There is no reason think that News of the World’s dirty tricks were confined to the Murdoch tabloids, or that the popular press will clean up its act: until hacking became an overwhelmingly and unavoidably big story, there had been a deafening silence on the subject from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. What has happened again and again after past scandals has been a pretence of contrition, a period of restraint, and then, like a dipso unable to resist the bottle, a return to the bad old ways.
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