ShortHand: Phone Hacking & News International

Murdered schoolgirls, victims of terrorist attacks, the Royal Family – no one was safe from News International.

While invading privacy is hardly a tabloid taboo, the level to which Rupert Murdoch’s media machine was willing to snoop is somehow still shocking. This week’s ShortHand is everything you need to know about the culture of bribery and phone hacking which propped up a ‘Golden Age’ of tabloid news.

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqtQAmKVg7I
https://www.theguardian.com/media/phone-hacking
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7576/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/11/29/background-the-leveson-inquiry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FScwqNOFfQY&ab_channel=ABCNewsIn-depth

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