Friday, July 15, 2011

Rebekah Brooks Resigns

How the mighty have fallen. Via the Guardian.

The tide began to turn on Brooks two weeks ago when the Guardian revealed that not only had messages been intercepted on Dowler's voicemail but they had been deleted to make way for new messages, giving her parents false hope that she was still alive.

By Wednesday the question was — did the News of the World get any scoop without hacking into phones, with allegations that it had also snooped on 7/7 victims and Afghan soldiers' families? A scandal that had previously been confined to celebrities and politicians was now threatening to engulf Murdochs' entire newspaper operation, with police confirming that there could be as many as 4,000 victims of the hacking.

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