* Cracked, really, but who really pays attention to the difference?
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Murdoch under pressure to contain phone hacking scandal within the UK
Until this week, the phone hacking story was largely ignored by the US media and treated as a local British matter. But after the Guardian revealed that NoW had hacked into the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and those of relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, the scandal has caught the imagination of the public and been intensively covered in US newspapers and TV outlets.
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A further indication of the heights to which the scandal is reaching within Murdoch's US headquarters is that he has entrusted two experienced lawyers now sitting on News Corporation's board of directors in New York with key roles in the handling of the crisis. Joel Klein, who until January was in charge of New York city's schools system, the largest in the US, and who now runs News Corp's education programme, has been asked to "provide important oversight and guidance" in the investigation into what happened at NoW. Viet Dinh, like Klein a former assistant attorney general of the US, has been charged with keeping the board informed of any developments.
News of the World axed by News International
Sunday edition of Murdoch's tabloid to be last in the aftermath of political and commercial fallout from phone-hacking scandal
Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking
Coulson, who resigned as [UK Prime Minister] David Cameron's director of communications in January, was contacted on Thursday by detectives and asked to present himself at a police station in central London on Friday, where he will be told that he will be formally questioned under suspicion of involvement in hacking.
News of the World phone hacking: Police review all child abduction cases
Police officers investigating phone hacking by the News of the World are turning their attention to examine every high-profile case involving the murder, abduction or attack on any child since 2001 in response to the revelation that journalists from the tabloid newspaper hacked into the voicemail messages of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
The move is a direct response to the Guardian's exclusive story on Monday that a private investigator working for the News International tabloid, Glenn Mulcaire, caused Milly's parents to wrongly believe she was still alive – and interfered with police inquiries into her disappearance – by hacking into the teenager's mobile phone and deleting messages.
Dead soldiers' families 'hacked'
Mobile phones owned by relatives of UK soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were allegedly hacked by the News of the World.
The Daily Telegraph claims the phone numbers of relatives of dead service personnel were found in the files of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Two unembeddable videos featuring Hugh Grant talking about how he turned the tables to help expose the British Tabloid privacy scandal and, Hugh Grant on being 'hacked', in which he names Rebekah Brooks as the second "senior journalist" to be arrested soon.
Phone-hacking scandal likely marks end of media baron’s control of British politics
For decades, the tabloid newspapers of Britain have determined the political fates of governments left and right and held politicians hostage by threatening to expose their personal lives. It is an awkward and needy relationship, probably the last of its kind in the Western world, that seemed to come crashing to a halt as the House of Commons turned for the first time against the country’s most powerful media mogul.
It was as if a generation of political shame and anxiety exploded in a great catharsis of outrage and vengeance, with MP after MP rising on Wednesday to denounce magnate Rupert Murdoch and his control over their destinies. Tory MP Zac Goldsmith said that the Australian media baron “has systematically corrupted the police and in my view has gelded this Parliament, to our shame.”
Phone-hacking scandal: Ministers and Mr Murdoch
The outlines of the story are familiar enough: it involves a giant media organisation presided over by one of the last great press tycoons, who has ruthlessly played at the boundaries of politics and business. As he grew larger, bolder and more successful, the less people in public life wanted to take him on. This reticence was well-founded, since it now transpires that his company retained criminals on the payroll to dig the dirt on anyone and everyone.
It is this power and dominance that ties the phone-hacking (and worse) with the imminent decision of the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, over whether to allow Mr Murdoch to become still more powerful and dominant. It is obvious to most people who have followed the sordid twists and turns of the phone-hacking saga that it would be extremely undesirable to let Mr Murdoch – who already owns nearly 40% of the national press – to have complete control over a vast broadcasting operation as well. Mr Hunt (and, yesterday, Mr Cameron) repeat that this is a "quasi-judicial" decision and that they must simply follow due process. But, as both the former minister Gerald Kaufman and the former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell argued in the Commons, there is in fact plenty of room for ministerial judgment.
NYT has a timeline:
Anatomy of the Phone-Hacking Scandal
Jan. 2, 1969
Murdoch Buys The News of the World
Ha! Who says the Grey Lady doesn't have a sense of humour?
All the gory details: News of the World phone hacking affair