Phone Hacking’ Scanda

Identify three key aspects of the ‘phone hacking’ scandal?

Murdoch owned the News of the World business .In order to snatch exclusive news, takes illegal means to obtain all sectors of the community private information. It broke through the socially accepted moral bottom line, the Victims was violated the privacy and human rights.

Once the Sunday newspaper was one of the oldest in the UK and sold some 2.8m copies every week. Because of the ‘phone hacking’ scandal .Rupert Murdoch had to decide to close it down. Its final front page declared "Thank you and goodbye".

In addition, the commercial interests of the “News of the World " suffered a blow. Some of the business cooperation has been cancelled Not only the News Corp but also bring disaster to the image of the entire media industry. The Issues of professional ethics of the media and journalists has attracted more attention.

Identify the parties impacted by News International’s unethical actions?

The scandal forced the closure of Britain's top-selling paper, the News of the World, resulted in the withdrawal of his bid for the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, and led to criminal charges being laid against former senior News International. It also led to a wide-ranging inquiry into press standards by Lord Leveson, who is now preparing to publish his recommendations on industry regulation.

The News Corporation set up a special process to consider compensation claims for those who believe they were hacked. Some cases have already been settled in the High Court.

If you were Rupert Murdoch, what would be the most difficult sentence to write in the ‘Sorry’ advertisement? Why?

If I was Rupert Murdoch, I think the most different sentence to write in the sorry advertisement is “Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society. We need to live up to this. “Because this sentence admitted fault of their business, the Newspaper industry supposed to be bear the...