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Published in: openDemocracyUKNewsCorp did not influence openDemocracyThe implication that David Elstein wrote two articles in openDemocracy at the encouragement of James Murdoch's...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMurdoch and the UK culture secretary: we shouldn't be surprised, we should be angry
James Murdoch's appearance before the Leveson Inquiry has revealed the complicity between the government and the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe end of the Murdoch Archipelago
This week, the media mogul once unquestioningly known as 'the kingmaker' appears before the UK state inquiry into...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs Murdoch still corrupting Parliament's Select Committee?
Is the British parliamentary investigation of the Murdoch press proceeding with collusion between the Murdochs and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews International: Britain's MafiaMurdoch's hold over Britain over the last three decades has been nothing short of mafia-like. Much can be learned...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBarnett is wrong; the public had little to do with Murdoch's fallWas it the public's outrage that brought down the News of the World? And Ed Miliband's courage that has led to a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Brief History of Britain’s Power Elites: through Murdoch and beyond?War with Hitler’s Germany spelled the end for Britain’s old power elite. A new political class emerged, including...
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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” critiqueThe real significance of the "hackgate" scandal in the UK is in revealing an underlying truth about the governing...
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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: 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 swiftlyAnger 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: openDemocracyUKPoliticians aren't scared of Murdoch; they're scared of a world without himPeople assume that politicians are simply terrified of Rupert Murdoch. But chiefly they have allowed and encouraged...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCameron on Murdoch: how his language reveals the crisis in British democracyBritish Prime Minister David Cameron gave a press conference on the scandal of Murdoch's tabloid hacking and...
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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 Murdoch debate: What next?The EU is expected to clear NewsCorp's bid to acquire all of BSkyB this week. David Elstein gives his account of an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan Murdoch be stopped? Britain examines its stable door
As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Heart of the Matter II: the deadly dance of premiers and proprietors
The power of Murdoch over the British police and prime ministers is not a new story but thanks to the New York Times...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe heart of the matterConservative journalist Peter Oborne has demanded that David Cameron severs himself from Andy Coulson, who...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe wider tragedy of Gordon Brown: New Labour, the Murdoch press and the state of our democracy
What the Brown v Sun affair says about Labour, the wider left, and the sorry state of democracy in the UK
