Will "Fleet Street" stop the lying and start telling the truth, after this Johann Hari 'Revelations'?

By © Muhammad Haque

I have just posted the following comment on the NEW STATESMAN web site:

What is most noticeable in these "revelations" is the fact that they are being made at all.

There is NOTHING at all new to me about this Mr Hari or any other of the same name or of the same political culture that I could list. It is staggering that "journos" are getting ever so excited about Mr Hari's distorted achievements.

But they ought to pause and reflect on the contents of Fleet Street over the past two hundred years. Even Michael Foot [Evening Standard, Daily Express, Tribune] was taken in, as he exhibited in his "debt" of "honour" to Beverbrook.

There is in this Hari peddling yet another consciously created conundrum as a cover to justify lying.

The test surely is this: how many peddlers of Big Business lying in the "Feet Street" culture will quit the wrongdoing habit?

An even tougher test is: how many will show true grit and tell on the many other Hari like perpetrators and fakers? How many will break ranks and start reporting what they already know about how banks loot and plunder the public.....