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Dial M for Murdoch : News Corporation and the corruption of Britain

'This book uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how its exposure has changed the way we look at our politicians, our police service and our press.' Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been hacking phones, blagging information and casually destroying people's lives for years, but it was only after a trivial report about Prince William's knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five-year cover-up then concealed and muddied the truth. This book gives the first connected account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Murdochs' News Corporation went to "put the problem in a box" (in James Murdoch's words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed
Print Book, English, 2012
Allen Lane, London, 2012
xix, 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9781846146039, 9781846146046, 1846146038, 1846146046
791643017
The wrong headlines
Wapping's news factory
The dark arts
First heads roll
Rogue defence
The Manchester lawyers
One determined reporter
Intimidating Parliament
A murder
Our man in Downing Street
Losing a battle
Out of control
U-turn at Wapping
Summer's lease
A missing girl
Sky plus
"We are sorry"
Democracy Day
Assault on the establishment
The Ghosts of Wapping
The press on trial
Darker and darker