R Murdoch supports paying ministers 1 milllion/year

[Jeneral2885]

See pg 39 of this report

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmintdev/959/959.pdf

He says paying 1 million dollars a year will prevent corruption.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Which page 39 ?

There are only 16 pages.

[Jeneral2885]

2. Oh crap wrong link

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-sport/CMS-transcript-phonehacking-110718.pdf

This one instead. Pg. 39.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Well, super salaries didn't keep the bankers honest...

And by the same token, I suppose it might prevent benefit fraud to raise the minimum wage to 1 million dollars a year! But I don't suppose Murdoch will be suggesting that.

And though it's true that frank corruption is rare in Singapore, their government and political system are excessively authoritarian; they are pretty much on the borderland between being and not being a democracy; and they have been rated as 136th in the international index of press freedom - thus an unlikely society for a journalist to use as a model, one would have thought.