Digifiend wrote:No, thanks largely to the Murdochs looking after their top woman. Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) was NoW editor when all this was going on, yet she's kept her job as News International chief executive. If she got the deserved sack, I bet she'd have a lot of stories to tell the police. She would very likely be going down for a long stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure. This investigation will be going on for months or even years, but sooner or later, they'll discover the truth. And the truth is that the wrong guys are in the dole queue.
Brookes has the look of a woman who wouldn't go quietly about her. Be interesting to see if Coulson will keep quiet if there's any chance at all he has to do some real time.
I just hope the new inquiry doesn't turn into a hunt to find the lowest man on the totem pole.
I guess it's either switching days, or the Sun on Sunday will be launching without much delay. I'd be very surprised if it's rescue isn't thanks to The Sun.
Ms Brookes has finally gone! Murdoch himself, just seems to be totally oblivious to just how `reviled` both he and his organisation are now viewed by many in the UK.
Looks like the pressure is beginning to pay off as Brooks has now resigned. However, it doesn't stop her from being number one favourite to crack in next week's "Let's chat with the MPs"...
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
I liked the comment attributed to the Dowler's solictor, about the news that Brooks had resigned, "Every dog has its day, and Rebekah Brooks is that dog".
Yeah, I read about that on Digital Spy. Says that it'll be called either Sunday Lite or just The Sunday. A bit odd though, since they don't have a red top daily.
Just seen someone is selling the first (facsimile) and last issues of the News of the World on ebay - only one million pounds (free postage though so you save a couple of quid there). Someone has a more realistic £49.99 for the last issue on its own.
stevezodiac wrote:Just seen someone is selling the first (facsimile) and last issues of the News of the World on ebay - only one million pounds
And I thought I'd already seen the most insultingly idiotic eBay auction ever, which was some guy trying to sell sixteen issues of The Wizard, 1029 [Jul. 24 1943] - 1044 [Feb. 19 1944], for £1000. The lure? The run just encompasses the first printing of The Truth About Wilson. They are worth £100 at best.
I once saw somebody trying to sell a Sexton Blake story for £60... the first one from The Halfpenny Marvel in 1893? No, one of the last ones from a 1967 paperback. I might stretch to paying £1.60 for one!
