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Daily Archives: July 7th, 2011

Murdochs abandon ship, announce that News of the World tabloid will shut down

Excerpt: The News of the World, the Rupert Mur­doch-owned tabloid at the cen­ter of the phone-hack­ing scan­dal that has rocked the Unit­ed King­dom, will be shut down fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of this Sun­day’s edi­tion, News Cor­po­ra­tion said today. The week­ly tabloid is accused of hack­ing into the mobile phones of crime vic­tims, celebri­ties and politi­cians. On Thurs­day, […]
Published at:11:58 AM on Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Media & Culture
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