Independent media is an essential part of any free society, and is vital for keeping the political establishment in check. But how can journalists hold government politicians to account, when they’re all in bed together – sometimes literally? Ben Scallan investigates. #gript
In a debate in the House of Commons, Edmund Burke is documented as saying: “there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” The Fourth Estate – the press – were meant to be a light to expose the truth, to […]