Elephant in the Room

The Guardian newspaper seems to have taken the outcome of the phone hacking trial very personally with a very long article (too long to publish on the blog site) in which one of its journalists, Nick Davies, essentially complains about the outcome.

Here is the strap line for The Guardian piece which sums up what it has to say: 

"Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power"

"Rupert Murdoch's money washed through the 'trial of the century' like a Rolls-Royce. The story behind the News of the World scandal was not about journalists behaving badly, but the power of money and its abuses"

Now this seems like a rather odd stance for The Guardian to adopt when you stop and think that one of the key players involved (Andy Coulson) was actually found guilty - and presumably that was on the basis that the jury decided there was enough evidence to convict the former News of the World editor.

So Nick Davies and The Guardian seem rather wide of the mark if you ask me and I speak from personal experience, albeit on the completely unrelated matter of equal pay.

Because in relation to Freedom of Information and the fight for equal pay in the Employment Tribunals (which are employment courts) Action 4 Equality Scotland has faced a whole series of employers with 'deep pockets and long arms' when it comes to spending public money.

But we fought and won, and in one particular case I went all the way to the UK Supreme Court before South Lanarkshire Council finally ran up the white flag and conceded that its women workers had been underpaid for years.

And you know what?    

The Guardian and Nick Davies were too preoccupied with other issues to say anything about this great injustice, affecting tens of thousands of low paid workers, which was  taking place right under their noses - studiously ignoring the proverbial elephant in the room.

So much for the 'Metropolitan' media.