Well, I suppose I should mention it, shouldn’t I?
The end of the world. The end of the News of the World, that is. A lot of people are gloating about it. 250 people, who are about to lose their jobs aren’t really gloating though.
Of course, there are now the calls that ‘It’s a different paper now’. Ah yes, that old chestnut – it was terrible before but now we’re really good. The soon-to-be ex journalists of the NOTW are saying that it’s not fair. But, then, they’ve hardly been very fair on the people they’ve been hounding all these years; the people who have had their phone messages read; their emails read, etc. Of course, they had to ‘earn a living’, didn’t they? Ah well, what goes around comes around as the old saying goes.
Of course, for the readership of the NOTW, they need to find another Sunday paper that can give them all the tittle-tattle and gossip. It’s like a drug, I guess. However, they may be OK with the Sun on Sunday – supposedly due out soon. In any event, there’ll be some some rag to fill the space.
The MPs, who could have taken some action years ago (or at any time up till recently); the police – these people should also be losing their jobs but I guess that won’t be happening any time soon.
Which newspaper will be next, I wonder?
Dear Andy,
I was impressed by the swiftness: the paper has been dispatched by Murdoch in one day and ALL people instantly fired.
I remember that I read The News Of The World in the 1960’s, once in a while. I was a teenager. A lot of British slang was in it, & gossip, and a good introduction, I thought, to English middle & lower class culture. It was fun. I used to buy it in the 2 big newspaper stands in Via Veneto (so celebrated in the Roman ‘dolce vita’ souvenirs), the only ones in those days to have foreign stuff (maybe the railway station Termini stands also, but I don’t remember).
The ‘killing’ was probably carried out for some good reason.
Btw Andy, I am leaving for Canadian Quebec on the 13th of July. I wish, to you and to F, a very happy summer!
Talk to you when I come back at the end of July!
Giovanni
Hi Giovanni,
Yes, almost certainly the killing was carried out for a reason. There’s the 250 staff reduction and the (probable) opening of the Sun on Sunday – without the need to re-employ those 250, for one reason.
Yes, I can see what you mean about it being good for learning the slang without any of the highbrow stuff
Enjoy Canada (although why you’re leaving when the weather has just become perfect, I don’t think I’ll ever understand) – and the summer is great so far. 4 weekends in Carrara and I’m looking a little tanned
Speak to you in a few weeks.
Ciao
Andy
although why you’re leaving when the weather has just become perfect, I don’t think I’ll ever understand
Ah ah ah. You made me laugh. You’ll never understand because you’re English while here we have enough of the sun. Going in fact to Canada to look for COLD (and polar bears).
Even more tanned than when we met? Amazing. Your secret desire to look Brazilian, probably, ciao!
Or, probably, Italian