Mboge, i know but at least he bite the bullet. Regards, suntou

On 7/7/11, Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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>> Politics <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/politics/> » *Peter
>> Oborne <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/peteroborne/>*
>>    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
>>
>> 780
>> Comments<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100095686/david-cameron-is-in-the-sewer-because-of-his-news-international-friends/#disqus_thread>
>> Comment
>> on this
>> article<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100095686/david-cameron-is-in-the-sewer-because-of-his-news-international-friends/#dPostComment>
>>  [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.
>>
>> *Tags:* andy coulson
>> <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/andy-coulson/>,
>> Chipping Norton <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/chipping-norton/>,
>> David
>> Cameron <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/david-cameron/>, Downing
>> Street <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/downing-street/>, Harold
>> Wilson <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/harold-wilson/>,
>> iraq<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/iraq/>,
>> John Major <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/john-major/>, news
>> international <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/news-international/>,
>> News of the
>> World<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/news-of-the-world/>,
>> Nick Clegg <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/nick-clegg/>,
>> Parliament<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/parliament/>,
>> privacy <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/privacy/>, Rebeka
>> Brooks<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/rebeka-brooks/>,
>> Rupert Murdoch <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/rupert-murdoch/>
>>
>>
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