Thursday, July 09, 2009

Run and run and run and run

I haven't had chance as yet to blog about Nick Davies scoop in the Guardian this morning.

According to former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil,this is going to run and run and writes that

If, as the Guardian claims, between 2,000 and 3,000 people were targeted and had their privacy breached in various ways, then some of the names already mentioned could get together to mount a multi-million pound class action against the Murdoch company. Just starting that process would almost certainly unseal the documents. Then more than the cat would be out of the bag ... and the potential damages unlimited.


The Spectator's James Forsyth meanwhile looks at David Cameron as he is stuck in a pincer movement between two extremes of journalism

David Cameron finds himself caught up in a war between two media tribes following the revelations about the phone hacking at the News of the World during Andy Coulson’s editorship. On the one side, there’s The Guardian—whose scoop it was—and the BBC; for the BBC this episode is a chance to both make an ideological point against tabloid journalism and the Murdoch press as well as gain some revenge for the fun that The Sun and The Times had with the BBC’s expenses. On the other is News International with other newspapers that have used similar methods looking nervously on from the sidelines.

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