Of course, Milly Dowler wasn’t the only private citizen whose phone was hacked by News Corporation. You can bet there are many more such shoes to drop.
And so while this one might be hard to top, if history is any indication, one thing you can always bet on: Murdoch’s empire will always show you that you weren’t quite cynical enough about it.
— Further Reading:
Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal. Two stories cover the political, police, and press angles on the News Corp. coverup
The News Corp. Coverup. Memory-impaired execs, payments to key figures, and Keystone Kops
Anybody There? Why the UK’s phone-hacking scandal met media silence
A Times Must-Read on the News Corp. Hacking Scandal
Journalism Scandal at News Corp. A peek into Murdoch’s news culture.
The WSJ ran a big piece on it today, including news that Coulson's emails have been turned over to police.
#1 Posted by Ajay, CJR on Wed 6 Jul 2011 at 09:10 AM
Murdoch and employees makes Wikileaks
look like the best way to understand how the "truth" is
manipulated, one thing for consumption another for extortion.
When Chavez in Venezuela or Morales in Bolivia
complain about the right wing press, and try to restrain the local
rant, by shrinking their licenses, many liberal press folks bleat
"free speech" "free press." Really? How does privatized corporate
press spell "free"?
Most curious, and yet unexplained, is how tabloids that rage right wing slush
are read by such an intelligent democratic public in the
advanced and informed capitalist countries? Must be
the junk food they eat maybe it's the educational system,
how about the banks and the stock market, maybe the moon
is in retrograde. No,it's due to glacial melt and sea level rise.
#2 Posted by rgdavis, CJR on Tue 19 Jul 2011 at 03:13 AM