For the last two months we have watched a feeding frenzy in the media about the story of phone hacking by British reporters. The big story line centered around the News Of the World, a British paper owned by News Corp. Things got so bad that the paper was closed down, the chariman of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before Parliament, and the Cameron government was thrown off balance since a former NOTW editor had been Cameron's press spokesman for a while. In America, the barrage against News Corp. which owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal (among other properties) has also been fierce. Two Democrat senators have called for an investigation to see whether or not the company had hacked the phones of 9-11 survivors. The FBI, of course, complied and began to investigate. And this happened without any evidence that any 9-11 related entity had been hacked.
Now the other shoe has dropped. Paul McCartney's former wife has come forward to relate how her phone was hacked by the Mirror, another London paper. This one, however, is completely unrelated to News Corp. Indeed, it is the paper that CNN's Piers Morgan used to head as editor. Piers, of course, has denied that his paper ever hacked anything or anyone. There is for Piers, however, the annoying problem that a few years ago he made a statement that seemed to admit that he knew that there had been hacking of that sort at the paper. My guess is that Piers will now announce that he was hypnotised by Murdoch and forced to hack cell phones.
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