As the walls close in around Murdoch, this shocking doc exposes the true extent of the industrial-scale corruption at the heart of the News of the World. Behind the hacking scandal lay decades of criminality.

At the News of the World private detectives supplied the facts, says former red top exec Alastair Campbell; "they were in a sense replacing journalists, because the private detectives could do things the journalists can't". Jonathan Rees was one such detective. A convicted criminal, for years he ran a full-time business supplying information to the paper. He eventually served a sentence for planting drugs on an innocent woman, just to get a story. For years the paper built up a complex network of contacts, including criminals, police and politicians; all feeding it, protecting it and allowing it to get away with the claim that the scandal was all the work of a single reporter. With everyone now asking how those at the top could have been ignorant of such widespread corruption, can the Murdoch empire survive?

ABC Australia