Outrage is a word badly weakened by overuse. This is unfortunate because it would be good to have now, at full strength, for the despicable things the British tabloid News of the World is accused of doing to a murdered 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, and to her family and friends.
Milly’s disappearance in 2002 was a sensation in Britain. News of the World, a sex-and-celebrity pillar of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, dove in — though it shoved its snout far deeper into the muck than anyone knew.
A lawyer for Milly’s family, Mark Lewis, said that after she vanished but before her body was found, News of the World hacked into her cellphone, recording anguished voice messages from relatives and friends desperate to hear from her. When the phone’s memory was full, the paper’s operatives deleted some messages to make room for new ones. This baffled the police and made Milly’s family think she was alive, deleting the messages herself.
Read more here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment