Met police put pressure on Guardian over coverage

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"Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardian during two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser.

The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-met-police-guardian

Hello, hello, hello, this all smells a bit fishy to me, officer. The Rozzers in bed with the gutter press? Well, well, well, this is another fine revelation.