This is the end, not so beautiful (not friend)
Well, tomorrow sees the last-ever edition of the ‘News of the World’ (well, last one under Murdoch before he launches the Sun on Sunday).
Those ever so kind people at News International have said that all proceeds from sales will go to charity.
What I don’t get is this: News International still shows no shame – it wants us to give it money that they will give to charity.
News International still doesn’t get it – any sane-minded person is so revulsed at what its employees have done in the name of what they laughingly ‘journalism’ that they won’t want anything to do with them.
The people at the top of News International have decided that we, the British people, can be fobbed off by the rushed redundancies of the News of the World’s staff (whose work I do not necessarily admire, but who did not all indulge in such underhand and illegal practices), while those at the top pay no actual price for their hand, or lack of hand if they were on holiday at the time, in being in charge of the paper at the time.
It’s simple, folks, and I hope you will agree. If Mr Murdoch and his henchpeople want to donate money to charity, let them do it out of their own pockets. Please, do not buy the News of the World tomorrow – do not even give them a hint that, just because the paper has gone, all is forgiven. Do not give them any breathing space or massage their egos – just say no.
Boycott the News of the World or, if you are feeling more daring like Renault UK, boycott News International altogether.
You know it makes sense
