Cover -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- The Hack and the Hacker -- Chapter 1 A Prince's Knee -- Chapter 2 A Royal Rat Pack -- Chapter 3 A Scoop at Any Price -- Chapter 4 A Year of Pain for Andy Coulson -- Chapter 5 A Birminghambition -- Chapter 6 A Feikh of Araby -- Chapter 7 Of Public Interest vs of Interest to the Public -- Chapter 8 (He's the) Devil In Disguise -- Chapter 9 Will Anything Change? -- Index.

Do the great British public get the press the "Red Tops" think they deserve? Or are the tabloids' pious protestations of public interest really just a self-serving attempt to halt declining circulation? Peter Burden examines the News of the World's performance—with its Fake Sheikh and the illegal mobile phone tapping, which lead to a jail sentence for royal reporter Clive Goodman and the resignation of the editor. Burden also highlights the papers hypocrisy when Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, was himself unmasked. This is a book for everyone concerned about standards in British tabloid journalism and people who care about privacy rights and the debate over serving the Public Interest versus the interest of the public.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.