NOW - Ding Ding - Round Two.

[swamp]

Murdoch won't get his hands on BSkyB now. Cameron is in hot water over Coulson and his only way out of trouble is to block the bid or kick it into the long grass. Besides, News Corp have withdrawn their offer to spin off Sky News -- strange move I thought because this just makes Cameron's task much easier.

[MarillionFan]

What we will see will be a move by Millibrand to try and bring in a motion to ensure that it is not possible for one person/business to own both newspapers and television.

Of course, Cameron is going
to offer no opinion
on this while Millibrand is going to be annihilated. His brother will be in charge in less than 12 months.

[oversteer]

So, can all of :

Daily Mail, Mail On Sunday
Daily Express / Sunday Express
Independent / IoS
Guardian / Observer
BBC, Sky, ITN etc

.. categorically state they NEVER used a dodgy source for a story; bribed someone; used police informants to tip them off; used unethical (if not illegal) 'social engineering' to gain a story ?

I doubt it..

[d000hg]

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

By TREVOR KAVANAGH

What a load of bitter tripe.

PS: MF are you formatting your entire posts or is that the software doing something weird?

[PAH]

Murdoch won't get his hands on BSkyB now. Cameron is in hot water over Coulson and his only way out of trouble is to block the bid or kick it into the long grass. Besides, News Corp have withdrawn their offer to spin off Sky News -- strange move I thought because this just makes Cameron's task much easier.

On Newsnight last night they were summising that the strategy is to let the brit papers change owner so News Corp can take over BSkyB with Sky News included.

Reasons for the strategy:

1. The 'contagion' of NOTW may be spreading to the other papers in wapping, beyond News International.

2. Sky is more profitable than the brit papers

3. The Competition Commission that is now overseeing the proposed buy-out will not be an issue if News Corp only own the TV news and not paper based news.

So if this is the case why did they burn NOTW instead of trying to offload them all together? Looks like a game of chess that still has everything to pay for. Especially now we have Gordon stepping into the war:

BBC News - Brown accuses News International of using criminals

News International respond with 'no comment' on above story. Where's my popcorn this war is getting interesting.

[Sysman]

2. Sky is more profitable than the brit papers

Apparently the News International papers in Britain only bring in 10% of their worldwide newspaper cash.

And probably a bit less than that since last week.

[PAH]

Yeah. We're seeing the decline of printed news and them struggle to get people to pay for news online when there are already loads of free sites offering similar content, even Google News.

It's like the end of the roman empire. They won't go quietly.

Not sure if the beeb are expecting some major developments today, they've got a live coverage page on their site. I'm surprised Murdoch hasn't got it on Sky pay-per-view.

BBC News - Live: Phone hacking row