09-09-2010, 08:32 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/201...ris-bryant
We pick up the transcript as Bryant, who led today's Commons debate on the News of the World phone hacking story, tells Burley that phone hacking and other illegal techniques were "endemic" in the newspaper industry in the past.
Understatement makes come-back.
We pick up the transcript as Bryant, who led today's Commons debate on the News of the World phone hacking story, tells Burley that phone hacking and other illegal techniques were "endemic" in the newspaper industry in the past.
Quote:Burley: Do you have evidence for that?
Bryant: Sorry, for what?
Burley: Do you have evidence that it is endemic not only at the News of the World but other newspapers? Pretty strong claim if you don't.
Bryant: Well, the Information Commissioner produced a report which if you had listened to the debate earlier yourself then you would know, or if you had read that report then you would see that he referred to more than 1,000 cases in various different newspapers. I think it was something like 800 – I've not got the figures with me now – 800 incidences in the Mail alone.
Burley: So you are in a position to have listened to the debate and read the report and as a result you are content to say that on telly.
Bryant: I have just said that. You seem to be a bit dim, if you don't mind me saying so.
Understatement makes come-back.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
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