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By
JOHN F. BURNS and
JO BECKER
July 7, 2011
LONDON — When
David Cameron
became prime minister in May 2010, one of his first visitors at 10
Downing Street — within 24 hours, and entering by a back door, according
to accounts in British newspapers — was
Rupert Murdoch.
Fourteen months later, with Mr. Murdoch’s media empire in
Britain
reeling, Mr. Cameron may feel that his close relationship with Mr.
Murdoch, which included a range of social contacts with members of the
Murdoch family and the tycoon’s senior executives, has been a costly
overreach.
Those concerns will be intensified by the expected arrest on Friday of Andy Coulson, the former editor of The
News of the World and, until he resigned in January this year, Mr. Cameron’s media chief at Downing Street.
Mr. Cameron hired Mr. Coulson in 2007 after scandals had rocked the
newspaper. And he repeatedly defended him even as signs accumulated that
Mr. Coulson had greater awareness of the newspaper’s phone-hacking
practices than he had acknowledged.
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