Re:After the newspapers die, who will watch the police?
by bluishgreen on Sunday March 01, 2009 @03:11PM
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Both of you, kindly include atleast one or 2 examples to make your respective cases. I can think of Enron, Nixon which were uncovered by the press. But where did press uncover something that wasn't? How does that work ..
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Re:After the newspapers die, who will watch the police?
by katz on Sunday March 01, 2009 @06:32PM
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I can think of a few corruption cases that the press uncovered (or shed significant light on) - it is country specific though (South Africa):
- The arms deal (in which half of the ANC had a share).
- Corruption by the National Police Commisioner and head of Interpol (Jackie Selebi) and his links to organised crime.
- The Fidentia financial fraud scheme by Athur Brown
- A tax evasion scheme by RMB (a private bank for rich individuals)
- Tokyo Sexwale's (a businessman with links to the ANC) involvement in Iraq oil-for-food fraud.
- Fraud by state owned oil company PetroSA who passed on R15 million before an election to an ANC financier.
- Links between the ANC investment vehicle Chancellor House and government contracts (i.e. conflict of interest)
I am pretty sure you can make the same list for your own country.