Not just informing, but also manipulating

Today's successful media teaches people what they should want. That is a perversion of the purpose of newspapers, but it's a profitable perversion for the owners of the media. If India’s media is apprehensive about possible new controls, Britain’s is even more so. Indeed, the current excitement over the Leveson Inquiry into the alleged misdeeds of the now defunct News of the World recalls Macaulay’s comment about nothing being as ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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