From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week, bells and whistles is the media slot machine when triple-sevenths, filling forth the glittering coin of sex, murder, and slees.

The latter contributed by certain news outlets that will not go nameless.

Meanwhile, accused child killer Casey Anthony is acquitted,

sparking outrage in the public and punditocracy.

Meanwhile, the hotel maid who accused French Politico, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of rape,

is accused in turn of being a prostitute by Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid the Post.

She's suing.

Meanwhile, the most sordid and transgressive of Murdoch's British tabloids, news of the world,

transgresses so sordidly that the whole of the United Kingdom is in an uproar.

Bob, start there. All right, we'll do. A sleazy scandal of the United Kingdom is in an uproar. Bob, start there.

All right, we'll do.

A sleazy scandal of the sort long exploited by News of the World

has led Murdoch's News International to close down News of the World.

What has truly outraged Britain is the allegation that just came out

that the news of the world may have hacked into the voicemail of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murder.

It was Britain's worst peacetime act of terrorism, but now there are concerns that families of those killed on 7-7 in 2005 were also eavesdropped upon by journalists.

They had gone from celebrity phone hacking to murdered victim hacking, to bomb victim hacking,

to soldiers and dead soldiers hacking.

And an arrest in that huge hacking scandal in Britain, the news of the world's former editor

and the Prime Minister's former aide.

The murdered girl's name was Millie Dowler.

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