Rupert Murdoch is a very dark horse same with James.
It originally started with allegations involving prominent British figures, including actors and politicians.
Hugh Grant, a British actor, says he believes he was a victim of phone hacking by the newspaper.
He detailed in the New Statesman magazine how he taped conversations with a former News of the World employee who told him his phone had been hacked to find out if there was more to the story.
Grant talks to Al Jazeera about his experience.
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The Daily Telegraph carries the latest twist in the phone-hacking scandal today - claiming that phone numbers of relatives of dead British service personnel were found in the files of the News of the World's hacker-in-chief, private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
The main agenda here being the sale of BSkyB...
Meanwhile at the pollies lounge:
The tyrants lose their swagger and those that lived in fear dare to speak out. The dynamics of the News International saga are similar to the ones that shape the fall of dictatorial regimes, except in this case it is some mighty media executives who are suddenly fearful and the politicians who are liberated.
Yesterday's exchanges in the Commons were ones I thought I would never witness. They are of historic importance. Senior elected politicians dared to challenge the powerful Murdoch empire and there was an air of catharsis as they did so.
Yet why am I feeling that the game isn't over... Should Murdoch gets what he really want —BSkyB — he really doesn't care about the hooplah about the NotW... He would know it's a rag doing raggy things. TV is far more manipulative — and profitable.
saving the captain, sinking the ship...
Prominent UK media lawyer Mark Stephens says he thinks the Murdochs will protect Ms Brooks.
"We have to remember that people like Rebekah Brooks are treated as family by the Murdochs, particularly Rupert Murdoch and I think she will perhaps go to one of his titles in America or Australia and will continue her good work from there," he said.
Mr Stephens says News of the World's closure is a stroke of "evil genius" by Mr Murdoch to save himself, his son and Ms Brooks.
"He has preserved Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, his three key senior executives and they've kind of climbed in a life raft and allowed the rest of the people to go down with the ship that they've scuttled," he said.
"Of course as they've scuttled this ship, the News of the World, what goes down with it are all the documents, the new and the electronic files which might cause embarrassment and all the rest of it and so they will never see the light of day as a result of that."
Disgruntled staff like News of the World political editor Dave Wooding say they have been sacrificed to save Ms Brooks.
"There's hardly anybody there who was there in the old regime," he said.
"The people are very clean, great, talented professional journalists and we put out a great paper every week and we are all paying the price of what happened six years ago."
Sceptics say the tabloid's closure and News International's cooperation with the police investigation has more to do with the Murdoch empire's bid to take over the satellite broadcaster, BSkyB.
Mr Murdoch's statement praises the "loyal staff … whose good work is a credit to journalism". But the blunt conclusion is: they go, she stays.
Rebekah Brooks would know a lot more about the way News operates than all the staff of the NotW combined... She has been anointed to the inner kitchen and her knowledge of making the secret soup cannot become general knowledge... Imagine that Murdoch lets her go!!! Her resentment at being dumped would be massive... Her bitterness — unless Uncle Rupe would paid a huge amount of shut up money tantamount to a king's ransom — would most likely push her to sell and reveal the secrets she garnered from the inner sanctum...
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