英国小报电话窃听丑闻涉案八人被起诉_BEC初级作文

英国小报电话窃听丑闻涉案八人被起诉

指控称，被告曾密谋截获与有关人物绑定的语音信箱的内容，其中既包括前披头士乐队成员保罗•麦卡特尼(Paul McCartney)和布拉德•皮特(Brad Pitt)等名人，也包括被谋杀的13岁女学生道勒(Milly Dowler)等见诸报端的受害者。去年夏天有人爆料称，被绑架的女孩道勒的语音信箱曾被窃听，这让一个发酵已久的问题瞬间变成了资讯集团的爆炸性丑闻，多位高管为此去职，《世界资讯报》也被关闭。

Ms. Brooks and Mr. Coulson are the most high-profile of the eight who have been charged. After running the News of the World from 2000 to 2002, Ms. Brooks went on to edit News Corp.'s tabloid the Sun and then headed up all of News Corp.'s British newspapers starting in 2009. She was a top lieutenant to News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch before resigning in July 2011.

布鲁克斯和库尔森是被起诉的八人当中最引人注目的两个。继2000年至2002年间执掌《世界资讯报》后，布鲁克斯成为了资讯集团旗下《太阳报》(Sun)的主编，之后又于2009年一路高升至资讯集团英国报业负责人。2011年7月辞职前，布鲁克斯曾是资讯集团董事长兼首席执行长默多克(Rupert Murdoch)的高级助理。

Mr. Coulson stepped down from the News of the World's editorship in 2007 after the phone-hacking problem first came into view, saying he was unaware of the activity. He later became the chief communications aide to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, a job he left in January 2011. But his association with Mr. Cameron has created a continuing political problem for the prime minister, who has been forced to admit the error of hiring a disgraced tabloid editor as a top aide.