Is the News of the World finished then? I have two queries on this story.

1. Will the police get away with taking media payments again?
2. Is Tesco right not to cancel its NOTW ads?

In a few weeks, it'll be all forgotten.

Campbell A, said that it was only a major scandal if it lasted 11 days. This one looks set to go on a tad longer.

The only problem with people such as Virgin, Co-Op, Ford, Vauxhall, Renault, Cadburys, Debenhams, Halifax/Lloyds, and now Mitsubishi, ("unspeakable") is that they need to know what they're after. These firms (and there will be lots more) rather than the knee-jerk principle  they've adopted, need to know, and have a clear idea of, what they expect  to happen.

Will they return after Rebekah goes? Will they be happy with Coulson's scalp? No-one is going to want to be the only advertiser on Sunday. That's going to look bad.
Personally, I'd love to see the Murdoch empire lose some of it's power and influence, but these Corporates don't seem to have thought it through. There is no endgame here, and that means no-one will know who's won what.


Threep.

What I'd hate to see is a change in the law, but I'd like to see the NotW taken down a peg or two.  In truth, the real culprits are the advertisers paying for all this baloney they print.

I think the big question is what did Cameron know before Coulson had to resign???

Quoted from richard.garvie

I think the big question is what did Cameron know before Coulson had to resign???

If you are a Labour Party activist it might.

Quoted from Greenham Common

What I'd hate to see is a change in the law, but I'd like to see the NotW taken down a peg or two.  In truth, the real culprits are the advertisers paying for all this baloney they print.

There wouldn't be any advertisers if no one bought the paper - the readers are more to blame than the advertisers.

Quoted from Greenham Common

In a few weeks, it'll be all forgotten.

Quite. Especially with the editor in question leading the internal investigation into what happened. I thought that only happened in WBC!

Quoted from Muddler

Is the News of the World finished then? ?

Yep ! This Sunday  

Wow. Massive news, is it enough to make this go away?

Quoted from PaulaM

Yep ! This Sunday  

In its current form.

Quoted from Greenham Common

In its current form.

Any suggestions for the name of the new paper that Murdoch will replace it with?  

Who do you reckon will be appointed the Chief Executive of the new paper?  

Murdoch will never lose for long.

It makes you wonder if David Icke and his ideas about shape changing lizards from space was quite as bonkers as he seemed.

Quoted from Cognosco

Any suggestions for the name of the new paper that Murdoch will replace it with?

The Sun on Sunday?

He's hoping that this will draw some knid of line under it and he can move on to take BSkyB. He had wanted Channel 5 but Brown wouldn't let him. Don't forget the first visitior Cameron had after he was elected was Murdoch, and as Private Eye revealed he was taken in the back way to try and keep it secret. So it's unlikely that in the long term the Tories will stand in his way.

Quoted from 680

It makes you wonder if David Icke and his ideas about shape changing lizards from space was quite as bonkers as he seemed.

Nope. He IS bonkers

Threep.

Quoted from Cognosco

Any suggestions for the name of the new paper that Murdoch will replace it with?  

The domain name for http://www.thesunonsunday.co,uk was bought and registered two days ago.....  What an opportunity missed to screw over the Murdoch empire as it shuffled the deckchairs around on it's own little version of the Titanic.