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(11i) They did it again

Recently, the trial of bosses of newspapers from the Murdoch group ended and all except one person were found not guilty. OK, the worst offender, the News of the World, does no longer exist and a number of smaller fish were already convicted while it seems millions of pounds are already paid to victims of the hacking (although they may start having to fear that they may have to return some money now newspapers may claim the court proved them to be innocent. Likewise, BP, the company responsible for the Deepwater disaster, started to claim they paid too much to some victims. Because, mercy they don't know, they know only profits). When the hacking became public a few years ago, public outrage was big, not so much because celebrities were targeted because many people like to know what celebrities do as the latter earn money being famous and thus the public loves to know about any of their (mis)behaviour. No, outrage was mainly because ordinary people were targeted who had suffered