News Of The World Staffers Take Parting Shot At Management In Final Crossword Puzzle
from the parting-shots dept
With the closure of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, due to the ongoing criminal investigations and revelations of highly questionable practices involving spying on private citizens and hacking into their voicemails, many people did wonder if the staff would have any sort of message for their bosses in the final edition. Apparently former editor Rebekah Brooks was adamant that staffers not mock them in the final edition, but she failed:"Rebekah tried everything to stop the staff having the last word and she utterly failed.How? They hid it in the puzzles section. Apparently, a bunch of clues for the various puzzles were not-so-subtle references to the whole thing, including "criminal enterprise," "catastrophe," "stench," and "racket."
"She brought in two very senior Sun journalists to go though every line on every page with a fine tooth comb to ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive.
"But they failed and we’ve had the last laugh.’
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Heads should roll. Literally.
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referance http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14090499
So is the whole of news international corrupt.
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It's also relevant that the reason given for the investigation not being re-opened at the start of last year was because an election was being called, and "[He] didn't want to win an election by using low points-scoring."
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Quick someone call the; The New York Times Company and inform them that they have been indentured to the lord of darkness.
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As naive as it may be, I'm inclined to assume that simple good faith was involved; in other words, they (NYT) didn't think their peers were pulling shenanigans.
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Gordon Brown (former british Prime mnister has stated that "the sunday times used known criminals to gather information on him"
Murdoch has asked G.Brown for proof.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14119225
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Ha ha
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Oooh, clues in a crossword! That'll learn Murdoch.
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"She brought in two very senior Sun journalists to go though every line on every page with a fine tooth comb to ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive."
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Through paper. This is exactly the same principle.
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Crossword Creativity
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