Sky News UK: We chopped in the public interest

Rupert Murdoch's Sky News channel once allowed its journalists in computers, a potentially embarrassing revelation, the hope still, perhaps, the media mogul of the tooth to acquire control of BSkyB satellite broadcasting chop Air Jordan Shoes .
Sky News said on Thursday in a statement, in one case, it includes in emails to John and Anne Darwin, the "boat pair" so called, the notorious in Britain was, after he simulated his own death broke in a boating accident in the context of an evolving insurance fraud. The circumstances of the second case is not clear.
Sky News recognized intercept e-mail-boat pair, but said the material was then passed through the police and insisted they had done nothing wrong.
"We adhere to these measures are justified editorially and in the public interest. We take these decisions lightly or often no," Sky News boss John Ryley said in a statement.
He noted too that in a survey conducted in 2004, some journalists from Sky News had an Uzi submachine gun purchased to the availability of prohibited weapons in the UK illustrate. In 2003, to mark an undercover reporter in a small area at London Heathrow Airport security holes.
"These surveys serve the public interest and are a legitimate part of responsible journalism," said Ryley.
BSkyB shares fell 2.8 percent to 639 pence after news ($ 10.11).
A media frenzy was created when John Darwin - a long time as have died in a boating accident in the North Sea - in the territory of a London police station in late 2007 and said:. "I think I am a missing person"
He claimed to have amnesia and said he could not remember anything since 2000, but his story unraveled, as journalists and the police began digging into his background.
Sky News does not identify which of his stories is the result of piracy Air Jordan , but in the Article 21 Said in July 2008, journalist Gerard Tubb, the channel had discovered documents that show that John Darwin had decided to return to England because he had trouble staying in Panama.
"We found an e-mail:" The article begins, without an explanation of how the message was received. Sky refused Tubb or Ryley available for interviews.
The defense of the city works immediately drew skepticism from British lawyers.
David Allen Green, media lawyer at Preiskel & Co., said that there is no such thing as a defense of public interest, as the UK Computer Misuse Act was concerned.
"It is not authorized for the publishing of any new organization to be criminal," said Green, who was often a critic of Murdoch's News Corp.
The Crown Prosecution Service may decide, but it would not serve the public interest to lay charges.
"Seems as Sky News has hacked e-mails to monitor itself, so it was decided that any action, not in the public interest be," Green said in a message posted on Twitter.
Sky e-mail hacking, first reported in the Guardian newspaper, could be an additional headache for Murdoch. His international media empire, has spent most of the year in the spotlight on the widespread illegal behavior to his late tabloid News of the World, where journalists regularly get hacked phones of public figures "in an effort to balls.
News Corp. holds 39.1 percent of BSkyB, Sky News, the owner, and Murdoch was forced to leave a potentially lucrative offer for total control of the transmitter when the phone hacking scandal spilled over into July.
President of the string until the beginning of the week - The scandal has become increasingly involved in BSkyB and Murdoch's son James.
James, the former head of the division of his father, British newspaper, has long insisted he knew nothing of widespread misconduct in the New World. With this demand comes under increasing scrutiny, was the 39 years Tuesday to isolate in a move to BSkyB's scandal.
Opposition MP Chris Bryant, whose own phone was from the News of the World hacked, he said to ask in writing to BSkyB if the board of directors of the company knew piracy.
"Will James left?" Bryant asked on Twitter.
In a separate development, said a person familiar with the matter that the New World International News Editor was difficult phone hacking victims celebrity Sienna Miller on the size of his legal bill.
Miller has won ￡ 100,000 (approx. $ 160,000) of the International News in the last year, after the company admitted listening to their phone messages, but there was no agreement on the legal costs and the question addressed to the court, the person said. He spoke anonymously because the information may not have been granted for the release.
News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop declined to comment, as well as Miller's lawyer, Mark Thomson.
The phone hacking scandal has already cost nearly 200 million News Corp., mainly from legal fees and consulting Air Jordan 3 .