When Rebekah Brooks tried to target Daily Mail
The New York Times published this illuminating analysis piece yesterday evening.
On page three, it reveals how Rebekah Brooks reportedly tried to focus the attention of authorities at the Daily Mail too.
Over the last several months, Ms. Brooks spearheaded a strategy that seemed designed to spread the blame across Fleet Street, interviews show. Several former News of the World journalists said that she asked them to dig up evidence of hacking. One said in an interview that Ms. Brooks’s target was not her own newspapers, but her rivals.
Mr. Dacre, the editor of The Daily Mail, told his senior managers that he had received several reports from businesspeople, soccer stars and public relations agencies that two News International executives, Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg, had encouraged them to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Daily Mail newspapers .
“They thought it was unfair that all the focus was on The News of the World,” said one News International official with knowledge of the effort. The two men have told colleagues they did not make such calls, but two company officials disputed that.
The New York Times also quotes sources from within News International saying they had also tried to shift the focus on the Andy Coulson and the Met Police, and away from News Int’l itself.
Another report at the NYT pointed out that the paper has paid out in excess of half a billion dollars in the past to “make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and anticompetitive behavior go away”.
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Ah, the “But he was doing it too!” defence. I don’t recall that working in the primary school playground.
The words “circular firing squad” springs to mind.
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