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

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

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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.

Even Sarah Palin is outr...wait, never mind, it's about the Daily Mail being mean to her.

wow, that statement

Any advertising space in this last edition will be donated to causes and charities that wish to expose their good works to our millions of readers.

"...and who wish to be prominently associated the ghoulish criminality that now defines us in the eyes of the public"

xp to stet is that a South Park reference or did they actually say that?

probably doesn't hurt from a competition standpoint, not every NOTW reader will transition to a Sunday Sun especially if it doesn't appear for a few weeks.

xpost

"Don't believe it all"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXeUKPwBj4

NI laid ground for a 7-day operation in june http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/28/newsinternational-rebekahwade

xp no, they literally said it! Top of the hour. "Good evening. You are watching Sky News on ... a dramatic day. It is literally the end of the world."

So when the Sunday Sun comes out and does exactly the same thing with a load of shared journalists and back-office functions, saving NewsCorp a ton of cash, I hope ppl will actually remember this week.

It's what the Graun have been wishing they could do to the Observer for ages.

well now the field's open for the observer to go red-top

Guys, there's a "Sunday Sun" already, just like there was/is a "Sunday Mail" as well.

Buying shares in whoever owns the Sunday People immediately.

Guys, there's a "Sunday Sun" already, just like there was/is a "Sunday Mail" as well.

Eh?

xp was gonna say, it won't fly in the north east for a start http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/

When the Daily Mail started their sunday edition, they couldn't call it The SundayMail, as there was an (irish based) paper of that name already.

and a Scottish one.

What about calling it Tomb Raider?

"World of the News"

yes and the Sunday Sun exists but it is a regional paper covering Newcastle and the north east.

www.sundaysun.co.uk

SO THEY CAN'T USE THAT NAME!!!

(ahem)

They can just call it the Sun on Sunday or even just The Sun.

Until the first Sun phone-hacking story comes out, as is surely inevitable now.

this is turning into one of those great moments when every apologist who rolls up on the media can be safely filed in the "cunt 4 lyfe" drawer

"The Sun on Sunday" is what I'd be betting on.

The paper was lopped before it got any closer to implicating the Prime Minister.

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.

Dude don't be a dick - most people in the world work for scumbags, doesn't mean that they deserve to be laid off so aforementioned scumbags can flaunt a massive PR gesture and save themselves from their own fuckup.

gonna second NV here

NI had better take great care of them, otherwise they've just created a massive crew of professional dirt-diggers who a) know where all the skeletons are buried and b) loathe Rebekah Brooks.

good grief

Well, they will all be working on the 'lol Charity' edition, then get new contracts for the SoS.

Ah, Sun On Sunday, SOS! ha.

a massive crew of professional dirt-diggers who a) know where all the skeletons are buried

pretty sure that anyone who knows where any skeletons are buried won't be losing their job any time soon

NOTW has (had!) a pretty young staff, i believe. also, y'know, not just hacks, even if you think all of them deserve to go - NOTW employed everyone from admin staff to cleaners...

"and as part of the paper's closure we will be distributing great big magnets that will be placed next to employee hard drives"

Phone hackers too xp

NI was already merging all the back-office crew etc anyway.

I've got friends who work at the NoTW, and yeah, this is shit news for them but at the same time they were pretty frank about the deal they struck working for it.

and Police.. (xp)

So, what happens now with ACoulson?

Jemima Kiss just tweeted saying he was to be arrested today.

oops Jemima Khan

Don't have much sympathy for the paper's news hacks frankly, I get more sympathetic the lower down the ladder you go. Especially when you consider the people responsible could still walk away scot-free.

Coulson looks completely fucked whatever happens, for perjury if nothing else.

rofllin' (xp)

is it perjury at a select committee? or did coulson testify in court?

Rebekah Brooks apparently told staff "The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us" at a 'tearful meeting'. OK now it's time for the tiny violin.

http://twitter.com/#!/LiterallyJamie/status/89002168211869696