(CBS/AP) The British hacking scandal has bled into another celebrity’s life as former Beatle Paul McCartney said he’d contact police over his ex-wife Heather Mills’ claim that her phone had been hacked.
America’s Got Talent” was not returning to England to answer questions.
Morgan himself made light of the calls on his Twitter feed, saying he found it “so heartwarming that everyone in U.K.’s missing me so much they want me to come home.”
In a separate development, the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper announced late Thursday that it was reviewing its editorial procedures. No reason for the review was given, but Morgan is one of many media veterans who’ve claimed that phone hacking and 사다리 other shady practices were common across Britain’s newspaper industry.
And in what is surely one of the odder twists in the phone-hacking tale, it emerged that a senior journalist with the Guardian whose aggressive investigative work helped air the scandal had apparently acknowledged hacking into a phone.
“I’ve used some of those questionable methods myself over the years,” David Leigh wrote in a piece published by the Guardian in 2006 and still posted to the paper’s website.
The investigations editor described intercepting the voicemails of a corrupt arms company executive, admitting that there was “certainly a voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person’s private messages.”
But he insisted he was after a serious scoop, not celebrity gossip. In any case, Leigh wrote, “there is not a newspaper or TV channel in the country that has not, on occasion, got down in the gutter and used questionable methods.”
The Guardian’s press office was unstaffed early Friday morning. Leigh did not immediately return an email and a text message seeking comment.
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