So, one minute we're up in arms about scandalous phone-hacking allegations and the next a highly successful, and if statistics are to be believed, the highest selling, Sunday newspaper is shelved by its parent company. I am of course referring to The News of the World and News International.
But, wait a minute. Wasn't the majority of the phone-hacking done under the watch of two previous editors? So why are the current employees and editor being made to pay for past misdemeanours?
I'm not stupid enough to think that the current journalists and editor are all whiter than white but it strikes me as unjust that senior bods at NI are 'getting away with something.'
It also frightens me to see just how ruthless a man Mr Murdoch is and when you consider the amount of power he holds in media terms, and the amount of extra power the British government were/are willing to give him...
Finally, I refer back to my previous blogpost: is it really just about The News of the World? Does this hacking-practice not go on in the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror? What about the quality newspapers? Are they totally corruption free? Conspiracy theories abound - unsurprisingly - but News International have proved that anything is possible, regardless of how unlikely, unthinkable or distasteful.
The News of the World may be dead but the story is only just beginning to unfold...
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