The journalist who brought down a newspaper
14 July 2011, SMH
This article talks about the Rupert Murdoch "News of the World" Scandal and how he was eventually caught out by Guardian journalist Nick Davies. It all started in 2005 when a story about Prince William suffering a knee injury was published, this raised questions because the only way for this information to be found out would be to listen to the Princes phone messages. The police were asked to investigate, in the end two men working for News of the World were jailed in 2007. But questions were still being asked when it was made obvious that Rupert "Murdoch's papers had paid out more than £1 million to settle lawsuits involving allegations of hacking into phone messages, as well as illegally accessing tax records, social security files and bank statements of politicians, actors and sports stars." The interest in this story declined until very recently when this scandal took shape and it was revealed that News of the World had hacked into the phone of a 13 year old murder victim. This re-sparked the police investigation into her murder because the hackers had been deleting messages.
This article relates to what we have ben learnig in commerce because it is a perfect example of unethical activity. It is a British digrace and a huge embarrisment to many people. It was bad enough that News of the World were hacking celebrities phones to make a bit of money, but hacking a murder victims phone is very low of them. This is something that will hopefully never happen again.
