Politicians shaken by Murdoch affair

With the resignation of the two most senior officials of the London police Scotland Yard the scandal has now gone beyond the level of the media, writes the liberal daily Corriere del Ticino: "After these two resignations the British will have trouble describing this simply as a storm in a teacup. It is more like a hurricane that in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal has shaken not only the foundations of Murdoch's media empire but also the British political establishment. For if until recently the scandal seemed to be about revelations of corruption and a lack of professional ethics, the resignations have now taken it to the institutional level. ... Politicians are now implicated too. In the dock sit British governments, Labour and Conservative, who were prepared to turn a blind eye to curry favour with the Murdoch newspapers."

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