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Originally Posted by Osem
Brown certainly wasn't as slick and media friendly as Blair and didn't call all the shots but the point is that he went along with what was going on for a very long term and now clearly regrets he did so. The venom in his recent words, I believe, betrays more about the personal hurt he feels towards NI (for reasons like those you mention) than anything else. He had his chance to take on Murdoch and ran scared.
If I was being cynical I might suggest that the Lib Dems' antipathy towards Murdoch could just have something to do with the fact that Murdoch never had any interest in them due to their relative insignficance to UK politics. Had they been on the verge of power I wonder if they'd have been quite so 'honourable'.....
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Well Yes, In both cases I think News International had rejected them before they decided that they didn't want them anyway
. It's scary the degree to which NI was influencing our governments. We always knew it but could never do much about it until now.
The last week has been great quite frankly, day by day sees his power on the wane. The Inquiry is great news and should help prevent that situation from occurring again. The relationship between the press and politicians will be looked at, meetings recorded, and hopefully a new governing body to regulate the press. Still need to keep pushing them though, the MP committee next week will be interesting. I am hoping News Corp decide to cut the cancer that is News International adrift and remove Murdoch once and for all.
We should also limit a media organisation to one person IMO. You can only own one newspaper or tv news outlet. Might get tricky to extend that online...