Ex-News of the World features editor Paul McMullen boasted to Hugh Grant that his phone had been hacked following which Grant visited him in his pub and taped him divulging all the details. Grant wrote up the hacking practices of the Rupert Murdoch syndicate in the New Statesman, as well as the bribing of police and the participation of several British governments.
But none of that is why I post this. Readers of this site will know that much worse than this goes on in the British government, and the American, and most every other contemporary government. But nothing illustrates our society’s fall from morality and discernment so much as Paul McMullen’s defence of phone hacking in the second half of the video.
Hugh Grant: How I exposed hacking
BBC News, 6 July 2011
The actor Hugh Grant has been speaking about how he recorded a conversation between himself and Paul McMullen, in which the journalist revealed details of phone hacking by the media.
Details of the exchange were then revealed by Mr Grant in the New Statesman.
Mr McMullen, a former features editor at the News of the World, joined Mr Grant on the BBC’s News Channel to debate the issue.
