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The Independent View: why Lib Dems can’t let democracy fail

The exposure of the Coulson phone-hacking scandal has done all of us a favour. It has shaken off a complacency about the culture of our media and focussed the spotlight on its driving force, its ownership.

Scandal mongering and dirt digging has always been a preoccupation of the press, but its growth in Britain has been perpetuated by the two red-tops belonging to Rupert Murdoch’s News International. They are of course The Sun and The News of the World and they are respectively the top circulation daily and Sunday papers. And this same proprietor owns …

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