Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35269688)

If that paper continues to exist after this i will be extremely surprised. Anyone continuing to buy that paper needs to have a long hard look at themselves. The only way to punish that paper is to never buy it again.

Murdock needs to be punished financially and legally over this.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35269689)

Anyone who bought it before needs to have a long hard look at themselves :D

Originally Posted by dazzer89 (Post 35206618)

Lets hope the Tory slime ball has got arrested to.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35269689)

Anyone who bought it before needs to have a long hard look at themselves :D

Originally Posted by Peter Oborne, The Spectator

Let’s try a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that BP threw an extravagant party, with oysters and expensive champagne. Let’s imagine that Britain’s most senior politicians were there — including the Prime Minister and his chief spin doctor. And now let’s imagine that BP was the subject of two separate police investigations, that key BP executives had already been arrested, that further such arrests were likely, and that the chief executive was heavily implicated.

Let’s take this mental experiment a stage further: BP’s chief executive had refused to appear before a Commons enquiry, while MPs who sought to call the company to account were claiming to have been threatened. Meanwhile, BP was paying what looked like hush money to silence people it had wronged, thereby preventing embarrassing information entering the public domain.

And now let’s stretch probability way beyond breaking point. Imagine that the government was about to make a hugely controversial ruling on BP’s control over the domestic petroleum market. And that BP had a record of non-payment of British tax. The stench would be overwhelming. There would be outrage in the Sun and the Daily Mail — and rightly so — about Downing Street collusion with criminality. The Sunday Times would have conducted a fearless investigation, and the Times penned a pained leader. In parliament David Cameron would have been torn to shreds.

Instead, until this week there has been almost nothing, save for a lonely campaign by the Guardian. Because the company portrayed above is not BP, but News International, owner of the Times, the Sunday Times, the News of the World and the Sun, approximately one third of the domestic newspaper market. And last week, Jeremy Hunt ruled that Murdoch, who owns a 39 per cent stake in BSkyB, can now buy it outright (save for Sky’s news channel). This consolidates the Australian-born mogul as by far the most significant media magnate in this country, wielding vast political and commercial power.

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35269688)

If that paper continues to exist after this i will be extremely surprised. Anyone continuing to buy that paper needs to have a long hard look at themselves. The only way to punish that paper is to never buy it again.

Murdock needs to be punished financially and legally over this.

Originally Posted by AdamD (Post 35269729)

Despite all these incidents of hacking and scandal, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the number of people who buy these trashy newspapers, stayed the same, or heck, went up.

That, unfortunatly, speaks volumes of the society we live in today.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35269739)

On that we agree Sirius.

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It will be very interesting to see what newwspaper sales they get on Sunday and hopefully not many.

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35269671)

Now it is really sick.

Originally Posted by blackthorn (Post 35269741)

Could the big supermarkets refuse to carry the paper or are they under some form of contract ?

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35269748)

Indeed if the super markets refuse to sell it they will lose a very large slice of there sales.

I have always disliked the Murdock's and every thing they stand for and will be extremely happy if this prevents there full purchase of Sky and its channels.

There control of the British media is unbelievably strong and you can bet that his papers and news channels will shortly go on the attack to try and limit the damage to him and his company.

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35269748)

There control of the British media is unbelievably strong and you can bet that his papers and news channels will shortly go on the attack to try and limit the damage to him and his company.