It looks like the saga that’s engulfed the U.K. could make the leap across the pond, as a British lawyer has announced he’ll be taking legal action within the U.S. on behalf of three new alleged victims of phone-hacking.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, was arrested Tuesday as part of a Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking.
For months now, finger-pointing, accusations and justifications have been lobbed back and forth as editors, reporters, photographers, celebrities and experts have testified about the quality and slant of British press practices.
According to the Guardian, the News of the World may not have been responsible for deleting phone messages that led parents to believe murdered Milly Dowler was alive.
A glamorous government inquiry? Under normal circumstances, it would be an oxymoron
The British government’s inquiry into phone hacking continues today with the testimony of British doctors Kate and Gerry McCann
Hugh Grant gives evidence on the media ethics inquiry on phone hacking, describing the times he believes that Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloids, as well as non-Murdoch-owned Mail on Sunday, hacked his phone.
British tabloid News of the World hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, leading her parents to hope, falsely, that she might be alive and checking her phone. Today, her parents shared their heartbreak.
News International is already facing more than 60 civil action suits for invasion of privacy. The website was launched to, presumably, streamline further claims.
The bizarre theater surrounding the tabloid phone-hacking scandal that’s rocked Britain’s media world has the Internet exploding with comedic, satirical jabs about the players involved.
