Ian Bone apparently went a bit mental in Wapping today.
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:15 am
by ed teach
It's crazy looking at his rise to power. One of his first major acquisitions was the New York Post, back then a failing newspaper. He increased circulation due to a year filled with sensationalist coverage of the NY blackout & the ensuing riots, the Son of Sam serial killer and hyping the run up to the Yankees world series victory.
76' - 77' was a good year for News International, much was learned. Mainly that you need news to sell newspapers, and if there's no news then you make some - or skew an existing perspective to uncover some "new truth".
Today's news is now the news itself. It's begun to reference it's own internal drama as something worthy of reportage. WTF?
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:47 am
by wub
The final edition yesterday was fucking hilarious. Big section in the middle with all their 'best' headlines. Had forgotten the banner text from the Sarah Payne murder with the line "There are more than 110,000 Paedophiles in the UK - ONE FOR EVERY SQUARE MILE!"
Rabble rousing pitch fork issuing bastards
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:37 am
by magma
soul dead wrote:I believe that people like the guy who murdered Milly Dowler are not merely insane or evil, they are the product of a society which encourages misogyny and objectification at every turn. the fetish which her parents had is part and parcel of this. I also think that a lot of the ppl in this country who condemn her killer as scum after the fact, are the kind of people who wouldn't call someone on the kind of misogynistic and sexually violent comments which this culture engenders and which allow rapists and killers to justify their acts to themselves on some level.
they have every right to be bereaved but frankly I feel no sympathy for them. maybe that makes me heartless, but it's just the way I see things.
Wow.
Just.... wow.
Your soul might actually be dead.
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:35 pm
by the acid never lies
Hugh Grant: I forgive you for Love Actually.
The only thing he gets wrong is when he says McMullen isn't an idiot
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:38 pm
by wub
PAGE 3 - LOOK AT THE TITS!
PAGE 4 - WE NAME & SHAME THE PEOPLE THAT LOOKED AT THE TITS!
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:46 pm
by the acid never lies
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:26 pm
by soul dead
magma wrote:
soul dead wrote:I believe that people like the guy who murdered Milly Dowler are not merely insane or evil, they are the product of a society which encourages misogyny and objectification at every turn. the fetish which her parents had is part and parcel of this. I also think that a lot of the ppl in this country who condemn her killer as scum after the fact, are the kind of people who wouldn't call someone on the kind of misogynistic and sexually violent comments which this culture engenders and which allow rapists and killers to justify their acts to themselves on some level.
they have every right to be bereaved but frankly I feel no sympathy for them. maybe that makes me heartless, but it's just the way I see things.
Looks like Brown's spread the muck a little further within News International now. The Sunday Times apparently used to ring up his bank pretending to be him to try and get personal details and The Sun stole his kid's medical records so they could tell the country he had a serious illness.
NI is looking ever more fucked.
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:58 pm
by ed teach
The mention of the late Robert Maxwell will undoubtedly raise a few eyebrows round the boardroom too! Now that's some deep shit right there. If you're gonna go sailing, take a life jacket peeps...
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:14 pm
by Mr Hyde
A few news places reckoning News International is considering selling all of its UK papers.
End of the Daily Mail?!!
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:37 pm
by bagelator
firky wrote:Post proof of say the Indie or Times doing the same and I'll retract my comment.
Sunday Times is renowned for shady journalistic practices.
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:38 pm
by bagelator
Mr Hyde wrote:A few news places reckoning News International is considering selling all of its UK papers.
End of the Daily Mail?!!
Daily Mail is owned by Lord Rothermere, not News International
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:43 pm
by magma
Mr Hyde wrote:A few news places reckoning News International is considering selling all of its UK papers.
End of the Daily Mail?!!
I don't think it's a bad move for them, tbh. Everyone on Fleet St has been bricking it about what to do with their newspapers... even the ones that are still making money are likely to eventually fail.
I wouldn't be surprised to see News International sell the brands and just get out of Dodge... I doubt we'll see the end of (many) more papers, but I reckon the profiteers at NI/NewsCorp won't lose out much in the long run whatever happens. Get rid of the dodgy paper investments, pump the time/effort/cash into TV and the Internet.
I want to know what Brooks knows that makes her so unfireable!
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:53 pm
by ahier
ed teach wrote:It's crazy looking at his rise to power. One of his first major acquisitions was the New York Post, back then a failing newspaper. He increased circulation due to a year filled with sensationalist coverage of the NY blackout & the ensuing riots, the Son of Sam serial killer and hyping the run up to the Yankees world series victory.
76' - 77' was a good year for News International, much was learned. Mainly that you need news to sell newspapers, and if there's no news then you make some - or skew an existing perspective to uncover some "new truth".
Today's news is now the news itself. It's begun to reference it's own internal drama as something worthy of reportage. WTF?
METANEWS!!!!!
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:40 pm
by Mr Hyde
bagelator wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:A few news places reckoning News International is considering selling all of its UK papers.
End of the Daily Mail?!!
Daily Mail is owned by Lord Rothermere, not News International
Damn. Seemed like Murdochs style. What've they got then Times and the Sun? (wouldn't go out of my way to buy them but I don't actually mind either of them )
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:18 pm
by bagelator
Mr Hyde wrote:
bagelator wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:A few news places reckoning News International is considering selling all of its UK papers.
End of the Daily Mail?!!
Daily Mail is owned by Lord Rothermere, not News International
Damn. Seemed like Murdochs style. What've they got then Times and the Sun? (wouldn't go out of my way to buy them but I don't actually mind either of them )
Yeah it's tat just like N>O>T>W>.
N.I. own Times, Sunday Times, Sun, N>O>T>W> (now dead obviously)
The "Sunday Times" was no place for shrinking violets and there were practices there that struck me as, to put it mildly, distinctive. It was possible, for example, to obtain unlisted phone numbers as long as you knew a person's address, something obtained from the electoral roll, which could be accessed online. Getting such information quickly became routine. It occurred to me at the time -- and does so even more strongly now -- that if such resources were available to a branch office, what additional means were being deployed at its Wapping headquarters in London?
Re: News of the World Scandal
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:07 pm
by firky
ed teach wrote:The mention of the late Robert Maxwell will undoubtedly raise a few eyebrows round the boardroom too! Now that's some deep shit right there. If you're gonna go sailing, take a life jacket peeps...
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