Weekly newspaper News of the World’s mass media magnate Rupert Murdoch in London, England, on Sunday, July 10, 2011, declared to be “end of life”, after the Western Europe region recorded is 168 years old.

The history of the press or mass media noted that the closure or not the publication of information The News of the World which has a circulation of 2.7 million copies for ever was announced by the son of Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch.

Actions weekly newspaper owner News of the World to end the “lifetime” of the print media inviting sighed in amazement, and even misunderstanding the question mark whether it is for lay people or community media. However, it is also not impossible, cause tremendous admiration from the mass media community for their courage and accountability temperament Murdoch on newspapers and journalists and editors themselves.

Hacking and phone tapping scandal by members of the editor of the News of the World in the period 2003 – 2007 has involved Andy Coulson, the former communications director at the Office of the Prime Minister of Britain, David Camerron. In fact, the former chief editor of the News of the World the period 2000 – 2002 named Rebekah Brooks, who is now the CEO – News International, parent company News of the World, dragged into the scandal of the British mass media because he is considered to know hacking and wiretapping conducted journalists.

In 2007 the British Parliament had summoned the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) News International, Les Hinton is also the right hand of Rupert Murdoch for questioning, whether he has conducted an internal investigation in the News of the World organization and whether he believed fully that there was only one journalist involved in this case.

Now four years have passed, the newspaper the “Guardian” in detail reveal the scandal wiretaps conducted the News of the World which contains such information in a comprehensive defense of the reporter whose name is mentioned by Hinton in front of the British parliament that creep involves the names of two editors and the News of the World named Rebekah Brooks (formerly Rebekah Wade) and Andy Coulson.

Another British paper, The Daily Telegraph carried a report originating from families of British soldiers who died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan who are victims of hacking and phone tapping.

Weekly newspaper the Sunday Telegraph also revealed that the action of the wiretapping of telephone voice mailbox is alleged to have illegally often done even become “standard practice” to obtain special and exclusive information from a particular news source.

The Daily Telegraph also issued a proclamation which indicates the involvement of the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to seek information from the British soldiers who died to be loaded in the News of the World. Finally, private detective and a journalist News of the World has been jailed for hacking and phone-tapping proven British royal aides to obtain information about the story of Prince William’s knee injury.

British police tapping action Mulcaire imitate smb. ‘S movements, which was also made to the news sources like the other politicians, celebrities and victims of the London bombings in July 2005.

Disclosure of the action hack and tap made News of the World invites reactions and anger of Veterans British Legion organizations who feel unethical if the family of British soldier killed in Iraq was being followed and tapped his phone lines, decided not to cooperate with the News of the World let alone put announcements or advertisements in the newspaper.

Veteran British Legion’s statement was immediately followed by a statement the same attitude of some multinational companies in the UK not to advertise in the mass media network owned by Murdoch’s group.

Murdoch, who is now 80 years old had announced himself the appointment of Joel Klein, who heads News Corp., which oversees News International Network for the investigation of hacking and wiretapping scandals of this. And beyond the financial losses caused by the News of the World have killed his own lifetime as the print media that have been aged 168 years,

Murdoch also openly and honestly dare firmly and clearly recognize that hacking and phone tapping, including the purchase of information by a reporter from the London Metro Police’s actions “reprehensible and unacceptable”.

The story or the case must be an end to the lifetime of the print media the News of the World in the UK who have aged 168 years by the owner himself is an accountability group to all victims of Murdoch’s actions “reprehensible and unacceptable” from reporters, editors and leaders as well as print media owners News of the World.

There are aspects of media ethics and the legal effect of the act of hacking and illegal wiretapping conducted the News of the World reporter named Clive Goodman and Andy Coulson as editor or editorial director should also be responsible for approving the purchase of information from the London Metro police, this is a new element in the practice of investigative journalism that is not unusual.

The decision as chief editor Andy Coulson to approve hacking and wiretapping, approve the purchase of information and hired a private investigator Glenn Mulcaire investigative journalism does imply character (journalistic investigations) are categorized as “reprehensible and unacceptable” because the investigation is not conducted solely by the News of the World but use the services of private detectives and buying information leads the London police.

In the context of the journalistic code of ethics British reporter (also reporter Indonesia), the ethics of the media and the impact or consequences of the case law of the News of the World already contained in it, because of the code of ethics and legal consequences can be said the privacy rights of the victims of hacking and wiretapping has been taken forced to support the birth of a product which is then “claimed” as the journalistic performance.

Such situations illustrate how temperament media (media behavior) has hit the fence ethics of the media (media ethics), so in a language and pendappat jurnalisnik Emeritus professor of the University of Missouri, Colombia, named John Calhoun Merrill in the foreword to the book “An Ethics Trajectory, Visions of Media Past, Present and Yet to Come “(John M Kittross, 2007) that cases like the News of the World and its media crew had obviously deliberately ignoring the factors of credibility, seriousness, public interest and information that is ethical.

Information obtained by the News of the World can indeed be classified as a product called investigative reporting, but the process of acquiring information can be categorized as information that is not unethical, even crashing “iron law” violating journalistic ethics by public and private interests of public institutions.

However tindakaan owners and management of mass media News of the World who decided to end the lifetime of the print media is already 168 years old and this is the responsibility of proving the owners and management of the media to receive social sanctions and risk coverage of the investigation that came from the victim of hacking and wiretapping whether the rejection of the presence and existence of the mass media, including not to advertise, announcements and cooperation in this newspaper.

From the end of the age of cases the weekly newspaper News of the World in the UK it seems the mass media community, whether it is an element of management of mass media or journalists, can draw valuable lessons in terms of coverage of the investigation that contains the problem of hacking Dann intercepts as part of the collection of information in the process of product journalism.

The question is whether the collection of information by hiring the services of private detectives and purchase information from the police will be categorized as an act of disgraceful, unacceptable and unlawful? In the universal code of journalistic ethics and professional organizations agreed 29 reporters / journalists / reporters Indonesia, then passed the Press Council in 2006, does not justify such means.

Only, Indonesia including the market potential of hacking and intercepting devices, such as the tactical system monitors the location (Tactical Monitoring and Location System/TMLS-2000) monitoring systems and portable devices and recording conversations (Portable Monitoring & Recording System/PMRS-3) or vandals cellular telephone signal system (GSM Interceptor) that can be purchased directly or in a network (online) on the Internet (online).

However the mass media can be difficult for owner and user (end user) professionals who are legally able to take advantage of hackers and wiretapping devices are.