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Bang goes any chance of claiming the NOTW's £1.5m reward then

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/news/article2386.ece

Corruption doesn't pay

Badboy wrote:just a few minutes ago on ch4 news,it mentioned the 1.5 million reward concerning madeleine mccann,i wonder what will happened about that reward now.

Maybe the Sun will offer it instead? Not that the reward seems to matter, TBH, at least as far as the McCanns are concerned, since Kate doesn't want any 'greedy criminals' getting their hands on it. As she says 'If they want it, I’m sure they’ll find a way of getting in touch.' That woman is so wonderfully enthusiastic about anything that might help in the search for her daughter, isn't she?

hmmmm now any ex employees can get to twitter ( from home) and tell us all what they really have on the McCanns


and no i'm not being insensitive i'm being proactive

Dimsie wrote:

Badboy wrote:just a few minutes ago on ch4 news,it mentioned the 1.5 million reward concerning madeleine mccann,i wonder what will happened about that reward now.

Maybe the Sun will offer it instead? Not that the reward seems to matter, TBH, at least as far as the McCanns are concerned, since Kate doesn't want any 'greedy criminals' getting their hands on it. As she says 'If they want it, I’m sure they’ll find a way of getting in touch.' That woman is so wonderfully enthusiastic about anything that might help in the search for her daughter, isn't she?

PRESUMBLY THE TELEPHONE NUMBER TO CLAIM THE REWARD IS NO LONGER OPERATIONABLE

Badboy wrote:

Dimsie wrote:

Badboy wrote:just a few minutes ago on ch4 news,it mentioned the 1.5 million reward concerning madeleine mccann,i wonder what will happened about that reward now.

Maybe the Sun will offer it instead? Not that the reward seems to matter, TBH, at least as far as the McCanns are concerned, since Kate doesn't want any 'greedy criminals' getting their hands on it. As she says 'If they want it, I’m sure they’ll find a way of getting in touch.' That woman is so wonderfully enthusiastic about anything that might help in the search for her daughter, isn't she?

PRESUMBLY THE TELEPHONE NUMBER TO CLAIM THE REWARD IS NO LONGER OPERATIONABLE

It's been redirected to that laughing man on Blackpool Pleasure Beach....

Since the reward was coming from people pledging like virgin boss and mrs Harry potter, who has actually got rid off her agent right at the time she has made her LAST sequel on Harry potter....


And I did email them three times asking about the reward and never got a reply.....pie in the sky...

I think if she were ever to be found they will honour their pledge....even tho it will never happen.

tabs wrote:hmmmm now any ex employees can get to twitter ( from home) and tell us all what they really have on the McCanns


and no i'm not being insensitive i'm being proactive

It could be the tip of the iceberg in more ways then one

Sorry if this has been posted before but better twice than none Trying to post a picture and it hasnt worked

buildersbum wrote:

tabs wrote:hmmmm now any ex employees can get to twitter ( from home) and tell us all what they really have on the McCanns


and no i'm not being insensitive i'm being proactive

It could be the tip of the iceberg in more ways then one

IMO for what it's worth we are entering a period when people will sell their grandmother to save their own skins. So lets just watch the www. I bet the McCanns are and so they should as there/their will be slips.

If that were me and I was one off the 200 thrown on the scrapheap and their were things that we we told NOT to do regarding the mccanns under the authorisation off Murdoch ......I wouldn't hold back, that's for sure because if Murdoch can do that to people and not give a toss about their families then ...do unto others what they have done unto you..

carmen wrote:

carmen

Thank you for this video, thank you, thank you, thank you. I hate to say it but I have seen this power for some time and I am glad I have been right, but wish I hadn't been right IUSWIM.

Well done Nick Davies for coming out and saying it like it is! POWER and the people holding that power think they are above the law.

carmen wrote:

Well done Nick Davies for saying it as it is.

All good honest points.

I hope DC realises who he is rubbing shoulders with and chooses his friends better in the future.

I think many of us realised that the PCC was useless and ineffective...into Room 101 it has to go.

whatsupdoc wrote:

Well done Nick Davies for saying it as it is.

All good honest points.

I hope DC realises who he is rubbing shoulders with and chooses his friends better in the future.

I think many of us realised that the PCC was useless and ineffective...into Room 101 it has to go.

Up until a couple of years ago it wasn't Cameron & Co Brooks and Murdoch were busy "entertaining".

Murdoch entertains each new PM as they arrive. He has far too much power and things need to change.

whatsupdoc wrote:Murdoch entertains each new PM as they arrive. He has far too much power and things need to change.

A lot of people have thought this for a long time others are just waking up to this fact - The politicians have created their own monster in Murdoch, this is only being looked at now as they have no choice

There's a lot of spineless and selfish people in Government and Murdoch is ruthless with too much power - Not a good combination

buildersbum wrote:

tabs wrote:hmmmm now any ex employees can get to twitter ( from home) and tell us all what they really have on the McCanns


and no i'm not being insensitive i'm being proactive

It could be the tip of the iceberg in more ways then one

I think so too, it's going to be interesting over the next few weeks!

Just read on another site, what happens to the NOTW reward now?

chrissie wrote:Just read on another site, what happens to the NOTW reward now?

It lapses when the NOTW closes down. No big deal , it was never going to be claimed anyway and the Donors didn"t actually put money in , they pledged
it .

Murdoch doesn't just entertain PMs, he agrees for the Sun to back them and then brainwash the public. He supported Tony Blair and brought the sun out in his favour. Too powerful!

SteveT wrote:Murdoch doesn't just entertain PMs, he agrees for the Sun to back them and then brainwash the public. He supported Tony Blair and brought the sun out in his favour. Too powerful!

He supported the Tories too..I tried to remember the name of the American Newspaper Baron , about the 30"s 40"s, Orson Welles made a film about him, it was called Rosebud,. do you know who I mean? anyway, he too got to powerful and the U.S. brought in Laws to limit the power of these Moguls. In the
U.S. Murdoch would never be allowed to own all the Press like he does around the World because we only read what he decides we should read and
althought he will shrug off this little problem , any Paper he owns now will be suspect.

@ExNOTWJourno

3 former colleagues to sell stories. Good on them!

unverified

Thanks Carmen...this is interesting too, the Sun on Sunday was registered before the closure announcement.!!!!


News of the World: shock, tears and anger as staff fear a conspiracy

Many of tabloid's 200 staff understood to perceive closure as move to protect Rebekah Brooks

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Mark Sweney and Caroline Davies
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 July 2011 22.07 BST
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Colin Myler
After Rebekah Brooks had told News of the World staff of the closure, editor Colin Myler called it the saddest day of his career. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Inside the News of the World the announcement was followed first by shock, then tears, and then anger. There was also immediate speculation about whether the axed newspaper's best-selling place in the Sunday market would soon be the target of a seven-day Sun.

The News of the World's political editor, David Wooding, said the news was greeted with great shock. "Some people are crying, very upset," he told the press outside News International's offices in Wapping, east London.

He added: "People are just standing round in the office looking dazed. They just can't believe what's happened. All I am concerned about is that 200 professional people who have done nothing wrong have lost their jobs because of what's happened five or six years ago."

It emerged on Thursday evening that the internet domain name thesunonsunday.co.uk had been registered earlier this week, although the purchaser's identity remained unclear.

What seems certain, however, is that News International is not going to relinquish its market-leading position in the Sunday red-top market without a fight after the NoW paid the ultimate price for being irretrievably mired in the phone hacking scandal.

The company had already announced plans to introduce more seven-day integration at its four titles, the News of the World, the Sun, Times and Sunday Times.

News International PRs declined to be drawn on whether the company would continue to publish a tabloid title on a Sunday. "It's not true at the moment," one spokeswoman said.

The News of the World sells 2.66m copies and is thought to make more than £130m in circulation and advertising revenue annually.

Understandably such speculation about the future shape of the market failed to console the News of the World's 200 staff, 160 of whom are expected to lose their jobs after the closure announcement, according to one Wapping source.

The news was delivered to staff by News International's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. The paper's editor, Colin Myler, then conducted a Q&A session, later calling it the saddest day of his career.

He said: "Whatever price this staff are paying for past misdeeds, nothing should diminish everything this great newspaper has achieved. It has one of the best campaigning and investigative records of any newspaper in the world."

Shell-shocked journalists gathered in The Cape, a local pub. The National Union of Journalists reported that the Sun's entire subediting desk – 30 to 35 journalists – had briefly walked out in protest at the closure of their Sunday stablemate.

Dan Wootton, the paper's showbiz editor, told the Guardian that staff were devastated and said: "The team was not given the chance to turn the paper around."

He added: "Obviously there is a lot of anger at the newspaper."

Computers at the newspaper were disconnected from the internet after the announcement that the paper would close, apparently to prevent staff from communicating their reaction via Twitter.

Wooding said: "I have just been told I am on 90 days' notice. I don't know what the commercial reasons are for doing this. The NoW sells four out of 10 newspapers every Sunday. Even if our circulation was halved we would still be selling more than many red tops."

Earlier he told BBC News that staff "knew we were in a bad place but we never expected a bombshell as big as this".

He added: "A couple of days ago when we heard about Milly Dowler [phone hacking] – which none of us had the slightest idea about – we thought 'how can it get any worse than that?' This morning we hear the business about the soldiers and you think 'well things can get worse', and then this happens."

Many of the staff are understood to perceive the Sunday red-top's closure as a move to protect Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World when some of the alleged phone hacking took place and who has come under increasing pressure to resign over the scandal. Brooks, who continues to be supported by James Murdoch, maintains that she had no knowledge of any wrongdoing at the paper.

Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said the move showed the "contempt that the Murdoch empire has for its loyal staff". She added: "This is an act of damage limitation to salvage Murdoch's reputation and that of News International, both of which are now tarnished beyond repair … Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism."

Earlier this week sales executives at Associated Newspapers, home to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, smelled blood as a boycott by the public and by advertisers gathered pace. The Mail on Sunday has a circulation of 2.1m and alongside the Sun and NoW is considered to be a "must-buy" by most advertisers.

Since the Dowler revelation on Monday the NoW has suffered an exodus of advertisers unwilling to risk the wrath of the public by being tarnished by association. Companies including Boots, O2, 3, and Sainsbury's, accounting for almost £10m in annual advertising spend on the title – more than 20% of NoW's total yearly haul – pulled their campaigns.

The question is, if there is a launch of what has been termed a Sunday Sun how long News International will wait?

On a financial basis the NoW made about in £2m in circulation revenue and about £660,000 in advertising revenue each week. However, observers warned of potential dangers of a rapid return to the market amid the current turmoil.

"If you do it too soon it would be seen as cynical and distasteful and they run the risk of destroying the Sun brand as well," said one senior media executive.

One City source believes that News Corporation would be politically foolish to relaunch the title before it pushes through its proposed £8bn-plus acquisition of the 60% of BSkyB it does not already own. The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is expected to give his final decision on whether to approve the deal in September, and News Corporation has been desperate not to be tarnished by the phone-hacking debacle.