Rupert Murdoch have closed news paper?
SHOULD RUPERT MURDOCH CLOSES DOWN NEWSPAPER " NEWS OF THE WORLD"????
The 168-year-old tabloid is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians.
Who is alleged to have been hacked?
Police have a list of 4,000 possible targets. Among them are celebrities, sport stars, politicians and victims of crime.
They include actor Hugh Grant, publicist Max Clifford, comedian Steve Coogan, actress Sienna Miller, Lord Prescott, London Mayor Boris Johnson, football pundit Andy Gray and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne.
Murdered teenager Milly Dowler and the parents of murdered Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were allegedly targeted. Relatives of dead UK soldiers and relatives of 7/7 victims may also have had their phones hacked.
Though it was founded with the words "Our motto is the truth, our practice is fearless advocacy of the truth", it was this formula - fast, titillating news, with an emphasis on sensation and, as often as not, sex - that most clearly characterised the paper's journalism, and propelled it to staggering commercial success. By 1880 it was selling 30,000 copies a week. Forty years later, having added a strong emphasis on sport to its heady editorial brew, circulation was more than three million. As the paper's motto put it: "All human life is there."
At its peak, in the 1950s, editions of the paper would regularly sell more than eight million copies.
The decision to close the paper is the more staggering given that it is still the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the English-speaking world, with 7.4 million readers each week.
The 168-year-old tabloid is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians.
Who is alleged to have been hacked?
Police have a list of 4,000 possible targets. Among them are celebrities, sport stars, politicians and victims of crime.
They include actor Hugh Grant, publicist Max Clifford, comedian Steve Coogan, actress Sienna Miller, Lord Prescott, London Mayor Boris Johnson, football pundit Andy Gray and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne.
Murdered teenager Milly Dowler and the parents of murdered Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were allegedly targeted. Relatives of dead UK soldiers and relatives of 7/7 victims may also have had their phones hacked.
Though it was founded with the words "Our motto is the truth, our practice is fearless advocacy of the truth", it was this formula - fast, titillating news, with an emphasis on sensation and, as often as not, sex - that most clearly characterised the paper's journalism, and propelled it to staggering commercial success. By 1880 it was selling 30,000 copies a week. Forty years later, having added a strong emphasis on sport to its heady editorial brew, circulation was more than three million. As the paper's motto put it: "All human life is there."
At its peak, in the 1950s, editions of the paper would regularly sell more than eight million copies.
The decision to close the paper is the more staggering given that it is still the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the English-speaking world, with 7.4 million readers each week.
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