Over the last two years this side of the Atlantic has been providing piece after piece of evidence of irregular practices between journalists and private eyes employed on behalf of the newspaper arm of Newscorp in the UK, News International. These activities have been detailed in past diaries here, and have allegedly consisted of phone hacking, Bribery of public officials, bribery of police officers and Military figures. This has resulted in a stream of files being handed by the metropolitan police to the UK’s crown prosecution service,
NewsCorp for it’s part started by insisting that this was just the work of “one rogue journalist” a claim that stretched credulity seeing as the original rogue was a royal reporter, and one of the victims was a football agent. As the Scandal has rolled on, it has become clear that it wasn’t just one rogue reporter, but rather one rogue newspaper, and from there as the investigation progressed, other print arms of the UK business have gradually had their own range of skeletons exposed.
So far the problems have all been confined to one national newspaper group, but it looks like the Companies crisis may be at the point of getting its feet wet and leaping across the Atlantic.
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