A very good point, very well made. I agree with every word.
(It’s not satire – it’s Rupert Murdoch)
I’ve not pulled any punches in my criticism of the poor handling by the BBC of the Jimmy Savile scandal and I’m not going to stop.
But I can’t stand the hypocrisy of the Murdoch press taking the moral high ground against the BBC any more.
Murdoch’s clever. He’s already managed to reduce the phone hacking scandal to one of a battle between ‘scumbag celebrities’ and a ‘free and open’ press.
But we’re in danger of allowing Murdoch’s spin to erase the memory of the abuse that was meted out to innocent people, in one case a murdered child, by his own press.
The phone hacking scandal isn’t about ‘scumbag celebrities’. It’s about the abuse by Murdoch of a murdered schoolgirl – Milly Dowler – and her family.
And while Murdoch and the rest of the UK tabloids drone on and on…
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