UK needs new media watchdog: PM

LONDON - The phone-hacking scandal of Rupert Murdoch's News International has shaken British journalism to its core and there are widespread calls for stepping up regulation of print media.

Senior politicians as high as British Prime Minister David Cameron and his team call for a possible end to newspapers' self-regulation, while some suggest "other ways of controlling Murdochs".

But the outcry is not just about journalism. "The system of collaboration between an over-mighty press and timorous politicians is being exposed," said Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator.