Hacking book: how we fooled tabloids into running false celebrity stories

This extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is taken from a chapter written by Chris Atkins, director of a film that showed how tabloid journalists could be fooled into accepting false stories.His Starsuckers documentary, first screened in 2009, exposed the deceit involved in celebrity reporting. Some 30 minutes of the film was shown to the Leveson inquiry. Atkins begins his piece by explaining that there "was abundant prima facie evidence of wrongdoing" by tabloid journali...

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