“(George) Orwell would have been deeply interested in the broader story – not of how you regulate the press, but how one man and one corporation came to have such sway over British political, commercial and cultural life – and how we came within days of allowing him a position of even greater dominance.”
—Alan Rusbridger, from “Hacking away at the truth,” at his University College, London, Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone hacking scandal

“(George) Orwell would have been deeply interested in the broader story – not of how you regulate the press, but how one man and one corporation came to have such sway over British political, commercial and cultural life – and how we came within days of allowing him a position of even greater dominance.”

Alan Rusbridger, from “Hacking away at the truth,” at his University College, London, Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone hacking scandal