News of the World royal phone hacking scandal failures of the police investigation would go on to form part of the wider scandal in 2011. In August 2006, the "News of the World"s royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, it was
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal no criticism of "News of the World" for the phone hacking itself. CNN; (13 July 2011) County Fair, a media blog with links to media criticism, included on its "NewsCorpWatch" webpage that Cable News Network (CNN) reported "Fox News Watch" had admitted avoiding reporting on the phone hacking at its parent company. CNN found that "Fox News Watch" had not mentioned the scandal since August 2006 and that the L.A.Times reported that "Fox News stays mainly silent on the scandal during prime time when Rupert Murdoch shut down "News of the World". Other major news networks reportedly had fairly extensive