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I don’t care what he did or didn’t do in the UK. But my understanding is that he may have used or endorsed or knew about unethical practices used to get facts to report on. If true, that’s actual fact based reporting, even if it’s unethical, which would be an improvement for the standards of journalism at the Post where currently standards are very low and the journalists think their jobs are to promote causes that they care about without concern for their audience or news value. [/quote]

This is total madness. Will Fuller is a scumbag. US journalists have actual integrity, ethics and standards to live up by. Including not hacking into the private communications of murdered children and dead British soldiers in pursuit of trivial celebrity news stories. Read the Wikipedia entry for yourself. Ethical US journalists would never pull this crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal

[quote]Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories.

Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that the paper's phone hacking activities were targeted at celebrities, politicians, and members of the British royal family. In July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication.[1] Public pressure forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.[/quote][/quote]

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