Guardian
A phone-hacking scandal that has plagued the British tabloid News of the World has taken another turn, with the Guardian now reporting that journalists working for the tabloid hacked into the voicemail of a 13-year-old girl who was killed in 2002. According to the Guardian, shortly after Milly Dowler disappeared, the tabloid (with the help of its full-time private investigator) started to intercept her mobile phone voicemail. “As her friends and parents called and left messages imploring Milly to get in touch with them, the News of the World was listening and recording their every private word,” the Guardian reports. Then, when the voicemail filled up, journalists deleted messages that had been left in the first few days after Dowler had disappeared. This gave her family false hope that she had cleared out her voicemail and was alive, and it confused the police investigation, reports the Guardian. “The Dowler family then granted an exclusive interview to the News of the World in which they talked about their hope, quite unaware that it had been falsely kindled by the newspaper’s own intervention.”
Who knew: If the hacking allegations prove true, The New York Times notes, it would mean that former editor Rebekah Brooks either “had no idea how the paper she edited was obtaining information about the Dowler family for its articles, or that she knew about the hacking and allowed it.” Brooks says she didn’t know about the hacking.
Uncategorized
Journalists at Murdoch’s News of the World hacked voicemail of missing girl
More News
Opinion | Now NBC News must deal with the Ronna McDaniel fallout
Questions linger about whether this could impact how viewers see NBC News’ political coverage
March 28, 2024
Opinion | How fact-checkers can use AI wisely
AI is already saving hundreds of hours of work by automating repetitive tasks. More collaboration among fact-checkers is the next step.
March 28, 2024
Opinion | Yes, you can fact-check on TikTok
Fact-checkers in Turkey have found a space amidst dance videos and humor
March 28, 2024
There’s no evidence of a cyberattack in the Baltimore bridge crash
Officials are still investigating why the cargo ship lost power before it slammed into Maryland's Francis Scott Key Bridge
March 28, 2024
A pink slime site used AI to rewrite our AI ethics article
Even Poynter’s guide for using generative AI ethically isn’t immune from those who won’t.
March 27, 2024
Comments are closed.
Comments