The Bay Area journo muses in the Contra Costa Times about the effect of the News Corp.
hacking scandal and harkens to an American episode of similar ilk more than a decade ago. Remember Mike Gallagher of the Cincinnati Enquirer? His paper apologized and shelled out $10 million to the purveyor of Chiquita bananas after he tapped the fruit company’s phone lines for an expose on corruption there. Says Peele of the current mess:
At a time when the layoffs and shrinking staffs of news gatherers never seem to end, this is no time for a scandal, even when we keep causing them ourselves.
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The Bay Area journo muses in the Contra Costa Times about the effect of the News Corp. hacking scandal and harkens to an American episode of similar ilk more than a decade ago. Remember Mike Gallagher of the Cincinnati Enquirer? His paper apologized and shelled out $10 million to the purveyor of Chiquita bananas after he tapped the fruit company’s phone lines for an expose on corruption there. Says Peele of the current mess:
