“A free press is essential to a healthy democracy. There is a purpose of journalism, and it is not just to entertain. It is not to pander to political power, big corporations and rich men. Newspapers have what amounts in the end to a constitutional duty to tell their readers the truth.”
So wrote Peter Oborne, the UK Telegraph’s former chief political commentator, in a blistering 3,000 word resignation letter on openDemocracy earlier this year.
Oborne had uncovered that the Telegraph, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, had suppressed negative coverage of the international banking giant HSBC in order to protect its advertising revenues.
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