One of the world's biggest media groups, News International, is apologizing and offering compensation for the actions of one of its newspapers which hacked into the mobile phones of celebrities over a sustained period. Here is Gabriel Gatehouse.
世界上最大的媒体集团之一新闻国际公司(News International)为旗下一份报纸长期来窃听名人的电话而道歉并提出赔偿。Gabriel Gatehouse报道。
These are sensational admissions that are likely to cost the newspaper tens of millions of dollars in compensation payments. The list of claimants includes film stars, like the actress Sienna Miller and public figures such as the politician and former Culture Minister Tessa Jowell. A reporter and a private investigator at News of the World had already been jailed in 2007 for hacking into voicemail messages left on mobile telephones. But the News of the World had always claimed that instances of hacking were isolated and that the pair acted without the knowledge of senior editors. It now appears the problem went far further.
这次爆炸性的认错可能会导致该报纸赔偿数千万美元。受害名人包括政客,英国前文化部长泰莎·乔尔Tessa Jowell等公共人物和女演员席安娜·米勒(Sienna Miller)等电影明星。 早在2007年,世界新闻报已有一名记者和私人调查人员因窃听手机上的语音留言而被监禁。但是世界新闻报一直宣称窃听只是个别的案例,这两人的行为并没有告知高级编辑。现在看来问题似乎严重的多。