Too close to home?

So the News of the World is to close.  Apparently its own readership was turning against it.  I think the tipping point was the revelation that the list of people whose 'phones may have been hacked went well beyond the rich and famous and included many ordinary people who just happened for whatever reason to be potentially newsworthy, if only temporarily (remember Andy Warhol's "fifteen minutes of fame"?).  It's a bit hypocritical, but as long as the paper's "exposés" were of politicians, sportspersons and other celebrities, then that was OK but as soon as the readership realised that they themselves could well end up being victims, they started to jump ship.