The Sun will continue....

[heppers75]

So he has come out and said it but you do get the feeling the knives are out for the whole spectrum of this kind of journalism...

I for one am FAR FAR from sorry!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16999659

I honestly hope they strip his empire bare and stomp on the ashes!

[Magog]

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they and the government don't approve of.

[aryastark]

Magog said:

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they and the government don't approve of.

You've obviously never had the misfortune of getting past page three of the sun have you....

[heppers75]

Oh of course I mean what we really need in this world is more gutter press sensationalising every next media darling wannabe from some vacuous talent show, in the mean time paying off public officials and breaking the law on tapping calls and emails to further sensationalise the antics of the previous generation of the above trying desperately to hang on to their "celebrity' to help perpetuate the cycle!

I mean heaven forfend we can just have decent honest reporting of actual news, I mean Reuters manage to have a decent enough presence and maintain what I feel would be classed as decent journalism! As did the BBC and ITN many moons ago.

[turbobloke]

aryastark said:

Magog said:

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they and the government don't approve of.

You've obviously never had the misfortune of getting past page three of the sun have you....

There's something past page three of The Sun?

[Magog]

aryastark said:

Magog said:

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they and the government don't approve of.

You've obviously never had the misfortune of getting past page three of the sun have you....

Well it's not my first port of call when it comes to current affairs, but if it makes journalists at other more erudite publications think twice about getting information from sources in the corridors of power, then in my opinion that's a bad thing. It's not the 3am girls they've arrested is it, it's the chief reporter and the chief foreign correspondent amongst others as well as an MoD official, I suspect that the stories they were working on are of rather more concern to the government than the colour of Simon Cowell's jockstrap or anything like that.

[Jasandjules]

Magog said:

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they and the government don't approve of.

Well, I think that using police officers to sell information on people is deserving of arrest and indeed jail (for a very long time).

[stitched]

Jasandjules said:

Well, I think that using police officers to sell information on people is deserving of arrest and indeed jail (for a very long time).

Agreed, however call me cynical but is that not 9 journalists arrested for bribing public officials.
And three public officials, only one of them plod.
Hmm, very busy for public officials.

[NailedOn]

Chairman's vote of confidence?

[vonuber]

Probably for another 5 Billion years.

[jas xjr]

Much as I dislike the sun and Murdoch , is it really surprising that journalists bribe people ?

[jbi]

I hope to see the end of the red tops personally, they can not seriously be considered newspapers.

Magazines...

Comics??

[MrFlat6]

jbi said:

I hope to see the end of the red tops personally, they can not seriously be considered newspapers.

Magazines...

Comics??

+1 utter shite. depressing the number of people that read it

[MX7]

MrFlat6 said:

+1 utter shite. depressing the number of people that read it

At least they have the choice. I find it depressing how many people would like to censor others.

[jas xjr]

When I worked in construction the newspapers generally were left. Behind in the site canteens. A site would have up to 200 people working on them. Never saw anything other than the red tops

[jbi]

MX7 said:

MrFlat6 said:

+1 utter shite. depressing the number of people that read it

At least they have the choice. I find it depressing how many people would like to censor others.

Don't want to censor it... just people to realise there are better sources of news/entertainment out there and for the red tops to wither and die.

Seems like they are doing a good job killing themselves off though.

[Pesty]

Magog said:

Yep it's fantastic to see the police clamping down on the press for printing stories they got from the police for money and then the police convieniently didnt investigate and even said there wasnt a problem

EFA

[0a]

The BBC's massive subsidy to the Left is under threat. The Guardian newspaper would not exist if it were not for the UK's largest car sales website and lots of hedge fund deals (Autotrader, Scott Trust Limited - note the "Limited" bit). The Independent is run by an Oligarch who thinks it might be useful for him in the future.

No Lefty newspaper could exist in the open market, so they are desperate to destroy those can exist. It's beneath them to produce papers people actually want to buy and read.

Yes NI has been naughty, but in the scale of things who really cares? This is what newspapers do. Hugh Grant is just annoyed he was too stupid to change his voicemail passcode and was caught out.

It is of concern that many Police seem to be corrupt, and that there are remarkably few headlines concentrating on this.

[chim]

I don't believe you just said that it's Hugh grants own fault for not changing his voicemail password, so if someone hacks steals money or hacks your account it will be your fault for not changing your password, nothing at all to do with the the fkwit that nicked it, as he was just doing his job.

Sooner the gutter st red tops go down the better.

[98elise]

MX7 said:

MrFlat6 said:

+1 utter shite. depressing the number of people that read it

At least they have the choice. I find it depressing how many people would like to censor others.

I find it depressing how much influence the red tops have over the running of this country. The people who run/work for them are pond scum, yet influence much of the way the country "think"

I stopped buying "news"papers years ago for this very reason.