Yellow Journalism at its Absolute WORST!
Jul. 7th, 2011 01:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16Now, I've done my share of journalism, detective work and just plain being where I shouldn't be but NEVER, NEVER would it have crossed my mind to hack into the cellphones of missing girls!
Not only did these reporters allegedly hack into one girl's phone but they deleted messages which gave police and family the false hope that she was still alive!
It doesn't stop there though. It seems like every time I heard about it, something new has happened, but I've only heard about it on Bloomberg TV and CNBC World, have you guys seen anything on MSNBC or Fox or anything else?
Anyway, they also hacked into celebrities phones and victims of the 2005 7/7 bombing...and the latest disgusting allegation...possibly the phones of dead soldiers' families...the hacked phones might number as many as 7,000.
The newspaper is News of the World, owned by NewsCorp. Rupert Murdoch said the allegations were "deplorable and unacceptable." However, the Guardian reported earlier this year that Murdoch tried to pressure Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister into not investigating the allegations. News of the World is losing advertisers by the second and the stock price for NewsCorp fell 5% yesterday.
Several editors of the paper claim not to have known what was going on...
Really? You just thought your reporters were THAT good at finding things out?
If that's true, I have to rethink my assumptions about Jonah Jameson and Perry White being so incredibly unobservant about their employees.
Find out more at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11195407
Not only did these reporters allegedly hack into one girl's phone but they deleted messages which gave police and family the false hope that she was still alive!
It doesn't stop there though. It seems like every time I heard about it, something new has happened, but I've only heard about it on Bloomberg TV and CNBC World, have you guys seen anything on MSNBC or Fox or anything else?
Anyway, they also hacked into celebrities phones and victims of the 2005 7/7 bombing...and the latest disgusting allegation...possibly the phones of dead soldiers' families...the hacked phones might number as many as 7,000.
The newspaper is News of the World, owned by NewsCorp. Rupert Murdoch said the allegations were "deplorable and unacceptable." However, the Guardian reported earlier this year that Murdoch tried to pressure Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister into not investigating the allegations. News of the World is losing advertisers by the second and the stock price for NewsCorp fell 5% yesterday.
Several editors of the paper claim not to have known what was going on...
Really? You just thought your reporters were THAT good at finding things out?
If that's true, I have to rethink my assumptions about Jonah Jameson and Perry White being so incredibly unobservant about their employees.
Find out more at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11195407
