This morning Rupert Murdoch is being linked to a scandal in the UK (where he owns the News of the World and The Sun) that’s much bigger than a leaked Wolverine tape. The Guardian reports:
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
What were they hoping to hide exactly? The suppressed evidence from three cases that revealed that journalists were “using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills.”
Expect a thorough (and well-deserved) witch hunt and plenty of coverage of this story in The Daily News. The full story from the Guardian, including the names of some powerful organizations this could spell trouble for here.
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