News of the World registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the "News of the World" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the
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