Leveson's Enquiry

A big issue that came up in the media industry that regarding ethical constraints was the News of the World phone hacking scandal. To get more facts about situations, News of the world hacking to to victims phone messages to get information. This was first discovered back in 2002, and then in Summer 2011 New of the World published their last newspaper and shut down.

JK Rowling

JK Rowling was a witness at the Leveson’s Enquiry. She spoke her horror at discovering a letter from a journalist inside her five year old daughter’s school bag. She was completely outraged about this,
and the said that that journalist got another mother from the school to slip the letter the five year olds' bag. Rowling said at the Leveson Enquiry, "I can only say that I felt such a sense of invasion that my daughter's bag … it's very difficult to say how angry I felt that my five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a place of complete security from journalists."

Charlotte Church

Charlotte Church is one of the most high-profile witnesses in the Leveson Enquiry, told the enquiry into media standards that she was pressured into waiving a £100,000 to sing at Rupert Murdoch's wedding in exchange for a promise of a 'good press', at the age of 13. But when she was 16, and out of the projection of Rupert Murdoch high authority, the press started to swarm. The 16 year old had paparazzi trying to take photographs up her skirt, they hacked her phone, and she was just generally harassed.

Milly Dowler's Parents

The parents of the murdered school girl, Milly Dowler, were also witnesses of the Leveson Enquiry. Bob and Sally Dowler we're the first alleged victims to appear before the high court. Back in 2002 Milly Dowler was abducted on her way home from school. Milly had her mobile phone on her, and that was how her parents we're trying to get in contact with her, but because she did not answer they they her voice messages in the mail box. Eventually the mail box was full, so that meant that they could not leave any more messages until the previous ones has been heard and deleted. But keeping their hopes up, they attempted to contact Milly once more. The same thing happened and there was no answer, but this time they managed the get through to the mail box. This meant that the previous messages had been heard and deleted. This gave Bob and Sally false hope about their missing daughter, this is because it turned out that the News of the World wanted to know more on what was going with the case, that they had managed to hack into the school girls phone and listen to all of the messages, then delete them making from for the family to leave more.