful" of hacking victims.
After reviewing the first inquiry and finding it to have been properly conducted, Assistant Commissioner John Yates told the Home Affairs Select Committee in September 2010: "We can only prove a crime against a very small number of people and that number is about 10 to 12 people. That is very few people."
As it acknowledged the true scale of the wrongdoing, Scotland Yard stated that it would be inappropriate for it to investigate new allegations that the News of the World had bribed police officers for sensitive information. Corrupt officers are thought to have been paid more than £100,000 each for passing the tabloid sensitive information.
The Met initially said this week that could it could investigate the case. Yesterday, it said that public disapproval had led it to hand the investigation to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Ms Akers, who will appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday, said: "We recognised the gravity of this case from the outset and involved the IPCC at the first opportunity. I strongly believe in and welcome independent oversight, especially in a case such as this, where public confidence in the police is seriously at risk."Comment
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good, serves them right for working for that scummy paper. Blameless my arsemotherloverComment
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They all knew the rag they were involved with ... it goes about ruining peoples lives on a weekly basis.
Got their comeupance.
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The only thing is - a lot of the employees that were working for NoW, are being moved over to The Sun (which, now is publishing a Sunday edition). What do you want to bet that some of the scumbags involved are getting moved along with them?
And I think I was reading that there's been a second raid on another Murdoch owned paper today?Comment
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The final edition of the News of the World. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP
If the staff at the News of the World felt bitter towards the woman who kept her job when they lost theirs, it seems they found an unlikely outlet for their anger.
It was not until page 47 of the final edition that a series of scarcely concealed digs appeared under the guise of crossword clues and answers.
The clues for the quickie and cryptic crossword included "woman stares wildly at calamity", "catastrophe", "stink" and "criminal enterprise", seemingly a thinly veiled reference to Rebekah Brooks and the phone hacking scandal. Answers included "deplored", "stench", "disaster", "menace", "racket", "desist" and "tart".
The word "Brook" also appeared as a clue in the quickie puzzle, another possible reference to the News International chief executive,
Brooks was said to have ordered two senior figures at the company to search the paper for hidden messages from disgruntled staff but it appears they overlooked the crossword.
Other clues in the cryptic puzzle include "string of recordings", "mix in prison" and "will fear new security measure".
The answer "firewall" is possibly a reference to staff being unable to use the internet following the announcement of the paper's closure.
The failure to spot the jibes may have brought a small amount of joy to an otherwise dejected staff.
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