“(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