Financial Express, London: UK's celebrities might no longer have to worry about the News of the World (NoTW) hacking phones or rifling their bins, but the manner of the paper's demise shows controlling information is getting much more difficult. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp may have hoped that cosy relationships with Britain's police and political parties would be enough to avoid too close an investigation of persistent allegations that the paper's journalists had broken the law. In the past, that might have worked. But once the old-school investigative reporters of Britain's Guardian newspaper revealed hacking victims included teenage murder victim Milly Dowler, bombing victims and the families of Britain's war dead, social media and the Internet took over. Read Full : Press barons lose monopoly in Twitter era
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Press barons lose monopoly in Twitter era
Financial Express, London: UK's celebrities might no longer have to worry about the News of the World (NoTW) hacking phones or rifling their bins, but the manner of the paper's demise shows controlling information is getting much more difficult. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp may have hoped that cosy relationships with Britain's police and political parties would be enough to avoid too close an investigation of persistent allegations that the paper's journalists had broken the law. In the past, that might have worked. But once the old-school investigative reporters of Britain's Guardian newspaper revealed hacking victims included teenage murder victim Milly Dowler, bombing victims and the families of Britain's war dead, social media and the Internet took over. Read Full : Press barons lose monopoly in Twitter era