If you live in the UK you might recall the News International hacking scandal that ultimately brought down The News of the World. Though the editor - Rebecca Wade (now Brooks) - was protected by Murdock and has now reappeared as his CEO of News UK.

... what is News UK?  The publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and - if it hadn't been forced to close due to that hacking scandal - The News of the World. So that's alright then.

And so what has all this to do with 2016 in the USA ?

Turns out that Fox News seem to have borrowed some of those dirty tricks ....

New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman reported on September 2, that Fox News had “obtained the phone records of journalists, by legally questionable means,” including the home and cell phone records of Media Matters’ senior reporter Joe Strupp, in an effort to find Strupp’s anonymous sources at the network.
Media Matters president Bradley Beychok responded to the egregious allegations and said that the organization is “considering all legal options” available and that “anyone involved in the illegal hacking should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

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