UK Phone Hacking Report: News Corp Has Wished To ‘Buy Silence’ To ‘Make This Problem Go Away’

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From the UK parliamentary report on News Corporation’s culture of phone hacking:

The willingness of News International to sanction huge settlements and damaging,wide-ranging admissions to settle civil claims over phone-hacking before they reach trial reinforces the conclusion of our 2010 Report that the organisation has, above all, wished to buy silence in this affair and to pay to make this problem go away.

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