Sunday, 17 July 2011

Read all about it..

Well I thought I would jump on to the band-wagon and write about the closing of the news of the world and its effects. Yes, the news paper that has been running for  168 years has finally closed its doors amid much controversy.  Phone hacking allegations have shrouded the paper since 2007, many former senior figures in the company are currently undergoing trial icluding Rebekah Brooks on a curruption charge. The newspaper owned, (like many) by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a one man news machine, overseeing, envisiging and dictating what the news the public consumes. Ironic that in all this the paper would publish a quote from the late George Orwell on its final cover ' It is sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose and open The News of the World...' 

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