Did the Guardian get it wrong?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....ews-of-the-World.html

The voicemails on Milly Dowler’s phone which caused a media outcry, could have been deleted automatically by her phone company.

If this is correct, was the News of the World still so guilty of wrongdoings, that it needed to be closed down?

[Zhukov]

no advertising revenue no newspaper bye bye

[Old_Geezer]

It was closed down in the hope that it would take the heat off the owner. There was never a need as such.

I had assumed they'd have checked why the VMs were deleted before claims were made. Surely there are enough lawsuits flying around to convince professinals to make that simple check before making accusations ?

[sunny-dave]

Interesting spin ... the hackers may (or possibly may not) have actually deleted the messages - there is still much dispute about this.

BUT the mere act of a hacker reading the messages marked them as 'already read' - which then caused them to be auto-deleted by the voicemail system a day or two later - which caused the Dowler family to have their hopes cruelly and falsely raised that Milly was reading her voicemail and thus was alive.

So the NoW hacks WERE responsible whichever way the cookie is crumbled.

[jno]

before you start demanding apologies from the Guardian, perhaps you should be aware that it's ahead of you...

http://www.guardian.c...ns-and-clarifications

[Teddy_boy]

The guardian was wrong and the reporter knows that.

[venator]

The Grauniad has always led the field in publication of corrections, they get it wrong all the time.

[jno]

the Guardian don't get it wrong more than anyone else (what they're really famous for is typos); they do correct them more promptly than anyone else, though.

[Teddy_boy]

This isnt news the reporter admitted as much yesterday on channel4 news.

[jake-the-peg]

Not like the Telegraph eh?

http://www.guardian.c...a-group-libel-damages

[Zhukov]

The perseverance of The Guardian opened up a can of worms,and thwarted whatever plans Cameron,Coulson.Osborne,Rebekah Wade and the Murdochs were hatching,..I dread to think!Thank you Guardian,and they deserve all the plaudits and awards,I am sure they will receive.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

It is such as you that gives me a bad name, where have I ever said that I demanded an apology from the Guardian?

[jno]

goodness, what do you think the word "before" means?

[Ankou]

jno said "before you start" your bad name precedes you!

[rov1100]

Now the truth is known that N.O.W did not delete Millys messages I see there is an outcry for Millys family to the return the £3 million they received.

[askyourgran]

What plan was that then Zhukov.

[Teddy_boy]

The guardian jumped in , didnt have all the facts and now the reporter looks a plonker who admits he was wrong but stands by his story ! Sounds just like the NOTW funny that?

[DTCwordfan]

it couldn't be that the journo who wrote this article once worked for the NOtW? Could it possibly be? Surely not?

[Zhukov]

plans gran,not plan