Britain scandal: British tabloid scandal envelops three pillars already stained
This is way bigger than Fox and Murdoch.
‘All the institutions of politics, press and police have emerged the worse for their involvement in the affair,’ says one British observer of the phone-hacking scandal.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2011, 6:45 p.m.
Reporting from London—
The British are no strangers to scandals involving their politicians, their police and their press. But after a series of recent troubles that had already eroded public confidence in those pillars of society, the country is now in the grips of a crisis that engulfs all three.