An expose abroad has detonated the collusion between UK state and mainstream media - and it puts indy news outlets in the crosshairs. Right, so you know the state of British media is on its backside when an Australian FOI ruling ends up telling us how our own government runs censorship. Because that’s what’s happened here. A pile of Department for Defence Media Advisory Committee DSMA paperwork leaks abroad, gets forced into daylight by someone else’s transparency laws, and suddenly we can see the thing our own press won’t touch and exactly why that is the case — a system that hides politically awkward stories as standard practice. Not for security, but for convenience. And the really telling bit is how calmly it all reads, like this is just how things are done. The mainstream media doesn’t question it, because they already play along as part of  ...