It seems that the News Of Rhe World has started owning up to the hacking of the mailboxes of public figures and no doubt there is much more to this story yet to emerge> From what can be gathered it would seem that other newspapers beyond the Murdoch empire were for many a long year involved in similar dubious practices and it is to be hoped that those involved in phone hacking for other media outlets will also be put under the spotlight of their peers.
The British press hassome record of good work in the feild of investigative journalism down the years from the work of the Sunday Times Insight team in the 1960s to the role of the Daily Telegraph in exposing the MPs expenses scandal in more recent times and genuine investigative work carried out to expose wrongding in the public interest often requires unorthodox methods. Its not possible to cite public interest when you are hacking phone mailboxes merely to satisfy the manufactured public appetite for celebrity gossip.
Having seen the destructive power of the press at work in some of the events that lead up to the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial I hope that those currently being offered a payoff by the News Of The Woeld will reject such offers and persue the matter through thre courts to find out where the trail of responsibility leads. Perhaps a full exposure of the phone hacking scandal will perhaps put some of the media back to persuing genuine investigative journalism rather then the easy way of filling their pages by building celebrities up to bring them down by any method available.
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