The Guardian's campaign to expose phone hacking in News International. In Davies's account the ruthlessness of NI's journalism was deployed with equal menace in its counter-attack on the Guardian. Politicians and police also come out very badly. The book ends with a wider critique of our society but this afterthought cannot equal the impact of the portraits of the Murdochs, Rebekah Brooks, Coulson et al in action.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 75 Winter 2015 ) |
