Thread: [Update] The News Corp scandal
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Old 13-06-2012, 15:31   #1823
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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
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Originally Posted by Itshim View Post
What really puzzles me is why people are surprised by all of this. Study your history.None of this is new.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902).
Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."


So nothing changes then.

well the fact of the matter is that Murdoch would never have had such power if the politicians had been more worthy of our faith in them to protect us and the country's interests instead of their own interests.
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