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(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 about a free press, let’s not forget that in four decades – four decades – of open abuse by Jimmy Savile and others not one of Murdoch’s reporters or newspapers or editors – not even one – managed to tell us about it.
Mainly because at the height of Savile’s reign of abuse, in the 70s and 80s, Murdoch was too busy inventing stories about the so-called ‘loony left‘ for his own selfish political and financial ends to be bothered about mere children being sexually abused by people he was probably friendly with.
Don’t let Murdoch get away with burying his own disgusting past when it comes to using and abusing innocent victims.
RIP Milly Dowler. Lest we forget.
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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Well said, Tom. It was what the Murdoch press did to people like Milly and her family that enraged the nation.
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Well said again Tom. I’d only add that they are ‘all in it together’.
Murdoch’s interests, together with this government’s, align in furthering those of the 0.014%. And just as it is in the interest of the Murdoch media empire to minimise phone-hacking and destroy the BBC, it is in the interests of the neoliberal/neofeudal plutonomists to protect Murdoch’s capacity to promote their propaganda and spin. Doubtless, if they actually thought about it, they would dismiss Milly Dowler and the abused children as simply ‘collateral damage’!
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My research, so far, describes a scenario where some of our politicians were actually blackmailed into makiing some very odd decisions.
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Excellent. Very well said.
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Reblogged this on Black Sheep Diary and commented:
A very good point, very well made. I agree with every word.
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well murdochs come to life again its without doubt this family of liers like our goverment wer all meant for each other but not over here jeff3
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Public interest journalism and broadcasting standards enquiries, like Leverson show the gulf between righteous indignation and diabolical hypocrisy in many people, particularly in the media, given the right environment and circumstances, particularly where money is involved.
I couldn’t care less what consenting adults do, so long as children and animals don’t get hurt..
Good investigative journalism and a free press are a key stone of modern democracy and moral debate.
People who commit crimes, usually do so with the intention of not being caught.
Celebrity “scumbags” often have the means to fight back against media smears in a libel court or through a “super injunction” to save their blushes.
When the likes of Andrew Marr, Jeremy Clarkson and Ryan Giggs pay for gagging orders, it shows how seriously the BBC take their reputation and the lengths they go to to keep us in the dark?
Celebrity gossip columns are a Faustian pact between sport, entertainment and commercial media in most cases anyway.
When children and vulnerable people go missing, are raped or abused however, when crimes and scandals affecting the fabric of society take place, that’s in the public interest.
If the BBC, news corp, indeed, our very government and senior establishment practice propaganda and cover up, a moral and democratic, accountability are deeply compromised.
Children cannot be allowed to become victims of too many adult fools and selfish monsters.
Self regulation not an option.
Trouble is, who CAN we trust to deliver a guilt free press?
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Around that time of loony left i phoned the sun over greenham common thing . The story they were pushing was of dirty scruffy women who were probably lesbians and a woman who lived nearby worried how it affected the value of her property overlooking the fact she was living next to a nuclear target
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