The News of the World


Discuss this video without the 500 character limit at dlandoncole.com Some interesting videos on this include Steve Coogan versus Paul McMullan on Newsnight: www.youtube.com Hugh Grant versus John Gaunt on Question Time: www.youtube.com Tom Watson MP in the Commons: www.youtube.com Chris Bryant MP in the Commons: www.youtube.com The Guardian has been making the running on this one; all of its stories are at www.guardian.co.uk and some of the choicer ones that I’ve used in this video are at www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk The News of the World’s leader that I mentioned: www.newsoftheworld.co.uk Timeline at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org Also from Wikipedia, background to Operations Weeting and Elveden (phone-hacking and police corruption respectively): en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s statement: content.met.police.uk More information on Milly Dowler: en.wikipedia.org More information on the Hillsborough Disaster and particularly the Sun’s commentary: en.wikipedia.org The quote at the beginning is from Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion, VI 17: “Oh what a tangled web we weave/when at first we practise to deceive!” The quote at the end is from Julius Caesar, I ii: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings”


 

 

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