murdoch tabloid closes after phone tapping scandal

8/6/2019 Murdoch Tabloid Closes After Phone Tapping Scandal

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MURDOCH TABLOID CLOSES AFTER

PHONETAPPING SCANDAL!

1. What were the crimes of The News of The World?

2. What did the popularity of Rupert Murdochs tabloids say about sections

of British society (the NOTW had 2,500,000 readers)?

3. Is News International right to close down this newspaper?
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notwsouvenir


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QUESTIONS

1. Why was former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown angered by thejournalistic practices of The News of the World?

How can you justify the decision to print such a story about Browns family?

2. Who hacked the phones of members of the British Royal Family?What hacked message did The News of the World hear involving Prince

William and Prince Harry?

How can you justify the decision to print such a story about the Royal

Family?

3. Why did the News of the World hack into the voicemail of teenagerMilly Dowler?

What did they do to her messages?

How can you justify the decision to hack into her phone?

4. Why was British man Iain Armstrong attacked by a mob of people?What role did the News of the World play in the attack?

How can you justify the newspapers decision to name and shame convictedpaedophiles?

5. Why has a Facebook and Twitter page been created by a group called

Boycott News International? What are their hopes and intentions?


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EX PM GORDON BROWN ACCUSES NEWSINTERNATIONAL OF ACCESSING PRIVATE

INFORMATION

EVIDENCE 1.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused News International

newspapers today of accessing private information about himself and his

family. He said he and his wife were "in tears" after being told by the Sun

that it was going to publish a story about their son's cystic fibrosis. Brown

said: "I just can't understand this - if I, with all the protection and all the

defences and all the security that a prime minister, (has), then what

about ordinary citizen? Mr Brown said he could not think of any legitimatemeans by which the Sun could have got hold of details of his four-month-old

son Fraser's cystic fibrosis in 2006. "They will have to explain

themselves," he told the BBC. "I can't think of any way that the medical

condition of a child can be put into the public arena legitimately unless the

doctor makes a statement or the family makes a statement. "I make no

claims, but the fact of the matter is that I had my bank accounts broken

into, I had my lawyers' files effectively blagged, my tax returns went

missing at one point.

Source

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/07/12/gordon-brown-accuses-news-international-of-ac

cessing-his-family-s-private-information-115875-23266300/


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EVIDENCE 2.

TABLOID EDITOR SACKED IN UK ROYAL FAMILY

PHONE-TAPPING SCANDAL

Charged: Clive Goodman, left. Telephone messages from Prince William

(right) to Prince Harry, middle, were among those allegedly intercepted

Senior News of the World journalist Clive Goodman was charged last night

over the Royal phone hacking scandal. The paper's 48-year-old royal editor

was charged with eight offences of unlawfully intercepting communicationsby access to telephone voicemail between January 3 and May 30 this year.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, 35, was charged with the same offences.

The pair are also charged with conspiring to access telephone voicemail

messages.

The charges were announced as it emerged that Prince William's intimate

messages to his girlfriend Kate Middleton and brother Harry are believed to

have been intercepted. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, footballers and

showbusiness stars are all thought to have been targeted by eavesdroppers.While the scope of the (investigation) . voicemail messages involving the

Royal Family and their staff are still at its centre. In one message to his

brother, William mocked the South African accent of Harry's girlfriend

Chelsy Davy to reprimand him over his late-night antics in a lapdancing bar.

He told Harry: 'It's Chelsy. How could you? I see you had a lovely time

without me. But I miss you so much, you big ginger, and I want you to know I

love you.'

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How A Murdered Schoolgirl's Hacked Voicemail May Cost

Murdoch His British Ambitions

Murdoch's paper The News of the World has been accused of hacking into the voicemail of

Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old schoolgirl who went missing in 2002. It was discovered later

that she was sexually assaulted then murdered. Allegedly, after the tabloid hacked into

Milly's voicemail, they then went onto delete messages when the mailbox became full. Not

only did they destroy evidence, including messages left in the time surrounding Milly's

disappearance, but when friends and relatives realized the mailbox was no longer full, theythought the schoolgirl may still be alive.

Here's why this matters for Murdoch:

The Milly Dowler murder trial only recently finished, and may be one of themost

prominent murder trialsin the last 10 years in the UK. The Dowler family are hugely

sympathetic victims.

All the major British broadsheet papers, evenThe Times of London(owned by

Murdoch), ran with the story on their front page. Prime Minister David Cameron has

said that if true, the hacking was a "truly dreadful act."

Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's right-hand lady, was editor of the News of the World

at the time. This is the first time Brooks has been implicated in any phone-hacking

cases. Brooks is Chief Executive of News International, News Corp's British wing.

Murdoch is in the middle of the takeover of British satellite TV monopoly BSkyB, a

move already fraught with controversy. Attempts are now underway tohalt the

takeover.

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Mob mistakes man for sex abuser

A mob has attacked the home of a man after mistaking him for one of the paedophiles

"named and shamed" by a Sunday newspaper. Iain Armstrong, 49, of Bradford, Greater

Manchester, was confronted by residents who thought he was a child abuser named by The

News of the World following of the murder of eight-year-old Sarah

Payne.

Police said a panic button had been installed in Mr Armstrong's house out

of fears for his safety. It was activated at 2100 GMT on Sunday after a

brick was thrown through the window of a neighbouring property.

The News of the World's decision to publish its list of known child

abusers has already been condemned amid fears it will encourage such

vigilante attacks on both convicted paedophiles and innocent people.

'Irresponsible reaction'

When police arrived at the man's house, they found a crowd of 12 women and children on

the street outside.

No one was arrested for the damage and the mob dispersed after being spoken to by

officers.

It was believed that the women thought Mr Armstrong was Peter Smith, 60, of

Warrington who was pictured in Sunday's The News of the World wearing a similar

neck brace.

Yesterday's incident

demonstrates how people

with no connections tothese stories can become

victims

Asst Chf Con Alan Green

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/849098.stm


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Phone hacking: Twitter campaign calls for

News Corp boycott (July 11th)

Thousands of online protestors usedFacebookandTwitterto urge others

not to buy The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times or even to watch Sky.

One Facebook group called Boycott News International, which boasts nearly

8,000 members, insisted its members should refuse to buy the companys

newspaper titles. It added that cancelling subscriptions to Sky would also

send a clear message to the troubled 80-year-old chairman.

Meanwhile, a similar twitter campaign registered the domain name

boycottmurdoch.comyesterday, with the intention of creating a site to

bring anti-Murdoch campaigners together for effective action. Its home

page claimed the media moguls companies propagate a false image of the

world, exaggerate news stories, and spin an agenda which fits Murdochs

business interests.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8630639/Phone-hacki

ng-Twitter-campaign-calls-for-News-Corp-boycott.html
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