News of the World scandal etc....
Jul 11, 2011 9:34:40 GMT
Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 11, 2011 9:34:40 GMT
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8624421/News-of-the-World-shut-down-in-bid-to-end-phone-hacking-scandal.html
Has this been discussed yet? is it news?
I loathe what we call 'The Red Tops' here...I can't stand the tabloid newspapers we have in the UK. I have no time for either their politics (which is usually staunchly Conservative strangely enough) or their attitude to race, creed or sex...or 'news' because they never seem to print any....
They will happily have a pic of a scantily clad (or naked) 17 year old girl on one page then scream outrage about an alleged paedophile on the next....they are seedy, uninspiring trash (imo). ( I don't like them
does it show?)
I prefer the broadsheets, the journalism is infinitely better and I choose to read ones that have a more liberal slant...(thereby avoiding Murdoch's 'The Times') favouring The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer.
That aside I can't be the only person not surprised by the phone hacking scandal? has it been reported outside the UK? Like the MP expenses scandal last year I think that 'everybody knows' this sort of corruption is going on...it doesn't make it right. I do feel that people in positions of power have a responsibility to be honest...we have to be able to trust them.
Do other countries have this problem with the media?
Has this been discussed yet? is it news?
I loathe what we call 'The Red Tops' here...I can't stand the tabloid newspapers we have in the UK. I have no time for either their politics (which is usually staunchly Conservative strangely enough) or their attitude to race, creed or sex...or 'news' because they never seem to print any....
They will happily have a pic of a scantily clad (or naked) 17 year old girl on one page then scream outrage about an alleged paedophile on the next....they are seedy, uninspiring trash (imo). ( I don't like them
does it show?) I prefer the broadsheets, the journalism is infinitely better and I choose to read ones that have a more liberal slant...(thereby avoiding Murdoch's 'The Times') favouring The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer.
That aside I can't be the only person not surprised by the phone hacking scandal? has it been reported outside the UK? Like the MP expenses scandal last year I think that 'everybody knows' this sort of corruption is going on...it doesn't make it right. I do feel that people in positions of power have a responsibility to be honest...we have to be able to trust them.
Do other countries have this problem with the media?
