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The Leveson Inquiry: what a lovely game : Comments

By John Pilger, published 5/6/2012

Leveson Inquiry reveals a matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised.

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I don't think that the Murdoch phone tapping is all that cut and dry.It was common knowledge that much of press media was involved in phone tapping,so why was Murdoch attacked so?

Fox News was the only mainstream media to host Judge Napolitano and "Freedom Watch".Fox was the only media outlet that put on adds by http://www.ae911truth.org/ asking for a proper investigation into 911.

Just recently the Napolitano show "Freedom Watch" was ended.I think Murdoch was trying to break from the insanity of this New World Order and he was being made an example of what happens to those who break ranks.

The elites are fighting amongst themselves as their plans for Global dominance are in disarray.
Posted by Arjay, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 6:29:40 PM
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"“the matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised”."

Perhaps Mr Pilger will grace us with a description of the rapidly emerging power "matrix" in Australian society; a few names to help him on his way:

Finkelstein, Ricketson, Manne etc
NBN and internet censorship
FOI and the plan by Roxon to exempt MPs and bureaucrats from it

I'll take the dirty digger any day.
Posted by cohenite, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 7:01:17 PM
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A typically sour rant from Mr Pilger, but remarkably on target for a change.

There is little that "the establishment" will do - or even wishes to do - to set any realistic boundaries in the relationship between the media and the ruling classes - a term, incidentally, that these days extends a long way down the public service hierarchy. At Leveson, as the article points out, boredom and apathy have already set in. By the time any report comes out, the train will not only have left the station, it will have long since been decommissioned, scrapped and recycled into Coke cans.

We have our own mini-me press watchpuppy in ACMA, which regularly rolls over to have its tummy tickled by the Murdoch clan.

Pathetic.
Posted by Pericles, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 7:42:16 PM
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It seems as if Rupert Murdoch's earlier crimes against democracy have been largely overlooked. They include his turning on the Labor Government of Gough Whitlam in 1974. Until then, many, including myself, considered the Murdoch press, particularly The Australian newspaper, to be a source of truth and enlightenment.

Suddenly in 1974 -- and I don't recall whether it was before or after the mid-term federal elections -- the Murdoch Press began carrying headline stories which blew up every minor indiscretion of members of the Labor government -- The Jim Cairns/Juni Morosi affair, Rex Connor's ill-advised attempt to raise money through Khemlani for the laudable goal of buying back Australian mineral wealth, etc.

The end result was the removal of the Whitlam Government in the CIA staged dismissal of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, and his defeat in the subsequent election campaign, largely rigged by Murdoch Press disinformation. Since then, a series of Governments led by people more beholden to vested foreign interests than to Australia have been elected and entrenched in office with help of the Murdoch press. These include Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard.
Posted by malthusista, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:18:21 AM
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Having just read Arjay's insightful comment at the start of the discussion, it seems possible that Rupert may have found his conscience again after all these years.

So, the overlooking of Rupert Murdoch's earlier crimes against democracy in Australia, the US, the UK and elsewhere, and, instead, focusing on relatively trivial and more recent actions by employees of the Murdoch Press may have been no accident.

In truth, as Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker pointed out in "Towers of Deception" of 2007, more harm has been done in recent years to democracy and world peace by phony socialist groups and phony alternative news media than by pro-war corporate newsmedia (wherever the truth about the Murdoch media may lie).

The reason they do more harm is that they are trusted more by knowledgeable people. When lies used to justify war, such as the Official 9/11 conspiracy theory are peddled on their pages, informed and humane people are more likely to believe them.

An example is the ostensibly socialist UK group, Workers' Liberty which supported NATO's illegal war against Libya last year, in which more than 50,000 Libyans died and which is now supporting NATO's attempt to destabilise Syria with terrorist mass killers. See for yourself at http://workerslibety.org/world/syria and http://workerslibery.org/world/libya .

Those interested in knowing the truth about Libya and Syria should compare the lies linked to above with sites like http://globalresearch.ca and http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com
Posted by malthusista, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 1:35:34 AM
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Sorry, the URLs in the above post linking to disinformation about Syria and Libya should have been:

http://workersliberty.org/world/syria and http://workersliberty.org/world/libya

As I said before, to learn the truth about those conflicts, go to http://globalresearch.ca and http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com

Also, check out Mimi El Ahram an articulate young English Speaking Syrian patriot at http://www.youtube.com/syrianGirlPartisan

She's wonderful.
Posted by malthusista, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 1:47:45 AM
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