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By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritish tabloids are infamous for their unorthodox news-gathering methods. But a recent New York Times exposé about a 5-year-old phone-hacking scandal has re-opened questions about the extent of such journalistic practices in the United Kingdom, as well as how effectively the police and the government have worked to block them. At the center of the current tempest is News of The World (NoW), a well-known British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch. Over the course of late 2005 and 2006, the London Metropolitan Police began to investigate claims that the newspaper was hacking into the mobile ...
Report: Top UK Aide Had Royals' Phones Hacked
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Sept. 2) -- The man who now serves as the British prime minister's chief spin doctor allegedly encouraged journalists to illegally hack the phone messages of hundreds of celebrities, government officials and soccer stars while he was editor of a national newspaper, according to an exhaustive investigative report in The New York Times. Andy Coulson -- now communications director for Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party -- was editor of weekly tabloid the News of the World (NoW) when one of his reporters was jailed for illegally accessing phone messages intended for ...
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