Julian Price

Phone Hacking Scandal Forces News of the World to Close - Illegal Hacking has Nation in Uproar



Posted: Friday, July 08, 2011

by Julian Price
http://www.uk-freelance-content-writer.co.uk/

Phone hacking is illegal and it is at the centre of one of the biggest scandals to hit the UK in recent years. The News of the World, a weekly tabloid newspaper has effectively been forced to close its doors and cease publication as a result of its alleged involvement in the scandal.

The story is far too big and too complex to deal with in its entirety here, so let’ just try and take a brief look at the basic outline.

As I understand it, in order to generate news, certain individuals at certain newspapers have employed tactics that are not only extremely unethical but also illegal. It appears that the drive for a breaking news story in this sector is so high that these desperate measures have been employed in order to be first past the post in delivering a headline.

Ironically, there a plenty of websites that can deliver precise and detailed instructions of how to hack a phone, despite this being technically illegal. As with the scandal itself, it appears that there are various kinds and methods of phone hacking that are too complicated to go into here, but essentially it seems this story deals with the kind that involves acquiring personal and private information from other people’s mobile or cell phones.

In July 2011 the story seems to have reached its head and the scandal has been blown wide open (although it is likely further revelations will continue to be unveiled for some time to come) but the whole saga could date back to 2006 and beyond.

In a world now apparently dictated to by celebrity and tabloid culture it has taken revelations of what some would consider being of a far more sensitive nature to truly snowball these events.

Politicians, celebrities, sports stars and even Royalty have been subject to the phone hacking scandal during the past few years but the latest allegations are that family members of 7/7 attack victims and even a murdered school girl (while she was still unaccounted for) had their phones hacked by investigators and reporters.

At the time of writing, there are various police investigations under way with the full support of Prime Minister David Cameron, arrests are being made and the long history of the News of the World newspaper will come to an end on Sunday July 10thwith its final edition.

"Thank You & Goodbye" declares the last edition of the News of the World. (Updated 09.07.11)
Julian has diplomas in freelance journalism (with distinction), copywriting and proofreading. He is also a creative writer and poet who writes both professionally and for pleasure. Julian has written articles for an internet marketing company and although this medium is often restricted by topic, his writing still maintains a unique and often humourous style, with many of his articles achieving good results on search engines. He has found the discipline involved with this kind of work to be a great writing exercise and believes it enhances and improves other areas of his writing. Julian is becoming an established freelance writer and many of his articles here at searchwarp are a showcase of the variety and quality of his work.

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