So the silly season is back with a second instalment of last year’s soap opera but with the two main protagonists, Politicians and Press, in different stances! The Daily Telegraph, last year’s Press champion in the great parliamentary expenses row, has retired wearing the victor’s crown of investigative journalism. It leaves the field to the News of the World – suddenly, after more than a century, an ex-tabloid. Rupert Murdoch, most powerful of media magnates, is very much on the back foot, humbled and betrayed, as he told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons (CMSC)
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Carol Harlow: Press, Police and Parliament
Carol Harlow: Press, Police and Parliament

So the silly season is back with a second instalment of last year’s soap opera but with the two main protagonists, Politicians and Press, in different stances! The Daily Telegraph, last year’s Press champion in the great parliamentary expenses row, has retired wearing the victor’s crown of investigative journalism. It leaves the field to the News of the World – suddenly, after more than a century, an ex-tabloid. Rupert Murdoch, most powerful of media magnates, is very much on the back foot, humbled and betrayed, as he told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons (CMSC)
So the silly season is back with a second instalment of last year’s soap opera but with the two main protagonists, Politicians and Press, in different stances! The Daily Telegraph, last year’s Press champion in the great parliamentary expenses row, has retired wearing the victor’s crown of investigative journalism. It leaves the field to the News of the World – suddenly, after more than a century, an ex-tabloid. Rupert Murdoch, most powerful of media magnates, is very much on the back foot, humbled and betrayed, as he told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons (CMSC)
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