News Corp. Did Not Do the Horrible Thing It Basically Admitted
Doing  Whoops! Remember when Rupert Murdoch's News of the World
was revealed to have illegally listened to the voicemails of
teen murder victim Milly Dowler? And how the bastards actually
erased the voicemails, leading Dowler's family to falsely
believe that their little girl was still alive and checking her
messages? And how Murdoch killed off NOTW in shame and a
panicked attempt to avert scandal when it all came out? Well,
there's a slight wrinkle.  They didn't actually erase the
emails. Testifying before an judicial inquiry into British
tabloids yesterday, a lawyer for the Metropolitan Police claimed
that—contrary to the Guardian's blockbuster story last summer,
which sparked the conflagration that became Hackgate— Dowler's
voicemails were likely erased automatically by her cellphone
provider, as opposed to ruthless NOTW reporters. The original
Guardian report, which didn't attribute the allegation to any
sources but merely asserted that the vo