{"id":4944,"date":"2011-07-18T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:09:32","slug":"news-of-the-world-whistleblower-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":"News Of The World Whistleblower Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now we have our first official “News Corpse”: The man who first raised allegations about hacking at the News Of The World, has been found dead. Via The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian reports that “The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing.”<\/em> The Guardian goes on to report that Hoare…<\/p>\n

“…told the [New York Times] that not only did Coulson know of the phone hacking, but that he actively encouraged his staff to intercept the phone calls of celebrities in the pursuit of exclusives.<\/p>\n

“In a subsequent interview with the BBC he alleged that he was personally asked by his then-editor, Coulson, to tap into phones. In an interview with the PM programme he said Coulson’s insistence that he didn’t know about the practice was ‘a lie, it is simply a lie.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is, first and foremost, a tragedy for the Hoare family. But the significance to the ongoing scandal cannot be dismissed. Stay tuned because, as Hoare himself had once said, “There’s more to come. This is not going to go away.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we have our first official “News Corpse”: The man who first raised allegations about hacking at the News Of The World, has been found dead. Via The Guardian “Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,13],"tags":[32,30],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-scandalous","tag-news-corp","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1hK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5614,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5614","url_meta":{"origin":4944,"position":0},"title":"Rupert Murdoch Faces Shareholders And Occupiers","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/22\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In a theater on the lot of Fox Studios in Los Angeles, about a hundred investors in News Corp assembled to hear Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants defend being criminals and thieves. 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