CNN 2011-07-18

 The heartless details of the Milly Dowler case are worth repeating, Murdoch's news people are accused of hacking¹ the cell phone of the 13-year-old after she was abducted². And it gets even more cruel. 

 

The tabloid³ "News of the World" then reportedly deleted messages so her mailbox would keep providing new material to print. For six grueling months the mailbox activity gave her family false hope that she was still alive.

 

After this statement, I'll be meeting the family of Milly Dowler. None of us can imagine what they have gone through, but I do know this. They, like everyone else in this country, want their politicians, all of us, to bring this ugly chapter to a close and ensure that nothing like it can ever happen again. 

 

Dan Rivers is in London. 

 

Dan, tell us of today's meeting. 

 

Well, it's the last of a series of meetings that the Dowler family have had. They've already met the deputy prime minister and the leader of the political opposition⁴ here. 

 

Today they'll meet David Cameron, the prime minister. And I'm sure they will outline the same points that the media basically, and particularly the tabloid media, specifically the "News of the World" are completely out of control, according to this family who have been subjected to the most horrendous⁵ amount of extra suffering and pain on top of the terrible times that they've already been through because of journalists hacking into the voicemail of their murdered 13-year-old daughter. 

 

And it was this story really that caused this whole phone hacking story to explode here in the UK. There was such a massive backlash of public opinion against "The News of the World." And then since then, the allegations have just gotten worse and worse for News International, the company that owns this newspaper. 

 

Suggestions now that victims of 9/11 may also have been targeted, something that Senator Jay Rockefeller has brought up as well. So this is a story that is growing, that is now transatlantic in nature and one that is changing the kind of political landscape here massively as well because in the past all politicians here were clamoring to be as close to Rupert Murdoch as possible. Now the very opposite seems to be the case.

 

Checking stories "Cross Country."

 

In California,police arrest Rodney King for suspicion of driving under the influence.You remember Rodney King was brutally⁶ beaten by officers during a traffic stop in 1991. A  case that sparked the infamous⁷ L.A. riots just a year later.

 

 

Woonsocket, Rhode Island, police say a college cheerleader may have saved his own life by using a tumbling move after falling four stories off a building. Dylan Smith did a backflip and landed on his feet. He suffered a broken pelvis.Take a look at this stash

1 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

2 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

3 tabloid   

adj.轰动性的，庸俗的；n.小报，文摘

参考例句：

• He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.他口头对小报新闻进行了抨击。
• He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.他认为小报媒体的行为不太光彩。

4 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

5 horrendous   

adj.可怕的，令人惊惧的

参考例句：

• He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life.他形容这是自己一生中最可怕的经历。
• The mining industry in China has a horrendous safety record.中国的煤矿工业具有令人不安的安全记录。

6 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

7 infamous   

adj.声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的，邪恶的

参考例句：

• He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
• I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。