Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims

so has The Australian being doing this kind of thing? The Telegraph? The Sun-Herald? The (name of your local Murdoch rag?)

Isn't this treason?

(and isn't this the kind of story that wouldn't be reported without an independent media and blogs? Now we know what John Hartigan was so pissed off about.)

(from warren ellis)