There are reports coming out that the News Of The World is to close it’s doors and the last edition will be published on Sunday.
It is dramatic news and will bring a sense of relief to many while it will presumably be very bad news for a lot of decent and honest people who work for the newspaper both as journalists and production staff. It is certainly a bold move.
Something significant did need to be done to stem the flow of pus seeping from the boil that was the news of the world. It had the potential of spreading the damage to the other papers in the group as people have talked of having nothing to do with News International following the leaks of dreadful goings on.
There is a worry that this is an attempt to stem the flow of bad news to take the pressure off and hope that this will remove this story from the front pages. Even worse would be if it were to reduce pressure to have a full inquiry into the activities of the press in this country.
Whilst the wicked goings on happened at just one newspaper, apparently, we must not let the closure of that newspaper reduce the anger and disbelief at what they had been doing to the point that it gets forgotten and nothing changes.
We need a big overhaul of the press and a huge improvement in their ethical standards regardless of what happens to the NoW.
Well done to Rupert Murdoch for taking action and closing the newspaper but I would rather have seen a complete overhaul that turned the News Of The World into a true newspaper that anyone could be proud to read. It looks like that will never happen now.
RIP News Of The World
BBC News – News of the World to close amid hacking scandal.
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