Murdoch‘s ’News of the World’ Prints Its Final Issue
- Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:26am by
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LONDON (AP) — Britons are snapping up the last edition of Britain’s best-selling Sunday tabloid News of the World, after the 168-year-old muckraking paper was brought down in a phone-hacking scandal.
The 8,674th edition apologizes to readers for letting them down, saying “quite simply we lost our way” and acknowledging that “phones were hacked.”
Allegations the paper‘s journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers prompted Rupert Murdoch’s News International to shut down the paper.
The media baron is expected in London later Sunday, where he will face the growing crisis caused by the scandal.
The last edition included a 48-page souvenir pullout and quotes from George Orwell on the back page.
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Comments (51)
tom
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:22amLiberal press goes after Murdock, but gives Soros a pass???????
Report Post »jill098
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:30amIt is not the press just going after him! Prime Minister Cameron has had to start 2 enquiries on his BFF Murdoch and Brooks! Police enquiries on top of that! Even James Murdoch has admitted to signing checks to hush people up who were hacked! Paying police is corruption! This scandal being called Cameron’s Watergate!
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:45amBlaze, you are failing. where is the ‘report post’?! why does it appear then disappear? how much did you pay this web designer.. i would take your money back and fire the douche now.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:44amLOL, you are replying to these people? they are BOTs.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:43amIn late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD).
what did GM ever do with that 6 BILLION dollars? why did they need a bailout just 7 years later? anyone ever think about that? wastoids…
Report Post »vorpal
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:23amGeorge Soros hates Murdoch for obvious reasons…this is right out of the progressive playbook…start by discrediting the opposition…
Report Post »Soros has worms all over the globe working for his vision of a new world order.
azjoannie
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:46pmYou took the words right out of my mouth -
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:48pm110% correct… They have been turning out morons via the dept of education who fall for it.. very sad for these automatons..
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 5:29pmWeak, but you tried. Come back when it’s CRIMINAL and they shut down :^)
Report Post »jill098
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 5:30pmSo Soros made Murdoch hack murdered girls voice mails? Soros made Murdoch hack fallen soldiers emails and voice mails, and the voice mails of their families? Soros made Murdoch hack voice mails of the 7/7 bombing victims an their families? Soros made Murdoch bribe police? Soros made Murdoch hack over 4000 people? Soros made the Prime Minister BFF’s of Murdoch and Brooks? Soros made Murdoch pay off people they hacked with hush money? Enough with Soros this is all Murdoch’s fault!
Report Post »david3755
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:08amLooking forward to the new york times going the same route.
Report Post »Jake in Denver
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:33amGood move by Murdoch. Printing is dieing. Watch as he moves it online and to ebook formats. Less overhead, less waste, more profit.
Boom, winning.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:18amSusie, that XBox is really an old Atari, Your mom is getting her laptop from the “favors” she’s doing for that freaky guy next door. That 46 inch HDTV is really an old Philco 19″ with a black metal cabinet and a remote that’s the old “clicker” that rotates the channel control.
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:00amSorry, little off the subject or is it?
Found this:
This time at the Brooklyn Museum of Art where they will show “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” an exhibit on homosexual and lesbian themes.
As part of this exhibit, there is a blasphemous video by David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992, with a scene of ants crawling on a crucifix.
This same blasphemous exhibit was removed from the Smithsonian in November of 2010 due to a huge public outcry.
Now the Brooklyn Museum of Art has decided to show it!
In my opinion, this is an outrage against the Sacred Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ and we cannot remain silent about it. I want to add: where are the liberal, Obama loving, clergy on this? Jesus is Lord for many of us and many gay people want to attack him. Pray Christians, Pray.
Most likely they will receive an award from Obama for promoting his “gay” agenda. Vote him out in 2012
Report Post »GiGi80
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:28pmNo, it’s not a little off topic. It’s a lot off-topic.
Report Post »hat is Obama’s “gay agenda”? You do know that the does not support same-sex marriage, right? And that the efforts to reverse DADT were lead by military official and personnel?
Southern Culture
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:59amSince when hasanyone cared about wiretaps wikileaks making millions putting our soldiers in jepordy revolts started all over the middle east.The lost generation you belieave everthing you read are hear one of the biggest part‘s of growing up is looking someone in the eye when you are talking with 30 year’s from now you will lock youself away in room because you will become to scared to be sosial with people. Kinda like the geek blogger’s are now . Good luck you up coming generation the deck has been stacked against you!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:52amWonder why Fox has not been reporting on this story?
Report Post »Grayzel
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:08amJust go to Fox’s web news………………..they have been reporting on it for days.
Report Post »ireport uderide
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:43amI say shut them all down until we find out who the hell, “unidentified source” is.
Let’s start with the New Yak Times. Until they give back the Pulitzer Prize they accepted for lying about Stalin’s starvation of millions of people, they don’t deserve to print anything but garage sale ads.
Close down CBS. Does anyone remember the lying liar Dan Blather?
I could go on, but until we open the books of all news media and find out who the “sources”, are they use to smear their opponents, we might as well return to our dull lives of sports, reality TV and Hollywood propaganda movies.
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:38amJust think, if that‘s what they’re doing at a tabloid owned by Murdoch I can‘t imagine what’s going on at the N.Y. Times, etc.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:37amNONE of my posts show up anymore, why??
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:37amWho cares Where is Beck!!!!!!!!
Report Post »olddog
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:36amFolks if we play by all the rules while the left ignores them totally where do you think were gonna end up???
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:45amThey didn’t hack Ministers of Parlaiment to get important political news. They hacked royalty and celebrities for gossip and crime victims for emotional exploitation.
Report Post »jill098
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:03pm@Chet You do know they hacked into murdered girls voice mail! They hacked into fallen soldiers emails and voice mails and of their families. They hacked victims voice mails of the 7/7 bombings and their families! You honestly think that is ok? They bribed police officers! James Murdoch admitted paying hush money to hack victims! They admitted to not giving all the emails or other evidence in the first enguiry! Rupert set a 20 million pound fund when it was just thought to be stars and royalty! Google Foreign Corrupt Powers Act of 1977! James Murdoch is looking to be charged not only in the UK, but also the US and Australia is now looking as well!
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:26amFirst I’ve heard of this tabloid (don’t keep up on tabloids, U.S. or Britain) or the scandal but I have to say it doesn’t suprise me. I wouldn’t be suprised if media outlets here in the U.S. do the same sort of things. The MSM here is just as evil (and yes I do mean evil) in their ways of “reporting” the news and IMO what’s worst then their “reporting” are the stories they don’t report. But back on track, I hope someone or many people from that tabloid go to jail. They darn well deserve to.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:55ammhm, and go to jail they might. I wonder which country issues an arrest warrant for Murdoch (Foxnews) first…
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:19amI guess everyone has skeleton’s in their closet, including Murdock! Dissapointing I must say.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 1:42amFox is not much better than CNN, I’m sorry to say. When you consider how thoroughly regulated television is, it’s no surprise that there is no honest news outlet.
Thank God for the Internet. In the words of a great man, it’s “the last, best hope of man on Earth.”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:13amLaughable that it took 3 days for this even to get a mention on Fox. Daddy Murdoch just couldn’t avoid it any longer. :P
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:09amShut that sucker down!
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:22amHe is shutting it down. No person is perfect and in an imperfect world things like this happen.
” Britons are snapping up the last edition of Britain’s best-selling Sunday tabloid News of the World”.
Report Post »I will have to say “kudos” to Murdock because with this incident he is willing to “make right” by shutting down “Britans best-selling tabloid”. SInce especially tabloids are a BIG money maker, for him to shut it down, he shows that he is not willing to sacrifice honesty for money. I say “WAY TO GO” to Mr. Murdock. Like him or not this does show that he has character!
tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 8:05amGo figure, Murdoch involved in a scandal…
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:46amScandal? No Scandal. Murdock was probably looking for a way to shut the paper tabloid down. Paper anything these days are lost causes. I don‘t even know why it’s news – gossip tabloids come and go all the time.
Report Post »jill098
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:57pm@BoiseBaked Not a scandal??? So you believe corruption of police officers is nothing? You believe it’s ok to hack murdered girls voice mails? You believe it’s ok to hack fallen soldiers emails and voice mails??? Hack the families of fallen soldiers voice mails? You think it’s ok to hack voice mails of the 7/7 bombing and their families? You think it’s ok that James Murdoch admitted to paying hush to people that were hacked? Murdoch did this to over 4000 people! Do you also think it’s ok when they held back emails and other evidence during the first investigation? So you then must also agree with Rupert about setting up a 20 million pound fund to pay people who had been hacked, when it was just known about the hacking of stars and royalty? This will be Prime Ministers Watergate! You do remember how that worked out for Nixon right?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 4:36pmMy only question is which country issues an arrest warrant first.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:38amJust goes to show you have to be honest in everything you do…
Reminds me of John Hutsman‘s Sr’s book, Winners Never Cheat
Report Post »Marci
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 4:53pmI wish someone else owned his empire, he threatens us.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:37amJust goes to show you have to be honest in everything you do….
…This story reminds me of John Hutsman’s Sr book, Winners Never Cheat
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:32amAnother era has come to a close; and in this case, as they said, they have lost their way, and now the price is being paid by closing their doors and going to print for the final time.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 7:29am.
Report Post »So What, never read it……………