Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Gee, I wonder where Breitbart, the disenfranchised Republican scandal artist, received his information?

LONDON—News Corp.'s tabloid reporting scandal (click title to entry - thank you) continued to swell, as allegations about the possible hacking of phones related to dead teenagers and victims of terror attacks unleashed public outrage and placed the company's top U.K. newspaper executive in the hot seat.

News Corp. has been under pressure for several years amid investigations into the use of a private detective by its News of the World tabloid to break into the mobile-phone voice mail of celebrities and political leaders.

Public rebuke of the company reached a new level this week with the allegation that, in 2002, the paper used the same tactic to access the voice mail of an abducted 13-year-old girl who, it turned out, had been murdered. ...


Major companies (click here) have begun withdrawing advertisements from this Sunday's News of the World in the face of a campaign to boycott the tabloid over the alleged phone hacking scandal....