Hack Attack Quotes

“Over and again, you allow the hard logic of the market to usurp human choice and so you create a society with the morality of an anthill, where all human life is reduced to labour, all freedom flattened by the demand for efficient production, all weakness punished, all violence justified, where schools and hospitals are cut while crime and alienation flourish and millions are thrown into the deep pit of unemployment.”
― Nick Davies, Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch

“It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.”
― Nick Davies, Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch

“Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.”
― Nick Davies, Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch

“One of the guests at this wedding, who has been close to her for years, says that here in Oxfordshire, Rebekah [Brooks] is a country wife... but that, in London, where the real transactions take place, she is 'the beating heart of the Devil'.”
― Nick Davies, Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch