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July 7, 2011 01:51 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QkQ250CMMp8/news-of-the-world-to.html
News of the World to "close"
News of the World, the Murdoch-owned newspaper at the center of a phone 'hacking' scandal, is to close after Sunday's edition. Though the world's second largest English-language newspaper (after the India Times), recent revelations that its reporters and investigators illegally accessed the cellphone messages of murdered schoolgirls, military casualties, and their families, appear to have finally drowned the newspaper in a national outpouring of vomit. One possible escape for the paper and its staff: the News of the World is a Sunday newspaper with a sister paper, The Sun, which runs Monday-Saturday. Don't be surprised if a Sunday Sun shows up in the coming weeks. Following is the text of a press release (PDF) issued by News International, its parent company....Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QkQ250CMMp8/news-of-the-world-to.html
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