Does News International take the British public for fools over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal?
Or are its executives engaged in a pathetic attempt at fooling their own proprietor, Rupert Murdoch?
Last night, as James Robinson reported, the company's defence that hacking was confined to a single rogue reporter was in tatters.
The private investigator employed by the paper, Glenn Mulcaire, admitted that the NoW's head of news, Ian Edmondson, had commissioned him to access voicemail messages.
So how did the paper react? An NoW spokesman was quoted as saying:
"This is a serious allegation that will form part of our internal investigation."
This response defines the... read more