for some reason i feel rather bemused by this all .... (whilst feeling pretty enraged but for me there is much more to dislike here)  it's a bit like the expenses scandal... ie we are a bit selective about what we are enraged about when surely there are a number of principles at large here that we seem to be complacent about... thus like with first past the post politics those a little more circumspect in their decision making come up whiter than white when really it ahs to be said the water they all wash in is quite murky!

i was forced to realise i probs have never read the NOW though i am sure i must have browsed the backpages at various points of idle so ubiquitous is the rag when someone attempted to describe a flavour of their journalism style... hmm the best bit of the News of the World seems to be that it reduces to NOW a really cool title for a newspaper....   

long ago i read a documentary book about an undercover journalist working for a similar sleezepaper in a different country this was long ago now and since then it's a waiting game


as for listing advertisers who withdraw their funding... the main question for me is why are they advertising there in the first time... or listening to someone from the forces complementing the NOw for its support of the armed forces is all a bit hypocritical and queasy...

as for what will happen next.....   personally i don't care .... they are all innit together and we the british public like a bit of .... well why else would we hand over our pennies??? but we do... if anything one should perhaps stop buying products of anyone who advertises in these papers as a point of a broader principal ... come to think of it:

little dc has personal contact with the won't go former editor.... and also hired Coulson after his resignation following royal phone tapping incident came to light and investigators were jailed  both he and miliband were at the recent News Inernational knees up

oh i not long ago had a conversation with a former editor of a tabloid and broadsheet distinction... so i asked about what the editor should or should not know .... realising that verification of source was something that was emphasised on journo courses ....   and that newspapers were liable for what they print.... was told that the editor may well not know but the journo would go through the newspaper's legal section ... sooo maybe that's where the culprit lies?...  and sleeping dogs can now go back to sleep... and the world of british media can go back to being a bought and sold sleezy place!

it will be interesting though... what will come of the BskyB thing... well no-one was too exercised before i seem to recall....

and will we be like berlusconi pretty much untouchable and even changing the laws to make sure...

ah italy .... now one thing interesting about what Berlusconi is that fairly recently some of his law changing was to stop journo hacking... and why? well i'm sure you can tell for yourself... you see in italy the law allowed journos to hack in order to investigate stories aobut public figures and the like..

another interesting facet of this is the police who are now being themselves coming under scruteny regarding their original investigation now that bit i find is rather interesting..

here's one journalist's views on the matter courtesy of yahoo news etc:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/talking-politics/everything-know-phone-hacking-five-minutes-124308357.html

oh i see that NOW is nomore...  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/news-of-the-world-to-close-down.html


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/talking-politics/three-steps-fix-journalism-114744952.html
GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

who still feels bemused....  does that mean murki murdoch gets his monopoly on bskyb stuff .... you see we the british public just don't know how to pick the right arguments