Scandal

This week, my dream job was thrown into the mud, bruised, kicked and beaten, as the inquest into the News of the World phone-hacking scandal continued. Journalism, and the press in general, is often frowned upon due to the rare few who take on the characteristics of a snake in their articles. Poisonous, fast, and impossible to catch.



Steve Coogan



Celebrities including Steve Coogan and J.K.Rowling took to the podium at the Leveson Enquiry this week, telling of their views on the disgraced journalists, and their claims that they were hacked by the newspaper.

Perhaps the most revolting part of the scandal, is that of Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by the NOTW, giving her parents false hope of her survival. The journalists deleted some messages on her voicemail, which her parents naturally took as a sign that she was still alive.

A fine to the newspaper is no longer a suitable crime for these offences. The individuals responsible for the hackings should be given a jail sentence, or heavy fine for them to pay. Nobody has any right to attack somebody else's privacy in such a way. It is twisted and wrong.


The Media is often viewed by many as a mass of prying, nosey and rude slimeballs, willing to do anything to get a story that matches to what they want, and doesn't give the actual truth. On the whole, this caricature of journalists is wrong, but a story like this smears everyone involved in the industry.



James Murdoch



 Newspapers these days are run by huge companies and organisations, which results in a mass media market, where individual voices can't be heard over the roaring of James Murdoch and his profit-orientated peers.



The whole saga of the dealings of the news of the world, leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, and you can't help but feel a little less optimistic about the Media world, after reading about the scandal.

If these are the lengths that one tabloid newspaper will go to, who knows what else might be going on in the private offices of all the hundreds of others of newspapers worldwide?

And what lengths will the media barons go to, just to get a good front page story?