"The barons of the media, with their red-topped assassins, are the biggest beasts in the modern jungle. They have no predators; they are untouchable. They laugh at the law; they sneer at parliament. They have the power to hurt us, and they do, with gusto and precision, with joy and criminality. Prime ministers quail before them, and that is how they like it. That, indeed, has become how they insist upon it, and we are powerless in the face of them. We are afraid. If we oppose this motion, it is to our shame."
Well said, Simon Hughes

I remember the by-election by which Simon won his seat in the Commons. His Labour Party opponent was one Peter Tatchell. Tatchell was outed as gay by Murdoch's
tits-and-racism comic, whose editor was the British Julius Streicher. Tatchell denied the allegation, but Murdoch's boys printed lies about him, and published a photograph doctored to give him the appearance of wearing make-up. Tatchell lost the election. He later admitted to being gay, but claimed the the party ordered him to deny his sexual orientation. Simon Hughes has also come out as gay recently. The real reason for the Murdoch smear campaign was that Tatchell was a left wing activist.
So Simon won his seat in Parliament with the help of the untouchable Murdoch.
Funny old world.