It is suggested by Dan Sabbagh in the “Guardian” that News International has adopted new, high risk, strategy of limited admission, coupled with an attempt to spread the blame elsewhere – arguing that several other papers were engaged in hacking too. [read post]

Luke Harding, Dan Sabbagh and Isobel Koshiw report for the Guardian. [read post]

Other interesting commentary we have spotted: The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh comments on “a high-court conflict between celebrities and tabloids“; Index on Censorship’s John Kampfner explains why “the tabloids don’t get it“; David Allen Green argues that the media ethics inquiry “is circumventing the chilling power of the tabloids”. [read post]