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| − | '''The News Of The World''' is a British Sunday tabloid [[newspaper]] published by the [[News Corporation]]. Its stock-in-trade is celebrity gossip, salacious tittle-tattle, sensationalised crime stories, and sport | + | '''The News Of The World''' is a British Sunday tabloid [[newspaper]] published by the [[News Corporation]]. Its stock-in-trade is celebrity gossip, salacious tittle-tattle, sensationalised crime stories, and sport. |
| + | The paper has recently become embroiled in a number of scandals relating to paying police officers for information and hacking into the phones of celebrities and politicians. The ongoing scandal deepened in July 2011 when it was alleged that a private investigator working for the paper had hacked into the voice-mail of the families of dead UK soldiers as well as the families of victims of high profile crimes. The most disturbing allegation relates to the case of a murdered British girl, and that the investigator hacked into the girl's phone while she was missing, not only listening to her messages, but also deleting them. This gave the family false hope that she was still alive, and potentially obstructed the ongoing police investigation. <ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012035/News-World-phone-hacking-Even-war-widows-hackers-hit-list.html</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 23:29, July 6, 2011
The News Of The World is a British Sunday tabloid newspaper published by the News Corporation. Its stock-in-trade is celebrity gossip, salacious tittle-tattle, sensationalised crime stories, and sport.
The paper has recently become embroiled in a number of scandals relating to paying police officers for information and hacking into the phones of celebrities and politicians. The ongoing scandal deepened in July 2011 when it was alleged that a private investigator working for the paper had hacked into the voice-mail of the families of dead UK soldiers as well as the families of victims of high profile crimes. The most disturbing allegation relates to the case of a murdered British girl, and that the investigator hacked into the girl's phone while she was missing, not only listening to her messages, but also deleting them. This gave the family false hope that she was still alive, and potentially obstructed the ongoing police investigation. [1]