So the trial of the media is all but over. Rebekah Brooks seems to have skipped all responsibility. Andy Coulson has been made scapegoat and yet that maybe brought into question due to the bumbling antics of sort of chosen leader David Cameron. Rupert Murdoch has made a mint.

A full-page apology ad published in British newspapers by News International. Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How has justice been wronged so badly?

It all starts from power and money. Rupert Murdoch has it. Throughout the whole trial he has controlled everything he could control. Other players like Rebekah Brooks and her coven have been gift a hand from a man I am sure they worship more so than any deity they might have strayed upon during their scrap to what life they perceive was worthy. Andy Coulson sued News Corp to cover his costs, and indeed News Corp are going to pay at figures around £60 million at current estimates for the trial itself, and we the tax payer could be paying around £40 million. That sticks firmly in the craw. Especially considering by all accounts it could turn out to be the biggest waste of tax payers money. It may happen that Coulson and his retrial are already compromised by none other than David Cameron.

In terms of what we managed to actually prosecute, we only have one ham-handed success as I see it. Yet that success is meaningless in terms of goals I would have set for the whole investigation. At the least I was hoping for punishment to be metered out with the intent to ensure that news companies are governed correctly and understand that the people they make their wages from are to be treated as such. We did not reach deep enough into the underbelly of what really is going on behind the many powerful doors Rupert Murdoch and in fact he turned the whole darn affair to his advantage. We have been handed a man to call bad, to be convicted and sent down. One high ranking member of the chain. Despite all indications that this who wrong doing ethos was rife and still is rife within the Murdoch empire. Despite a deep look into the history of Brooks and Coulson which revealed they were the same in many ways. The drive, the intelligence and the will to do whatever it took to achieve their aims.

Some things to think about. Firstly, the tactics of the defense played a large hand in how the evidence was delivered. They played the system of evidence presentation to their advantage. Evidence had to be submitted without any reference to why they were evidence in the trial. Therefore the Crown (thats us!) were only allowed to make an opening statement. This leads just two people attempting to present a story from masses amounts of evidence, with an army of defending lawyers pointing out the haphazard manner in which evidence was pieced together. The evidence itself was selective to say the least. A story of a safe being lost. A safe. Being lost. I repeat for gravity. How could the hierarchy not know about all that went on? What exactly is that has all powerful men fawning over Rebekah Brooks? What evidence was not presented, due to either off the record evidence or due to deletion and destruction? Given all the power in media how much can we trust them? How much wool has been pulled over our eyes?… Continues …