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Post-Leveson our media are too acquiescent and too afraid to take on the government. Exposing z-list celebrity affairs is still fair game, but with dwindling re
by iuguy 13y ago
Post-Leveson our media are too acquiescent and too afraid to take on the government. Exposing z-list celebrity affairs is still fair game, but with dwindling revenue, most newspapers don't want to rock the boat.
The BBC's been mostly the same since Gilligan and the dodgy dossier, if not earlier.
- zimpenfish 13y agoExcept the Daily Mail has not only taken on the government, they've bent them over a barrel and given them a right good seeing to until they've given them exactly what they want. Not just on this, either, but on other "holy quests" like the Liverpool Care Pathway.