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Long-term bribery allegations raise stakes in Murdoch tabloid scandal

London : United Kingdom | Feb 15, 2012 at 8:13 PM PST
Source: The Globe & Mail
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When police burst into the newsroom of Britain's largest-circulation newspaper the Sun this week and arrested five journalists, its senior editors fired back with a full-page headline decrying the raid as a Witch hunt that has put us behind ex-Soviet states on press freedom. FULL ARTICLE AT The Globe & Mail
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