The emotional supercharge of 9/11 in the US is many times greater than Milly Dowler in the UK – and look what happened here.
Commentators have compared the crisis to Watergate; Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter whose revelations helped depose a US president, says it is evident to him the events of the past week “are the beginning, not the end, of the seismic event”.
To coin a famous Murdoch newspaper headline: will the last person to leave News Corporation turn off the lights?
Susanthur Political Observer 