2011- A Pivital Year

So far in media studies me and my class are looking at the events and issues that has derived to the world as making 2011 a pivital year in terms of media. 

What i am looking at is the phone hacking scandal that has recently been uncovered involving 'The News Of The World' hacking in to celebrities phones in desperate measure of a story, which has also led to the the death of a young girl named Lily Dowler in which her parents still had false hope that she was alive, this issue has become bigger than we expected raising many question about the media and the power that the media wields, they is line between searching and destroying, has the media cross that crucial line??