News of The World to Fold on Sunday
News of The World, currently embroiled in the phone tapping scandal that has rocked parent News Corp., is officially shutting down operations on Sunday. With more and more details emerging about the paper (a newer one: journalists paid off police officers) James Murdoch, the COO of News International, announced that it would shut down for good.
News of the World employs around 200 people, most of whom expressed shock when hearing Murdoch’s statement. And they should be shocked, this is a pretty remarkable thing – an entire paper folding because of a scandal.
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