Corporate press did not expose dodgy donors & Labour frauds cos of Blair
press is as much to blame as the politicians | 01.12.2007 11:25
The Corporate press did not expose the dodgy donors and peerage scandal and tried to smear policman Yates because it is part of the fraud that has tried to hide the truth from the British public. No one is stupid enough to believe this Government is not corrupt, everything from the National Audit Office to the Seriously Flawed Office and the cabinet are profiteering from taxpayers while supporting the most corrupt and environmentally damaging companies of this century - the Carlylle group, British Aerospace, Monsanto etc etc Perhaps this is why Citizen Journalism is on the rise. It is the only place people reveal the truth rather than wait for some fat bastard pretending to be left wing on the Guardian or Independent who write anything for a free lunch and access to power (not matter how corrupt).
press is as much to blame as the politicians
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Interesting rant, but...
03.12.2007 12:49
...what's your evidence to support this? Which citizen reporter revealed this stuff first?
As far as I can see, all the main revelations of the dodgy donations to the Government have come about through investigations by the mainstream press (see The Evening Standard, the Guardian, and so on).
There's been some good stuff from a few political bloggers, like Guido Fawkes, but they've mostly been playing catch-up on this.
Far from smearing Yates, the right-wing papers would have *loved* it if his investigation has been a success. And much of the investigation was sparked by... exposes by newspapers like the Sunday Times.
I'm looking forward to the time when citizen journalism does claim some good scoops in the UK (as it sort of has in America, with the Drudge Report). But it's not happened yet, so it looks silly to boast about it. This happened before with DeMenezes - there was boasting on here that citizen journalism had saved the day, which ignored the fact that all the main revelations about his innocence had been uncovered by organisations like ITN and The Independent.
Norville B