This is the book by the Guardian journalist about the phone hacking at the News of the World. It is also (as part and parcel of the above) about the Murdochs and the power broking that went on.
It is quite unevenly written; about half of the chapters are a rather tedious day to day account of attempts to find evidence of hacking with endless lists of names of journalists, policemen, and other low life who may or may not have been involved in phone hacking and covering it up.
The other half is much more discursive and generally interesting; the epilogue (all of 3 pages) are a very well written summary of the resurgence of the power of money and global capitalism in the late 20th century, after all the well meant attempts by socialists and intellectuals to create rules to curb it previously.
I did skim through The Sun in the pub while reading this and the gratuitous vitriolic attacks on anything that David Miliband (of whom I am not a great fan) said made me wonder. If Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like you, he certainly makes this clear and everyone working man or woman in the country who reads this bilge gets the message hammered home remorselessly, I am sure on a daily basis.
A striking lesson in how to manipulate the voters.
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