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If someone told me seven days ago that the best-selling newspaper in the world was about to be shut down<\/a>, I’d have dismissed the notion as a bizarre fantasy.<\/p>\n But this week, the long-running phone hacking scandal<\/a> surrounding the News of the World<\/a> exploded, forcing owner Rupert Murdoch<\/a> to close his long-running Sunday tabloid.<\/p>\n Revelations that the newspaper targeted the mobile phones of teenage murder victims<\/a>, relatives of dead soldiers<\/a> and victims of the 7\/7 bombings<\/a> triggered widespread public and political outrage.<\/p>\n Apparently, even\u00a0worse<\/em>\u00a0revelations are reportedly to come.<\/p>\n Bizarrely actor Hugh Grant<\/a> had been ahead of much of the UK press, when he uncovered the sordid details<\/a> with an investigative piece for the New Statesman<\/a>.<\/p>\n His recent appearence on the BBC News channel<\/a> challenging former tabloid hack Paul McMullan went viral<\/a>.<\/p>\n But you know a scandal has truly taken hold when someone makes a Downfall parody<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n YouTube mashups involving the 2004 film about Hitler’s final days<\/a> have become an internet meme<\/a> used to parody prominent figures or organisations brought low by topical events.<\/p>\n One scene in particular, in which Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz<\/a>) realises that the war is essentially lost, has been re-subtitled countless times to fit a bewildering number of topics.<\/p>\n But now someone has ingeniousy re-cut other sequences from the film so that they fit with the News of the World phone hacking affair.<\/p>\n If you are unfamiliar with what’s been going on, just read the Wikipedia entry handily titled “News of the World phone hacking affair<\/a>” to familiarise yourself with the details.<\/p>\n Then watch how Rupert Murdoch<\/a>, Rebekah Brooks<\/a> and Andy Coulson<\/a> are weaved into this video:<\/p>\n