Read that post and you will find this passage:
The BBC quotes a spokeswoman for David Cameron as saying he is "very relaxed" about the story:I hope Mr Cameron is not feeling so relaxed now.
"The ramping up of this story is ridiculous" ... she said.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
How David Cameron first reacted to the News of the World scandal
Liberal England first wrote about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal in July 2009.
Read that post and you will find this passage:
Read that post and you will find this passage:
To be fair, for a long time I too thought the whole story was a bit tedious. (Journalists working for papers I don't care about hacking into phones of people I don't care about either didn't make it particularly exciting to me in the first place.) Really bad, yes. Consequenses should follow, yes. But until this week's allegations I thought the Guardian was mostly hyping the story because it was their story.
ReplyDeleteIt's the complacency of intelligent people about things like this that are driving us towards democratic collapse. "Don't be ridiculous!" I hear them say - well, we'll see. An irresponsible news media, over-powerful media ownership, a corrupt police force, renegade judiciary and a government happy to deny civil liberties and to lie to the public on any number of issues is a looming perfect storm.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't this affair be called Phonegate ?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that was my first big disappointment when I visited Canterbury 45 years ago for a language course: The "quality" of the press ...
Unbelievably crappy - even the Times was horrible in my eyes. And with every visit (and I've been to London at least once a year for shopping at Forbidden Planet etc) it gre worse ...
When I look at one of the newspapers' site on the 'net - I want to puke!
PS: The second and third disappointment was beer and what the Brits call food - I learnt to survive on pale ale or lager and sandwiches ...