British Hacking Scandal Turns to Charge of a Stolen Scoop – NYTimes.com

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A Hacking Case Becomes a War of the Tabloids

A lawsuit sheds a negative light on the way the British tabloid the News of the World relied on phone hacking.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/europe/02hacking.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Court papers in the case, as described by people familiar with the lawsuit, shed a stark and unflattering light on the newspaper’s reliance on phone hacking as a standard reporting method. This conduct is at the heart of a growing array of civil lawsuits and criminal inquiries against the paper and News Group.