Gobsmacked by the Media

[JohnyCanuck]

Y' know, sometimes you have to admire the nerve of the BBC and the corporate press, they have no shame, none whatsoever as they crow loudly that now the Big Bad Wolf has been defanged, they can all pat themselves on the back for what a good job they've done in exposing the malfeasance of News Corp.

Four years after Rebekah Brooks blurted out that the News of the World was backhanding the cops thousands of pounds for the inside dope on stories and who knows what else, the media's silence on the subject was deafening. This admission should have been grounds for an immediate criminal investigation of the NotW for bribery and corruption but nothing happened… Blink and you missed it.

Following those parliamentary hearings two men went to jail for phone hacking; one an employee of the NotW, the other a private investigator hired by the NotW. End of story? Not exactly, unless of course you got your news from the BBC.

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It's a sick relationship whereby trained media professionals are essentially whoring themselves to the political class and justifying it by arguing that they need these intimate relationships with politicians and businessmen else they won't get the 'inside dope' and we'll be left ignorant of what our masters are up to.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/07/16/gobsmacked-by-the-media.html

[monmouth]

1. David Gregory's little dance with Rove was pure proof of that..n/t

[babylonsister]

2. McCain and his picnics for the press come to mind. nt