British phone hacking scandal

If you haven't already heard, Britain is more or less falling apart.  News Corporation, the group who owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal on the U.S. side and (until last week) News of the World on the British side, initially stood accused of tapping the phone of the family of a murdered 13 year old British girl in order to gain a scoop on the story.  Since breaking, the scandal has rippled wider and wider: News of the World was shut down, several top News Corp. executives have resigned, top brass in Scotland Yard have resigned, and Prime Minister David Cameron cut a trip to Africa by more than half to return and face Parliament, several of whose members are openly calling for him to resign.  And now, further allegations have raised the possibility that News Corp. also tapped into the communications of the families of 9/11 victims, bringing the scandal stateside and initiating a U.S. investigation.  Some people are even questioning CEO Rupert Murdoch's future with News Corp., a previously unthinkable eventuality.  This is a huge and serious story, which deserves more attention than it has yet received in America.  The Telegraph has a live-updating, comprehensive (or perhaps even verbose) blow-by-blow of the entire scandal here.  Read this or some other article, but educate yourself about this scandal; it should be a wake-up call about journalistic ethics, at least.