News Corp. phone-hacking case gets uglier - and paper gets shut down

Not sure how much attention this has gotten in much of this country, but the investigation into the News of the World's phone-hacking scandal keeps revealing more and more ridiculous details.

Vanity Fair had a good article that gives the background.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/06/rupert-murdoch-news-of-the-world-201106

The last few days have revealed, among other things, that the paper hacked into the phone of murder victim Milly Dowler.

http://gawker.com/5817953/murdoch-paper-hacked-murdered-girls-voicemail?tag=newsoftheworld

They also hacked the phones of victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings.

http://gawker.com/5818386/families-of-77-bombing-victims-had-phones-hacked-by-murdoch-paper

And this, from Jack Shafer:

http://www.slate.com/id/2298439/pagenum/all/

 

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Fucking Murdoch Empire Gone Wild

 

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Shutting it down:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/07/news-of-the-world-shutting-down-after-sunday-edition/?hpt=hp_c1

Sunday's News of the World edition will be its last.

 

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wow.... that's a sudden end...

 

I guess that's one way to deal with it. I'm glad Sulzberger didn't have a similar reaction after Jayson Blair.

 

But for how long? I can see, after Murdoch gets full control of BSkyB, that he'll announce "public demand" for News of the World and bring it back under new management. It was the leading circulation national weekly, after all, with 2.98 million as of January.

 

Yeah, this is more about mollifying the government than anything else.

 

Can't we lock up Rupert Murdoch?

 

This quote really had me doing this :

Like others said, the News of the World crew -- and most importantly, its advertising revenue -- will be back under a new name and, maybe, a new figurehead leader.

Murdoch will still rake in the $$$.

 

Or, it could be a simple way to save face publicly, while at the same time, helping shore up RM's overall balance sheet (assuming the newspaper properties are struggling like most papers).

 

It also may just funnel more business to The Sun, another Murdock property that seems to serve essentially the same function, so he figure he'll make up revenue with increases there.

Who knows at this point. The only thing I'm sure of is that this is a business decision and not a moral one.

 

The domain sunonsunday.co.uk was registered the other night. Hmmm.