The meme you've never seen.Big media sleaze. If po .... The meme you've never seen.

Big media sleaze.

If power corrupts, then being a press baron corrupts preeetty sweetly, thank you. Robert Maxwell was a crook. Conrad Black *ahem* "borrowed" a few million dollars from his company, but forgot to tell anyone. Even Murdoch has secured his empire by grovelling to a totalitarian state and censoring criticism of it.

Yet Big Media never gets called on corruption. Sure, the stories get coverage, but just as stories, never as a narrative.

Imagine if out of the top 6 ministers of Tony Blair's Government, one was a thief, another had turned out to be corrupted by the Chinese communists and another had "borrowed" millions of dollars? Oh, and the other ones are respectively, an appeaser of Nazi Germany and a pornographer. Every Labour party member in the country would be asked to examine their conciences for supporting such swines. Everyone who had ever worked for these men would be ruined.

Yet I've yet to see a journalist, or editor who worked for one of these corrupt moguls being asked why they never asked the basic questions about their bosses. Come on. The editors of the Spectator, Telegraph and many other papers were working for a company which was being stolen from. Which brave journalist blew the whistle on the scam? Ummm. Same goes for the Mirror gang.

It's the story you never see. The men who control your newspapers are self interested, frequently corrupt and willing to sell out the truth for commercial favours. After all, who'd pay over the odds for a media company without an angle to work? Conspiracy theory? Unfortunately not, just the facts. [British Politics]
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