10 July 2011

Oh my goodness! Can it get any worse than this? I suspect it can!

News of the WorldYou will all recollect the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, one of Rupert Murdoch’s News International titles. Clearly, the attempted cover-up has not succeeded and the story has been blown wide open this week with such a force and pace that it’s difficult for a poor befuddled weekly periodical such as the Befouled Weakly News to keep pace. I don’t imagine there will have been quite so much coverage in countries other than the UK so I’ll try to provide a potted update of the latest developments. For fuller details have a look at the Guardian’s coverage. Continue reading “10 July 2011”