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Published in: openDemocracyUKRupert, Rebekah and media 'effix'
Ethical journalism requires that the ends justify the means. The lesson of the phone hacking scandal, argues Richard...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHackgate, power elites and the limits of the “corruption” critique
The real significance of the "hackgate" scandal in the UK is in revealing an underlying truth about the governing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC Investigates
The BBC has not covered itself in glory in its handling of the scandal at the News of the World in keeping with its...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Murdoch
A potentially awesome shift in the UK’s power structure is taking place if the role and influence of Murdoch’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Different Kind of Plurality: Securing Diverse Media
While everyone claims to be for plurality in media and good journalism, this won't happen in the UK without serious...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOurKingdom forum: The fall of Murdoch - What next?
An ongoing forum in which OurKingdom authors consider why the fall of Rupert Murdoch has taken place, what it tells...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnger at Murdoch must be built on swiftly
Anger at News International needs to be used, fast, and with firm goals in mind: to re-establish proper boundaries...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe End of the BSkyB Bid
Many are cheering Murdoch's demise but will they look back on the last twenty years as a paradise of pluralism?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPoliticians aren't scared of Murdoch; they're scared of a world without him
People assume that politicians are simply terrified of Rupert Murdoch. But chiefly they have allowed and encouraged...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA blueprint for a democratic media system
Dan Hind’s most recent book, The Return of the Public, argues that only direct participation in editorial...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHackgate and the Communications Review: two separate planets?
When the government launched its ongoing review of the UK communications sector, 'ethics' was not judged as part of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCameron on Murdoch: how his language reveals the crisis in British democracy
British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a press conference on the scandal of Murdoch's tabloid hacking and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMurdochgate and the News: we need to reframe media and the public interest
'Murdochgate' is caused by an underlying crisis in the media and the production of news
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMurdochgate, the Cameron project and the Crisis of the British State
The hacking scandal deepens an ongoing crisis of the British state and spells the end of the Prime Minister's...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews International - ruthless, without conscience or morality
The speech given to the House of Commons in the emergency debate on the hacking scandal by the Labour MP for West...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs shutting the News of the World and a public inquiry enough?: We want your answers
We want your answers to this Open Question: David Cameron has called for a public inquiry into the hacking scandal...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHack-gate: the latest cultural contradiction of British conservatism?
The Murdoch-owned British Sunday tabloid, 'News of the World', has sunk deeper into an ongoing hacking scandal....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Murdochs are not fit and proper people
It's a "truly dreadful situation" declares the UK's Prime Minister on learning of the latest revelation of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe start of a pan-British debate on the union?
Is a serious, pan-British debate starting on the future of the union and the rise of the SNP in Scotland?...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnions, why not harness the power of the media?
In the first half of the 20th century, the unions communicated through a vibrant culture of radical...