I am not sure if you would have heard seeing as this is UK based news, but after months of court cases and internal investigations the News Of The World newspaper will be ceasing production as of this Friday 11th July after 168 years of printing the newspapers.
The main reasons stem from issues with NotW journalist's phone tapping celebrities, bereaved relatives of dead army personnel, and most notably the mobile phone's voicemail of murdered teenager Milly Dowler.
The news was broken around 1pm 07/07/11 by the NotW's parent company News International announcing to all members of staff that the paper would stop production this sunday with all royalties from this sunday's edition going to charity.
Further breaking news today was that an unknown buyer has trademarked the websites TheSunOnSunday.com and TheSunOnSunday.co.uk, speculated to be purchased by James Murdoch Chairman of News International.
Now to the debate side of things, do you think it's fair that James Murdoch should have ended production of the NotW, effectively making over 200 employee's out of a job. Considering the fact that the editor of the NotW at the time of the phone tapping is now an executive at New International & the editor behind the Milly Dowler voicemail phone taps, Rebekah Brooks, is safe in her job as Chief Executive of New International.
I personally think that a police investigation should be carried out and all those involved with the illegal phone taps should be prosecuted and lose their jobs, as well as all other allegations of phone tapping against other newspapers be looked into also.
Now the real question is what damage has this done to the entire news and publishing sector, can any news publishers be trusted by the public again? How will this affect future sales of these publishers? And how will the police handle future allegations of phone tapping?
The main reasons stem from issues with NotW journalist's phone tapping celebrities, bereaved relatives of dead army personnel, and most notably the mobile phone's voicemail of murdered teenager Milly Dowler.
The news was broken around 1pm 07/07/11 by the NotW's parent company News International announcing to all members of staff that the paper would stop production this sunday with all royalties from this sunday's edition going to charity.
Further breaking news today was that an unknown buyer has trademarked the websites TheSunOnSunday.com and TheSunOnSunday.co.uk, speculated to be purchased by James Murdoch Chairman of News International.
Now to the debate side of things, do you think it's fair that James Murdoch should have ended production of the NotW, effectively making over 200 employee's out of a job. Considering the fact that the editor of the NotW at the time of the phone tapping is now an executive at New International & the editor behind the Milly Dowler voicemail phone taps, Rebekah Brooks, is safe in her job as Chief Executive of New International.
I personally think that a police investigation should be carried out and all those involved with the illegal phone taps should be prosecuted and lose their jobs, as well as all other allegations of phone tapping against other newspapers be looked into also.
Now the real question is what damage has this done to the entire news and publishing sector, can any news publishers be trusted by the public again? How will this affect future sales of these publishers? And how will the police handle future allegations of phone tapping?