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It was Ed Miliband, the British Labor Party leader, who posed the haunting question in last week's parliamentary debate about the phone-hacking scandal: "Why didn't more of us speak out about this earlier?"
Miliband blamed political intimidation by Rupert Murdoch's press empire: "The answer is, of course, what we all know and used to be afraid to say: News International was too powerful." But that doesn't explain the sudden discontinuity -- how a story went from inaction to outrage.See the full content of this document
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When the Center Roars
The basic facts of the phone-hacking scandal were hardly a secret. A parliamentary inquiry last year showed the extent of the snooping and suggested that the...
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