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Tony Blair Says He Ducked Fight With UK Media
thestate.com 4 days agoFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that he couldn't stand up to the Britain's media tycoons while in power, telling an official media ethics inquiry that doing so could have dragged his administration into a political quagmire. Blair's testimony, briefly interrupted by a heckler who burst into the courtroom to call him a war criminal, shed light on the canny media strategy used to create the "New Labour" image that repackaged his party as more mainstream and business friendly, bringing it back to
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Blair Denies Helping Rupert Murdoch
online.wsj.com 4 days agoFormer U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair told a public inquiry that News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch wielded "substantial power" in Britain but denied aiding the company's interests in exchange for political support from his newspapers.










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