Cable Forum - [Update] The News Corp scandal

Well I, for one, am quite happy to buy the Sun for its entertainment value and as an ex-NOTW reader (Yes I do admit it!) will probably buy the Sun on Sunday for the same reason. I don't bother to read the tittle-tattle stories about who's been in whose bed, but there are some serious stories as well and a number of the journalists have won awards (Trevor Kavanagh for example)

If I really wanted to be depressed about the world I'd watch the BBC. :D

Well you obviously have a problem with understanding the world as it really is if you rely on those toilet rags for any information at all.

But then I guess you just buy them for the sports,puzzles,horoscopes,TV schedule,Page 3 and free offers as so many do..
I personally want true independent news that is accurate,truthful and ethically sourced.

Saaf_laandon_mo

17-02-2012 14:13

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35383451)

I buy the Sun (though not daily) for the Sports coverage, which I feel is excellent. I enjoy reading articles by Steven Howard and Colin Hart. I don't see the rest of the paper as being a serious news source, if I want that I read/watch something else.

Maggy

17-02-2012 14:21

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/wo...nt&tntemail1=y

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In his 60 years in the newspaper business, few moments can have been as charged for Rupert Murdoch as the one he seems likely to confront on Friday when he is scheduled to visit the London headquarters of his British newspaper arm, News International, where reporters and editors are said to be in a state of civil war against Mr. Murdoch and his executives.

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But the Murdoch trip seems likely to be far from routine, going to the heart of what many media pundits, lawyers and politicians in Britain have come to see as a battle for the survival of his embattled newspaper operations in Britain — and perhaps, ultimately, a fight to shore up Mr. Murdoch’s control of the News Corporation, the American-based media conglomerate that owns the British papers and tens of billions of dollars of other assets, including Fox News and the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox.

this article is quite a nice summary of the situation thus far..

BTW 21 journalists from the Sun and NOTW have now been arrested..How many will it take before it is apparent that those at the top knew what was going on?

AdamD

17-02-2012 14:58

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Wish I knew what people found interesting about these types of papers (sun/notw/daily mirror etc).

Even my mum reads the mirror, which I often playfully scorn her for (and call her trailer trash to :P)
hehe

Sirius

17-02-2012 15:18

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35383411)

www.skynews.com Just announced a newsflash that Rupert Murdoch has said to all his staff at Wapping.

That very soon there will be a new Sunday newspaper called THE SUN ON SUNDAY.

He has told all his staff in an email.

So more pap on Sunday :rolleyes:

That will be another paper full of boobs, the latest news of the screws and general low level porn. Low IQ fodder

Maggy

17-02-2012 15:20

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35383473)

Clearly you don't know me.

Not the BBC then? But I'll stay away from that subject.

Page 3? ;) Got me wrong there as well.

I'm not going to argue with you about this..What I want to campaign for in a democracy is a free independent uncorrupted and ethical press that tells me about what I NEED to know and spares me gossip,innuendo and speculation. As far as I'm concerned everyone who buys the Sun is supporting the opposite even if they don't believe what it prints. I'm also hoping that after this politicians grows a pair and starts to stand up to a press that has corrupted them,their positions and the police and has managed to influence government policy for the last 30 years as a consequence all for the sake of profit.

Sirius

17-02-2012 15:22

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Originally Posted by AdamD (Post 35383484)

The mirror sits in the same pile of low IQ crap as the sun as far as i am concerned, In fact the only reason the Mirror survives is because of its sales in Liverpool.

muppetman11

17-02-2012 15:42

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Has anyone thought , Murdoch may have known nothing about all this

denphone

17-02-2012 15:48

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35383519)

Has anyone thought , Murdoch may have known nothing about all this

l am sure he knows about everything MM and remember the buck stops at the top.

AdamD

17-02-2012 16:08

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35383505)

The mirror sits in the same pile of low IQ crap as the sun as far as i am concerned, In fact the only reason the Mirror survives is because of its sales in Liverpool.

Indeed, I often wonder what would happen if all tabloids were scrapped, or even banned? would the average IQ of the nation rise? hehe

Sirius

17-02-2012 16:25

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35383519)

Has anyone thought , Murdoch may have known nothing about all this

Sorry no. I honestly believe he knew.

Hugh	17-02-2012 18:10

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And the Sun on Sunday will be launched "very soon".

denphone

17-02-2012 18:14

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Its seems the crafty fox always seems to pull a rabbit out of the hat but its one newspaper l have no intention of buying even if it was free.

denphone

17-02-2012 18:49

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35383614)

I'm sure you won't resist having a sneaky peek though? :D

l grew out of glancing at a certain page a long time again :D

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