Well, today the UK managed to close down a national paper
I'm watching Question Time at the moment, about the fallout from the News of the World, so this seems like a good time to go WTF.
So, bloody hell. In three days the British public has managed to shut down a major national newspaper. The News of the World is no more. Well, probably, but more on that later.
So, the day started with the news that Royal British Legion drops NoW as campaign partner
Then Sainsbury's pulls ads from News of the World 'until outcome of investigation'
And after that lots of advertisers pulled out Apart from Tesco
The Guardian has a wonderful real time timeline of what happened through the day. It's awesome and has lots of links. This one goes up to the point where the announcement came about NOTW being closed and this one is from when the news came through about NOTW being closed.
So, the News of the World was then closed.
Umm, what. Roughly 500 people who didn't work for the paper when the hacking was going on are losing their jobs. Wonderful. So while Rebekah Brooks who was editor during the majority of the scandal keeps her job, everyone else loses theirs.
As someone on Twitter said: There are only three people in country who believe Rebekah Brooks should keep her job. David Cameron. James Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch.
But, really, it's obvious why the paper was shut.
When given the choice of keeping either the News of the World or Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch went for keeping Rebekah Brooks.
He's hoping that by acting now he'll keep New International's bid to buy up the rest of BSkyB safe.
And, lets be honest: he'll just relaunch the paper in another guise. I mean, there are reports that the domain sunonsunday.co.uk was brought up on the 5th July. That's not at all suspicious.
Although, it doesn't sound like many people are being taken in by Murdoch's actions. Thank goodness.
Then of course, there are the problems of how Rupert Murdoch has/(hopefully) had a stranglehold on the politicians of today. It's quite obvious that politicians are too scared of Murdoch and his organisation to stand up to him.
And then there's the relationship between News International and the police because, lets be honest, the police didn't quit their investigation in 2006 because the evidence wasn't there.
The Guardian should be applauded for being so determined to bring all of this to the light.
So, bloody hell. In three days the British public has managed to shut down a major national newspaper. The News of the World is no more. Well, probably, but more on that later.
So, the day started with the news that Royal British Legion drops NoW as campaign partner
Then Sainsbury's pulls ads from News of the World 'until outcome of investigation'
And after that lots of advertisers pulled out Apart from Tesco
The Guardian has a wonderful real time timeline of what happened through the day. It's awesome and has lots of links. This one goes up to the point where the announcement came about NOTW being closed and this one is from when the news came through about NOTW being closed.
So, the News of the World was then closed.
Umm, what. Roughly 500 people who didn't work for the paper when the hacking was going on are losing their jobs. Wonderful. So while Rebekah Brooks who was editor during the majority of the scandal keeps her job, everyone else loses theirs.
As someone on Twitter said: There are only three people in country who believe Rebekah Brooks should keep her job. David Cameron. James Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch.
But, really, it's obvious why the paper was shut.
When given the choice of keeping either the News of the World or Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch went for keeping Rebekah Brooks.
He's hoping that by acting now he'll keep New International's bid to buy up the rest of BSkyB safe.
And, lets be honest: he'll just relaunch the paper in another guise. I mean, there are reports that the domain sunonsunday.co.uk was brought up on the 5th July. That's not at all suspicious.
Although, it doesn't sound like many people are being taken in by Murdoch's actions. Thank goodness.
Then of course, there are the problems of how Rupert Murdoch has/(hopefully) had a stranglehold on the politicians of today. It's quite obvious that politicians are too scared of Murdoch and his organisation to stand up to him.
And then there's the relationship between News International and the police because, lets be honest, the police didn't quit their investigation in 2006 because the evidence wasn't there.
The Guardian should be applauded for being so determined to bring all of this to the light.