Deep Inside the cabinet
First, it is "The Great Conspiracy Murdoch" Peter Oborne, a columnist for Daily Telegraph, while The House of Commons lobby correspondent had written. Oborne began his career 20 years ago, under the assumption that the British constitution, as he learned in school was that it ensured that representative democracy in the country under the rule of law, Brown said Steve Inskeep NPR in."But he really began to understand that it is not so much that it actually work in a culture where this was not a simple deal between Murdoch's tabloids and control systems."
Osborne, who was a reporter at the time, but do not work for Murdoch, says in his article, for example, News International managers will sit behind the cabinet during the regime of Mr Blair than they were their own power.
"The first call the phone that would make Tony Blair after the party conferences, like our Democratic and Republican conventions," says Brown, "it would be Rupert Murdoch, to".
Although many high-ranking cabinet members knew at the time that Murdoch was on the verge of exposing them at all times, Brown notes that "it was totally impractical and impossible not to fraternize with the leaders of social Murdoch. It was as part of the Stasi, or something" .
Sometimes enemies
Other notable nominees competitive media to get out of the tree in response to Murdoch: Brown, "a wonderful, volcanic" article from the Telegraph, a former newspaper publisher Conrad Black, who was sentenced to four cases of fraud, obstruction of justice in 2007 and spent time in prison. In the Financial Times, Murdoch calls Black a "big, bad man":
"All his instincts downmarket. He is not just sensational tabloid, he malicious myth-maker and a murderer and dignity of other recognized institutions, all under the guise of anti-elitism."
Brown, who says she has "great admiration for Rupert for his entrepreneurial vision, and his willingness to take big bets," agrees with the assessment.
"He was the first of the press barons really go after the royal family and in fact Institute of Culture, where the royal family was destroyed again, and at the end of his career, himself a cousin of the economy, has become elitist," Brown said.
But she notes that Black, convicted felon, reproaches Murdoch ", in fact, the bank calls kettle black."
For the same reason, Hustler publisher's press release, the protector and the flagrant rules Bender Larry Flynt is the author of the editorial disapprovingly Murdoch, this time in the Washington Post. Brown notes that giggle in the old days, Murdoch could have in this piece. Not any more. He is now the subject of industry he created.
"There is not a corrupt cartel than Murdoch. I have in mind, in this sense, you know, this is the ultimate hypocrisy," says Brown. "He's really going through, in a sense, then, that his paper, tabloid, blood sport, which he actually done in the past 30 years. He is now in the middle."
Standing at Murdoch
Despite all the criticism flying press Murdoch, he still advocates.One of them, Roger Cohen, praised it in the New York Times last week for "an obvious distaste for elites, for a convenient means for the cartels, for what he called a" strangulated English accent. '"(Cohen once worked on Wall Street Journal did not mention that the paper 15 years ago, Murdoch's News Corporation bought it.)
Further protection is published in the form of unsigned editorial in The Wall Street Journal, its prestigious newspapers in the United States. The magazine claimed that the investigation of News Corp., if they are too far, threatens the freedom of the press, as the conversation begins to shift toward more regulation in the UK press. Brown says that although it is a fragile moment for the press, it is contrary.
"I think there are serious and committed journalist and politician, now freed all the bombing for a serious debate, which still has to fight for the freedom of feeling," Brown said. "Somehow I feel good about how it came to light, because I think there's actually become a dislike for the business that way."
Violation history
In order to solve two serious and committed journalist Brown, Alan is Rusberger, editor of The Guardian and reporter Nick Davies. In Newsweek this week, which Brown says editing Rusberger history, as well as Davis, the history of News of the World phone-hacking scandal broke after a grim job, even if no one else is interested in history anymore.
"At some point, he is so lonely and exposed to the story and so scary in the sense that no extra ammo, they put down as something much greater force News International (division of News Corp., the documents will be published in the UK) the media, that he actually arrived in the New York Times and said, "Let's partner in this," Brown said.
Dual investigation initiated by cracks in the case, Scotland Yard asked to "understand that they are still infected with this corruption," and finally, the resumption of the investigation, Brown said. "I mean, bribing the police is important, and Scotland Yard was to purify ourselves to take action. "
