Bourgeois political power is not as unassailable as they would like us to think. Our rulers can be relied upon, periodically, to split. James Turley looks at the botched attempt of the Metropolitan Police to use the Official Secrets Act Once again, The Guardian has found itself targeted because of its phone-hacking investigation. Waving around the ...
There is no ahistorical code of 'press ethics' which can come out of this farrago, writes James Turley (first published here) Talk about a hostage to fortune - as soon as this writer detects a “momentary let-up” in the phone-hacking saga,[1] we get a new crop of developments. Another senior News International figure, former News of the ...
Michael Copestake demands the break up of Murdoch's media empire (first published in the Weekly Worker) The continuing turmoil around News International and the phone-hacking scandal has brought into sharp relief the attitudes of the different sections of the labour movement to the media - as things stand, they are machines for making money, tools for ...
The scandal at News International reveals a few home truths about the corrupt establishment, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Some starry-eyed commentators have, of late, begun comparing the implosion of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire with another spectacular collapse: the Berlin wall. This is, obviously enough, overstating the case by some considerable margin. Anybody ...
The News of the World scandal has revealed the true relationship between the media and politicians, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) It has probed, at best semi-legally, into the private affairs of well-heeled celebrities, politicians and royals major and minor; yet Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has suffered its first major body-blow in decades ...