TY - BOOK AU - Watson,Thomas AU - Hickman,Martin TI - Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the corruption of Britain SN - 9781846146039 AV - PN4734.5.N48 W342 2012b U1 - 338.7610701 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Allen Lane KW - Murdoch, Rupert, KW - News Corporation KW - Mass media KW - Influence N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The wrong headlines -- Wapping's news factory -- The dark arts -- First heads roll -- Rogue defence -- The Manchester lawyers -- One determined reporter -- Intimidating Parliament -- A murder -- Our man in Downing Street -- Losing a battle -- Out of control -- U-turn at Wapping -- Summer's lease -- A missing girl -- Sky plus -- "We are sorry" -- Democracy Day -- Assault on the establishment -- The Ghosts of Wapping -- The press on trial -- Darker and darker N2 - Offers an account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Rupert Murdochs' News Corporation went to "put the problem in a box" (in James Murdoch's words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed ER -