"News" has always been "for profit." At least in America. Pravda and the BBC were/are government owned. I'm not sure either could be counted on for unbiased reporting. Here in the US the early newspapers were highly partisan and made no attempt to pretend otherwise, much like many of the papers in the UK. They still are, but pretend not to be. Broadcast news has always had an agenda, but as long as there was no countervailing outlet no one noticed. Now that there are choices the biases are evident. With regard to the current attacks on "The Murdock Empire," press scandals are nothing new in Britain, or the US for that matter. General US Grant called them spies during the late unpleasantness in the 1860's. The NY Times was eager to print illegaly obtained highly classified material less than 10 years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.