Ethics and defamation, Murdoch styleThe stories about the apparent lack of knowledge by senior editorial executives at the Murdoch empire’s News of the World of how their paper obtained stories gets more remarkable by the day, writes Richard Farmer.
Phone tapping
Phone tapping in the Top End: a loophole in the law, or just a ‘beat-up’?
NT police asked the NT News to reveal its sources of information about a specific leak from a serving officer in relation to a raid on the home of Darwin lord mayor Graham Sawyer. They declined. But there are worrying implications.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: connecting the dots on News Corp phone-tapping
“This whole business of phone tapping, personally I’d be astonished if anything like the reality of it comes out, because there’s too many powerful people that will suffer if the truth comes out.”
News phone hacking: Beeb under threat from all angles
With the BBC battling to convince government that it is cost-effective while being mauled by the Murdoch press, an attack on Coulson - a man who has been at the heart of both organisations - isn’t in the corporation’s immediate interest, writes Oliver Milman.
James Murdoch agreed to phone-hacking pay-off
James Murdoch personally agreed to a £700,000 out-of-court settlement for a victim of the News of the World’s phone-tapping exploits, according to the paper’s editor Colin Myler.
More coverage
- GUARDIAN: Beyond the page-7 lead
- POLITICS.CO.UK: Hacking away
FIRST POST: Coulson lives to spin another day
Crikey Clarifier: Crikey Clarifier: phone tapping
Following the News of the World phone-tapping controversy in the UK, Crikey questioned Private Investigator Warren Mallard on just how common phone tapping is, and how it’s done.
