{"id":279,"date":"2011-07-11T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-07-11T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:05:45","slug":"death-of-a-tabloid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Death of a tabloid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_281\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/220px-Notw_last2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-281\" title=\"News of the World's last edition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/220px-Notw_last2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After 168 years, the final print<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been called one of the biggest scandals affecting the British press in living memory, and threatens global media mogul Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s reputation. His UK tabloid News of the World hacked into the mobile phone of a murdered school girl while police were still looking for her, a tactic that might have been common practice at the newspaper for years.<br \/>\nAnd after a week of daily scandalous revelations, people are now starting to ask questions over the prime ministers&#8217; judgement when he hired &#8211; and later fired &#8211; a former News of the World editor as his press secretary. I filed this report for Deutsche Welle Radio before News Corporation announced it was closing down the News of the World:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"boo_embed_409375\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F409375-death-of-a-tabloid&amp;rootID=boo_embed_409375&amp;mp3Title=Death+of+a+tabloid&amp;mp3Time=07.00am+11+Jul+2011&amp;mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F409375-death-of-a-tabloid.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/409375-death-of-a-tabloid.mp3?source=embed\">Death of a tabloid (mp3)<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been called one of the biggest scandals affecting the British press in living memory, and threatens global media mogul Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s reputation. His UK tabloid News of the World hacked into the mobile phone of a murdered school girl while police were still looking for her, a tactic that might have been common practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}