"She should consider her position. But this goes well beyond one individual. This is about the culture and practices that were obviously going on at the News of the World, for a sustained period," he said in a statement. 。Influential BBC journalist Robert Peston blogged on his Twitter feed: "News Int execs tell me they fear there may have been worse examples of NOTW hacking than that of Milly Dowler's phone. The mind reels." News International declined to comment. 。The ministry reviewing the bid declined comment. But opposition Labour politician and former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who was told by police his phone may have been hacked, wrote to communications regulator Ofcom to ask it to review the bid and said it was not too late to halt the deal. 。Premier's spokesman 。Brooks told staff in a memo she would not go. "It is almost too horrific to believe that a professional journalist or even a freelance inquiry agent working on behalf of a member of the News of the World staff could behave in this way," she wrote. 。His government is weighing approval of News Corp's takeover bid for BSkyB though it was unclear the latest twist of scandal would do much to bolster what analysts see as slim prospects that his centre-right administration would step in to block a move that critics say concentrates too much political power in the hands of the Australian-born American media baron. 。
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- UK phone hack scandal hits new low (2:03)UK Prime Minister David Cameron has led a chorus of condemnation over allegations a top-selling British newspaper from Rupert Murdoch's global media empire hacked the voicemail of a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered. 。"On the question about the really appalling allegations about the telephone of Milly Dowler, if they are true, this is a truly dreadful act," Cameron told journalists in Kabul. 。False hope 。Opposition Labour party leader Ed Miliband said News International Chief Executive Brooks, News Corp's most senior executive so far affected, should think about resigning. ,ダークブラッド RMT。Suggestions that the News of the World's activities might have hampered police and given false hope to the family of the murdered teenager, Milly Dowler, caused uproar in Britain and moved Cameron to comment while on a visit to Afghanistan. 。The kidnap and murder of Milly Dowler is among the highest-profile criminal cases of recent years. Revelations from her family's lawyer that police were checking whether journalists manipulated her cellphone account while she was missing come less than two weeks after her killer was finally convicted. 。Ofcom has the power to decide whether News Corp is a fit and proper owner of BSkyB but an industry source said it would not do anything until the police investigation into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World was concluded. 。Murdoch transformed the British press landscape in the 1980s during Margaret Thatcher's years as prime minister, bringing in new technology and confronting printers' and journalists' trade unions. He commands audiences with global leaders and, through his media, is seen as one of the world's most powerful men. 。Media consultant Steve Hewlett told BBC radio: "This now looks like an industrial-level activity, which makes editors' denial that they knew anything about it even more implausible." 。The gravest accusations yet drove the long-rumbling scandal into the heart of Murdoch's News Corp : it came as it seeks official approval to take over broadcaster BSkyB ; and forced Rebekah Brooks, a Murdoch confidante who was the News of the World editor at the time, to plead ignorance and say she would not resign as head of News Corp's British newspaper arm. ,ro RMT。BSkyB shares traded down 0.5 percent at 846 pence by 1427 GMT, underperforming the European media index . 。Pressure is unlikely to let up, however. 。Facebook and Twitter campaigns sprang up in the wake of the latest allegation encouraging to boycott the News of the World. 。Suggestions that in 2002 a News of the World investigator listened in to, and deleted, messages left for the cellphone of the 13-year-old, misleading police and her family, caused uproar in parliament, where the tactics and power of the tabloid press, many of them Murdoch titles, have long caused controversy. 。Cameron had until now said little about the phone hacking scandal, which forced the resignation earlier this year of his own spokesman, another former editor of the News of the World. 。Analysts expect the $15 billion-plus BSkyB deal to go through despite political and popular. 。Cameron, who is close to the Murdoch family and has often been spotted socialising with Brooks in Oxfordshire where they both have country homes, also reiterated that the BSkyB merger should be handled separately from the phone hacking probe. 。"The secretary of state is not entitled to consider these latest appalling allegations when considering the News Corp proposal to buy the rest of BSkyB," said analyst Chris Goodall of media and telecoms research firm Enders Analysis. 。Lawmakers agreed to clear three hours of parliamentary time for an emergency debate on the issue on Wednesday. 。Police, who have been accused of being sluggish in probing a media organisation to which some officers sold information, have arrested three journalists since relaunching their inquiries. 。The phone-hacking affair, in which journalists desperate to boost circulation dialled in to mobile phone voicemail servers of public figures in the hunt for stories, has rumbled for years - the News of the World's royal correspondent and a private investigator were jailed in 2007 after hacking for scoops. 。News Corp long maintained that the cases were isolated and the work of a lone journalist gone off the rails. This year, it admitted liability in a few cases and will pay compensation to victims including actor Sienna Miller. Others, including actor Jude Law and soccer star Ryan Giggs are still suing the paper. 。In January, angry celebrities, including entertainment and sports stars, as well as politicians, who feared their messages had been listened to prompted police to open a new inquiry,メイプルストーリー RMT. 。And police looking into phone hacking by the newspaper later said they had been in touch with the parents involved in another notorious child murder, when two 10-year-old girls were seized and killed by school caretaker in the town of Soham in 2002. 。A least one major advertiser, carmaker Ford , said it was pulling ads from the News of the World - though not the other Murdoch papers - until it saw how the tabloid dealt with the new allegation. 。Peta Buscombe, chair of Britain's Press Complaints Commission, said News Corp had lied, leading the PCC to conclude in 2009 that there was no evidence the phone hacking was the work of more than one rogue reporter: "I personally and the PCC are so angry because clearly we were misled," she told the BBC.
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