Britain's leading Sunday tabloid rolled off the presses for the final time last night, as the News of the World came to a sudden and premature conclusion.
The newspaper, famed for its hard hitting investigative journalism and barbed headlines, has been embroiled in accusations that former employees illegally hacked into the voicemail messages of high profile personalities and the victims of crime.
Ironic that the NoTW, which has exposed the criminal wrongdoing of countless individuals, stands squarely in the dock accused of criminal wrongdoing.
Last week it came to light that police were investigating whether the voicemails of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler had been hacked by NoTW journalists, giving her family false hopes she was alive. The investigation is also focusing on whether the dodgy journalists snooped on the messages of British service personnel killed in action.
These latest twists in the phone-hacking scandal sent the NoTW's popularity into freefall, with several of their leading advertisers pulling the plug. With the brand irreparably tarnished parent company News Corporation decided to call it a day, bringing down the shutters on 168 years of tabloid history.
Heinous as the NoTW's phone-hacking actions were it is a sad day for the British free press. Not to mention all of the honest journalists tied up in history through no fault of their own.
There is a feeling that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has sacrificed the NoTW to save the skin of News International boss Rebekah Brooks, who occupied the editor's chair at the peak of the paper's phone-hacking activities.
I'm curious as to why he rates her so highly.
The newspaper, famed for its hard hitting investigative journalism and barbed headlines, has been embroiled in accusations that former employees illegally hacked into the voicemail messages of high profile personalities and the victims of crime.
Ironic that the NoTW, which has exposed the criminal wrongdoing of countless individuals, stands squarely in the dock accused of criminal wrongdoing.
Last week it came to light that police were investigating whether the voicemails of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler had been hacked by NoTW journalists, giving her family false hopes she was alive. The investigation is also focusing on whether the dodgy journalists snooped on the messages of British service personnel killed in action.
These latest twists in the phone-hacking scandal sent the NoTW's popularity into freefall, with several of their leading advertisers pulling the plug. With the brand irreparably tarnished parent company News Corporation decided to call it a day, bringing down the shutters on 168 years of tabloid history.
Heinous as the NoTW's phone-hacking actions were it is a sad day for the British free press. Not to mention all of the honest journalists tied up in history through no fault of their own.
There is a feeling that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has sacrificed the NoTW to save the skin of News International boss Rebekah Brooks, who occupied the editor's chair at the peak of the paper's phone-hacking activities.
I'm curious as to why he rates her so highly.
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