David Olive, Opinion, The Toronto Star: Well, good riddance. “Screws of the World” soon will no longer be with us. Rupert Murdoch will sacrifice his 168-year-old sensationalist British tabloid News of the World with a last edition this Sunday on the altar of sparing himself the kind of searing scrutiny the sensationalist NOTW inflicted on others.
The curse of journalism that is Rupert Keith Murdoch, now 80, will carry on as before, along with NOTW’s Murdoch stablemates The Sun (U.K.), the New York Post and Fox News.
Worse, Murdoch’s empire has just bettered its chances of securing U.K. government sanction to acquire a lucrative stranglehold on British private broadcasting with his planned purchase of satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
That deal is no longer jeopardized by a widening probe into NOTW’s dubious “news” gathering practices.
Morally vacant to the end, Murdoch has opted for tainting the entire staff of NOTW and ignoring the example set by the Tokyo Electric Power CEO who quit over the crisis at Tepco’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
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