Suntou,

Interesting article.  Peter Oborne, well i say hmmmmmmmmmmmm to him.  Oborne
is the most right wing, ultra conservative, bias journalist one can ever
read.  I use to follow his write-ups in the Daily Mail and Spectator.  Hope
he is practicing what he is preaching.  There is no neutral
journalism.  Neutral journalism is a  facade.

Mboge

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, suntou touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  When I said, the media must be seen to be fair and balance, some jumped
> at me with all sorts of offside remarks. The Problem is, the West which can
> today move on smoothly with bias and fraudulent editors have long
> realised, when the boundary between Newspaper owners, Editors, and columnist
> got blurred, readers became divided and politicians start to fear the
> Newspaper editor than the electorate. It is a fact that, some people will
> only read the Sun, Some only the Mirror etc etc. And lobby groups also
> dictates to editors and columnist what not to write or how to dribble with
> certain facts.
> Peter Oborne's commentary is evident that, our news media should watch out.
>
> Suntou
>
>
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>    Peter Oborne <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/peteroborne/> Peter
> Oborne is the Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator.
>  <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/peteroborne/>
>  David Cameron is in the sewer because of his News International friends
>
> By Peter Oborne <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/peteroborne/>
> Politics <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/politics/> Last
> updated: July 6th, 2011
>
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>  [image: With friends like these... David Cameron’s judgment is under
> question (Photo: Dafydd Jones)]
>
> With friends like these... David Cameron’s judgment is under question
> (Photo: Dafydd Jones)
>
> In the careers of all prime ministers there comes a turning point. He or
> she makes a fatal mistake from which there is no ultimate recovery. With
> Tony Blair it was the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass
> destruction. With John Major it was Black Wednesday and sterling’s eviction
> from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. With Harold Wilson, the pound’s
> devaluation in 1967 wrecked his reputation.
>
> Each time the pattern is strikingly similar. Before, there is a new leader
> with dynamism, integrity and carrying the faith of the nation. Afterwards,
> the prime minister can stagger on for years, but as increasingly damaged
> goods: never is it glad, confident morning again.
>
> David Cameron, who has returned from Afghanistan as a profoundly damaged
> figure, now faces exactly such a crisis. The series of disgusting
> revelations concerning his friends and associates from Rupert Murdoch’s News
> International has permanently and irrevocably damaged his reputation.
>
> Until now it has been easy to argue that Mr Cameron was properly grounded
> with a decent set of values. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make that
> assertion any longer. He has made not one, but a long succession of chronic
> personal misjudgments.
>
> He should never have employed Andy Coulson, the News of the World editor,
> as his director of communications. He should never have cultivated Rupert
> Murdoch. And – the worst mistake of all – he should never have allowed
> himself to become a close friend of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of
> the media giant News International, whose departure from that company in
> shame and disgrace can only be a matter of time.
>
> We are talking about a pattern of behaviour here. Indeed, it might be
> better described as a course of action. Mr Cameron allowed himself to be
> drawn into a social coterie in which no respectable person, let alone a
> British prime minister, should be seen dead.
> [image: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson: friends of the PM (Photo: BBC)]
>
> Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson: friends of the PM (Photo: BBC)
>
> It was called the Chipping Norton set, an incestuous collection of louche,
> affluent, power-hungry and amoral Londoners, located in and around the Prime
> Minister’s Oxfordshire constituency. Brooks and her husband, the former
> racing trainer Charlie Brooks, live in a house scarcely a mile from David
> and Samantha Cameron’s constituency home. The two couples meet frequently,
> and have continued to do so long after the phone hacking scandal became well
> known.
>
> PR fixer Matthew Freud, married to Mr Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth, is
> another member of this Chipping Norton set. When Mr Cameron bumped into
> Freud at Rebekah Brooks’s wedding two years ago, he and Mr Freud greeted
> each other with exuberant high-fives to signal their exclusive friendship.
>
> The Prime Minister cannot claim in defence that he was naively drawn in to
> this lethal circle. He was warned – many times. Shortly before the last
> election he was explicitly told about the company he was keeping. Alan
> Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian newspaper, which has performed such a
> wonderful service to public decency by bringing to light the shattering
> depravity of Mr Murdoch’s newspaper empire – went to meet one of Mr
> Cameron’s closest advisers shortly before the last election. He briefed this
> adviser very carefully about Mr Coulson, telling him many troubling pieces
> of information that could not then be put into the public domain.
>
> Mr Rusbridger then went to see Nick Clegg, now the deputy prime minister.
> So Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg – the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime
> Minister – knew all about Mr Coulson before last May’s coalition
> negotiations. And yet they both paid no attention and went on to make him
> the Downing Street director of communications, an indiscretion that beggars
> belief.
>
> So the Prime Minister is in a mess. To put the matter rather more
> graphically, he is in a sewer. The question is this: how does he crawl out
> and salvage at least some of his reputation for decency and good judgment?
> This is a potentially deadly moment. If the Prime Minister plays his cards
> wrong, his public image will change in a matter of a few days. From a
> popular and respected national leader, he will come to be defined by his
> ill-judged friendship with the Chipping Norton set. This kind of personal
> degradation has happened before. By the end, Harold Wilson was irreparably
> damaged by his friendship with dodgy businessmen such as the raincoat
> manufacturer Lord Kagan. The Macmillan premiership fell apart under the
> weight of revelation from Lord Astor’s Cliveden set.
>
> So what must Mr Cameron do? First, he must speedily turn his back on
> Rebekah Brooks. The Labour leader Ed Miliband was right yesterday to call on
> Mrs Brooks to consider her position at News International.
>
> At the moment, she is putting up the same defence as Mr Coulson when he was
> Mr Cameron’s senior aide in Downing Street – that she did not know what was
> going on. Even if we accept this defence – and there is no strong reason to
> do so because News International has published many falsehoods in this
> sordid saga – it still does not work. Mrs Brooks, first as editor of the
> News of the World and the Sun and now as chief executive of News
> International, was responsible for setting standards. Those standards, as
> the world now knows, were foul beyond human credibility and she bears much
> of the blame.
>
> It may well be dangerous for David Cameron to ditch Mrs Brooks. She may
> have acquired a great deal of information about him and the senior members
> of his cabinet, both at those quiet Chipping Norton dinners and quite
> possibly through other, nefarious means. Mrs Brooks is cornered and liable
> to strike out. But that is a risk the Prime Minister must take.
>
> Second, Mr Cameron must account for his actions. We need an explanation of
> how he came to hire Mr Coulson, what checks were made, what advice was
> taken. We need a checklist of those not so innocent social meetings with Mrs
> Brooks. Hitherto, Downing Street has kept quiet about Mr Cameron’s meetings
> with Rupert Murdoch, thought to be one of the very first visitors he
> received after being made Prime Minister. They now need to be made public.
>
> It is essential this information be placed in the public domain because of
> the shocking decision made last week by the Coalition government to allow Mr
> Murdoch to entrench his monopoly power over the British media by purchasing
> the 61 per cent of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB he does not already own.
> This decision now stinks, and must be reversed.
>
> Yesterday, David Cameron muttered some vague phrases about the possibility
> of a public inquiry into phone-hacking – showing that he has not woken up to
> the fact that the world has changed utterly over the past 48 hours. The
> horrifying revelations that Mr Murdoch’s journalists hacked into the phone
> of the missing teenager Milly Dowler and even into those of the families of
> our war dead have opened up a new level of horror about News International
> illegality.
>
> The burning question now is whether the US tycoon Rupert Murdoch – whose
> journalists have shown such open contempt for ordinary decency – is a fit
> and proper person to own any British publicly quoted company, and whether it
> is not time that his media organisation itself should be forcibly broken up.
>
>
> The Prime Minister has allowed himself to be horribly compromised by his
> connection with News International and its employees. He urgently needs to
> regain the good sense and basic morality that have made him seem such an
> attractive prime minister. So he must use this terrible scandal, which has
> brought such shame on all journalists, as an opportunity to clean up British
> public life. Judging by yesterday, our greatly diminished Prime Minister
> shows no real appetite to do so.
>
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