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Media: The Leveson Inquiry: Should We Care? By Des Freedman
2 September 2011 — New Left Project
I have written elsewhere that the aftermath of the phone hacking scandal and the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry, ‘is a hugely significant moment both for the British media and for British democracy’ and that ‘the spell of media power is facing its most serious challenge to date’. Given that official inquiries rarely generate genuinely radical proposals and we have seen no evidence that press proprietors and media executives are willing to give up their privileged positions, was this simply wishful thinking? The evidence, I would suggest, is mixed.
One mistake.
What Murdoch represents is not capitalism (whatever that might be).
What he represents is corporatism/fascism/financialism.
Mussolini spelled it out: The ‘bundle” of state, military, corporate and financial interests.