Spying is not worth it: Andy Coulson, ex-government spokesman David Cameron, has been convicted in the British “News of the World” scandal. The former chief editor Rebekah Brooks came away with it.
The largest media process in the history of Britain ended with a guilty verdict for ex-chief editor Andy Coulson, who later became Government Spokesman of the Prime Minister David Cameron. Coulson’s predecessor at the tabloid “News of the World ‘, Rebekah Brooks, however, was acquitted.
Brooks is said to have not involved unlike Coulson mind that phones hacked and illegal payments were made in order to get information about celebrities. Among the alleged victims of spying to find Prince Harry, and with him half the Royal Family, Paul McCartney, Hugh Grant, members of parliament, athletes and journalists.
After a months-long process at London’s Old Bailey criminal court found the eleven-member jury, Coulson was aware of the illegal wiretaps and tolerated them. The wiretapping scandal had led in July 2011 to close the “News of the World” and Coulson was forced to resign from his later post as Cameron’s press secretary. The latter was the affair of the interception of more than 600 mobile phones particularly explosive.
Coulson was in the late eighties as a reporter for “Sunday” and got there a people and show business column. As Rebekah Brooks director of the “Sun” was, Coulson rose to become chief editor of the “News of the World”. Later, Coulson was brought by David Cameron as a media advisor to the Conservative Party; after the 2010 election, he was promoted to Downing Street to the government spokesman.
Rebekah Brooks began her journalism career at the age of twenty years in the “News of the World,” the Sunday newspaper from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. She worked her way up quickly, was director of the reportage departments and rose to the ranks of leading editors. With 34 years she was editor of the “Sun”, the most biting tabloid newspaper in the country, also a Murdoch-sheet. Later she was promoted to chief of the publishing house, which prints Murdoch’s British newspapers, the “Sun,” the “Times”, the “Sunday Times” and then also the “News of the World”.
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