As the Hackgate issue expands into different arenas the scource of the huge fallout is all too forgotten
The product that drove the biggest scandal to hit international media was the endless sludge of peek-a-boo sleaze reliably paid for by us.
The fact that the weekly stories essentially didn't change eludes the issue of wether the publications involved were manipulating simplistic masses without the effort serious journalism requires and making bundles doing so, or wether they were supplying cognative individuals with the information they hungered for . Indeed The Sun is the country's top selling tabloid paper and its forte is a topless young girl. It weilds such political power that it can exude the audacity to print the infamous ' The sun wot won it' headline
Former NOTW journalist Paul Mc Millan sits smugly conveying that the parasitical trawling through the hotel bedsheets of footballers and the proverbial red rag selling matter of young girls who are financially encouraged to replicate the industry is a national service, as though we would like Helen Wood to accept the £450,000 offered to kiss and tell on her night of sex with Wayne Rooney . In fact she initially shut herself away from the persistant harassment and was refused a privacy injunction
Its as though the british Freudian atitudes to sex evolved to the 'Carry ons' to Benny Hill to the red rag
A quick flick through other publications of less salacious focus expose an array of subbjects including ecology, sports, politics,profiles, health, obituaries and an in depth analysis of current events. For news of personalities, the economist has a world's most influential top 100 list. Business weekly's first four reports are in this order; the business srategies of the evangelical lchurch industry ; microsoft's support for gay rights legislation; multinational's influence on the eastern europe exodus and supermarkets competing with discount stores for east european shoppers. All much more relavent to life, maybe but they do require more sober attention and don't provide the convenient short sharp stimuli that we're conditioned towards
As the ruling bodies of our democracy propagate our moral codes daily a groundswell of networking that looks like something out of the Godfather turns the wheels of productivity . And now that the heads of all the 'families' are in the dock they are all whistling the same tune of 'it wasn't me'.
The sudden resignation of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner of London, and the head of counter terrorism, both the number one and two of the London Metropolitan police force, the personnal effacement of the prime minister and the depreciation of the world's most powerful media magnate to defendant speaks for itself as the exposure of industrialised deceipt
With their backs to the wall Mr Cameron turns tail on his loyalty to Mr Coulson with his 'If I've been lied to', garb : His attempt to be an 'heir to Blair' shooting him in the foot
The police trio blame News International and the Murdochs dis-associate themselves from the operations of any unidentifiable number of their 53,00 employees necessary for their exoneration
This, among whistleblowers, resignations, prison sentences and the Commons Home Affairs Commitee's estimation of a 12,800 name hacking victims list
Former commissioner Lord Condon said it was ' one of the saddest, most disturbing days in the history of the Metropolitan Police Service'.
Murdoch classicaly called it 'The most humble day of my life'
Still, no-body knows anything.
How genuine is their offers to purge corruption when the language of revalation is peppered with 'a scource said' or 'says one ally', because this isn't just a series of incidents, it's an established culture and it's blowing up like the Boeing pedophile case with blue and white collar towing the same fortuitous codes of operation.
Though some journalists and nameless officers have now publicly said that the hacking and blagging of bank accounts etc are standard procedure in Fleet St, there are those who haven't been picked up by this random radar. Many of those are journalists who are now stoking the fires for the potential kill as even Ceaser himself is nudged into the Colosseum floor. This will sell more press . The paparazzi pirannha leaveing nothing to waste have now afforded even Murdoch's wife a two page spread in the evening standard likening her to a supermodel
But Cameron's reference to the Labour partiy's cosying with the media magnate is a cling to the Whitehall dingy that's trying to drown him and the reds party must meet him half way because when all is said and done they are all a team in this and divided they'll fall like a house of crested cards .
There's no writing on the wall here. Lady Diana once expressed fear for her safety at the hands of her trusted circle yet after one of the world's classic conspiracy cases very little has changed
What then of the diabolical loss of Sean Hoare who had said last week 'Someone's coming to get me'. Will this weigh upon the gravity of this affair ?
Conclusively, an investigation ; in house , would take at least five years : Contacting all of the phone hacking victims could take ten . The daily hint of irrepressible pornography will distract us and the euro crises and the Somalian famine and the olympics will relegate this story to yesterdsay's chip paper
The ironic parady might be that the foam pie meant for Murdoch senior's merely dampened his jacket and ended up on the face of the hand that threw it
There's probably very little that will change.
