Dial M For Murdoch : News Corporation And The Corruption of Britain

Rupert murdoch’s newspapers had been hacking phones, blagging information and casually destroying people’s lives for years, but it was only after a trivial report about prince william’s knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five year cover up concealed and muddied the truth. dial m for murdoch gives the first connected account of the extraordinary lengths to which the murdochs’ news corporation went to put the problem in a box'(in james murdoch’s words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed.