What do you do when one of your business’s shady tactics come to light, especially when that business’s business is putting others on blast?
Naturally, you shut it down. Even if it’s been in business longer than you’ve been alive. At least, that’s how Rupert Murdoch felt once scandal erupted around the “News Of The World,” a British tabloid owned by Murdoch’s News Corp like Faux News.
The tabloid, in business since 1843, was abruptly ordered closed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation Thursday amid allegations of phone hacking and police bribery. This weekend’s edition was the 8,674th of the paper, Myler said.
Those ensnared in the related investigation include Andy Coulson, a former editor of the paper and an ex-communications director for Prime Minister David Cameron. He and the paper’s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, as well as a 63-year-old man were all arrested Friday in connection with allegations of corruption.
Both Coulson and Goodman were released on bail late Friday. The third man, who was not named, was freed on bail Saturday morning. All three were ordered to report to police in October.
The paper’s roughly 200-member staff are now out of jobs, but have been told they can apply elsewhere within its parent company, News International — the main British subsidiary of News Corporation.
News of the World showbiz editor Dan Wootton posted on Twitter that 5 million copies were being printed Sunday, twice the usual circulation of 2.5 million.
Earlier Saturday, a handful of staff brought out mugs of tea to throngs of reporters from other news organizations waiting outside the paper’s headquarters in east London.
Meanwhile, the Church of England, which owns shares worth about $6 million in Murdoch’s News Corporation empire, has put pressure on him to act over the scandal.
The church’s ethical investment committee has written to Murdoch, saying the “behaviour of the News of the World has been utterly reprehensible and unethical.”
The letter, part of which is posted on the church’s website, says that the closure of News of the World — while welcome — does not go far enough.
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