The notion of journalism as a check on the irresponsible, corrupt or unfettered exercise of power is evaporating.
The trick is not to lay down laws about what is authentic and what is corrupt but to exercise your own taste.
Some scholars have speculated that the attacks underscore the absence of pressure-release valves in a society that is going through rapid economic upheaval, where the gap between the wealthy and the destitute is widening, and where corrupt officials often exercise power arbitrarily.
And to acknowledge the wrongs – indeed, atrocities – committed on all sides, so detaching those corrupted by the exercise of violence from the arena of policy-making.
The consent decree that gives Mr. Stamboulidis and Mr. Bennett their broad authority settled a civil racketeering lawsuit brought by federal prosecutors that charged that the Genovese and Colombo families had "exercised corrupt influence within Local 14" for nearly three decades.
Nor is there any clear plan to manage the policy of radical decentralisation, which allows hundreds of corrupt local governments to exercise more control over their own development budgets and, in consequence, to do whatever they please.
Instead we ended up with coordinated expenditures, secret money and a small number of the wealthiest people in America, major corporations and others buying the opportunity to corrupt government decisions and exercising extraordinary influence over our elections.
He is more exercised about the corrupt consequences of unregulated gambling.
Oligarchy is generally defined as "a small group that exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes".
