Hacking away at the truth: Alan Rusbridger’s Orwell lecture | Media | guardian.co.uk
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So tonight I want to talk about hacking – and its implications for the press and for Britain itself
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Rather improbably, over the past 12 months we’ve been chased by a number of major film studios wanting to make films about both the WikiLeaks and hacking stories. Stephen Spielberg was one of a number of producers who snapped up different rights to the WikiLeaks saga.
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So the story was almost killed by a combination of the police and a newspaper company – both institutions supposedly dedicated to dealing in the truth – saying things which were not true.