National newspapers are not in the habit of washing their dirty linen in public. You have only to look at the scant coverage given to the media tycoon Richard Desmond’s divorce last year to find evidence that dog does not bite dog on Fleet Street. One of the most extraordinary results of the News of the World hacking scandal is that the code of omertà between the media “families” has been suspended.
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