David Gwilliam
Well-Known Member
What a sheltered life I have lived!
Are you sure the "luxury health spa" that offered these was respectable and not in Soho?
Is it possible to go for the option where all you get is a relaxing time and the occasional massage by a nice young lady?
As for the scandals carrying on it is worth remembering that Murdoch has masses of enemies here and in America. Murdochs political allies also have enemies who may be looking for points of attack.
American newspapers are normally far better than ours. One exception is the Murdoch owned New York Post. There must be people interested in how it got its stories. American politics seems more open to corruption than ours - the last two governors of Illinois are both in prison for separate crimes. There may be more there.
An Australian historian told me in the 1990s that Australian politics were the most corrupt in the industrial world. Whether that is still true I would not know but the 1990s was the very time when Murdoch was an Australian citizen and establishing his "media empire".
One last point is that for all the Murdoch empires boasts by far the most important pieces of investigative journalism in my lifetime have been the Watergate investigation by The Washington Post and the Parliamentary expenses scandal by the Daily Telegraph. It is perhaps no coincidence that these are the two newspapers with arguably the highest journalistic standards in their respective countries.
