The furore that has erupted since our analysis of media corruption two weeks ago is extraordinary. The demise of the News of the World was a long time coming, the exposés of that tabloid were rarely of any value, more commonly savaging the careers of footballers and the less than deserving. The blow up of the alleged criminality that reaches all the way into No 10 with the Prime Minister defending his hiring of Andy Coulson way past the use by date he should have respected, leaving any apology to the British public limp and soggy.
And as we witness the demise of News International's bid for BskyB, and effective control of more of the political mind set, we appear to be experiencing a political tectonic shift.
And the corrupted appear to have made terrible mistakes in their own security. Lulzsec have infiltrated an old server nobody remembered to switch off, and have gained access to emails from The Sun. The potential time bomb for the Murdoch empire no longer relies upon questionable or corrupted political influences, it is a new definition of democratic power. Lulzsec made it obvious to The Sun that a cloud was moving in front of its big red face by publishing a prank article on the Sun's own servers that Rupert Murdoch was found dead in his garden.
The media and banking empires of today and yesterday will not be able to continue to abuse their position of privilege as the new rules of publication and the new economics of information eradicate their advantage, their voice and their access. As a metaphor, the prank hack article is indeed symbolically accurate. The career destroying tabloid media is a big old dinosaur rotting on the soil.
Will the demise spread to the USA and sink Fox News? One may assume that now entirely possible.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/19/how-lulzsec-hacked-sun-website
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