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Post by spitthedog on Jul 5, 2011 9:31:19 GMT
Following the latest revelations about NOTW hacking Milly Dowler's phone and deleting messages thereby giving her family family false hope that she was still alive, I call on all Oaties with a conscience to boycott all Murdoch newspapers and media. This represents a new low for Murdoch's Empire.
The government won't do anything, the police won't do anything, the only people with any real muscle are the punters.
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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Jul 5, 2011 9:49:35 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins?
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Post by offthewall on Jul 5, 2011 9:55:12 GMT
I am with you spit, never buy News Internationals products...pure scum and this latest one is just evil.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Jul 5, 2011 10:35:11 GMT
Another approach - here's a list of firms that advertise with the NOTW and related companies. www.pint.org.uk/notw.html- You can boycott and/or launch a Twitter attack. I see #notw has dropped off the trending list though.
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Post by vestanpance on Jul 5, 2011 10:35:14 GMT
Whilst your motive are honourable, believe me mate that by the time this has all finished, you will find out that all the tabloid newspapers will have been at it. A case in point is the amazingly low profile the Mirror group have given this ongoing story. They didn't even mention it when it when it was solely celebrities getting the treatment, and today they allocated a third of a page, the rest being allocated to Kate Middleton planting a tree. The whole thing stinks and hopefully it will bring the sanctimonious, hypocritical age of the tabloid firmly to a close.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Jul 5, 2011 10:43:19 GMT
Whilst your motive are honourable, believe me mate that by the time this has all finished, you will find out that all the tabloid newspapers will have been at it. The BBC reporter outside the 'Commons last night was hinting as much.
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Post by salopstick on Jul 5, 2011 11:09:38 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins? agree no room for sentiment where sky sports is concerned i have no opinion of murdoch either way. i dont buy newspapers but have sky i realise like vestan says they are all up to it, even respected broadsheets if we are honest, anything to get a story the real crime is governments allowing too much media to be controlled by a small group of individuals. read the 4th estate by jeffrey archer. a good story but gives an insight to the world of murdoch and maxwell
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Post by spitthedog on Jul 5, 2011 11:16:45 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins? Have never had Sky subscription, and as far as I know don't own any of the others mentioned. Thanks for highlighting these products though.
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Post by Gods on Jul 5, 2011 11:22:26 GMT
I don't mind the Dowlers getting some cash but the rest of the celebrities and politicians jumping on the bandwagon and joining the queue for what they hope will be 6-figure payments for the...uh-hum... "suffering" they have endured I'm much less impressed with:
Actress Leslie Ash and her ex footballer partner one Lee Chapman
Former editor of the News of the World Phil Hall
Champagne socialist John Prescott
"Actress" Sienna Miller
Secretive footballer Ryan Giggs
The tawdry list goes on and on...and they won't rest until they have a million pounds in their pocket for damages.
Rather more than you get for losing a limb in Afghanistan...
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Post by spitthedog on Jul 5, 2011 13:49:50 GMT
I don't mind the Dowlers getting some cash but the rest of the celebrities and politicians jumping on the bandwagon and joining the queue for what they hope will be 6-figure payments for the...uh-hum... "suffering" they have endured I'm much less impressed with: Actress Leslie Ash and her ex footballer partner one Lee Chapman Former editor of the News of the World Phil Hall Champagne socialist John Prescott "Actress" Sienna Miller Secretive footballer Ryan Giggs The tawdry list goes on and on...and they won't rest until they have a million pounds in their pocket for damages. Rather more than you get for losing a limb in Afghanistan... Think you completely miss the point, which is that the NOTW clearly do not know where to draw the line between celebrities and missing schoolgirls. It is all celebrity to them.
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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Jul 5, 2011 14:03:09 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins? Have never had Sky subscription, and as far as I know don't own any of the others mentioned. Thanks for highlighting these products though. I find it hard to belive you don't own or have never paid to see any of these. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th_Century_Fox_filmsI'm not saying i support them, what they have done is disgusting, but to try and boycott a company of that size is pretty much futile.
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Post by gamesmaster on Jul 5, 2011 14:51:07 GMT
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Post by starkiller on Jul 5, 2011 15:13:18 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins? agree no room for sentiment where sky sports is concerned i have no opinion of murdoch either way. i dont buy newspapers but have sky i realise like vestan says they are all up to it, even respected broadsheets if we are honest, anything to get a story the real crime is governments allowing too much media to be controlled by a small group of individuals. read the 4th estate by jeffrey archer. a good story but gives an insight to the world of murdoch and maxwell Government doesn't "allow" it, Government does what it's told. Government is "controlled by a small group of individuals."
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Post by Dr Oetcake on Jul 5, 2011 15:45:33 GMT
Can I suggest that you just shit in a jiffy bag and send it to Murdoch?
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Post by offthewall on Jul 5, 2011 15:52:13 GMT
I don't mind the Dowlers getting some cash but the rest of the celebrities and politicians jumping on the bandwagon and joining the queue for what they hope will be 6-figure payments for the...uh-hum... "suffering" they have endured I'm much less impressed with: Actress Leslie Ash and her ex footballer partner one Lee Chapman Former editor of the News of the World Phil Hall Champagne socialist John Prescott "Actress" Sienna Miller Secretive footballer Ryan Giggs The tawdry list goes on and on...and they won't rest until they have a million pounds in their pocket for damages. Rather more than you get for losing a limb in Afghanistan... Whilst I agree with you about the comp side of things, it is these very newspapers that help to form exactly the opinions of public figures you have expressed here ! For example Prescott could be viewed as a working class boy done good and a breath of fresh air from the Eton elite. But the papers had it in for him from the start. A lot of people have a skeleton somewhere in there private lives, I am just not interested in it at all.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jul 5, 2011 16:08:49 GMT
Whilst your motive are honourable, believe me mate that by the time this has all finished, you will find out that all the tabloid newspapers will have been at it. A case in point is the amazingly low profile the Mirror group have given this ongoing story. They didn't even mention it when it when it was solely celebrities getting the treatment, and today they allocated a third of a page, the rest being allocated to Kate Middleton planting a tree. The whole thing stinks and hopefully it will bring the sanctimonious, hypocritical age of the tabloid firmly to a close. Spot on Vestan mate, spot on. Mind you if this does present an opportunity to stop Murdoch from owning a massive slice of the British Media then I for one see it as a good thing.
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Post by gamesmaster on Jul 5, 2011 19:59:40 GMT
Ford have pulled their advertising from NOTW.
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Post by Tubes on Jul 5, 2011 21:42:27 GMT
Whilst your motive are honourable, believe me mate that by the time this has all finished, you will find out that all the tabloid newspapers will have been at it. A case in point is the amazingly low profile the Mirror group have given this ongoing story. They didn't even mention it when it when it was solely celebrities getting the treatment, and today they allocated a third of a page, the rest being allocated to Kate Middleton planting a tree. The whole thing stinks and hopefully it will bring the sanctimonious, hypocritical age of the tabloid firmly to a close. Totally agree. Given the uproar they all created about "freedom of speech" with the Ryan Giggs thing, it's been amazing how most of the British media (the Grauniad excepted) have ignored this phone hacking scandal which has been going on for years and encompasses scores of celebrities and politicians. One suspects it's because they have all been engaged in the practice as well, and so don't want to start throwing stones.
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Post by potterglen on Jul 6, 2011 19:41:49 GMT
I assume you have already cancelled your sky subscription, thrown away all you 20th Century Fox dvds and disposed of any books printed by HaperCollins? Cancel Sky and watch the football on streams - that hurts.
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Post by oldgit57 on Jul 6, 2011 22:41:28 GMT
Absolute scummers NOTW. Would agree completely with any campaign against them! Shouldn't we be trying to get advertisers to quit them, hit them in the pocket!
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 6, 2011 22:42:58 GMT
Whilst your motive are honourable, believe me mate that by the time this has all finished, you will find out that all the tabloid newspapers will have been at it. A case in point is the amazingly low profile the Mirror group have given this ongoing story. They didn't even mention it when it when it was solely celebrities getting the treatment, and today they allocated a third of a page, the rest being allocated to Kate Middleton planting a tree. The whole thing stinks and hopefully it will bring the sanctimonious, hypocritical age of the tabloid firmly to a close. Spot on Vestan mate, spot on. Mind you if this does present an opportunity to stop Murdoch from owning a massive slice of the British Media then I for one see it as a good thing. Bang on both of you I'd still be delighted to support Murdoch from a lamppost mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2011 23:08:15 GMT
I don't mind the Dowlers getting some cash but the rest of the celebrities and politicians jumping on the bandwagon and joining the queue for what they hope will be 6-figure payments for the...uh-hum... "suffering" they have endured I'm much less impressed with: Actress Leslie Ash and her ex footballer partner one Lee Chapman Former editor of the News of the World Phil Hall Champagne socialist John Prescott "Actress" Sienna Miller Secretive footballer Ryan Giggs The tawdry list goes on and on...and they won't rest until they have a million pounds in their pocket for damages. Rather more than you get for losing a limb in Afghanistan... Think you completely miss the point, which is that the NOTW clearly do not know where to draw the line between celebrities and missing schoolgirls. It is all celebrity to them. I don't think they saw Milly Dowler as celebrity, rather they seem to think that anyone is fair game. They are cretins - the lot of them - and basically are looking to fill column inches with whatever people will read, no matter who they walk over/piss off in the process. The lack of moral backbone in the Milly Dowler case simply magnifies the issues surrounding the saga. It'll transpire that they are all as bent as one another, even Hugh Grant can see through them (and he's never wrong! ) - who knows - they might have to start filling their papers with facts, then they are fucked. I actually don't give a shit about the celebrity angle of this, as I'm not interested in what shoes Chris Martin has just bought, or about Lady Gaga's new swimming pool, or how much tax Bono has dodged this last year, when you think about it, it's mostly total bollocks that these people make a living from.
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Post by truckerged on Jul 7, 2011 10:08:46 GMT
I don't mind the Dowlers getting some cash but the rest of the celebrities and politicians jumping on the bandwagon and joining the queue for what they hope will be 6-figure payments for the...uh-hum... "suffering" they have endured I'm much less impressed with: Actress Leslie Ash and her ex footballer partner one Lee Chapman Former editor of the News of the World Phil Hall Champagne socialist John Prescott "Actress" Sienna Miller Secretive footballer Ryan Giggs The tawdry list goes on and on...and they won't rest until they have a million pounds in their pocket for damages. Rather more than you get for losing a limb in Afghanistan... why is john prescott jumping on the bandwagon??? he was calling for an inquiry yonks ago but seeing as the murdoch empire is cosy with the pm it got brushed under the carpet, the latest developments come as no surprise to me.newspaper jounos have allways been slimey[wasnt it spitting image in the 80's that depicted them as slugs?]how much lower can they sink? i myself am a sun reader unfortunatly there is no credible alternative, but where i used to buy it 6 days a week its now about three times a week. and as far as thr news of the world goes i used to purchase this rag until about three years ag when i realised i was paying £1 to read about someone from corrie shagging someone off emmerdale [this at a time when the world was fighting wars,the economy was going down the pan etc] i also cancelled my sky sports subscription, mainly because i wasnt watching enough of it but also because we as the publc have been conned into paying a fortune to watch something we used to watch for free. rant over ;D
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Post by vestanpance on Jul 7, 2011 10:09:18 GMT
One of our customers is the Trinity Mirror group, and when i spoke to a guy on the inside there, he said that the mood of the british press is similar to that of Westminster when the expenses thing started up. They are all waiting for their turn, and they know it's coming....it's just that the News of the World was the first to get caught.
Oh, and the feeling at News International is, apparently, that this is going to get an awful lot worse before it starts getting better. Really? Worse than hacking into the phones of murdered terror victims families, or the families of soldiers lost in defence of their nation?
The only way that this can get worse for the NoTW is if they admit that they kidnapped Madelaine McCann.
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Post by gamesmaster on Jul 7, 2011 10:36:41 GMT
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Post by salopstick on Jul 7, 2011 10:48:38 GMT
it would be totally impossible to boycott murdoch
the scousers are obsessed even trying to boycot products, firms that either advertise in the sun or do promotions including the likes of alton towers etc
i am keeping my sky but dont buy papers ,hypocritcical maybe but how far do you go down the line
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jul 7, 2011 10:57:02 GMT
It's inconcievable that other newspapers haven't been at it either...
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Post by gamesmaster on Jul 7, 2011 11:30:29 GMT
It's inconcievable that other newspapers haven't been at it either... I think those papers who have (unbelievably!) stayed silent during all of this are clearly the ones with a lot to fear about what else may come out. As for Murdoch's takeover of Sky, this should be stopped regardless of the phone hacking scandal. He would virtually have control of the whole of non BBC media in this country, unfortunately he had obviously agreed a deal with Cameron that for his papers and Sky news' support of The Conservatives they would pass this monopoly.
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Post by followyoudown on Jul 7, 2011 13:17:12 GMT
It's inconcievable that other newspapers haven't been at it either... I think those papers who have (unbelievably!) stayed silent during all of this are clearly the ones with a lot to fear about what else may come out. As for Murdoch's takeover of Sky, this should be stopped regardless of the phone hacking scandal. He would virtually have control of the whole of non BBC media in this country, unfortunately he had obviously agreed a deal with Cameron that for his papers and Sky news' support of The Conservatives they would pass this monopoly. His company has a 39.1% shareholding, his son is the chairman he already has control all you would be doing is stopping his ownership of it.
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Post by spitthedog on Jul 7, 2011 15:31:55 GMT
it would be totally impossible to boycott murdoch the scousers are obsessed even trying to boycot products, firms that either advertise in the sun or do promotions including the likes of alton towers etc i am keeping my sky but dont buy papers ,hypocritcical maybe but how far do you go down the line With all due respect that is total nonsense, you can go as far down the line as you want to go. If people start unsubscribing from Sky and stop buying their newspapers that will be a big dent in their business plan, but that is up to you and your conscience.
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