Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails newspaper executives had used as the basis of their claim that no one at "News of the World" but Clive Goodman had been involved in phone hacking. Macdonald immediately concluded there was evidence of criminal activity, including payments to serving police officers, leading the Met to open an investigation focused on bribery and corruption within its ranks. (See discussion of Operation Elveden, below.) On 4 July 2011, "The Guardian" published an article authored by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill titled "Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World." This article
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