A crisis of British institutions?

[malaise]

80% don't trust the press
They don't trust the politicians
They don't trust the police

Robert Moore on Tweety discussing polls on the Murdoch scandal.
Profound!!

[salin]

1. things move quickly

I think that the bid for BSkyB is done/kabosh/over. That could be why he took the sale of SkyNews off the table (so he could keep it.) Speculation about a possible sale of News International as a way to protect this growing toxicity from spreading to NewsCorp.

Of course the public views of these institutions is bottoming out. Collusion all over the place.

[malaise]

6. Check this

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE76A4W320110711

[salin]

7. fall out as a form of potential poetic justice.

very interesting indeed.

[pennylane100]

2. They are pretty much in the same boat as us.

However, I think the Guardian, the Independent and, mostly, the BBC do a good job. In fact, the Guardian has been the one of the of the leaders in breaking this story.

[malaise]

3. The BBC standards have declined since Blair

The other two remain top class.

Still this scandal as well as WikiLeaks, Anonymous and others are exposing all sorts of collusion, corruption, criminality and decision-making excluding citizens.

[yellowcanine]

4. David Cameron is hanging by a thread also. Conservatives may just throw him under the bus to save

their hold on power. Cameron's mealy mouthed "I was not told of the specifics" could finish him off. Expect to hear calls of "Resign!" during Question Time in the Commons this week.

[malaise]

5. Won't matter if (when) the Lib Dems jump ship

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE76A4W320110711
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"You may wonder what is happening with the Murdoch press," Britain's then Business Secretary Vince Cable said late last year. "I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we're going to win."

At the time, those words were in fact a big loss for Cable, a senior figure in the Liberal Democrat party, the junior partner in the Conservative-led government.

Recorded by two reporters from the Daily Telegraph posing as Lib Dem supporters, the private comments cost Cable some of his ministerial powers. It also hobbled the Lib Dems opposition to plans by News International, Murdoch's British press arm, to buy the 61 percent of satellite broadcaster BSkyB it does not own.

Now, though, the Liberal Democrats may emerge as among the few winners in the phone hacking scandal battering Murdoch's media empire, Scotland Yard and Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives alike.


The scandal offers the beleaguered party a rare chance to stand apart from its Tory partners.
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