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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is facing British lawmakers today over the huge phone hacking scandal at News Corp. Several journalists have resigned and ten people have been arrested. Murdoch's son, James, may be forced out. Arrested, questioned for nine-hours and then released, Rebekah Brooks could play a key role in the investigations into the phone-hacking scandal. The paper says that police are treating the death of Sean Hoare as "unexplained" but "not suspicious," suggesting that it may have been a suicide. Hoare made his charges against Coulson, who went on to become Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman, to The New York Times last year for a magazine story about the phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper. He was quoted as saying that Coulson “actively encouraged me" to hack into other people's cell phone messages.This is not to say American journalists don’t play the angles from time to time. Reporters, this writer included, have...