“This is not where we wanted to be and it’s not where we deserve to be, but as a final tribute to 7.5 million readers, this is for you and for the staff, thank you.” Murdoch had seemed on the point of clinching approval for a cherished prize, the buyout of broadcaster BSkyB, only last week but revelations phone-hacking had extended beyond celebrities to relatives of a murdered girl, of victims of 2005 London bomb attacks and of soldiers killed in action stirred broad public anger.Įditor Colin Myler told media massed outside the newspaper’s offices he deeply regretted the newspaper’s closure. “All human life was here,” the News of the World declared. For admirers it had been a stock feature of lazy Sundays, for critics it had become a symbol of craven irresponsibility in the British media.
His car sped out of the complex again 15 minutes later but it was not clear what meetings he had plannedīest known for its lurid headlines exposing misadventures of the rich, royal and famous, the last News of the World said simply “Thank You & Goodbye” over a montage of some of its most celebrated splashes of the past 168 years. Wearing a white panama-style hat, he ignored reporters massed at the entrance, focusing his attention on the newspaper he bought in 1969 as the cornerstone of a vast media empire. Murdoch, 80, swept into his London headquarters in the front passenger seat of a red Range Rover car, holding up the last edition of the best selling newspaper, the News of the World, that he had closed hours earlier in a bid to contain the crisis.
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