Events this week are a timely reminder of the ever astute words of Dennis Potter in 1993:<\/p>\n
“I’m going to get down there in the gutter where so many journalists crawl… what I’m about to do is to make a provenly vindictive and extremely powerful enemy… the enemy in question is that drivel-merchant, global huckster and so-to-speak media psychopath, Rupert Murdoch… Hannibal the Cannibal.”<\/p>\n
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