On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:32:32 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > [3rd random OT factoid] > The News Of The World was a British tabloid, which shut down after the > phone hacking scandal - a lot of their stories were obtained by hacking > into celebrities, politicians, royals voicemails, and while it was very > hard to prove it was also blatantly obvious that journalists were acting > under pressure, if not actual orders, from the very top.
This had been going on for years, and not just the NotW, but even though the allegations were made no one really cared. Then they were accused of hacking the voicemail of a murdered teenager and suddenly it mattered. Of course, the paper didn't really close down, it was almost immediately relaunched under a different name. -- Neil Bothwick "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." (Albert Einstein)
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