UK Lawmakers Criticise Murdoch Paper Over Hacking

A Parliamentary committee has said in a media report it was "inconceivable" that managers at the News of the World did not know about the practice, the legislators said Which was more widespread than the Sunday newspaper had previously admitted.

News International, the British arm of Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA.O) which publishes the News of the World ", rejected the claims and the Committee Accused of bias against it.

"The reaction of the committee to its failure to find any new evidence has been to make claims of 'collective amnesia', deliberate obfuscation and concealment of the truth," it said.

In 2007, Clive Goodman, who reported on the British royal family for the paper, was Jailed for four months after writing stories based on phone taps of royal aides carried out by a private detective.

News International has always maintained that Goodman acted without the knowledge of senior editors and his actions had been an isolated incident.

But the cross-party parliamentary committee said in its report: "The evidence, we find, makes it inconceivable that no-one else at the News of the World, bar Mr. Goodman, was aware of the activities."

Last July, the left-Leaning Guardian newspaper said News of the World Reporters, with the knowledge of senior staff, had illegally accessed messages from the mobile phones of thousands of celebrities and politicians.Read More Story,http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE61N0OS20100224?type=marketsNews

UK Lawmakers Criticise Murdoch Paper Over Hacking