Beautifully vitriolic article by Trevor Kavanagh by the Sun. Looks like News International isn;t going to take this completely lying down and appears to be lining up it Ed Milliband, The BBC and The Guardian in it's sites for assassination. Let the Media wars start.
Death of a great paper is a real tragedy
Death of a great paper is a real tragedy
By TREVOR KAVANAGH
"THANK You & Goodbye." This is the poignant headline that brought a lump to the throat and a gaping hole in the lives of millions.
The News of the World, a truly great newspaper with a 168-year record for jaw-dropping exclusives, died of self-inflicted wounds.
It was a tragedy for journalism - and an open goal for our commercial rivals. In the dog-eat-dog world of newspapers, this was as much about their survival as our sister paper's.
The News of the World, a truly great newspaper with a 168-year record for jaw-dropping exclusives, died of self-inflicted wounds.
It was a tragedy for journalism - and an open goal for our commercial rivals. In the dog-eat-dog world of newspapers, this was as much about their survival as our sister paper's.
BBC ... vengeful and spiteful"The Screws", which week after glorious week left them all trailing in its wake, was always the paper to beat.
We also offered a priceless opening to Ed Miliband, a weak leader who seized his chance to turn on a newspaper group that supported his party through most of its 13 years in power.
Politics is about opportunism, and if he can't squeeze capital out of this catastrophe at David Cameron's expense, then he's no politician at all.
What is thoroughly contemptible, though, is the posturing, high-minded and politically prejudiced BBC. This media monster, which blows £2.3BILLION a year in public money, is bound by charter to be impartial and is anything but.
Its gleeful, vengeful and downright spiteful coverage of events over recent days is a disgrace.
Not for nothing is the BBC known as the Blatantly Biased Corporation.
Don't get me wrong. Nobody can justify or condone the crimes committed by former News of the World staff. They deserve the coverage they have received. Indeed, we are warned by our chief executive Rebekah Brooks that worse is to come.
I don't know what these revelations will turn out to be. Nor does the BBC. But judging by the Corporation's bloodcurdling reports and commentaries, they must surely involve mass murder, rape and torture.
Nothing other than a declaration of war would justify its round-the-clock analysis, interviews and breaking news on every radio, TV and internet outlet.
All other news - and there was a lot of it around last week - was relegated to "fillers" between breathless, screeching "updates" from correspondents.
The feeding frenzy was led each morning by Radio 4's increasingly hysterical Today programme. John Humphrys introduced an eye-popping chat about "media barons" in the scary voice pantomime villains use to frighten children. Chippy Justin Webb gave Rupert Murdoch's accusers free rein while constantly interrupting any voice raised in his defence.
Fellow Leftie Jim Naughtie made himself utterly ridiculous by describing our proprietor as "the most evil man in the world".
Saturation coverage swamped Question Time and Any Questions?. I almost burst out laughing as panellist Steve Richards, another Leftie, claimed that the BBC - unlike Grub Street - was barred from using comment in news coverage.
The BBC's tone - driven by its fear of competition from Sky TV - is not so much "comment" as a giant raspberry in the face of impartiality.
Politics is about opportunism, and if he can't squeeze capital out of this catastrophe at David Cameron's expense, then he's no politician at all.
What is thoroughly contemptible, though, is the posturing, high-minded and politically prejudiced BBC. This media monster, which blows £2.3BILLION a year in public money, is bound by charter to be impartial and is anything but.
Its gleeful, vengeful and downright spiteful coverage of events over recent days is a disgrace.
Not for nothing is the BBC known as the Blatantly Biased Corporation.
Don't get me wrong. Nobody can justify or condone the crimes committed by former News of the World staff. They deserve the coverage they have received. Indeed, we are warned by our chief executive Rebekah Brooks that worse is to come.
I don't know what these revelations will turn out to be. Nor does the BBC. But judging by the Corporation's bloodcurdling reports and commentaries, they must surely involve mass murder, rape and torture.
Nothing other than a declaration of war would justify its round-the-clock analysis, interviews and breaking news on every radio, TV and internet outlet.
All other news - and there was a lot of it around last week - was relegated to "fillers" between breathless, screeching "updates" from correspondents.
The feeding frenzy was led each morning by Radio 4's increasingly hysterical Today programme. John Humphrys introduced an eye-popping chat about "media barons" in the scary voice pantomime villains use to frighten children. Chippy Justin Webb gave Rupert Murdoch's accusers free rein while constantly interrupting any voice raised in his defence.
Fellow Leftie Jim Naughtie made himself utterly ridiculous by describing our proprietor as "the most evil man in the world".
Saturation coverage swamped Question Time and Any Questions?. I almost burst out laughing as panellist Steve Richards, another Leftie, claimed that the BBC - unlike Grub Street - was barred from using comment in news coverage.
The BBC's tone - driven by its fear of competition from Sky TV - is not so much "comment" as a giant raspberry in the face of impartiality.
News International is big enough and ugly enough to look after itself. Nobody would claim it is a shrinking violet in the media jungle. But, after nearly 40 years on his payroll, I believe Rupert Murdoch has been a tremendous force for good in the media world.
Tens of thousands of journalists who have nothing to do with NI owe their jobs to him.
Many newspapers published in Britain today would have perished but for Wapping - including, perhaps, the high-minded and sanctimonious Guardian. And millions benefit from Rupert Murdoch's audacious creation of Sky TV - now at the heart of his enemies' campaign against him.
He was fought every inch of the way by The Guardian, which somehow sees itself as custodian of the sacred journalistic flame.
It is a small circulation paper whose readers mostly work in the taxpayer-funded public sector. But its Left-wing views are amplified out of all proportion by the BBC who, with breathtaking arrogance, portray themselves as the Voice of Britain.
So, mass immigration was a GOOD thing, not to be discussed in front of their furious viewers.
The European Union was a BLESSING - until, predictably, it began to collapse in flames.
This column might seem like the work of a Murdoch mouthpiece. But you don't have to listen to me.
Try veteran BBC presenter Michael Buerk, who lambasts the Corporation as institutionally biased.
"The Guardian is their bible and political correctness their creed," he says.
Or former news anchor Peter Sissons, who blasts his ex-employer as a propaganda weapon for climate extremism, gay rights and political correctness.
So fierce has the criticism grown that director general Mark Thompson last year publicly admitted that the BBC is "massively" biased.
Tragically, nothing can bring back the News of the World.
But we should examine closely the motives of those who brought it to its knees.
Many newspapers published in Britain today would have perished but for Wapping - including, perhaps, the high-minded and sanctimonious Guardian. And millions benefit from Rupert Murdoch's audacious creation of Sky TV - now at the heart of his enemies' campaign against him.
He was fought every inch of the way by The Guardian, which somehow sees itself as custodian of the sacred journalistic flame.
It is a small circulation paper whose readers mostly work in the taxpayer-funded public sector. But its Left-wing views are amplified out of all proportion by the BBC who, with breathtaking arrogance, portray themselves as the Voice of Britain.
So, mass immigration was a GOOD thing, not to be discussed in front of their furious viewers.
The European Union was a BLESSING - until, predictably, it began to collapse in flames.
This column might seem like the work of a Murdoch mouthpiece. But you don't have to listen to me.
Try veteran BBC presenter Michael Buerk, who lambasts the Corporation as institutionally biased.
"The Guardian is their bible and political correctness their creed," he says.
Or former news anchor Peter Sissons, who blasts his ex-employer as a propaganda weapon for climate extremism, gay rights and political correctness.
So fierce has the criticism grown that director general Mark Thompson last year publicly admitted that the BBC is "massively" biased.
Tragically, nothing can bring back the News of the World.
But we should examine closely the motives of those who brought it to its knees.
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