The most surprising aspect of the UK phone hacking scandal is that so far it has been limited to the News of the World. In possibly the world's most competitive press system one might have assumed all the tabloids would have been eavesdropping on phone calls. But, who knows, in the end others might be implicated, too.There are three main aspects that helped create the conditions for this mess. First, there's an all-powerful proprietor who through the decades has created an environment the British had thought was solely an American trait...there's no glory in second place.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dan-ehrlich/uk-phone-hacking_b_900646.html)