In those days, probably a dozen British tabloids and half a dozen higher-brow broadsheets all chased the same stories. In an effort to beat his newspaper's rivals, an investigator employed by News of the World, one of those tabloids, hacked into Dowler's cellphone.
The British phone-hacking scandal highlighted unethical practices in the media such as phone hacking, bugging, and police bribery accepted in some parts of the British press with limited consequences.
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