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Rupert Murdoch

The public inquiry according to the phone hacking scandal of the “News of the World” released a report concluding that Murdoch “exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications,” and stated that he was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” A state of incompatibility for running one of the biggest international newspapers.

Colin Myler with the last issue of "News of The World"

The News of the World (1843-2011, also known as “News of the Screws”) was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world. As sunday edition of the „Sun“ it also concentrated on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Since 2006 allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. With Today’s investigations it is certain, that more than 7.000 people had their phones hacked by the News of the World. According to a former reporter at the paper, “Everyone knew. The office cat knew,” about the illegal activities used to scoop stories.

In early 2011 The Guardian reported that Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator paid by the paper, testified that he had been asked by the newspaper’s leadership to hack voicemail accounts on its behalf. It was later revealed that News of the World reporters had accessed Milly Dowler voicemail while she was reported missing and was later found murdered. Police detectives discovered their journalists had deleted some messages – potential evidence – in Dowler’s voicemail box because it was full, thus freeing up space for new messages, which they could listen to.

The resulting outcry from the British public contributed to the closure of the newspaper and led to a range of investigations and inquiries into phone hacking and media ethics, and not just at the News of the World. The last edition of the “News of the Screws” was published on the 10.th of july 2012.

In the paper’s final editorial, the unsigned statement says that “Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry... there is no justification for this appalling wrongdoing.” This more than bad excuse, which can’t be taken serious shows the incompatibility of this newspaper or rather questions the ethic and methods of research in gerneral.

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