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(not satire – it’s the Daily Telegraph!)
The highly respected chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph has caused an earthquake today in the newspaper industry by not only dramatically resigning but also accusing the newspaper of committing “fraud” on its readers.
Peter Oborne accuses the Telegraph’s owners of allowing big corporations such as the HSBC bank to influence the newspaper’s content and says “democracy itself is in peril“.
Mr Oborne’s full resignation statement is well worth a read as an example of how perilous our state of democracy has become under the patent leather boot of creeping corporate dictatorship:
Why I have resigned from the Telegraph
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Tom it’s not just the newspaper it’s the readership too
A while ago Mr Oborne commited sacrilege by sticking up for poor people in that newspaper.
You should have read the comments calling him a lefty and communist and “red peter ”
It’s was totally absurd
As mad as the Faily hate mail
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Resignation statement: “This webpage is not available.” 5 failed attempts.
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In all the years of rabid right wing rantings at the Toygraph, did Oborne not see where it was going? Bit late for a head-slap moment?
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Rarely agreed with Mr Oborne on anything, but he does come over quite honourably on this one.
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal.
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the DT has become the DM PartII – it is foul – so this is interesting
how many of you know this – http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/farmers-lose-right+to+know-their-land-is-being-fracked.htm
democracy and political accountability went a long time ago
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I have known Mr Oborne for some time. Regular visitors to “Prides Purge” will no doubt gather that I don’t share his “conservative-leaning” political views. What did amuse me, however, was the subhead in his resignation letter on https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph: ‘You don’t know what you are fucking talking about’. Not exactly the sort of language that Mr Oborne’s “conservatve-leaning” readers would approve of. But then, from my humble experience, “conservative-leaning” types say one thing but expect us ‘plebs’ to do another.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Oborne really is to be applauded for his principled stance against the corruption and manipulation of the Telegraph to appease its corporate backers and advertisers. Unfortunately, something close to this has been going on in the press for a very long time. Private Eye has since the 1990s covered the way even liberal newspapers like the Guardian and Groaniad have accepted and published material as factual articles, which are really just puff pieces and advertising for some of the world’s most malign global corporations and regimes. Private Eye a few years ago described how the Observer ran pieces extolling the virtues of China and Indonesia, when both those regimes were conducting savage crackdowns on political dissidents.
And back in the 1980s the Observer raised the issue of how television sponsorship could lead to the manipulation of TV news and documentaries, where these conflicted with the interests of the sponsors. This was after one of the American networks dropped a documentary on the exploitation of workers in Brazil, because of the corporations employing a female worker interviewed in the film was one of the network’s sponsors.
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View at Medium.com
This follows fast on the heels of the above. Possible conspiracy between Tory HQ and Torygraph for a smear campaign using sex abuse. If true it’s disgusting
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I posted a link on the above for info go to Tom Watson MP’s FB page
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