Opinion: NOTW Closed For Greed, Not Integrity

From Mike Lupica, nydailynews.com

At a time when everybody worries about the survival of newspapers everywhere, Rupert Murdoch decides to bury one in London with the biggest circulation because of a phone-hacking scandal that is being treated like Watergate - and will get worse before it gets better. So News of the World goes, after a run that only lasted 168 years.

News of the World isn't just accused of hacking the celebrities on which British tabloids and all tabloids have feasted for so long, but also a kidnapped and murdered girl named Milly Dowler, and relatives of people lost to terrorist bombings, and possibly even relatives of English soldiers killed in the Middle East.

So the paper is gone, not because of any particular outrage on Mr. Murdoch's part, some attempt to find moral or journalistic high ground, but rather because it threatens the big deal he is trying to make to buy up all of a British satellite broadcaster known as BSkyB.

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