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Not all leaks are created equal : Comments
By Antony Loewenstein, published 11/2/2011When it comes to unknown unknowns, Wikileaks is head and shoulders the best source.
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It's not so much a system of control by private companies (as it is, their control is limited to the monopolies on some consumerables, and privatized assets)
-as much as it is a system where politics attracts dishonest, incompetent business-world rejects whose sole objective is to get into government and use it as a launching pad into the ranks of the top companies by doing favors while in government (refer to Bob Carr's relationship with Macquarie Bank as a good example).
For actual powers, it very much is distributed among government, even our money, debts, inflation rates are set by governments or bodies that answer directly to governments- it is merely that, again, the government is perfectly free to corrupt the process by altering it to suit people who can do them favors.
Media-wise, every boss of a commercial channel and newspaper press would have his preferred party (again, these too are businessmen who would have a lot of preferred policies in mind) who would of course make their programming favor their own preferred party:
Sadly, as Australia only has three commercial networks and two newsprint companies, this coverage is far more constrained.
All it takes of course is for more people to change their attitude as voting citizens- which is made most possible by leaking every act of misconduct they commit- thus ensuring that voters have the means to be more responsible and know more of which candidates are crooked.
Hence why I support all the leakers (and of course direct-democracy, where bribing half a nation into a bad policy is much harder)).