Carl Bernstein, of All the President’s Men fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand. Bernstein highlights a story first disclosed earlier this month in the Washington Post by his former journalistic partner Bob Woodward that media mogul Rupert Murdoch tried to “buy [...]

Oh, what a lovely game Rupert Murdoch is a bad man. His son James is also bad. Rebekah Brooks is allegedly bad. The News of the World was very bad; it hacked phones and pilloried people. British prime ministers grovelled before this iniquity. David Cameron even sent text messages to Brooks signed “LOL”, and they all [...]

Luego del escándalo generado a nivel mundial por las revelaciones de Wikileaks, ahora tiene lugar otro que afecta directamente la objetividad y la confiabilidad de los grandes medios de comunicación, esta vez en Inglaterra donde un emporio empresarial de la información es el foco de atención al revelarse que realizaba masivas escuchas ilegales de la [...]

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship’s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast’s foreign editor. “Is Mr. [...]

Farándulas legalistas, agendas para la distracción y prolegómenos de la impunidad Que ellos destapen sus podredumbres no nos hace (automáticamente) más fuertes. Toda la descomposición del capitalismo se concentra, y se agudiza, en sus magnates mediáticos, lo sabemos hace mucho. Ellos son enciclopedias del estercolero ideológico que, en su desesperación, es capaz de pergeñar los atropellos [...]

The rottenness of British political culture, in a country where the lives of so many have been subjugated by lies for so long, has now been on public view for the last few weeks. The country’s most powerful media baron is forced by events to close down his profitable Sunday paper—News of the World— specializing [...]

The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known? In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital city press. Australia is the world’s first murdochracy, in which smear [...]

We deceive ourselves in thinking that the Beeb has a left-wing bias. The corporation is in thrall to the same interests as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and the saviour of Iraq, Tony Blair. Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will [...]