{"id":5859,"date":"2015-02-20T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:32:00","slug":"as-banks-tighten-grip-on-the-media-british-journalist-rebels-against-hsbc-run-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5859","title":{"rendered":"As Banks Tighten Grip on the Media, British Journalist Rebels Against HSBC-Run Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"As%20Banks Tighten Grip on the Media, British Journalist Rebels Against HSBC-Run Telegraph\" target=\"_blank\">As Banks Tighten Grip on the Media, British Journalist Rebels Against HSBC-Run Telegraph<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBanks are the feudal knights of today\u2019s world,\u201d Herv\u00e9 Falciani\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldiario.es\/alternativaseconomicas\/Herve-Falciani-Ex-ingeniero-HSBC_6_357374284.html\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>\u00a0in an interview. \u201cThey are a power without a counterweight, without opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that they don\u2019t have a weak point, adds the 42-year-old whistleblower who blew the lid on HSBC\u2019s global tax evasion and money laundering practices. \u201cFor the banks, reputation is increasingly important. When they lose it, they don\u2019t know how to get it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hence the importance of banks being able to control news at its source, as the Daily Telegraph\u2019s ex-chief political commentator, Peter Oborne, has learned, and (to his great credit) revealed in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/ourkingdom\/peter-oborne\/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph\" target=\"_blank\">ball-busting expos\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0of his former employer\u2019s cozy ties with the world\u2019s second largest \u2013 and arguably most criminal \u2013 bank:<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago the Telegraph investigations team\u2026 received a tip off about accounts held with HSBC in Jersey\u2026 After three months\u2019 research the Telegraph resolved to publish. Six articles on this subject can now be found online, between 8 and 15 November 2012, although three are not available to view.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter no fresh reports appeared. Reporters were ordered to destroy all emails, reports and documents related to the HSBC investigation\u2026 From the start of 2013 onwards stories critical of HSBC were discouraged. HSBC suspended its advertising with the Telegraph\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Banks Tighten Grip on the Media, British Journalist Rebels Against HSBC-Run Telegraph \u201cBanks are the feudal knights of today\u2019s world,\u201d Herv\u00e9 Falciani\u00a0says\u00a0in an interview. \u201cThey are a power without a counterweight, without opposition.\u201d That is not to say that they don\u2019t have a weak point, adds the 42-year-old whistleblower who blew the lid on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[63,3660,3372,512,537,3659,876],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-banks","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-hsbc","tag-media","tag-money-laundering","tag-telegraph","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}