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News of the World to close

Effective with this Sunday's edition (July 2011)

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DV
DVB Cornwall
Reflection on the damage to the press advertising sector of the closure published tonight .....

see here ……..

WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK/MEDIA
10-Jul-2011 @ 21:54
SO
Steven O
Michael posted:
Badger264 posted:
Michael posted:
Although I have some sympathy with the innocent individuals losing their jobs, anyone who takes the Murdoch dollar deserves everything they get.


And if they're as good journalists as News International are trying to tell us, then they'll have no problem getting another job.


They'll be allright.... I read somewhere the unemployed get 5 bedroom houses and £50 000 a year in benefits.


Just wait though until they get put on to Employment & Support Allowance. At least these journalists won't have any problems being found fit for work. Laughing
IS
Inspector Sands
Michael posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Sun on Sunday Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/TheSunOnSunday


Already been noticed by the Guardian, and labelled a hoax / satire.

Facepalm... that was obvious from the very first post!
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 11 July 2011 11:15am
JA
JAS84
At least some people kept their jobs. According to Fabulous magazine's Twitter (@fabulousmag), the magazine isn't over.
MI
Michael
Inspector Sands posted:
Michael posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Sun on Sunday Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/TheSunOnSunday


Already been noticed by the Guardian, and labelled a hoax / satire.

Facepalm... that was obvious from the very first post!


To us perhaps, but there are some (on this board and off it) who would use this as hard, 100% factual evidence of the existence of the Sun On Sunday. Just making sure Wink
IS
Inspector Sands
Michael posted:
To us perhaps, but there are some (on this board and off it) who would use this as hard, 100% factual evidence of the existence of the Sun On Sunday. Just making sure Wink

Only an imbecile would think that it was real.... oh hang on, I get your point now Wink
MW
Mike W
I've obtained a copy of the last NotW and noticed a typo on page 30 of the souvenir pullout
Last edited by Mike W on 11 July 2011 11:04pm
AG
AxG
Mike W posted:
I've obtained a copy of the last NotW and noticed a typo on page of the souvenir pullout


200? Smile
MA
Magoo
Mike W posted:
I've obtained a copy of the last NotW and noticed a typo on page of the souvenir pullout


There are quite a few typos I think. Sub editors maybe went to the pub earlier.

Having said, the front page of tomorrow's Financial Times has a better typo - "Murdock desperate to keep BSkyB bid alive". Jeez.
MW
Mike W
AxG posted:
Mike W posted:
I've obtained a copy of the last NotW and noticed a typo on page of the souvenir pullout


200? Smile


yes! and I made a typo in that message, how brilliantly ironic! Should read "...a typo on page 30..."
Last edited by Mike W on 11 July 2011 11:10pm
DV
dvboy
Quote:
7.40pm: I wonder if Rupert Murdoch has been watching the Simpsons this evening. No doubt by sheer coincidence, Sky One has been showing an episode called "Fraudcast News", in which the elderly tycoon Montgomery Burns establishes a media monopoly to strike back at his enemies.

In the episode, reports of Burns' death are greatly exaggerated and when obituaries tell the truth about him, he starts buying up the media in order to brainwash Springfield.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, more than one commentator in the past has likened the Australian American media mogul to a real-life version of Mr Burns (above).

As a portrait of power unfettered, the Simpsons' character is as much cartoon villain as the show's real- life owner, according to one writer, though many have scratched their heads that Murdoch ever allowed this left-of-centre cartoon to be made by Fox.

And lest we forget, Murdoch himself has also appeared on the programme, introducing himself as follows: "I'm Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant."

Thanks to Joseph Stashko for pointing out the Simpsons' episode by the way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-scandal-live#block-7
IS
Inspector Sands
The Daily Show's take on the News of the World: http://gawker.com/5820243/jon-stewart-tackles-the-news-of-the-world-scandal

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