The News Corporation is no stranger to scandal. Fines for indecency, lawsuits charging anticompetitive business practices and libel claims are a fact of life for the company, which has been able to easily absorb the financial inconvenience. Sun on Sunday set for launch following NOTW closure". Marketing Week. 8 July 2011 . Retrieved 11 July 2011. Rawlings does not answer the question but repeats that "there will be no decision right now". She adds:

The loss of the News of the World from our lives is a bombshell like the break-up of the Beatles, the collapse of Woolworths and the end of Concorde.There was sadness, simmering anger, handshakes and hugs as we gathered for one last time. Someone brought in a box of cup cakes, each bearing a letter in icing that spelled out "News of the World". Inside the Company, we set up a Management and Standards Committee that is working on these issues and that has hired Olswang to examine past failings and recommend systems and practices that over time should become standards for the industry. We have committed to publishing Olswang's terms of reference and eventual recommendations in a way that is open and transparent. We have welcomed broad public inquiries into press standards and police practices and will cooperate with them fully. Currently, there are two major and ongoing police investigations. We are cooperating fully and actively with both. You know that it was News International who voluntarily brought evidence that led to opening Operation Weeting and Operation Elveden. This full cooperation will continue until the Police's work is done. I want to celebrate . . . but I'm very sad for any of the staff who were blameless in all of this and are now going to lose their jobs in a recession. I don’t think any words came out of anybody’s mouth.” He laughs and puts on a look of pure astonishment. “I think that was the point.”

As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter. We now have voluntarily given evidence to the police that I believe will prove that this was untrue and those who acted wrongly will have to face the consequences. The BBC is reporting that the culture secretary has received 100,000 submissions on this takeover bid, which will delay Jeremy Hunt's decision. Hunt will probably appreciate this since it would be so politically toxic to approve the bid in the current climate.Mansfield, a prominent campaigning lawyer who also represented the family of police shooting victim Jean Charles de Menezes, said police should not be in charge of the investigation. Investigative journalism is already on the slide and it's unlikely that any other newspaper will step into the breach now. I worked on six other national news organisations before joining the News of the World 18 months ago and know that few are prepared to invest in journalism of this scale, cost and ambition. We couldn't be approaching No 10 about issues like that while the News of the World is under investigation by the police over something as serious as this" said Lee. "I spoke to the News of the World to explain our position. It was a call that had to be made. Unconfirmed, but the BBC is reporting that a "small group of Sun reporters" have walked out of their office in a show of solidarity with their Sunday colleagues. These are strong measures. They are made humbly and out of respect. I am convinced they are the right thing to do.