I don’t believe a boycott of NOTW and the Sun will happen, because their customer base is exactly the sort of people who really don’t care (although they have been slightly hoisted by their own petard, by bugging victims of child murder and troops, after deifying them for years).
A boycott on advertisers will have a much better effect though. You don’t have to be a typical Sun reader to decide to avoid tescos etc for a couple of weeks. The advertisers will get the message very soon, and without the advertising revenue, these papers will be dead in a few months.
Censorship is an issue I hadn’t considered. Probably because of the disdain I hold towards most of the major UK newspapers, especially NOTW and the Sun.
BBC are reporting that there are nearly 4,000 potential victims of hacking. I wonder if News International is still offering them all the settlement of £100,000 that they offered to Sienna Miller?
That is a sensationally revealing interview, where he confirms that Brooks, hints that Murdoch also, approved payments to the cops. And: “…apparently Andy Coulson was sobbing into his beer last night that he was going to jail.”
The Sunday Sun is a regional tabloid newspaper for the North East of England - generally pretty popular due to covering the regions football teams. They’ll have to think of another name probably.
