A split in the ranks?

[carnyx]

The Guardian claims they have unauthorised access to Swedish police files, which they now publish (or 'leak' ) in an attempt to show there is new stuff and so more to the case than was previously known ... and insinuating that there has been a gender-crime of such importance that it ought to overshadow the contents of the wikileaks themselves.

But, having read the article, nothing new has been revealed! With this desperate lie, are we seeing the Guardian in a moment of crisis?

However, wider issues is invoked. Are wlooking at a collapse of the political power of Mainstream Media as they are revealed as just a sophisticated form of wikileaks all along? A kind of harlotry of power?

[principled]

I think most people are aware that newspapers have always been the mouthpieces of various interest groups (as well as their owners), with the occasional foray into some meaningful journalism. My worry is, however, that some readers aren't aware that what they read may be biased and just accept accept it as verbatim. Such people are therefore unwittingly "guided" into drawing a particular conclusion, not realising that the information on which it is based may have been manipulated. A bit like the Internet really!

The other- bigger issue IMO- is that national TV/Radio is supposed to provide unbiased reporting. But how do we know? I regularly view Spanish TV and it is interesting to see how events in the UK are reported by their presenters compared to how the UK media reports them. The trouble is, which one (if any) is telling the true story!
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