LONDON – 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.

Analysis by Jonathan Cook

https://www.mintpressnews.com/....watchdog-journalists

British “Watchdog” Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
www.mintpressnews.com

British “Watchdog” Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State

The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.