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By Maureen Dowd
Opinion Columnist
On Wednesday night I went to see “Corruption” at Lincoln Center. Written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher, the play unspools the chilling true saga of Rebekah Brooks. With her mop of red Renaissance curls and steely ambition, Brooks became the favorite lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch. She got in trouble more than a decade ago in the phone-hacking scandal in Britain — before she zoomed back to the top of the Murdoch empire. The British newspaper editors and politicians trying to stop the journalistic corruption leaned into The New York Times back then and our reporters Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Graham Bowley to help them break the story.
Brooks, played by the British actress Saffron Burrows, was the editor of News of the World, and she gives an ode to tabloid journalism in the play. But the moral is about amorality; the story underscores the viciousness and lack of decency of the British tabloids in the hacking scandal.
I thought of that when I watched the video of Princess Kate sitting on a bench amid daffodils, telling her heartbreaking story of a cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy. Cancer is a very personal thing, and how you tell your children is the most personal of all. But the 42-year-old princess is a public figure........