Over the last month, news of the mendaciousness of Rupert
Murdoch’s media empire has been impossible to avoid. And equally
difficult to miss have been the people revelling in the discomfort
felt by News International executives. Common among the reaction
has been the insistence that the revelations have been unsurprising
– that we always knew that phone hacking and police bribery were an
accepted part of tabloid journalism.
Well, maybe so. It is certainly clear that, in …
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