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Iain Overton | Politics vs. Media | Oxford Union

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Iain Overton is opposed to to the motion that the media controls the government and suggests that the financial lobby does.
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Iain Overton begins by saying that the number of editorial staff have decresed dramatically in newspapers and has had a knock on effect of quality.
He says that the media doesn't control the government but that the financial lobby does. 
Filmed on Thursday 1st November 2012
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MD of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

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