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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 7, 2011 17:17:47 GMT
This isn't actually news because the crafty scumbags will simply release the same paper under a different name. I just wish there would be proper sanctions against the Murdoch Empire and such should have happened ten years ago after their naming and shaming campaign which wrongly published the names of innocent men as being paedophiles.
The same people who hacked the phones of murder victims will still be in work.
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Post by Weyland on Jul 7, 2011 18:28:39 GMT
This isn't actually news because the crafty scumbags will simply release the same paper under a different name. I just wish there would be proper sanctions against the Murdoch Empire and such should have happened ten years ago after their naming and shaming campaign which wrongly published the names of innocent men as being paedophiles. The same people who hacked the phones of murder victims will still be in work. How true. It's the fashion these days. Same with bankers. After destroying a lorra people's lives, some countries, and even a few banks, they get record bonuses and carry on banking. And the hacks who don't stay with Murdoch will simply start working for Cameron and/or Clegg. Heaven knows, they'll be needing them. |
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Post by everso on Jul 7, 2011 18:47:45 GMT
Apparently, according to Radio 4, the url www.thesunonsunday.co.uk and www.thesunonsunday.com have already been registered (2 days ago). Either they were getting organised, or some bright spark has anticipated this. Damn, I wish I was a bright spark. |
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Post by everso on Jul 7, 2011 18:48:55 GMT
Seems to me that the people REALLY responsible won't be affected by this.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 7, 2011 18:55:40 GMT
It goes back to freedom of speech and the free press etc'...if you are creeping about the knicker drawers of people and telling lies...that's not free speech.
But justice would be if News International were hauled before the courts and then properly dealt with.
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Post by everso on Jul 7, 2011 19:05:22 GMT
It goes back to freedom of speech and the free press etc'...if you are creeping about the knicker drawers of people and telling lies...that's not free speech. But justice would be if News International were hauled before the courts and then properly dealt with. Everso experiences a frisson of I'm not sure what. |
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jul 7, 2011 19:09:00 GMT
It always goes back to knickers.....
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 7, 2011 19:17:06 GMT
I might start my own paper...Knickers Of The World....I think we'd do well and we wouldn't tell lies....only on Sundays.  (is this how Murdoch started?) |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 7, 2011 19:48:01 GMT
Apparently, according to Radio 4, the url www.thesunonsunday.co.uk and www.thesunonsunday.com have already been registered (2 days ago). Either they were getting organised, or some bright spark has anticipated this. Damn, I wish I was a bright spark. It's certainly been a very effective publicity stunt indeed. Nobody seems to be talking about anything else. |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 7, 2011 20:51:55 GMT
Apparently before they became obsessed with celebrities and dead children it was vicars. "In the 20th Century - until [Rupert] Murdoch bought it - it was a strange sideshow in British life, very similar to the saucy seaside postcard. It was full of dirty vicars. There was a specific loophole in libel law that didn't allow vicars to sue... I was a choirboy in the seventies and kick myself to think I had a massive story right on my doorstep...choirmaster was a rampant homosexual and there was a story involving him, the vicar and two choristers in a bout 1970...my bottom was fondled by a one Alastair Snowley during choir practice in 1975 and I recall being asked back to a house for supper....but it was 10 o'clock and Mum was waiting for me. Bring back the News Of The World....   |
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 8, 2011 6:12:59 GMT
Clearly a new Sunday paper should be run by the publishers of the Independent. It would be fair, balanced, entirely proper...
....and fold within a fortnight.
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Post by Weyland on Jul 8, 2011 9:03:02 GMT
Clearly a new Sunday paper should be run by the publishers of the Independent. It would be fair, balanced, entirely proper... ....and fold within a fortnight. I heard on Today that one of the papers — and I think it's the Independent's excellent spin-off i — has the banner headline End of The World |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 8, 2011 9:03:18 GMT
...and to think of the sleaze, the debauchery, the degeneracy that the NOTW hacks have missed here in the stub!  |
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Post by Weyland on Jul 8, 2011 9:09:41 GMT
...and to think of the sleaze, the debauchery, the degeneracy that the NOTW hacks have missed here in the stub! Oh God! They might've intercepted the Lambeth Meet texts! |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 8, 2011 12:48:02 GMT
...and to think of the sleaze, the debauchery, the degeneracy that the NOTW hacks have missed here in the stub! Oh God! They might've intercepted the Lambeth Meet texts! I thought we were going to organise a meet this summer again. Did anyone do anything about it or was it all just talk? |
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Post by Weyland on Jul 8, 2011 12:56:25 GMT
Oh God! They might've intercepted the Lambeth Meet texts! I thought we were going to organise a meet this summer again. Did anyone do anything about it or was it all just talk? I did make several suggestions, but was ignored. Not that I'm bitter. I move that Riot, as the most Apprentice-wise capable of us, organise a Meet on September 9. Or any other day that suits her. Not in the Balkans. |
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Post by jean on Jul 10, 2011 21:34:09 GMT
You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 15, 2011 16:09:30 GMT
Each morning our key to the world comes through the door
More than often its just a comic, not much more
Don't take it too serious - not many do
Read between the lines and you'll find the truth
Read all about it, read all about it - news of the world'Nuff said.  AH
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 15, 2011 16:17:31 GMT
Rebekah Brooks is scary though...I wouldn't want to cross her.  AH |
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Post by jean on Jul 15, 2011 19:14:57 GMT
I loved Ann Leslie's comment - she said, with just the faintest hint of contempt, that RB wasn't much of an editor, since she turned down the parliamentary expenses story on the grounds that there wasn't enough sex in it.
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