Rupert Murdoch

[oldspice]

Is he finished?

[wjp666]

we can only hope.

[goldencup]

I fear he has phoenix-like qualities

[oldspice]

I fear he has phoenix-like qualities

and powerful friends!

[wjp666]

that's what they said about robert (splash!) maxwell.

[Miki2502989]

i don't think we have seen the last of him

[oldspice]

It sickens me that his staff and their associates stooped to such levels and what is more - commentators are saying it's because the public have an appetite for knowing every detail of people's lives.  How on earth did hacking into Milly Dowler's phone profit the public ? What sort of person would have agreed that such tactics were necessary and acceptable?

Murdoch has no morals and because of that hundreds of innocent employees have lost their jobs just so that he can try to scrape together some credit for closing the NOTW.

[smurfboy]

I can see why someone might claim that the public are partly responsible for celebrity phone hacking - after all, if people didn't buy papers for celebrity scandal they wouldn't be chasing it. But I can't accept that there was a public appetite for private details of cases such as Milly Dowler''s murder or the 7/7 bombings. Indeed, given how worked up the tabloids get about anything related to children I'm amazed that no one realised what a spectacular own goal it would be to jeopardise the Dowler murder investigation. (That's without even considering the moral abhorrence of it.)

I don't think Murdoch is finished, simply because there are enough people in this world who'll believe whatever they're told and will start buying the inevitable Sunday Sun because 'it was the News of the World behind the hacking', completely missing that Murdoch has just sacrificed an irreparably damaged brand to save his other interests. But I think there will be genuine long-term damage and News International will not wield the same power it once did.

[oldspice]

I would like to think that Murdoch's UK papers will suffer the same UK wide-spread long-term damage done to The Sun in Liverpool. Even today - years after the Hillsborough tragedy - most people in Liverpool will not buy The Sun because if its atrocious treatment of the Liverpool fans.