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Written and produced for the International Federation of Journalists by Peter McIntyre in 2003, this is an excellent 
Editorial and journalistic practices in western democracies depend largely on liberal concepts of freedom, democracy and an 'independent' press. Influential media players ennoble themselves by hijacking the concepts of 'freedom', 'independence' and 'public interest' for their economic benefit, while abusing those very same words to justify entrenched professional habits that uphold, or refrain from challenging, illegitimate centralised authority.
David Edwards from medialens.org argues that we "can divine society’s attitude to truth by gauging its willingness to entertain different views." He says "what has become overwhelmingly obvious to me in the last few years, is that much of society – all the way from the green/radical left, through the corporate mainstream, to the radical right - for a variety of different reasons, just will not tell the truth."
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