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Tabloid's Role In Missing Teen Case Sparks Outrage
by David Folkenflik
NPR News


http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137630993/new-scandal-mires-murdoch-owned-tabloid

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the executive who oversees its British newspapers are under increasing fire as a new and vile twist in the mobile phone hacking scandal has engulfed one of its tabloid newspapers.

This week, the Guardian newspaper alleged that News Corp.'s News of the World — the largest-circulation Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom — paid an investigator to intercept voice mail messages on the mobile phone of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, after her disappearance in 2002.

A man was convicted of killing her in June. But just days after her abduction, as police were scrambling to find Milly, the newspaper's investigator hacked into her phone, according to the Guardian story. Hungry to hear more voice mails that might contain newsworthy information, the investigator erased her messages once her mailbox was full.

That led Dowler's parents to believe she might be deleting her own voice mail messages, and therefore was still alive.

Convinced she was still alive, Milly's parents gave an interview to News of the World.

None of the new allegations has been denied.

The editor at the time was Rebekah Brooks. She's now the top executive at Murdoch's News International, which oversees the tabloid News of the World and the Sun as well as the more prestigious Times of London and the Sunday Times. Now, there are some calls for her resignation. She issued an email to staffers saying it was "inconceivable" she had any knowledge of the events. But some of her journalistic peers and rivals in London say it is hard to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Brooks' signature issue while editor of the News of the World was an anti-**** campaign, so the allegation that her paper interfered with the police inquiry into the abduction of a girl cuts at the heart of her record.

The Guardian story led to widespread condemnation throughout journalistic and political circles and inspired the scheduling of an unusual emergency debate in the House of Commons for Wednesday. Ford Motor Co.'s U.K. division announced it would pull all its advertising from News of the World.

British Prime Minister David Cameron took time at a press conference in Kabul earlier today to denounce the allegations in strong terms.

"If they are true, this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation," Cameron said.

But in noteworthy remarks, the prime minister also took pains to express the independence of Scotland Yard.

"They should feel they should investigate this without any fear — without any favor — without any worry about where the evidence should lead them," Cameron said. "They should pursue this in the most vigorous way that they can in order to get to truth of what happened."

Police officials have been accused of cutting short an earlier investigation because of cozy ties they had with News of the World and other influential Murdoch papers.

In the U.K., major papers are known for attempting to wield political clout — none more so, nor more effectively, than those owned by Murdoch. The conservative Cameron and the former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair each won the support or sympathy of Murdoch's papers en route to 10 Downing Street.

In 2009, after paying a million-pound settlement to keep details of a similar hacking incident quiet, the company blamed a few bad apples and condemned the Guardian as a rival playing dirty for its exposes.

It took a series of lawsuits by celebrities and politicians to breathe fresh life into the scandal.

Past victims of hacking by people employed by the News of the World included the movie star Sienna Miller, Princes William and Harry, soccer stars, Cabinet secretaries and members of Parliament. Several MPs told the BBC they were fearful enough of the reach of the newspaper's investigators that they held back from supporting more rigorous investigation of the company's practices.

Two men have been jailed — one a private investigator, another a former editor for the tabloid. One of Brooks' former newsroom deputies resigned as Cameron's communications director for his links to the scandal. In April, after several arrests of former journalists, the News of the World finally apologized for hacking into the mobile voice mail messages of politicians and celebrities, and created a fund to pay.

The private investigator involved, Glenn Mulcaire, issued a statement from prison apologizing for his actions and blaming "relentless pressure" from the paper. According to the Guardian, police determined that the mobile phones of parents of two other murdered girls were also hacked by investigators for the News of the World, and investigators are reviewing other high-profile cases.

A spokeswoman for the parent company, News Corp., did not return a request for comment.

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, says British tabloids have always been known for their vigor and cheeky wit. But he argues the decline of newspaper circulation has led to an unseemly chase for celebrity scoops.

"There's something ugly that has taken over in the past 10 years, driven by, I think, a feeling that people in public life didn't deserve any privacy at all," Rusbridger said in an interview with NPR.

Rusbridger noted that this hacking episode interfered with an intense police search for a missing girl and gave her parents false hope she was alive.

"This took it into a new level of revulsion," Rusbridger said.

News International's Simon Greenberg — Brooks' chief spokesman — did not reply to NPR's request for comment, but he told the BBC that the Guardian story represented the first that News International had heard of the Milly Dowler hacking story.

"We're absolutely shocked and appalled by what we read about yesterday," Greenberg told the BBC. "We've absolutely got to establish the facts, to get to the bottom of it. And if they are true, the strongest possible actions will be taken."

I remember hearing about News Corp (owner of Fox News) doing this to several celebs, politicians, and the Royal Family last year.  Sad to see what they've done here.  Its also frightening to see News Corps political influence has previously staved off serious investigation.  It makes me wonder if they aren't already doing in in the US, how long until they try?

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And it only gets worse...

News of the World hacking row escalates
BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14040841

New allegations have emerged of payments to the police as the row around the News of the World escalates.

The paper's owners have passed to the police e-mails which appear to show that payments were authorised by the then editor, Andy Coulson.

It comes as a solicitor representing some of the relatives of people who died in the 7/7 bombings says families may have been victims of hacking.

MPs will hold an emergency debate in the House of Commons later.

BBC business editor Robert Peston said the e-mail disclosure was "a significant development".

He said it had an important political dimension, in that Mr Coulson went on to work for David Cameron as director of communications at 10 Downing Street. Mr Coulson resigned from that post in January.

Our correspondent said it also shows that the police investigation into alleged illicit techniques used by the News of the World to obtain stories goes much wider than an examination of the hacking of mobile phones.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cameron will have returned from Afghanistan to find himself "at the centre of the row about media ethics, the power of the Murdoch empire and his own judgement in hiring Andy Coulson".

The latest developments came after allegations private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, working for the News of the World, hacked the phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler when she was missing.

News International has promised the "strongest possible action" if it is proven Milly's phone was hacked.

Milly Dowler, who was 13, went missing in March 2002 near her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Her remains were found in remote woodland at Yateley Heath in Hampshire six months later.

Nightclub doorman Levi Bellfield was convicted of the murder last month.

The Guardian has claimed Mulcaire intercepted messages left by relatives for Milly while she was missing and that the News of the World deleted some messages it had already listened to in order to make space for more to be left.

In a statement released to the Guardian on Tuesday, Mulcaire made no direct reference to those allegations but apologised "to anybody who was hurt or upset by what I have done".

The parents of murdered Soham girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been contacted by police investigating phone-hacking by journalists.

BBC business editor Robert Peston said police are investigating whether the phone of Jessica's father, Leslie Chapman, was hacked by the press.

Jessica and Holly, both 10, of Soham, Cambridgeshire, were murdered in 2002 by school caretaker Ian Huntley, who was jailed for life.

Clifford Tibber, a solicitor representing some of the relatives of people who died in the 7/7 bombings, said one family had been contacted and told that their phone may have been hacked back in 2005.

Graham Foulkes, whose son David died in the Edgware Road blast, told the BBC he was contacted by officers on Tuesday after his details were found on a list as part of the police inquiry in hacking claims.

Mr Foulkes, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, recalled how his family had waited for a week after the 2005 attacks for news of David.

"My wife and I were kind of all over the place, we were chatting to friends on the phone, in a very personal and deeply emotional context - and the thought that somebody may have been listening to that just looking for a cheap headline is just horrendous."

Meanwhile motor company Ford has announced a halt on advertising in the News of the World, pending the newspaper's investigation and response over the phone-hacking claims.

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has granted an urgent debate into whether there should be a public inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

This follows a call by Labour MP Chris Bryant, who accused the News of the World of "playing God with a family's emotions".

Also on Wednesday, the Media Standards Trust - which aims to promote high news standards within the media - will launch the Hacked Off campaign calling for a public inquiry into "phone hacking and other forms of illegal intrusion by the press".

The Metropolitan Police launched Operation Weeting in January this year after new phone-hacking claims emerged. The force has faced criticism for its initial inquiry in 2006 into phone-hacking at the paper.

That probe led to the convictions and imprisonment of Mulcaire and then News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman in 2007 for conspiracy to access phone messages left for members of the royal household.

A number of alleged phone-hacking victims have since reached out-of-court settlements with the newspaper.

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interesting. we'll have to see.

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The News of the World are scum, and always have been scum. They're the kind of paper who'll dig under any rock for their stories, and the sleazier and more sensationalist the better. if there's a murder or a child kidnapping or something like that, they're normally in the faces of the parents while the kidnapping is still going on offering money for the exclusive rights - sometimes they're not that far behind the police in getting to the house.  

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Originally Posted by Kieran Colfer:
The News of the World are scum, and always have been scum. They're the kind of paper who'll dig under any rock for their stories, and the sleazier and more sensationalist the better. if there's a murder or a child kidnapping or something like that, they're normally in the faces of the parents while the kidnapping is still going on offering money for the exclusive rights - sometimes they're not that far behind the police in getting to the house.  

doesn't the same apply to all "tabloids" over there?

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Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:

doesn't the same apply to all "tabloids" over there?

Pretty much. SOme are worse than others, the News of the World and the Sun are the worst. And the worst part about it is, the style of reporting creates a sort of "feedback loop" where people will behave like animals just to get into the papers. 2 years ago, there was a "child kidnapping" case in the UK where a mother and her boyfriend pretended that her little girl had been kidnapped to make money from the newspapers with the story (was just after the whole Madeline McCann affair). Turns out that they'd drugged her and hidden her under a bed in the boyfriend's flat so that she could be "accidentally" found at a later stage.    

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Tabloids in general are pretty sleazy imo.  Foreign tabloids are notoriously sleezy.  News Corp owns a tabloid and the guy in charge of that particular one is probably just as sleezy and unethical as his competitors.  Doesnt mean anyone at Fox News has anything to do with it.  

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The worst part is how News Corp was able to use its money and political leverage to protect its self in the initial inquiry.

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Originally Posted by Dennis Young:
  Doesnt mean anyone at Fox News has anything to do with it.  

no, but it will be used to discredit them anyway.

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Murdoch to Close Tabloid Amid Fury Over Hacking

LONDON — The weekly tabloid newspaper at the center of the British phone hacking scandal is to be closed after a final, ad-free Sunday edition this weekend.

The abrupt announcement on Thursday from a top official at News Corp., James Murdoch, underscored the devastating effect of allegations that the paper's journalists invaded the voicemail accounts not only of a 13-year-old murder victim but also the relatives of fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The decision was announced so suddenly that the paper, News of the World, was still advertising a subscription deal on its Web site on Thursday.

The new reports of stunning intrusions came a day after Britain’s Parliament collectively turned on Rupert Murdoch, the head of the News Corporation, which owns The News of the World, and the tabloid culture he represents, using a debate about the widening phone hacking scandal to denounce reporting tactics by newspapers once seen as too politically influential to challenge.

The scandal is taking a toll on News Corp., with stock prices falling and new questions about Mr. Murdoch’s proposed $12 billion takeover of the pay-television company British Sky Broadcasting. Many legislators criticized the deal on Wednesday, and Britain’s media regulatory agency, Ofcom, said it was “closely monitoring the situation.”

A decision on the takeover deal had been expected by July 19, after the end of the public comment period on Friday and before Parliament breaks. But Britain’s Culture Ministry has been inundated with comments on the deal, according to news reports, and the review may not be finished until after Parliament breaks July 19, potentially pushing back any decision until September.

Prime Minister David Cameron, whose Conservative Party benefits from Mr. Murdoch’s support, has not yet called for an immediate investigation into behavior by The News of the World and other tabloids. Such an inquiry would have to wait, he said, until the police had concluded their own criminal investigation.

Unease about the phone hacking tactics of some reporters had been growing for months, but the public mood turned to shock and revulsion this week after The Guardian reported that the targets of the voice mail interception — originally presumed to be restricted to the famous — included the phone of Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old schoolgirl abducted and murdered in 2002. Then, new reports said the families of people killed in the July 7, 2005, bombings in the London transit system had also been listened to without their knowledge or permission.

The current head of News Corp. in Britain, Rebekah Brooks, had come under enormous scrutiny, since she was the editor of News of the World during the Dowler case. On Wednesday, a Labour member of Parliament made another startling assertion: that while Ms. Brooks was the News of the World editor, she was confronted with evidence that the paper was using unlawful means to interrupt a murder investigation whose two main suspects had ties to the paper.

The member, Tom Watson, said that senior Scotland Yard officials met with Ms. Brooks in 2002 to alert her of evidence that members of her staff were “guilty of interference and party to using unlawful means to attempt to discredit a police officer and his wife,” so that the officer would be unable to complete a murder investigation. Mr. Watson said the police officials named a senior News of the World executive, Alex Muranchak.

On Thursday, The Guardian reported that Mr. Muranchak had apparently agreed to allow the two murder suspects in the case  to use photographers and vans leased to the paper to spy on Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, the lead detective.

The two men, private investigators named Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery, were suspected of murdering their former partner, Daniel Morgan, who had been killed 15 years earlier. Their targeting of Mr. Cook included following him, his wife, and their children, trying to access his and his wife’s voice mail and obtaining personal details about him from police databases.

Those details were found in the notes of Glenn Mulcaire, an investigator working for News of World whose notebooks were seized by the police and have formed the basis for much of the current criminal investigation into phone hacking.

The Guardian reported that Scotland Yard took no action against News of the World in the case, because its head of media relations, Dick Fedorcio, had a good relationship with Ms. Brooks and wanted “to avoid unnecessary friction with the News of the World.”

On Thursday, after The Daily Telegraph said a private detective working for The News of the World may have hacked into the phones of bereaved families after they were informed of the death of relatives serving with the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Royal British Legion, a veterans’ organization, said that it had dropped the newspaper as its partner in a campaign for improved service conditions. The group said that “bereaved military families expressed revulsion at the latest phone hacking revelations.”

“We can’t with any conscience campaign alongside News of the World on behalf of Armed Forces families while it stands accused of preying on these same families in the lowest depths of their misery,” the group said on its Web site. “The hacking allegations have shocked us to the core.”

In a statement made hours before the announcement that the News of the World would close, a spokesman for News International, which runs the News Corporation’s British newspaper operations, said its “record as a friend of the armed services and of our servicemen and servicewomen is impeccable.”

“If these allegations are true, we are absolutely appalled and horrified,” the spokesman said.

The Times of London, itself a News Corporation newspaper, said five journalists and the newspaper executives suspected of involvement in the scandal were expected to be arrested within days.

The furor is all the more remarkable since the News Corporation, with its ownership of four leading British newspapers, was once widely seen as such a powerful force that politicians and police officers walked in fear of it, fearing its disclosures and courting its support.

But, on Wednesday, from all sides of the House of Commons, the disgust came thick and fast as the legislators recited the most recent allegations against The News of the World: that its executives had paid police officers,  lied to Parliament, hired investigators to intercept voice mail messages left on the cellphones of murdered children and terrorism victims, and, in one instance, tampered with a murder investigation in which the suspects were linked to The News of the World. Legislators also attacked the tabloid news media in general for employing similar tactics.

“We have let one man have far too great a sway over our national life,” said Chris Bryant, a Labour member of Parliament. In addition to The News of the World, Mr. Murdoch’s media holdings include The Times and The Sunday Times of London; The Sun; and a large stake in BSkyB, as it is called, as well as several other international newspapers and television networks.

Zac Goldsmith, another Conservative legislator, said that Mr. Murdoch was guilty of “systemic abuse of almost unprecedented power” and that he had run roughshod over Parliament.

“There is nothing noble in what these newspapers have been doing,” he said. “Rupert Murdoch is clearly a very, very talented businessman — he’s possibly even a genius — but his organization has grown too powerful and has abused that power. It has systematically corrupted the police and in my view has gelded this Parliament, to our shame.”

A number of legislators, including Nicholas Soames, a Conservative, said Wednesday that in light of the recent developments, the government should intervene to delay or even stop Mr. Murdoch’s plan to acquire all the shares of BSkyB.

Before this week, the deal had passed virtually every government hurdle. But Ofcom, the media regulator, said in a statement that it was watching developments in the case, “and in particular the investigations by the relevant authorities into the alleged unlawful activities.”

Many legislators also focused their outrage on Rebekah Brooks, a former News of the World editor who is now News International’s chief executive and a protégée of Mr. Murdoch. She is a close friend of Mr. Cameron’s — the two have country houses near each other and have often socialized — and has been a strong champion of his premiership.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said flatly that Ms. Brooks should resign.

But Ms. Brooks said she would stay put, and on Wednesday her boss, Mr. Murdoch, took the unusual step of issuing a statement on the matter.

Calling the recent allegations involving phone hacking and paying off the police “deplorable and unacceptable,” Mr. Murdoch pledged that the company would “fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations.” He added: “That is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks’s leadership.”

He said that Joel I. Klein, the former New York City schools chancellor and current head of the News Corporation’s education unit, would “provide important oversight and guidance” in the company’s response to the investigations.

In a separate development, news reports this week indicated that Andy Coulson, editor of The News of the World in the mid-2000s, appeared to have authorized illegal payments to police officers during his time at the paper. News International has confirmed that the information is contained in e-mails it has disclosed to the police.

A person with knowledge of the matter said that it appeared that other senior News of the World journalists were also involved, but that Ms. Brooks was not among them.

The disclosure is relevant because of Mr. Coulson’s close ties to the Conservative Party. After resigning from The News of the World in 2007 after an earlier phone hacking investigation, Mr. Coulson was quickly hired by Mr. Cameron as the Conservative Party’s chief spokesman. The move gave Mr. Cameron an in with Britain’s tabloids, and cemented his ties to Mr. Murdoch’s empire.

Mr. Coulson’s canny approach helped Mr. Cameron get elected last year, and he was installed as the government’s chief spokesman. But in January he resigned from that job, too, when it became clear that phone hacking had been routine when he was The News of the World’s editor. Mr. Coulson has always denied knowing about hacking; these new disclosures are the first to link him directly to any wrongdoing. In Parliament, Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, assailed Mr. Cameron for a “catastrophic error of judgment by bringing Andy Coulson into the heart of his Downing Street machine.”

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Who the heck is  James Murdoch?

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Good for Rupert.    It did reflect poorly on him.  I heard on ABC news this morning that The News of the World was actually a good newspaper when it first began.  But degenerated into a tabloid rag later.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:
Who the heck is  James Murdoch?

Rupert's son I think.

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I'm sure the folks at The Guardian are quite proud of them selves for hurting News Corp (and by extension the Times), just like the people at BBC are probably relieved to see Murdoch's attempt at taking over Sky News compromised.

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Rupert Murdoch Arrives In UK Tabloid Offices
by The Associated Press


With the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch descended on the UK Sunday to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure.

TV footage showed the News Corp. CEO being driven into the east London offices of his UK newspaper division, News International. The 80-year-old Murdoch was seated in the front passenger seat of a red Range Rover with a copy of the last issue of the best-selling Sunday tabloid in his hands.

Britons, too, were snapping up the last edition of the News of the World, after the 168-year-old muckraking paper was brought down in a phone-hacking scandal.

The 8,674th edition apologizes for letting the paper's readers down, but stops short of acknowledging recent allegations that its journalists paid police for information.

"We praised high standards, we demanded high standards but, as we are now only too painfully aware, for a period of a few years up to 2006 some who worked for us, or in our name, fell shamefully short of those standards," read a full-page editorial in the paper. "Quite simply, we lost our way. Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry."

Allegations the paper's journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers prompted Murdoch's News International to shut down the tabloid.

The developments have turned up the heat on Britain's media industry amid concerns a police investigation won't stop with the News of the World, and cast new scrutiny on the cozy relationship between British politicians and the tabloid press.

Murdoch, who has long been considered a kingmaker in the British media establishment, is facing a maelstrom of criticism and outrage not just over the new allegations of impropriety at his tabloid, but also the decision to shut the paper and put 200 journalists out of work.

News International declined to comment on Murdoch's movements or plans while in the UK

Closing down the News of the World, which was launched Oct. 1, 1843, was seen by some as a desperate attempt by the media conglomerate to stem negative fallout and thus save its 12 billion-pound ($19 billion) deal to take over satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.

The British government has signaled that deal will be delayed because of the crisis, and the scandal has continued to unfold at breakneck pace in the media, prompting broader questions about corruption at the newspaper and media regulation in the UK

Soul-searching has extended to the highest levels of government, with Prime Minister David Cameron conceding politicians developed too cozy a relationship with the tabloid press. Cameron's former communications chief, Andy Coulson, is an ex-editor of the News of the World and was one of three men arrested this week as part of a police investigation into the phone-hacking and corruption allegations.

Cameron has called for a new media regulation system and pledged a public inquiry into what went wrong; the head of Murdoch's UK newspaper operations has hinted that more revelations are to come.

As the News of the World's final issue went to press, Assistant Police Commissioner John Yates expressed his "extreme regret" that he did not act to reopen police inquiries into phone hacking two years ago. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said "it's clear I could have done more."

On Sunday, opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband warned that a Murdoch takeover of BSkyB should not be allowed while the phone-hacking investigation is ongoing.

"When the public have seen the disgusting revelations that we have seen this week, the idea that this organization, which engaged in these terrible practices, should be allowed to take over BSkyB, to get that 100 percent stake, without the criminal investigation having been completed...frankly that just won't wash with the public," he told the BBC.

Buying the News of the World in 1969 gave the Australian-born Murdoch his first foothold in Britain's media. He went on to snap up several other titles, gaining almost unparalleled influence in British politics through the far-reaching power of his papers' headlines.

Murdoch has opted to remain largely silent amid the fallout, issuing one official statement describing the allegations as "deplorable and unacceptable."

Many journalists and media watchers have expressed astonishment that Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of News of the World when some of the hacking allegedly occurred, was keeping her job as head of News Corp.'s UK newspaper operations while the paper's employees were laid off.

Murdoch on Saturday told reporters in Sun Valley, Idaho, that Brooks had his "total" support.

The scandal exploded this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her. News of the World operatives reportedly deleted some messages from the phone's voicemail, giving the girl's parents false hope that she was still alive.

Brooks told lawmakers she had "no knowledge whatsoever" of the Milly Dowler hacking or any other case while she was editor, according to a letter published by Britain's home affairs select committee on Saturday.

The News of the World's last edition contained a 48-page souvenir pullout section highlighting the paper's scoops and its coverage of big moments in history. Despite the recent scandal, many viewed the paper as a force for good, exposing numerous political, celebrity and sports scandals.

The paper has been praised for its role in getting a sex offender law passed in Britain. "Sarah's Law" was named after 8-year-old British girl Sarah Payne, murdered in 2000 by a ****. It is modeled on "Megan's Law," the U.S. legislation named for Megan Kanka, a New Jersey child murdered by a repeat sex offender.

The last edition's back page had 1946 quotes from British author George Orwell, an admirer of the paper.

"You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose and open the News of the World," Orwell said.

The back page also had quotes running beside Orwell's from Jeannie Hobson, a loyal reader from Lymington, England, which read as an epitaph.

"I cannot imagine Sundays without you," the 68-year-old Hobson said. "I will always remember the News of the World for the good things you have brought to light. I'm sad to say goodbye to my Sunday favorite."