Rupert Murdoch says he was "shocked, appalled and ashamed" to discover his employees were hacking phones. But did his leadership contribute to the practice?
The scandal of journalists within the News Corp empire hacking into dozens of mobile telephones resulted in the closure of the News of the World, the arrest (and jailing) of several top editors and an extensive government inquiry into journalism.
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