At last, a reporter's insight into life under the 'criminal-in-chief'

For anyone who watched the phone-hacking scandal and wondered, ''What were those journalists thinking?'', answers have come from a former reporter at the News of the World, who says editors including ''criminal-in-chief'' Rebekah Brooks had encouraged the ''perfectly acceptable'' practice. Paul McMullan gave frank evidence about the mind-set at the former tabloid paper to Britain's Leveson inquiry into media practices on Tuesday. He said:

Former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking, and their denials made them ''the scum of journalism for trying to drop me and my colleagues in it'';

Only evil people needed privacy: ''Privacy is for paedos'';

Hacking was ''perfectly acceptable'' given the need to find the truth and the sacrifices reporters made for their careers.     Read Here