A rather interesting question keeps jumping into my head: what if it was the Beeb, and not news international, that got caught hacking into people’s phones? The bbc has, of course, had it’s share of controversy, most notably over the Iraq war, but the current scandal is of a different kind. Granted, the bbc accused the government of exaggerating claims about WMD, which is rather serious, but it did not hack into people’s phones or bribe police. Had it done so, I have no doubt that the bbc would be no more. It is a publicly funded institution, and had it been found to have engaged in the type of activity news int seems to condone, it would have had to be broken up at the very least. This begs the question, what should happen to news int? their bid for sky has already been blocked, but should it be broken up? Is it possible to do so?