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| Rupert Murdoch |
The
competition between the newspapers is tough and intense, and most of the
journalists are willing to do whatever it takes to get the best news first.
However, some years ago the tabloid named News of the World showed us a new way
of gaining stories. News of the World (NoW) were accused for using
phone-hacking to get the most juicy news, which appeared to be right.
News of
the World started it's career as a broadsheet by John Brown Bell in 1843, and
made it all the way to become a tabloid in 1984. They mainly wrote about
celebrity scoops, and their affection for sex scandals was to give them the
nicknames "News of the Screws" and "Screws of the World".
But after 168 years in circulation, NoW's
director Rupert Murdoch had to cut an end to the tabloid. They were
caught hacking voicemail messages, only
to get the best and most extraordinary news first. But even though NoW was the one to get caught this time, I don't think that they are the only news paper using this metode.
You can
wonder how anybody ever could unveil their immoral
way of collecting gossip. For
years there had been rumour
of the illegal actions. But in April 2011 the people who claimed
they
had been exposed for it as well as the world press forced Mr. Murdoch to admit
it.
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| Milly Dowler (13) |
The
provoking factor that revealed the scandal, was the case about the murdered
teenager Milly Dowler. When Milly
disappeared in 2002, everyone thought she was murdered. However, her phone
showed recent activity, so the investigators and her family lived in the hope
that the missing teenager was still alive. But later on, investigators found
that Milly Dowler wasn't the one using her telephone, it was the News of the
World who was deleting the read voicemails, so that they had room for more.
This case was the starting point of nine years of lawsuits and interviews
against the newspaper. And on 17 August 2011 The News of the World's last
edition signed off with headline "Thank You And Goodbye".
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