He might have been expected to e-mail staff at the Sun about his plans for the tabloid after senior members of its staff were …
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U.K. Hacking Scandal: Has the Smoking Gun Been Found?
If Britain’s hacking scandal were a Hollywood thriller—and perhaps the most predictable outcome of this tangled saga is that it will be—the audience would be left guessing until a few seconds before the credits rolled which characters to believe. Should they take the word of a world famous tycoon and his clean-cut son? Give …
Fallout of U.K. Hacking Scandal Reaches 10 Downing Street
It was the kind of tip-off that Andy Coulson would have appreciated in his days at the News of the World. As news broke that the title was to close, a source told the Guardian that the former editor of the tabloid was to be arrested by police investigating allegations of hacking and reports that the News of the World made hefty—and …
Macabre Tabloid Hacking Scandal May Finally Force British Newsrooms to Come Clean
UPDATE: Car manufacturer Ford has suspended its advertising with the News of the World pending the outcome of an inquiry into the latest hacking allegations.
They moralize endlessly, but Britain’s tabloid newspapers are notoriously relaxed when it comes to their own moral code. Even so, claims that Glenn Mulcaire, a private …