Monday, July 18, 2011

News of The World 'is dismissed with an apology and much self-promotion

The tabloid News of The World yesterday said goodbye forever to his readers to the streets throwing five million copies with much self-promotion but, yes, an apology. The latest issue of the newspaper, who was born in 1843 and died yesterday after his current owner, Rupert Murdoch, to conclude that this header has no future due to illegal wiretapping scandal, opens with the words Thank you & goodbye, thank you and goodbye.


In just three days, the demoralized editors of News of The World have brought to the street a copy of 68 pages devoted to remember better times. On page 3, an editorial gloss paper's successes throughout its 168 year history which also admits: "For a few years until 2006, some of those who worked with us or on our behalf, were embarrassingly far from our standards. To put it simply, we have lost. handsets have been spied on, something that truly feels our newspaper. There is no justification for this heinous crime. There is no justification for the harm done to victims or to deep stain that has made our great history. But we hope that when this outrage was expiated, history judge us for all our years. "

Rupert Murdoch arrived yesterday in London from the U.S. to ride the crisis. Its aim is to rescue the purchase of 100% of the shares of BSkyB, the satellite television platform from which News Corporation now owns 39%. The operation was about to be approved by the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt Conservative, but the final ruling has been postponed to study more than 100,000 claims have been filed in recent days.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, yesterday demanded the Government to postpone the decision until the end of the police investigation into tapping the News of The World. Miliband yesterday threatened the prime minister, David Cameron, to file a motion on Wednesday in the Commons if there is no commitment by the Government in that line. One of the ministers Liberal Democrats in the coalition government, Chris Huhne, one of the heavyweights of the party, Simon Hughes, have declared their willingness to support the proposed work if they got along to agree a text that was not partisan.

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