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Coogan says News Group, the News Corp subsidiary which owned the paper until it closed in July, had offered to settle his case.
“It wouldn’t have covered the costs but it would have taken the sting out of what I’d spent,” he says. The action has so far cost Coogan more than £100,000.
But he refuses to speculate about whether James Murdoch, chairman of the News of the World’s parent company, News Corporation Europe, should stand down. And he will not talk about Coulson’s future, although he is clearly not losing much sleep over their fate.
“If my conduct is fair game for them then their conduct is fair game for people like me to comment on,” he says. “It’s a democracy and I’ll have my say.”
He wants to ensure that the hacking story remains centre stage, and plans to use his profile to ensure News Corp does not escape further scrutiny by spinning out the civil actions in the hope the public will lose interest.
“[They are hoping] there will be some big disaster or something that'll knock it off the front pages and hopefully no one will care anymore. And I will do everything in my power [to prevent that].
“Because I'm a more populist person and I reach a more generalised audience that goes beyond broadsheets I can help keep it in the popular imagination and I will do everything in my power to keep it in the popular imagination.”
He recalls a conversation with Martin Sixsmith, the former civil servant and journalist, with whom he worked on the film In the Loop.
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