June 21, 2022
British “Watchdog” Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
Events of the past few days suggest British journalism—the so-called Fourth Estate—is not what it purports to be: a watchdog monitoring the centers of state power.
It is quite the opposite.
The pretensions of the establishment media took a severe battering this month as the defamation trial of Guardian columnist Carole Cadwalladr reached its conclusion and the hacked emails of Paul Mason, a long-time stalwart of the BBC, Channel 4 and the Guardian, were published online.
Both of these celebrated journalists have found themselves outed as recruits—in their differing ways—to a covert information war being waged by Western intelligence agencies.
Had they been honest about it, that collusion might not matter so much.
After all, few journalists are as neutral or as dispassionate as the profession likes to pretend.
But as have many of their colleagues, Cadwalladr and Mason have broken what should be a core principle of journalism: transparency.
Each of these journalists, we now know, was actively colluding, or seeking to collude, with state actors who prefer to operate in the shadows, out of sight. Both journalists were co-opted to advance the aims of the intelligence services.
And worse, each of them either sought to become a conduit for, or actively assist in, covert smear campaigns run by Western intelligence services against other journalists.
What they were doing—along with so many other establishment journalists—is the very antithesis of journalism.
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