07-10-2011, 02:47 PM
(07-10-2011, 11:27 AM)billy Wrote: how will the hacking allegations affect the media in generalThe prices they have to pay PI's to do the hacking will go up. Other than that, they'll be no impact.
(07-10-2011, 12:01 PM)thethingy Wrote: ...shutting it was no hardship, hes trying to get 100% of BskyB and to do that he needs to be a "fit and proper person" to satisfy the UK media laws so he had to shut it down.I don't think it's that--he didn't have to close the entire paper to achieve that. And, indeed, sacking the editors and management who were responsible at the time would do that more effectively than sacking a whole lot of journo's who weren't even there at the time.
No, he closed it because it was a golden opportunity to consolidate titles in a diminishing market.
(07-10-2011, 12:23 PM)billy Wrote: what what different between this and assange accepting material hacked (taken illegally) by manning?Murdoch courts politicians, Assange doesn't.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."