NoTW Is Dead, Dead, Dead

By on July 7, 2011 in Media, R.I.P., Uncategorized

Further to Rhinoceros Rosie’s Top 6 this a.m., 168-year-old British tabloid News Of The World is shutting down after its reputation was destroyed by a phone-hacking scandal.

Publisher Terry says, “Rupert Murdoch must be really desperate for his Sky TV purchase to go through.”

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Stephen Whitworth is a life-long fan of newspapers and alternative media who got his start in the student press a hundred years ago. He moved to Regina in the fall of 1998 and Prairie Dog recklessly hired him nine months later. It was a terrible mistake and the publication deeply regrets its inability to get rid of him. When Whitworth’s not adding typos to the hard work of Prairie Dog’s many terrific writers, writing hilarious (to him) headlines and finding inventive new ways to make the paper late for its bi-weekly press deadline, he enjoys reading magazines, newspapers and alternative comics, listening to music, playing board games, and drinking and eating. He has a cat and seven six pet snakes (R.I.P, Fred).
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One Response to NoTW Is Dead, Dead, Dead

  1. Stephen LaRose July 7, 2011 at 12:13 pm #

    Well, the shares of the Sky TV are falling, so it’s more likely that Rupert Murdoch will be able to negotiate a better price for the sale once the British government gives its green light, which will be when this all blows over, in about six months or so.

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