A Look Inside News of the World

The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece up by an anonymous former employee of Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World, detailing all the shady business that went on under then-editor-in-chief Andy Coulson.

Early on, the job entailed transcribing audiotapes that sleazy women made of footballers with whom they had sex. The girls would set up famous players, then sell them out to the paper in order to get some cash and fame. The recordings usually consisted of extended, loud orgasms; I would swear they were faking it as I transcribed the grunts and groans for my editors.

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