Pilger on Murdoch's attack om journalism itself

A rather damming critique of the Murdoch empire comes from John Pilger writing in this week's New Statesman

No stranger to controversy himself,Pilger writes that

Murdoch’s papers have relentlessly assaulted common truth and decency, but their most successful war has been on journalism itself

and reflects on the paper's dealings after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium.

When sales of the Sun fell by almost 40 per cent on Merseyside, Murdoch ordered his favourite editor to feign penitence. BBC Radio 4 was chosen as his platform

It's a good read and you can look at the many allegations levelled against the Murdoch empire