On one thing, Murdoch is right

If you still want newspapers that can uncover scandals, then what you need is skilled, determined reporters and rich men

by Christina Patterson, Wednesday, 20 July 2011, The Independent

Even Shakespeare might have paused. Even Shakespeare, looking at the long, long list of characters he’d set down on the page, and thinking about how he could raise some up, and knock them down, and about the circles that linked them, which meant there could be more twists to the tale, and then more, and then more, might have thought that this was enough. He might have thought that it was one thing to have a mad old man wandering around on a heath, whose children were vying for his kingdom, or to have a woman who put power way, way above the “milk of human kindness”, but that it was a bit too much to mix up the two, and then throw in a dozen more. Read More…