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Hacking Scandal Gets ‘Frontline’ Treatment

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Episode on News Corp. airing Tuesday night at 10 p.m.

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Troubles at News Corp. just won’t go away. A day after the BBC unveiled new allegations of illegality in the pay-TV wing of Rupert Murdoch’s company, PBS’s Frontline looks into the phone-hacking scandal still roiling his British newspapers. Murdoch’s Scandal, airing Tuesday night, is narrated by Lowell Bergman, the longtime 60 Minutes investigative journalist who was memorably played by Al Pacino in the 1999 film The Insider. Bergman talks to Nick Davies, the Guardian journalist who has broken much of the story; Mark Lewis, the lawyer for dozens of phone-hacking victims; and others directly involved in the complex tale.

Read it at Newsday