Thursday 14 June 2012

Who to Believe?

The Leveson Enquiry is going on in Britain at the moment. This is a wide ranging judicial enquiry into relations between the media, politicians and the police. All sorts of famous people have given evidence over the last seven months, and today it was Cameron’s turn. And again we have the same scenario:

‘This is what happened,’ says the politician.

‘No, this is what happened,’ says the media person.

...and then everybody has to make up their own mind about who’s telling the truth. Not easy when you consider that there can be few areas of public life in which being economical with the truth is more institutionally entrenched than politics and the media.

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