General Chat

oh,,,no more dirty undercover work then or shameful reporting and behaviour from reporters what smashing karma!,,,,,))))))


never buy a daily or sunday paper so of little loss to me...

I suspect that the demise of TNOTW is just the initial warning of a newspaper Tsunami.

Watch out for the bigger Tsunami which will surely follow. Move up to higher ground immediately.

Own up now. Who else owes much of their early sex education to reading the News of the World illicitly on a Sunday.

I was at a girls grammar school in the sixties and our Monday conversation consisted mostly of taking apart the stories we had read the day before in the News of the Screws.

It could explain a lot!

I was also at an all girls Grammar in the early 60s and I have never read any of the tripe newspapers. My Father was a proof reader at the Express so that's the only paper we had.

Our sex education in year 1 was perfectly adequate...lolol

Sharron - no, we had no sex education.

I was found under a head of cabbage, my mother told me. I wouldn't eat cabbage till I was 23 for fear of making some other baby homeless.

My sister was delivered in a matchbox & all my cousins were found in a potato patch.

The family of eight next door kept chickens but my dad reckoned they were really storks with their feet worn down to their knees because of the number of times they landed in the back yard delivering babies.

Off subject a bit but it did bring back a memory of one poor games teacher to teach us the bits the News of the World had omitted. Her job was in no way made easier by the group of girls in the back who were singing 'The Menstrual Flow to the War Has Gone'!

Rita, I'm sure you are right - it seems that the NOTW were more adept at it than others.....!

We sould also bear in mind that all this happened several years ago and most if not all the staff who were at it have now gone. This was emphasised by a NOTW employee on the news this morning who also mentioned that current staff were under threat of instant dismissal these days if they even gave this sort of behavious a thought.

The big issue to my mind surrounds what the management knew about it at the time and if they did know it was going on, why did they turn a blind eye. Hopefully this will now come out in the enquiries that are being set up.

Not all of this happened several years ago, it seems. Take a look at the alleged hacking of the grieving families of servicemen. When did this take place (if indeed it did, it's still only rumour), and when did it stop, if it has stopped.

Yes I do believe the NOTW (and therefore the Sun IMO) are not the only ones to have used unscrupulous methods to gain information for cheap and sensationalist reports, and these will possibly be uncovered in due course. If you notice, most of the dailies are not making too big an issue of the whole thing, they are reporting on it all very carefully...and I would imagine that they are looking over their shoulders as I type. I can hear the rumble of many shredders too ;-)

At least the paper recycling industry will benefit in the coming weeks :-D

They won,t let Brooks go, She knows where the Bones are Buried so they dare,nt. Its a pity that the unfortunate ones ar loosing their jobs, I hope they will be properly recompensed for it,if not go to an Industrial Tribunal for unfair dismissal. Interesting to know that the Met knew about all this years ago and did nothing about it,Shades of Brown Envelopes.and look out for the Sun on Sunday,they,ve already taken out three web sites for them.As for the Editors responsible for it going and joining the bent MPs in the nick,the only way they can meet all of them would be to imprison them in the Houses of Parliament.( Then get Guy Fawkes to complete his Job.**M**

What it boils down to is,the News of the World was caught!

It is alleged that the phone hacking was in the past. Still a terrible thing to do. News of the World not a paper I would read although I do remember reading it for the juicy bits many years ago and my uncle taking it off me.

However enough of that. What about these workers. Where are the Unions in all this. How on earth can, what appears to be 3 people, make the decision to close down a best selling newspaper, putting hundreds of people out of work. It wouldn't have happened in SOGAT days.

Vera

Which Newspaper will you use now for the bottom of the cat litter tray?

i think this is just the tip of the ice berg
theres much more scandle to come

nobody closes a best selling paper down on a whim


camerons press chiefs been arrested on phone hacking charges
andy coulsons house has been raided by the police

I bet in a year's time we will all have forgotten about the supposed 'things to come'. Clever tactics on Mrs Brooks' part to divert from the present.

Vera.

It is not really closing down,it is just being re-named. The Sunday Sun or whatever it is going to be called will be the News of the World.

There is a 'Sunday Sun' already in the North-East.

Yes there is Dermot and a very good newspaper too!

The North East's Sunday Sun has a good reputation........not to be confused with Murdoch's (B)lags.....

Could some bright spark on here come up with a proper title for this debacle - something ending in 'gate'?

WAPPINGATE!!! LOL

Has to be Hackgate ! x