世界上最大的媒体集团之一,英国国际新闻公司(News International),就旗下畅销小报《世界新闻报》以窃听名人电话手段获取新闻线索的做法作出“毫无保留的道歉”,同时承诺赔偿部分受害者。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.
该报支付数千万美元的赔偿费令人惊叹。国际新闻公司公布了一些受害者身份,包括电影明星,西恩娜•米勒(Sienna Miller);公众人物,前文化、新闻和体育大臣特莎•乔韦尔(Tessa Jowell)。《世界新闻报》的一名记者和一名私家侦探因窃听他人手机语音信箱信息于2007年遭逮捕。但是《世界新闻报》一直声称,这两名黑客已被孤立,他们的行为不符合高级编辑应具有的素质。现在,看起来问题似乎更加严重了。