Ownership is the key to the corruption of the media | Seumas Milne

Not only has the backdoor lobbying and elite backscratching been laid bare at the inquiry, while Murdoch executives, journalists and police officers have been arrested and charged. But Murdoch’s mythology that he has “never asked a prime minister for anything” and leaves editorial policy to his editors has also been mercifully disposed of.

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