A free press is not above the law. Both those who are directly responsible for and those overseeing with knowledge and who may have ordered the hacking should be charged in accordance with the law and prosecuted.
This is also the first time the Murdoch empire, the greatest weapon in the corporatist arsenal, has been wounded in this way. That wound is exposed, and the empire has slowed to patch it. And for the record, I enjoy applying two different metaphors to the same thing. I find it funny.
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