Testifying
in Europe on June 11, 2012 about the influence of Rupert Murdoch’s
newspapers—and thus Murdoch himself—over the state government of Britain,
Gordon Brown accused The Sun of
having undermined the state’s contribution to the war in Afghanistan. The
newspaper caused “huge damage to the war effort,” he said, by suggesting that
Brown’s administration “didn’t care about our troops.” The coverage was
oriented, Brown contended, to his supposed lack of care about the troops rather
than to what the troops were doing in Afghanistan.
The full essay is in Cases of Unethical Business, which is available at Amazon.
