Rising Hegemon
But maybe, just maybe, the actions of Murdoch's minions have finally gone too far.
In 2002 a teenage English girl Milly Dowler disappeared -- News of the World Reporters tapped into her telephone messages during the police investigation. Bad enough, but that is not all:
News of the World journalists intercepted – and deleted – the voice-mail messages of Milly Dowler.
The messages were deleted by journalists in the first few days after Milly's disappearance in order to free up space for more messages. As a result friends and relatives of Milly concluded wrongly that she might still be alive. Police feared evidence may have been destroyed.
If there's a low-class act of faux journalism to be performed in this world it has Murdoch's fingers all over it.
Yet, magically, the malfeasance never gets reported here.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
4 comments:
Yeah, they sell their virtue for nickels and give change, but there could be a verdict in the Casey Anthony trial today.
so why is Murdoch's rag not shut down after this? Interfering in a police investigation, illegal wiretapping, destroying evidence, ect... from the sounds of that story, it wasn't just pols or celebrities they were wiretapping, it was everybody they thought might provide some kind of story for their rag...
hiring private detectives to dig up dirt consisted of their entire 'investigations'... they weren't engaged in journalism of any sort, they were involved in snooping, spying, and being stalkers and peeping Toms....
I used to wonder why right-wingers would say/do such cruel, stupid, bigoted things.
Then I finally realized that it's because they are cruel, stupid, bigoted people.
indeed. sue them to the poorhouse. prison for rupert. and these 'reporters'.
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