DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1079108/news-world-pulls-ads-client-exodus/

My mum buys it, must ask her if she'll still be buying it... probably will

Maybe it'll be 64 pages or whatever of Bart Simpson writing out an apology.

NoTW running NO advertising Sunday

No adverts on their webpages at the moment either

http://extras.newsoftheworld.co.uk/allnew/splash_statement.jpg

Not a very glamourous look for the Death Eaters.

Behind the paywall though:
http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq300/skatrinas/haters-gonna-hate.gif

NoTW running NO advertising Sunday.

inadvertently styled that like a NoTW quote. Maybe a new career beckons?

NoTW to close?

Yup, James Murdoch says this weekend is last edition

Sweet. Dunno what my Mum's going to read on Sundays now tho.

Sunday Sun?

so much for my new career :-(

katbrown82

Shit. Just had announcement that this Sunday will be the last-ever News of the World. No ads. All profits to go to good causes.
4 minutes ago via web

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LOL Dave Gorman won't get his redundancy money

Ding dong the witch is dead

...wow!

lol

i guess that means the scottish edition too

#itsagoodstory

Sunday Sun?

yeah, definite scope for some form of reincarnation here

everything they try and to do to make amends is just annoying me now tho, i wanna see jailings and record fines, maybe the odd "suicide"

From such humble beginnings:

The newspaper was first published on 1 October 1843, in London by John Browne Bell. Priced at just three pence, even before the repeal of the Stamp Act (1855) or paper duty (1861), it was the cheapest newspaper of its time and was aimed directly at the newly literate working classes. It quickly established itself as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news. Much of the source material came from coverage of vice prosecutions, including transcripts of police descriptions of alleged brothels, streetwalkers, and 'immoral' women.

lotta work for charidee mate, don't like to talk about it

http://www.oocities.org/harryenf/2-1fab4.jpg

Frederick Greenwood, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, met in his club one day Lord Riddell, who died a few years ago, and in the course of conversation Riddell said to him, `You know, I own a paper.' `Oh, do you?' said Greenwood, 'what is it?' `It's called the News of the World—I'll send you a copy,' replied Riddell, and in due course did so. Next time they met Riddell said, 'Well Greenwood, what do you think of my paper?' 'I looked at it,' replied Greenwood, 'and then I put it in the waste-paper basket. And then I thought, "If I leave it there the cook may read it" —so I burned it!'

I like how the Beeb is already playing the tiny violin for the innocent Stormtroopers who weren't part of the SS heirarchy and couldn't have known they were working for scumbags.

I just like the idea of these two doofs hanging around their club and one going "Oh yeah, I own a paper, almost forgot about that" and the other being all "Who knew?"

you'll notice of course that while the whole newspaper has gone, rebekah brooks remains - biggest sacrificial scapegoat* ever

*that'll just be resurrected anyway

escape goat, morelike.

Anyone know how many people work at the paper? Will they all be loaded off at the Sun now?

story's up on the BBC

Can almost imagine the Sun now just coming with a Sunday edition. Same thing.

Martyn Lewis has now said that he's considering not writing for the paper...

lol

Can't remember where I read (maybe here!) the v. good point that Brooks has to stay, because if she goes there's nobody left to insulate James.

So, this is all purely for the benefit of Murdoch's BSkyB bid, right?

no it makes zero difference to the BSkyB bid, legally they will have to award it to Murdoch anyway

RT @subedited: Sun staff have been told they are moving to a 7-day operation #notw #hacking

4.51pm: Tom Watson MP: No one was going to buy this paper any more.

...see I don't think this is actually true, is the weird thing

Yeah, that's what I said, Tracer!

whoops sorry!

4.51pm: Tom Watson MP: No one was going to buy this paper any more.

...see I don't think this is actually true, is the weird thing

― winsome posters leave the hall (DJ Mencap), Thursday, July 7, 2011 4:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

otm... what a world eh

No I mean I said it, don't know that tweet :-)

So... how to fill those 64 pages on Sunday? A 'Greatest Hacks' edition?

xposts: I dunno, if there are outstanding lawsuits against News International, it reduces the value of their stock and makes their bid untenable.

the Eye quite often run stories about Sun and NOTW staffers being pretty cold to each other but I guess that's more about how scoops get divvied up than any, uh, ideological differences

James Murdoch statement in full.

So, they have a week and a bit to invent "The Sun On Sunday", right?

Sky News 2s ago "It is, quite literally, the end of the world. [huge pause]. The news of the world".

no it makes zero difference to the BSkyB bid, legally they will have to award it to Murdoch anyway
Ofcom were still able to veto it on the "fit and proper" organisation line; closure strikes me as a big bid to show they're just that.