#368 | Britain's Tabloid Culture: A Love-Hate Relationship
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The Phone Hacking Scandal
In 2005, allegations emerged that journalists from the News of the World were hacking into people's voicemails to get information for stories. After intense political and legal pressure, the news of the world eventually closed down in 2011 costing Rupert Murdoch a reported £100 million in legal costs. But it would turn out that there was no depth the tabloids would not stoop to,. No limits they had in order to get a scoop, get a story before their rivals. And this went far deeper than Celebrity Gossip. The elite Dower was a 13-year-old British girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002. It emerged years later that reporters had hacked her voicemails after she had
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