This is the script from today's DORC podcast, if you can't be bothered to read this you can listen to it here.

And so the rhetoric from people who didn't care last week has started. David Cameron said it was "disgusting", Rupert Murdoch went with "deplorable and unacceptable". Ed Milliband decided to become defender of the people and managed to call for a public enquiry without repeating the same phrase 5 times in a row. Boris Jonson, comedy madeup Tory fop and Mayor of London used words such as "blatant intrusion," "callousness," "corruption" despite, only 3 months ago, using words like "a song and dance about nothing”,” a load of codswallop"  and "whipped up by the Guardian and the Labour Party." Rebecca Brooks was horrified and Paul McMullan former Deputy Feature’s editor at the News of the World revealed the true editorial attitude at the paper when he said that phone hacking was no bid deal. Oh and while we are talking about Mr McMullan can we point you in the direction of a Youtube clip where he talks about how he and others basically hounded the daughter of actor Denholm Elliot into taking her own life. There will be a link on the show notes, it’s sobering stuff.

The news of the world have hacked phones, this is not up for discussion. Mr McMullan has admitted this and doesn't care and no one on the staff or in management seemed to care either until the accusations about the paper's conduct surrounding Milly Dowler and the families of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, now everyone who ignored this story for years as the Guardian plugged away (they have 756 pages of stories on their website if you search for it) is all over it. Well except the Sun, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, they were still stoically ignoring the story and managed to until pretty much the end of the week.

At the moment everyone is a little bit upset. Some for getting caught, some because the paper has done a very bad thing. Many are pissy because they have been ignored and information in the public domain was swept under the carpet. You know how we were all so surprised when we heard that the NotW has paid Policemen for stories, well this had already been admitted by Rebecca Brooks, former editor of the NotW and now chief executive of New international, in 2003 when giving evidence to a commons committee, you can see it here, see how Andy Coulson jumps in, it's very funny.

Anyway these things aren't really my point, what I want to know is, what will change? These criminal offences were ignored by the Police, the press (not the Guardian) and MP's until they thought the public would be upset by them (I'm still not convinced that a lot of them (the public) are, they just want juicy stories about anyone and everyone and do not care from whence they come, why else do they buy the NotW in the first place, or The People or the Star on Sunday for that matter?).

During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday Ed “champion of the people unless they want to strike” Milliband called on Mr Cameron to start a public inquiry, Dave said “better than that we can have 2, one for the paper and one for the police.” Well that is top we all thought but then he want and ruined it all. As soon as he announced the inquires he attempted to delay them. He said that they couldn't go ahead until the police have finished the investigations. The work of the police is going to take a long time. A very long time. Many months, possible years when you consider the huge number of people who now seem to be involved on both sides of the legal fence, those who have wronged and those who have been wronged, possible up to 4000 people.

 At Friday’s press conference He went further saying that there should be an independent judge appointed to carry out the investigations but again was a little hazy on the timings seem to make the same point again about the police finishing their investigations.

  Now, if he was claiming this was some sort of legal thing he is wrong, here is Geoffrey Robertson QC's interview on the BBC here. So was he misinformed or is he playing for time hoping that everyone will be back to ignoring the problem as they were before? My guess would be the second one. No one a apart from the Guardian and a very small number of MPs cared before the Milly Dowler stuff and I would imagine that that will be the state to which they return after their initial righteous and hypocritical anger has subsided. Who will care about the results of an inquiry 3 years after an event that no one can remember much about anyway?

Rupert Murdoch too seems to think that it will all go away as well, he isn't waiting for any investigations and has backed Ms Brooks in a statement and so did his son and heir James. Why keep her? Well, she could be seen as a firewall or lighting rod. The focus of anger and bile is Rebecca Brooks, not James Murdoch the man chosen to take over the running of News Corp when Murdoch Snr retires. She protects him. He is a direct link between News International, the Parent company of the NotW and News Corp. And he seems to need protecting as well. The first people who have bought legal proceedings against the NotW have mostly been rich and famous. The paper has settled out of court paying large sums to the complainants in return for their silence. The person who has to sign off on these payments is James Murdoch. So it is likely that he has known for quite a while what has been going on, for instance they paid £700,000 to  PFA chief executive Graham Taylor in 2009 in exchange for his silence. So she’s not going to loose her job over this, after this blows over she may leave but her pay off will be massive, the only way she will be bought to book is by the police investigation but she should be fine, after all she was on holiday.

Then on Thursday evening I went down stairs to have my dinner, when I came back upstairs less than an hour later a very odd thing had happened, News International had killed the News of the World. The paper that makes about £900 million per year and supports the Times and the Sunday Times, which loose money, was no more. The reasoning behind the decision is rather odd to fathom and has cost 200 people their jobs, it does give you an insight into the mentality within the company. Save the boss but dispense with 200 people who had nothing to do with the scandal.

Some have seen it as little more than a rebranding exercise as TheSunonSunday.co.uk domain name was registered on Tuesday but there are also other options.

News International is in the process of trying to buy BSKYB which makes even more money the NotW did and it’s profits are predicted to go up. The UK government was supposed to making a decision this week on whether to let the takeover happen. All indications were that it was going to be waved though but then this happened. There were to things that could have held it up, 1, the Government could stop it if they felt it might reduce UK media plurality ie one person owning too much. Some felt that the opportune loosing of a newspaper title would show that News Crop doesn’t own too much. Although this makes very little difference because yes there is one less Murdoch controlled paper but there is also one less paper for people to buy. The second thing that could stop the take over is the UK media regulator OFCOM. One of the duties with which they are charged is to make sure that those that own media companies in the UK are, to use the rather 50’s establishment lingo, Right and proper and the owner of the News of the World with all these allegations floating round couldn’t really be described like that. So he killed it, mercilessly with only one thing in mind, profit. OFCOM do seem to mumbling something about looking into the deal but aren’t saying a frat deal.

Another possibility for the publishing equivalent of a trip to Dignitas was put forward by the Mediafile blog on the Reuters website. According to Alison Frankel who has the legend  The views expressed are her own under her name, says Quote “Rupert Murdoch’s soon-to-be shuttered tabloid may not be obliged to retain documents that could be relevant to civil and criminal claims against the newspaper—even in cases that are already underway. That could mean that dozens of sports, media, and political celebrities who claim News of the World hacked into their telephone accounts won’t be able to find out exactly what the tabloid knew and how it got the information.” End quote. She quotes British media law Mark Stephens who says if it is happening it quote “is a stroke of genius—perhaps evil genius.”” End quote. You can read the rest of the post on reuters site, there will be a link in the show notes. Although David Allen Green on the Specator website disagrees with this.

Channel 4 news reported on Thursday evening that a News International employee had contacted a storage company in India to ask them to destroy data, this request was refused. The Guardian are reporting the Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive

Who else could/Should/might have been able to do anything? What, say,  can the Press Complaints Commission do? Well very little now that the paper doesn't exist any more but even if it still did, they have already investigated the NotW and in 2009 found nothing untoward apart from the 2 people who were already in prison. They have since withdrawn that report because they think that some people may have lied to them but on radio4 today program the Head of the PCC refused to say who but they have no legal powers so they cannot compel those appearing before them to tell the truth or, when they find that a publisher has done something wrong, enforce any serious form of sanction, after all the paper has made it’s money long before the PPC tells it to print a tiny apology on page 15. It is also a body voluntarily set up by the papers to stop the government setting up its own regulator that is staffed by paper people and funded by the papers and there is no obligation for the papers to by part of it. They can just walk away as the Express has done. It is, as Ed Miliband described it, a toothless poodle.

So I ask again, what will change? No senior News international or News Corp staff seem to be in danger of loosing their jobs, the PPC can’t do anything and the public inquiries will just show that our press is a bit corrupt. The police are in bed with the press and are reluctant to investigate them. Our Politicians join them in that bed. MP’s are scared of the press, specifically the Murdoch’s papers, and want to keep them sweet. Like the banker’s before them I don’t think that our print media are that scared by the rhetoric because they know that the only ones with the power to change anything need them on side, if they alter the status quo they are on their own.