Dark arts turned against News International

So, in the same week that Murdoch’s BSkyB takeover plans approach the point of no return, information relating to actions of a repulsive and unforgivable nature is leaked to a Guardian writer, Nick Davies (he of Flat Earth News).

Coincidence, of course not.

Whoever is the leaker, he has held the information relating to this disgusting activity in his back pocket, waiting to release it at the exact moment in the news cycle that will ensure public outrage will make government approval of the takeover unthinkable.

My comfort with this planned manipulation of the public response registers on a scale that includes the privacy intrusion activity itself at its top end.

Dark arts are dark arts.

Tin foil hat on.

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