@impunity, @grolut - Don't celebrate yet. You have been played. The whole world has been played. The Murdoch family were planning to get rid of the paper and replace it with The Sun on Sunday (or an almost similar name). In so doing, they would greatly reduce costs because the Sun and the Sun on Sunday will be run as a single entity with the same resources. What they saw here is a chance to kill two birds with one stone. Case in point, NO senior manager has lost his/her job because of this. Only some hapless journalist who were not even there 5yrs ago when this phone hacking was taking place. Only 3 or 4 employees have been with the paper for more than 5 years. Even the editor has been with the paper for only 3 years and is the one who helped clean the mess left behind!
One; The paper will be back in a matter of weeks - as the Sun on Sunday or some other name. Mark my words.
Two; Most of the employees will be absorbed back into one of the Murdoch companies or even the "new" the Sun on Sunday.
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