Some interesting videos on this include
Steve Coogan versus Paul McMullan on Newsnight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ5qs_140U&list=UU81n6d134ms0
Hugh Grant versus John Gaunt on Question Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4g1Jl1tPE&list=UU0AEDtNn-1lM
Tom Watson MP in the Commons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wl7L3ntAo8
Chris Bryant MP in the Commons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZB_uzc5ZgQ
The Guardian has been making the running on this one; all of its stories are at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking and some of the choicer ones that I've used in this video are at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/08/phone-hacking-emails-news-in...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/news-of-the-world-closure-tw...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/news-of-the-world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/07/phone-hacking-ne...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/09/murdoch-empire-exposed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/08/news-of-the-world-phone...
The News of the World's leader that I mentioned:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/_news/nolnews_opinion/nolopinion_no...
Timeline at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_phone_hacking_affair
Also from Wikipedia, background to Operations Weeting and Elveden (phone-hacking and police corruption respectively):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weeting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Elveden
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner's statement:
http://content.met.police.uk/News/Statement-from-Commissioner/1260269177...
More information on Milly Dowler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly_Dowler
The quote at the beginning is from Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, VI 17: "Oh what a tangled web we weave/when at first we practise to deceive!"
The quote at the end is from Julius Caesar, I ii: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings"
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Bossman103
Sun, 07/17/2011 - 01:02
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History of bad things
You have to remmeber news of the world has hiostory of doing bad things like Piers Morgan tipping shares in companies his papers hasd shares in. YWe knew about the phone hacking from private eye. Only now when its victims of crime. The ethics of murodck is suspectr I just feel he should haven had his hide fed to himj long ago
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