Saturday, July 30, 2011

Read all about it.

Headlines in most of the papers yesterday were along the lines of "News of the World targeted Sara Payne". Well, did they?  When you read the small print as it were, it seems that Sara Payne's mobile 'phone number was among those found in the notes of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the heart of the 'phone-hacking business.  There is absolutely no evidence that her 'phone was indeed hacked.  And when you read further you find that the 'phone in question was in fact given to her by the NoW as part of the "Sarah's Law" campaign that she was running in conjunction with the paper, and therefore there was no secret about it as far as they were concerned.  So were these headlines just unwarranted sensationalism?

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