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The humiliation of Rupert Murdoch

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July–August 2012, no. 343

Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

Allen Lane, $29.95 pb, 354 pp, 9781846146046

The humiliation of Rupert Murdoch

by
July–August 2012, no. 343

It all began with Prince William’s knee. Not, of course, the phone hacking and bribery and corruption which, as we all now know, was commonplace behaviour in the British tabloid newspapers at the heart of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire – that had been going on for far longer. But when, in November 2005, the News of the World carried a trivial story about the prince – ‘Royal Action Man’ – receiving treatment for a strained tendon, he and Prince Charles’s staff realised that this and other leaks could only have come from someone accessing his voicemail. St James’s Palace, fearing a security threat to a future king, called in the Metropolitan Police.

Anne Chisolm reviews 'Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain' by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain

by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

Allen Lane, $29.95 pb, 354 pp, 9781846146046

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