Phone-hacking. Entrapment. Police bribes. Stealing cruise missiles… OK, maybe we got the last one from Tomorrow Never Dies, but there have been some seriously shady things happening at some of Britain’s most widely-read newspapers.

The catalogue of criminality, corruption and conspiratorial goings on at News International continues to grow in what has been one of the most turbulent weeks in British media history. Rupert Murdoch’s pantomime villain status has been well and truly cemented.

The methods used by journalists to get their stories are now being questioned by the readers whose appetite for scandal allowed this culture to thrive, and people are increasingly suspicious of the cosy relationship between the political establishment and the nation’s media overlords.

Of course, news outlets outside Murdoch’s ethically-bankrupt empire have been lapping up the story. Some journalists have seemed a bit smug about it all, and the mutual resentment between the BBC and News International is well-known.

Whatever the organisational politics are, we salute the decision of the BBC Newsnight producers to draft in Steve Coogan alongside Paul McMullan, deputy features editor of the News of the Screws from 1994-2001. As far as we’re concerned, there was only ever going to be one winner in this unlikely face-off. See what happened for yourself:

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