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A regulator with teeth: are you crazy?

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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 ...

Look to our own strength

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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 ...