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Mark Lewis: The Lawyer Who "Walked Into a John Grisham Novel"
"I was a small-town lawyer who suddenly ended up taking on one of the world's biggest media groups," says lawyer Mark Lewis.
March 27, 2012
Just How Big is News Corp.?
Pretty big, stretching across satellite and cable television, publishing and film. Here's a visualization of the company's holdings in 2011.
March 27, 2012
Tom Watson: The Loneliest MP Investigating Phone-Hacking
"Every friend and adviser I spoke to in 2009 to '10 said: 'You're not going to get to the truth of this. There are too many people at the top with a vested interest for this story not to come out,'" says MP Tom Watson.
March 27, 2012
Rupert Murdoch's Letter to FRONTLINE
Thirty of News Corp.'s directors, executives and journalists approached by FRONTLINE declined to be interviewed for this program, including Rupert Murdoch.
March 27, 2012
Murdoch's Scandal: The Essential Reads
From Milly Dowler to the Leveson inquiry, a quick and dirty guide to what you need to know as the saga continues to unfold.
March 27, 2012
What It's Like to Get "Monstered" By a Murdoch Tabloid
In 2003, British Member of Parliament Chris Bryant began investigating whether News International tabloids paid off police. Six months later, he found his private life splashed in the headlines.
March 27, 2012
The Covert Convert Behind the CIA's Drone Program
"He presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims," wrote The Washington Post's Gregg Miller, in a rare profile of the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC). "But he is himself a convert to Islam."
March 26, 2012
New Counterterrorism Guidelines Allow U.S. to Hold Americans' Data Longer
Signed yesterday, the new rules will allow the government to hold data on U.S. citizens who are not suspected of terrorist activity for 10 times longer than before.
March 23, 2012
Americans Increasingly Uneasy When Politicians Talk Religion
Of course, there's nothing new about the debate over the appropriate role of religion in politics and public life...
March 22, 2012
Breaking the News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal
FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman discusses "Murdoch's Scandal" on NPR's "Fresh Air."
March 22, 2012
Amidst Federal Crackdown, Connecticut Marijuana Bill Gains Traction
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have medical marijuana laws on the books right now, and Connecticut looks like it could be the next.
March 22, 2012